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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-02-18
THE PRICE OF A DRINK.

Five cents a drink" Does anyone think
That that IS really the price of a drink?
Five cents glass;" l hear you say,
"Why. that isn't very much to pay
All, no. indeed it's very small sum.
You are passing it over 'twixt finger and
thumb,
And if that were all you gave away
1t wouldn't be very much to pay.
The price of drink? Let that one tell
Who sleeps tonight in prisoners cell.
Honor and virtue, love and truth,
All the glory and pride of youth,
Hope of manhood, the wealth of fame,
High endeavor, and noble aim
These are the treasures thrown away
For the price of a drink from day to day.
Five cents glass!' How Satan laughs
As over the bar the young man quaffed
The beaded liquor; for the demon knew
The terrible work that drink would do.
The price, if you want to know
What some are willing to pay for 1t, go
Through the wretched home, where,
With dingy windows and broken stair,
Where foul disease like vampire crawls
With outstretched wings Ger the moldy
walls
Where the innocent ones are there accurst
To pay the price of another's thirst.
Five cents glass;" o, if that were all
The sacrifice would indeed be small;
But the moneys worth is the least amount
We pay, and whosoever will keep account
VIII learn the terrible waste and blight
That follows the ruinous appetite.
Five cents glass; Does anyone think
That that is really the price of drink?
l. 1. Wolfe, in National Advocate.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-02-18
MISTAKEN CALCULATION.
Shown That Americas Per Capita
Consumption of Liquors Is More
Than Fifteen Dollars
BY GEORGE MAY POWELL.

BY GEORGE MAY POWELL
A recent issue of a prominent tenn
perance paper gave the per capita of
annual liquor consumption at SIS in
the United States of America and S35 per
capita in the German empire The lat
ter figure is probably not far from be-
ing right. That of our country is not
half high enough. 1t is evidently based
on the $500 100000 of liquor consump-
ton so generally, and enormously ac-
cepted by prohibitionists and disputed
as too high by the liquor dealers. The
$9O0,000,000 can be shown to be about
right, by analysis of the United States
government customs and internal reve-
nue. returns on malt, fermented and dis
titled liquors. But this represents only
the approximately pure liquors. This
is less than One-third the manufactured
and the adulterated liquors retailed at
the bars of our country. The extent of
this has been emphasized in the recent
prosecutions for deliberations of liquors
on gigantic scale. Add to this the vast
amount of Illicit distillation, and we
have a startling grand total of not less
than 81 billion dollars. Divide this by
the total of our population, as shown by
the last census and it will be seen that
the SIS per capita falls far astern. The
view of this huge consumption-which
the liquor ring breads to have presented
to the business men of the land-shows
what tremendous sponge it is to an
nually suck up the money that our mer-
chants, manufacturers and farmers
should get for honest work When our
commercial captains Go get this into
their heads, liquor makers and sellers
will be driven from chambers of COM
merce and boards of trade, as Jesus drove
the money changers from the temple.
Home market is incomparably the best
market in any land. This market the
pirating liquor trade has so utterly in
its possession, that it gets more of the
actual cash of our people than all the
legitimate trade and industries of our
people put together Thus hard times"
and money panics come to us from this
d.
this wholesale robbery, the evaporation
of this mischief is intensified. by mil
lions of dollars being rolled in on the
tax payers for crime, insanity, pauper-
ism, etc, created by this trade in in
toXicants. 1t is also the compound lever
of the devil, in debauching our politics,
so that franchises which should be worth
millions to our citizens and their chill
dren, are stolen from them in creating
Trusts that crush by cornering food
and fuel, no matter, who starves, or
freezes, and that sell out the nation to
aliens, at home and abroad.
Good citizens Of all parties should see
in all this a peril to the national life,
financially, and otherwise, of ominous
proportions.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-02-18
FINDS MANY WOMEN DRUNK.
ROckefeller's Cleveland Pastor
breaches Against Liquor Habit
Among the Fair Sex.

