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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-13

to Oakland to resume the practice
of his profession.
The story entitled ''Tho Old and
the New" found on another page
IN to-day's REPUBLICAN, was writ
ten bv Miss Mamie Weber, a stu
dent at Briar- Bend Seminary.
Mr.. G. j. Newman went to Bal
timore on Monday to attend the an
nual meeting Of the grand lodge of
the X. of P. Mr.. Newman goes as
a delegate from Garrett Lodge No.
113.
Aparty of fourteen young people,
chaperoned by Miss Bessie Brown
ing, went from Oakland to Deer
I'...- ..l-.---....y -. y So assg
were entertained at the residence of
Mr.. and Mrs. P. }. Garrett.
The bicycle craze bids fair to be
here with renewed vigor next sum-
mer. An agent stopped off here
Monday for few hours and sold
six new wheels to our boys, to be
delivered when the bicycle season
opens.
Miss Mayme Gesner, of Annapo-
lis, who is well known among the
people Of Oakland, has been very
dangerously i'll at her home. Her
condition at this time is very much
and hopes of her recovery
are entertained.
Mr.. George A. Spedden suffered
an attack of heart failure at the
railroad station in Oakland yester-
day, but was revived in a short time
and taken to his home on First
street. His condition this morning
is somewhat improved.
Mr.. Ray Bell, of NeYburg, West
Va, who was here as telegraph
and ticket agent, has been
to the office at Keyser.
His position IN the Oakland office
is now filled by the former opera
tor, Mr.. Thomas Cline, of Grafton.
Rev. S. M. Engle, pastor of the
Presbyterian congregation in Oak
land, went to Elk Garden, West
Va, on Monday to hold a series of
meetings. He will return the latter
part Of this week and conduct the
regular Sabbath services in his
church here on the 10th inst.
In order to get some money to
pay some bills that may be pressing
before long G. W. Mason, at the
City Roller Mills will sell all kinds
Of grain, feed, -four, etc, ,at reason
able price. 2t
The Maryland Supply Company
of Garrett county, mention of
which was made in these columns a
week or two ago, will erect two
story frame business house on Lib
ertY street, opposite the Memorial
church, where the wholesale trade
Of the company will be carried on.
The President of the Oakland
Literary and Amusement Club has
been notified by the school Board
that the use of the school building
is denied the use Of the club by
order. There will be no meeting
therefore tonight but arrangements
are being perfected by which the
club will be installed in other and
better quarters.
The firm of Hayden & Eckles,
who until they were burned out at
Mountain Lake Park, conducted d
general mercantile business, has
been dissolved. Capt. Hayden,
the senior member of the firm, will
rebuild on the site of the burned
building and put in stock of gro
ceries and cottage furnishings and
will be ready for business about
May 1st.
Rev. ROmanus Mattlngly, pastor
of st. Peters Catholic church, Oak
land, will lecture in Offutt's Hall
on Monday night, Feb. II, at eight
O'Clock, on the "Analysis ard the
Synthesis of Scientific Thought. -
No doubt the reverend gentleman
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-13
VOLUM E 10.
NEWS OF A WEEK.
Happenings in and About Town told
in Short Paragraphs.

Miss Alice hepner is on VlslI 10
friends in Cumberland.
Mr.. c. NJ. Miller, Of Swanton, was
IN Oakland on Friday.
W. c. Devecmon, of Cumberland
was in Oakland Monday.
Rev. j. W. Butler and several
members of his family are Ill.
Mr.. D. e. Ofutt made business
trip to Clarksburg on Friday last.
Mr.. J. Alyin Friend, of Sang
Run, was in Oakland OIL Friday
last
W. C.Kidd, the popular salesman,
of Baltimore, spent Sunday in
Enwn 49,.
Miss Elizabeth Weber went to
Cumberland last Monday evening
on visit.
Mr.. G. Paugh, of Bayard, W. Va,
was q caller at this Office on Satur-
day last.
Mr.. John Roth, Of District No.
S, was in Oakland few hours on
Tuesday.
Attorney D. j. BIacklston, of
Cumberland, was in the city last
Thursday.
The.free school book bill passed
the House yesterday afternoon by
vote of II to 8.
Assemblyman Hilleary is confn-
ed to his room at Annapolis with an
attack of erysipeIas.
Owing to some cause our CORES.
pondent at Annapolis has failed to
send in his weekly letter.
Messrs. Chas. A. Sinsel and Geo.
NJ. Whitescaryer, of Grafton, were
registered at the Glades on Monday.
Mr.. j. O. Cleveland left Oakland
on Friday for Staunton, Va, where
he goes to visit his parents, who are
i'll.
Mr.. j. S. Meyers returned last
week from a visit to friends and
relatives at Friendsville and Selbys-
port.
Ex-Judge Henry Sanders went to
Terra Alta yesterday to visit his son
John, who is i'll with pueu-
monia.
Mrs. G. 0. Miller, who has spent
several weeks visiting her parents
IN Covington, KY, returned home
Tuesday.
Mr.. E. H. Sincell went to An
napolis Monday, where he goes to
attend q session of the Court
of Appeals.
Messrs. d. +. Offutt and Samuel
Lawton are in New York purchas-
ing new dynamos for the electric
light plant.
Mrs. r. A. Rayenscroft, wife of
Senator Ravenscroft, who was i'll
several weeks recently, has recovered
her usual health.
The case of John Shartzer, trustee,
VS.. The Mtn. Lake Park Associa-
ton comes up in the Court of APP
peals this morning.
Master Harry and Miss Virgie
Richardson, of Piedmont, W. Va, =,
spent several days last week visiting
FelaUlNeS III OdhlduU.
Messrs. D. L. Offutt and j. NJ.
Davis went to Washington Monday
to attend meeting Of the Noun
tain Lake Park Association.
Mrs. s. G. Smith left on Tuesday
night for Lexington, Mo-, where
she will spend two or three months
visiting friends and relatives.
Miss Margaret Sincell gave a
party to quite a number of her
friends last Thursday evening in
honor Of her sixteenth birthday.
$50 Reward.
will pay a reward of $50 to any
one giving information that will
lead to the arrest and conviction OF
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-13

A large Lighthouse double heat
ing stove. VIII sell for cash or
trade for lumber. Call at furniture
room.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-13

When Baby was sick, we gave her castoria.
When she was a Child, She cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss she clung TO Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-13
MOUNTAIN STATE
NI~ !" ~ FF1lN = - .
a9mas1s1lb ClN1A@an.
PARKERSBURG, w. VA.

Only Business College in the State. Gives the Com
Hmercial, PenmaInship, Shorthand and Typewriting
courses. No Vacation. Graduates Successful.
Boarding in clubs 500 per week Catalogue sent
on request. Address A. G. SINE, PRESIDENT.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-02-07
Imported Song Birds Thrive.

Inquiry has been received by The
Spokesman Review concerning the re
suit of an experiment made a few years
ago with European singing birds in Ore
gon. Several hundred were brought over
and released in the vicinity of Port
land, with the hope that they would
thrive and multiply and enliven the for
esls with their inspiring notes. lnclud-
ed in the collection We're specimens Of
the skylark. nightingale, thrush and
mavis The experiment has proved "A
pleasing success The imported songsters
have spread over wide area, and oc
casionally few have been seen east of
the Cascade mountains. The climate is
favorable and the citizens of German
birth. who raised the purse to introduce
the songSters Of the fatherland. say the
httle strangers sing As sweetly here as
in the land across the sea. Spokane
Spokesman Review.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-02-07