Il tell you this question Of drunken
ness among women that confronts this
country is a serious problem" declared
Rev. Charles A. Eaton in his sermon at
the Euclid Avenue Baptist church,
Cleveland, o., on recent Sunday night.
DR.. Eaton JohnD D. Rockefeller's pastor.
''The other night when l was in the
grillroom OF the leading hotel of the
city" he continued, 81 saw more women
there than men, and every woman WIS
drunk. There was not a sober woman
in the place.
And there were some girls and men
Of good families there. There was one
pure, beautiful girl with woman COM
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-02-18

panion who was saturated with sin.
Somehow or other this young girl had
come to that g"illroom just for that
once. And she was intoxicated.
I'VE are dead morally. The country
is paralyzed in struggle for money. 1t
is bad enough for men to go too far in
this direction, but when even women
step over the line and go toward the
king of death they strike blow at the
race as deadly as has ever been dealt it.
ITS bad enough when man gets
drunk. He is often half brate, but in
a woman we look for something better,
and it is a sorry day for the country
when the women begin this thing.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-02-18
TEMPERANCE NOTES.

II every person would be half as good
as he expects his neighbor to be, what
heaven this world would be!-National
Advocate.
Sometimes the very dust of our hur-
fying feet rises up and blinds US to the
great ends that we must constantly keep
IN view.-Lady Henry Somerset.
Treating, ''sociable" drinks and
friendly glasses" were named as most
potent factors in the filling of inebri-
ates' homes at the fortieth anniversary
of the Washingtonian home.
The papers of Clearfeld, Pa, report
that decided temperance movement is
sweeping over the entire county. Re-
monstrances against liquor license ap-
plcants will be pushed with unusual
vigor.
For every 566 ministers that die there
are 1853 deaths among farmers, 500
among carpenters, 800 among coal min
ers, 1902 among plumbers, 1851 among
brewers. 1921 among inkeepers and 2,205
among bartenders.
a license fee of 5000 year will have
to be paid hereafter in Chicago for NOV
ing picture machines and microscopes
In saloons and dance halls. This is cal
culated to do away with machines con-
tanning immoral pictures.
Vermont passed a license law in 1913
by a majority of only 13 votes in the
state, but after year of the licensed
saloon voted it out by a majority of
1900 votes From the rapid change in
public sentiment it begins to look as if
history might repeat itself-The Ameri-
can Issue.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-02-18
IN SENCE.

>'God lead thee. dear!" The sunrise light
Steals softly through the gray.
The dream and darkness of the night
Are lost il perfect day.
l smile, and whisper tenderly:
'Gcd lead thee. dear. alwayT
GOD help thee. dearr' The noontide hour
Is golden. glad. and gay;
Inc world smiles upward like flower
To meet the suns warm ray.
L pause and whisper earnestly:
GOD help thee, dear, alway!'
God keep thee. dearr The sunset flush
Kisses the dreaming day,
And in the wondrOuS holy hush
The whole world seems to pray.
l kneel and whisper lovingly:
God keep thee. dear, alwayr'
Alice e. Allen. in Good Housekeeping.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-02-18
POSSIBLE RESULTS OF DRINK
The Diseases That Are Attributable
to the Excessive Use of
Alcohol

AS the drinking season is now on, II
is well to reflect that the following dis
eases may be directly or indirectly
caused by some form CT alcoholism:
Acute gastric catarrh, chronic gastric ca
tarrh, gastric dilation, intestinal indi-
gestion, constipation, govt, cholera
morbus, chronic peritonitis, dropsy of
the abdomen, catarrhal jaundice, con-
gestion of the liver, cirrhosis (hob-nail
liver), chronic tubal nephritis Chronic
Brights disease), diabetes, mellitus,
chronic bronchitis, congestion of the
lungs, oedema of the lungs, lobor pneu-
monia, fibroid phthisis (nterstitial
pneumonia), chronic valvular disease
Of the heart, dilatation of the heart,
chronic fibroid heart, fatty degeneration
of the heart, palpitation of the heart,
arterio sebrosis, aneurism of the aorta,
meningitis, brain fever, apoplexy, con-
gestion Of the brain, brain thrombosis
and embolism Gin YOUTH nervous verti-
go, temulentia ia plain drunkard),
mania potu, delirium tremens, dip
somania (alcoholic insanity, imbecility
and dementia often result from dipso-
mania).
Alcoholism predisposes to sunstroke,
chronic pleurisy, inflammation of the
nerve trunks, spinal congestion, spinal
meningitis, spinal sclerosis -four forms,
one of which locomotor ataxia), dissem-
mated neuritis, melancholia, mania Cin-
sanity, delusional insanity, phagedenic
ulcer, various iIfiammations, a delirium
that sometimes occurs after injuries
and surgical operations (if an old drunk
ard sustains a fracture of bone he is
liable to go into delirium tremens; he
may in this state attempt to destroy
himself or those around him), erysipe-
Las, blood tumor, fatty tumor, urinary
calculus (from excessive use of malt
liquors., monomania, general paralysis
(paretic dementia). acquired feeble
mindedness, acne rosacea (whisky nose
and cheeks), trifacial neuralgia.-Med-
ical Student, in Washington Star.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-02-18
Bureau of Temperance Research.