more and more difficult for the pro-
ducer to live and pay his debts.
This we repeat, is singular, because
these same papers seem TO be blind
to the palpable fact that the demon
citation of silver was the very worst
kind of contraction. and has led to fall
of prices never before equalled in the
worlds history. This mas been shown
a thousand times by the highest statis-
teal authorities. even on the gold
side of this question. The London
Economist. for example, pronounced
gold organ. distinctly recognizes the
great fall in prices that has taken place
during the last twenty-five years. As
we have repeatedly stated, the average
fall in wholesale rates has been more
than 40 per cent and nearly all of our
great staples are sold AT Wholesale
Ii is utterly Impossible for business
to be healthy and the people prosperous
under such conditions
Let every man apply the case of a
40 per cent fall to his own business, and
figure out its advantages Still, great
newspapers will haggle with Cleveland
over a mere proposition to retire green
backs. and at the same time advocate
a contraction by destroying silver that
is almost infinitely wo The world
Is full Of inconsister National BIZ
metallist
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-02-07
ONE MANS SUFFERING.
The Trials and TribulatiOns Of Bat.
tie Greek Citizen How lie
Comes to Tell This story

Among The mouldcrs at the works Of
the Michigan foundry company can be
found Mr. Amos Maynard lac has lived
iu Battle Creek for over ten years, Is
honorcd and respected by all who know
him; such is the man who makes this
statement, hc says: have had kidney
trouble for years. and il has made my
life miserable The heavy lifting, ucccS-
,uIy i'm my business. mad" me worse. J
have been compelled - ne i'm bed in "a help
less condition for rs long as nine day, al
time: the greatest pain was from my back
which sometimes felt ~ though "a bayOuct
was being run through me in the region
IF my kidneys, many citizens Of Battle
Creek knew how bad | was ] could not
move without the greatest caution fer
as soon as | attempted 10 Stoop over, bend
10 one side. or even turn i'm bed, the pain
was simply unbearable. wore porous
plastcrs constantly for the little tenn
porary relief they brought me When
ever | caught the slightest cold it went
straight to my kidneys and made me
worse | was advised TO try Doan's Kid
ney Pills and got some. have taken in
all four boxes of them, and | now feel as
active rs ever. A few months ago would
have ridiculcd the idea OF being cured SO
quickly, and being able to work rs can
now. All the ng-standing pains are
gone. and the former traces Of kidney dis
orders found in my urine have disap
pcarcd | have recommended Doan's Kid
ney Pills 10 many friends who were trou-
blcd as | was, and in every case | have
learned they proved as beneficial as with
me. Doan's Kidney Pills would be cheap
To me at almost any price"
For sale by all dealers, price 80 cents
Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, n. Y, sole
arents for the t. 5. Remember the name,
D0anS, and take no other
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-02-07
JAPAN AND SILVER.
GROWING RICH ON THE USE OF
THE WHITE METAL.
Enabled to Compete with the Pro-
ducers of the Entire World william
r.. Curtis sounds Warning NOte To
Congress.

William r. Curtis, writing recently
from Japan TO the Chicago Record, said
with regard to the use of silver in ia
pan: Speaking as one who does not
believe in silver money nor bimetallism
unless it be universally adopted and all
the nations of the earth agree to main
tam the value of silver, | must never
theless, admit that it is the uniform
testimony of all concerned that the de-
mcnetization Of the white metal by the
repeal of the Bland law in the United
States and the suspension OF coinage IN
India was great thing for Japan.
"A few theorists. arguing from the
standpoint of what ought TO be instead
of what is, insist that Japan shall join
England the Latin Union) and the
United States in an international agree
ment to maintain a certain parity be-
tween the metals. but il is by no means
a popular idea They are college pro-
fessors. minority members of Parlia-
ment. idle men who think and read
a great deal and do nothing, and others
who are entirely without practical eX-
industry. Most of them nave been edu
Gated in England and have got their
financial notions from reading the
Times and the Economist The solid,
wise men, who are governing the en-
pire. say No. let the debtors and the
creditors of Europe and America fight
il out. Meantime we will saw wood.
IN ii oil
standard the better twill be for Japan.
We have no foreign debt. We owe
nothing abroad. Therefore we do not
have to buy gold to pay interest
charges. The import trade is nearly all
in the hands of foreigners and We don't
care how high foreign manufactured
merchandise is. Cotton, iron and -four
will stay down in sympathy with sill
yer and it would be a good thing if
nothing but raw material were import
cd into Japan
you will notice that India, Japan,
Mexico and other silver countries are
not only much more prosperous than
the gold countries of Europe, but their
domestic industries are greatly stimu-
lated. In fact, financial and commerce.
al depression is almost universal except
where there is nothing but silver
money. Public Opinion.
Mr.. Curtis is a very able writer and
adds much to the attractiveness of the
columns of the Chicago Record The
only mystery is how any man of his
ability can so clearly recognize the de-
preston of gold standard countries, the
prosperity of silver standard countries
and still be a gold bug The only
explanation TO be offered is that he is
willing to set up and rely upon the mere
theory of sound money" as it is
called, in opposition to undeniable
facts.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-02-07