The Bureau Of Temperance Research
is new organization established in
Boston. Its object as explained by its
secretary. F. w. Clark, is to furnish
to all iRquirers any information, es-
pecially of statistical nature, which
may be sought. 1t will endeavor to
arrange and correlate all figures per-
tanning to both sides of the liquor
question. The bureau will aim to keep
in touch with the sales of liquor in the
United States and other countries, and
to keep temperance workers informed
of all the movements of organization
of both liquor dealers and employees
Mr.. Clark is just the man to fill such
an office.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-02-18
Demands Temperate Employees.

In line with the movement to enforce
stricter regulations against intoxicating
liquors, the Northern Pacific will practi-
cally demand teetotalism on the part of
its employees. The Northern Pacific will
be doing only what all great systems
regard as a necessary guarantee that the
services of their employees shall be up to
the standard. .---.--.. 49, ,sy-.4- a,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-02-18
Mrs. Hayes First Letter Appealinr to NJ,

DEAR Mrs PKHAM-Ih been Boston doctors treat
nent Tor long time without relief They
tor cannot sit down without great and the
upy e have bearing down both back and 'front.'
petite good Icannot walk be any length time
1.-The symptoms of Fbroid Tmor given little book ac-
cratey describe so write for advice
t. Il. HAYES, 252 Dudley St, QIoxbury) Boston, Mass
Note the result of Mrs. Pini<hanl's' advce-aT-
though she advised Mrs. Hayes, Of Boston, to take
her T11edicine-Whch she knew would help her
her letter contained mass of additional iastruc-
tions as to treatment all OF which helped to bring
about the happy result.
"DEAR Mrs PINKHAM Somene ago to you describ-
symptoms and asked your advice replied and followed
all your directions carefully, and to-day well
OF Lydia e. Pnhams Vegetable Compound entirely
expelled the tunor and strengthened whole system. walk
"Lydia E. Pinkham Vegetable Compound five dol
lars drop advise all afflicted
female trouble of kind to give it faithful "(gned)
t. f. HAYES, 252 Dudley St, Qioxbury) Boston, Mass
Mountains of gold could take
the of the health
Vegetable Compound brought to Mrs. Hayes
Such testimony should be accepted by all women as convincing
evidence that Lydia E. Pnkhans Vegetable
without remedy for all the distressing women: all
ovarian troubles; tunors nmmaions liberation falling
placements OF the womb bakache; Irregular suppressed
tiers we are daily printing the leave doubt
MIS- Hayes at address will
which sick women write for fuller information
her gratitude to Mrs Pnkham and Lydia
Compound
great LOT her to take return for her health happiness
truly said that it is Lydia Vegetable
curing other
get ts When some druggist wants to sell something else
~oooO E. Medicine Co Mass.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-02-18
Audience to BE Feared

Hes great public speaker, isn't he
He's invincible before vast audience.
and"
Yes; but you ought to have seen him
quail the other day when | was there
and his wife asked him to go in the
kitchen and give the cook a lecture.
Philadelphia Bulletin.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-02-18
A Village Turned TeetOtaI.

A Somersetshire innkeeper, who had
become bankrupt, gave as the reason
for his insolvency at his public exami-
nation the statement that 1.-The whole
of the village had turned teetotal"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-02-18

IL requires good deal of nerve to con.
unue to do one thing well all the time.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1904-03-25
Called Has Station.

At Wister station, on the German
town & Chestnut Hill branch of the
Reading Railway, there is a sharp
curve that necessitates fitting up the
roadbed to such an extent that the
cars lean over to what seems a peril
Gus angle. In fact, the angle is so
great that unless the. doors are open
ed before the train comes to stop
they stick fast, and no power on earth
can open them until the train has
again assumed level position.
Sometimes even when opened in time
the doors slam back unless securely
fastened. A case of this kind hap
pened recently. Seated in the rear of
the car was man with perceptible
jag. He was half asleep when the
train reached the station. The brake
man opened the door, but didn't throw
it forward quite far enough to catch.
1t slammed back on his fingers as the
train rounded the curve, and instead
of calling out "Wister," as he had
intended, he profanely yelled: "Hell!"
''This is where get off," remarked
the man with the jag. And as the
brakeman sucked his bruised thumb
the inebriate clambered laboriously
off the platform, quite blind to the
humor of the situation. -Philadel phia
PA. Record.
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FLORIDA
LETTER.

back few miles into the pass where
we caught our fish last year, and saw
tarpon rolling before we came to
anchor. Had two strikes but failed
TO land. Spent the afternoon bathing,
gathering shells, etc.
March 9.-Coffee, two bells, then
Green and l went after tarpon. I
soon had him fast to dandy. and he
had his hands full for about twenty
minutes. AT the end of that time it
was pretty hard to tell which was the
most played out. However, we soon
had the fish gated and hung up, six
feet, two inches long. When we got
the tarpon aboard there was some
thing doing. After breakfast all went
out and Mrs. Green hooked one, got
a few jumps out of him and he was
off. Then she caught a shark and the
biggest jackfish 1 ever saw. 1t must
have weighed thirty pounds. After
dinner all hands got into the Auto
Dink for cruise among the reefs
after shells, etc. The little launch is
a great convenience, and it can be
swung on davits when running.
March 10.--No fish were in sight, so
we went out the pass on the north and
beat to the eastward through Florida
Bay. We stopped for dinner at Long
Key, then went ashore among the
cocoanuts. This key is about five
miles long and almost one solid grove
of cocoanuts. We gathered what we
wanted and then worked east again,
coming to anchor about p. m. at In
dian Key. From here we had to go
outside.
March 11.-Out through by Indian
Key and with fair wind we ran to
Caesars Creek, fifty-five miles. The
last end was pretty breezy and when
we luffed up to go into the creek it
looked pretty rugged, but we can al
ways depend on the Kathleen in a
tight place, and came to anchor with
two other yachts a big house-boat.
March 12.-Coffee, two bells, then
dressed ship for we expected to make
Miami today. Washed her down,
and wiped the bright work with fresh
water. About noon the wind quit, and
we anchored to keep from drifting out
of Sands Cut with the tide. Then we
started to work with alum and alumni
mum paint and made the yacht look
as if she was just off the ways. Just
got through when a light air from the
eastward let US lay our course for
Miami where we arrived about 4
O'Clock.
March 1--we took it easy today
and with the Auto Dink ran up the
Miami river. Not in it with the Ca
loosa or Myackka. Mr.. Lucas and
his wife are here and as soon as we
can stock up will resume our cruise
through the Florida reefs.
d. Nc. LEWIS.
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Must Be Constant.

The head Of large establishment
which sells a proprietary article says
he used to have the idea that when he
had thoroughly advertised his product
50 that it should be known every
where, he could greatly reduce if not
actually stop his advertising. 81
have learned" he says, ''that In some
matters the public memory is short,
and also that there is a constant and
enormous addition to the public on
which 1 depend. Besides, to make any
great reduction in advertising is to be
considered declining force
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1904-03-25

The recent report On postal frauds
involving Isl members of the present
congress stirred up a row in that
august body as might have been ex-
pccted. The report was credited to
Mr.. Bristow. of Kansas, fourth as
sistant postmaster. The members in
volved reared up on their hind legs
and emitted a bray that was heard
from one end of the country to the
other and demanded that Mr.. Bristow
be fired forthwith. Now comes Bris-
tow and declares that he is not re-
sponsible for the Objectionable report.
The members. also started a back fire
on the president, but when he of the
strenuous life got hold OF their ears
they Immediately admitted their mis-
take in attacking him and promised to
be good if they were allowed a good
and liberal coat of white-wash. All
of which suggests to the mind of the
average citizen that there must be
something mighty rotten with the re-
publican administration of affairs.
The campaign cry of the republicans
in the present campaign should be
''Stand pat for graft"
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1904-03-25