The man who fears God is not afraid
to walk in the dark. but he fears to
walk alone-Ram' Horn.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-02-07
ANTARCTIC ICE.
1t Differs Considerably from That Of the
Northern Regions.

The difference in the formation Of
arctic and antarctic ice, as is well
known, is very great. While the north
ern bergs mostly consist of a large ice
mass running up into numberleSs towers
and arches resembling the mountain
peaks which surrounded the glaciers
from vi e hey were torn, the antarc.
tic bergs ale old masses Of floating ice,
with perpendlc walls and an un-
broken plateau on the top
All showed distinctly whether they
were broken from the large Southerlv
barrier or discharged from the glaciers
of Victoria Land All the barrier bergs
had very distinct blue lines across Their
walls, indicating The annual growth hy
snowfall These lines were IF course
not TO be found on the glacier ice. The
latter also showed more Likeness, 10 the
northern ice than did the former. The
peaks and towers Of the arctic iceberSs
are supposed to be formed by the intlu
ence Of ocean currents wearing away
the softer part Of the Ice mass under
water until the natural law Of gravita
ton forces 1t 10 upset
But why have the antarctic icebergs
different appearance: 1t is certain
that in the antarctic waters there are
also currents. Yet even icebergs that
have gone as far north as the south Of
New Zealand have all maintained the
marks Of their antarctic origin. | can
not see any other reason for this dissimi
larity between the bergs Of the north
and those of the south but that the arc
tic icebergs, as rule, must pass through
climes which in temperature rapidly
change from one extreme to another,
and the icebergs take much longer time
in floating southwark than do the ant
arctic icebergs in advancing northward,
and thus, rs a rule, the northern Zoe
bergs exist much longer than those Of
the antarctic. &C. +. Borchgrevink in
Century
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-02-07
He Was Taken In.

A stranger arrived in town the othw
day, and hearing the hotels were crowd
ed, told the cabman to drive him to
some hotel that did not advertise. He
knew there he could get room. The
cabman inquired of fellow Jehu, and
they drove TO it, The clerk was asleep,
but they awakened him. and the stran-
ger had his choice Of the best room on
every floor. There is moral to this
little, truthful incident as plain as the
statue of Liberty to all on deck on the
steamers coming up the bay. -Hote'
Mail
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-02-07
BAYARD'S BAD BREAK.
1t Is on Par with the Lunacy OF the
Gold Standard Advocates.