Under guise of reforming the party
Ed Hoch was nominated for governor
at Wichita. 1t is interesting to note
that Mr.. Hoch presented four resolu-
tions to the committee on resolutions
and every one was turned down. 1t
was charged during the campaign for
his nomination that he was Burton
candid ate. This of course was denied
by his supporters, but every Burton
man on the old ticket was renOmiu-
ated. 1t is claimed by republican pa
pers that the railroads ran the con-
vention and that all in good time
they will secure the denomination OF
Burton to the senate if he is not con-
victed in St. Louis. 1t looks to a
man up a tree as though Ed Hoch was
being made stool pigeon for the Burton
gang. Will Allen White says:
"Ho, no, no. The Kansas City
Journal is having trouble with the re
formers. 1t refers to the state officers
as "close corporation" and speaks
about running things on fractional
lines" Murray. Give the Gazette
time and it will be vindicated. Bar.
ring honest old Ed Hoch there never
was a closer corporation in Kansas
than the outfit that dominated The
Wichita convention. It was railroad
first, Last and all the time"
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1904-03-25

II II IAMI, FLA, March 15.-Mr.
wv Green and wife, of Chica-
go, Mrs. Lewis aud myself
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1904-03-25

low rates to various points in Arizona
and Mexico; stop-over privilege. See
agent for particulars.
Homeseekers' Excursions to certain
points in Arkansas, all points in
Indian Territory, New Mexico, Okla
homa, Texas, Arizona, and to points
in Colorado. Rocky Ford and east,
at one fare, plus $500. Tickets on
sale 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of Dec,
1903, to April 18th. 1904. Return linn
it. 81 days from date of sale.
Cheap one way second class colon
list rates to various points in Arkan-
sas, New Mexico, and Louisiana, and
to all points in Indian Territory,
Oklahoma and Texas. Tickets on
sale December 1st and 18th, 1903,
Jan. 5th aud 10Th, Feb. End and 18th,
March 1st and 10Th and April 9Th
and 10Th, 1904.
G. w. CLASS, Agent,
Kiusley, Kas'
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TIME TABLE A. T. s S. r. R.Y

A new time card went into effect on
the Santa Fee June 4. The changes at
this point are not many. Nos. l, 5,
and going west at night are un-
changed except No. does the local
work from Hutchinson west. The
branch train arrives as at pres
emit but departs at 1875. The branch
local freight leaves here at in the
morning going east and arrives from
the east at 2:45 in the afternoon. The
main line local goes east at $50 in
the morning and west at $40 in the
afternoon. The branch local runs
from Hutchinson to this place and
turns.
EXCURSION RATES.
Wichita, Kans., and return, $3.50.
Account democratic state convention.
On sale April and 4: limited for re-
turn April 9.
Account Annual Messiah Concert
of Bethany COllege.-Excursion tic
kets to Lindshorg, Kans., and return
at rate of 81. 10, on sale March 20 TO
April B, inclusive: limited to April B.
On April the Santa Fe will have
through coaches to Lindsborg on trair
No. 6. Returning these coaches will
be run through to Dodge City leaving
Lindsbory Immediately after evening
concert or about 1880 p. m. on q
special train.
Account of General Conference o
Methodist Episcopal church at Los
Angeles, Cal, May 3, and the Nation
al Association of Retail Grocers a
San Francisco, May to s, the SAINT,
Fe will sell excursion tickets to eithe
San Francisco or Los Angeles ant
return for s45: via Portland in on
direction Sl1 higher. Dates of sale
April D to May 1, inclusive: returl
limit June 80. -Stop-over privileges
Cheap second class colonist ticket
to the Northwest on sale March t
April 80.
Second class colonist rates to Cali
fornia, March to April 30. $25, 3
Los Angeles, San Francisco and vari
Gus other points. Proportionatel
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Good. Times

A very pleasant party was given at
the home of Miss Minnie Hoff in
Brown township last Friday night.
The evening was spent i'm games of all
kinds, and about midnight the guests
were invited to another room where a
delicious supper was served. AT a
still later hour much to the their re-
greet they babe their hostess good
night and departed for their homes.
GUEST.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1904-03-25
Kansas, Patents

Granted this week, reported by G. A.
Snow & Co., Patent Attorneys, Wash
ington, D. c.:
G. A. Anderson, Kansas City, fire.
extinguisher; S. d. Craig, G. E. KEEL
ly and W. Turner, Laharpe. roasting
furnace: J. Haigh, Wetmore, trunk
protector; J. Long, ST. Paul, match
box; G. H. Spencer, Kendall, gate.
fastener.
For copy of any of above patents
send ten cents in postage stamps with
date of this paper toe A. Snow &
Co., Washington, D.. G..