The President stands in the midst
times violent people, men who desire
to have their own way. and who need
their way frequently INSTRUCTED. and
tell you plainly it takes a real man to
govern the people Of the United States. ="
The above is one Of the statements
made by Mr.. Bayard recently in Eng
land, which has given so much umbrage
10 Americans. Whether the language
is improbable we are scarcely pre-
pared to say, but it is dangerously near
the line. BY the plainest implication
it means that the people OF this coun-
try are incapable of self-gOvernment
and need a man in the presidential
chair who can govern" them. That is
exactly what Mr. Cleveland has been
trying to do in dealing with the money
question. He has paid no more atten-
ton to the laws of congress than if they
had never been passed. The Sherman
law" provided as clearly a language
can speak for the purchase at its mar
ket price Of 4 800 900 ounces of silver
each month
For several months before the repeal
only about one-half of the required
amount was purchased The specious
pretense was that somebody had corn
cred" the market and forced up the
price Upon that same theory Harri-
son might have refused to buy any dur
ing his entire term, and the law would
have been nullified from the first.
The answer is no answer at all, for
there is always speculation to every
market" and i'm all commodities. The
raising of the price of silver was the
precise purpose which the law had in
view so as to establish and maintain a
parity between the two metals.
Mr. Cleveland has also cOoiiy set he
law at defiance by refusing { nay gov
eminent obligations in silver. borrow
ing gold instead, and increasing the in
bearing debt of a people already
staggering under a load too heavy tor
them to bear.
IL is scarcely necessary 10 say tina,
Mr.. Bayard is a Sound money" man
Of the most pronounced type.
Show us a man anywhere who thinks
the American people need a real man
TO govern them" and We will show you
a devotee of the English gold standard
Nr. Bayard should not only resign, but
he should permanently dOmicile himself
in the dominions of Her Majesty the
Queen.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-02-07
An Infallible Test.

A miser had died very suddenly. The
doctor who was called in TO certify his
death appeared to have his doubts about
the case.
"Place 10 mark piece in his hand, "
said the old hoasekeeper of the deceased.
"lf he doesn't grasp it, you may safely
make out the order for his burial. -
Wegweiser
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-02-07
CURRENCY CONTRACTION.
The Best Influence OF All Countries Is
Against ~.

One of the singular features of the
present situation is that so many Re-
publican gold standard papers are We
hemently opposed to President Cleye-
lands scheme of currency contraction.
They distinctly recognize the fact that
20 diminish the currency will be pro-
ductive OF hardship and distress.
But how? Simply by causing still
further shrinkage Of prices, making 1t
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-02-07
he Won.

"Your little brother is better, hopeY
"Yes but the voting he got gave him
severe cold. Some more boys and he
were playing at who could walk nearest
the edge of the canal with their eyes shut
and ho won. philadelphia American.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23

Tho only question that properly remains for congress to consider is the mode which should be adopted for the stop which congress is pledged next to take. Tho course pursued by the Uuited States in the recognition of e. lombia is the only course which congress can consistently Ddoph
 Mir. Vest attempted to discuss the Cuban question. but Mir. Hale objected.
 Mir Hill then offered resolution in favor of recognizing the Cabans as bel ligerents.
 Mr. Bacon, of Georgia. introduced resolution on the constitutional ques- tion raised between the executive and congress. This declares that the rec ognition of governments is a sovereign power which does not appertain to the executive exceps as the right of veto makes him a part of the law-making power
 Mir. Chiffon, of Texas, introduced a substitute for the Cameron resolution declaring that a stale of war exists in Cuta and that the United States should remain neutral, according the rights of helligerency to both parties.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23
AMERICANS IN PALESTINE.
Several Hundred There Waiting for the
 "Second Coming of Christi

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22. Consul Wal lace, of Jerusalem. reports to the state department that according to the con sular records of his office, there are 530 citizens of the United States residing in Palestine. Of this number 43S are Jews. who are only norninally Ameri- cans, having lived in the United States just long enough to obtain citizenship papers and passports. The one idea which seems to possess all to greater or less degree is that of the second ad- vent of the Lord.f This is by all con sidered to be an event soon to take place in Jerusalem. Some of them during the period of waiting are suffer ing for the necessares of life, but are content to endure privation in the hope of being present and witnessing the Lords coming.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23
TIE WEST FOR CUBA.

Governors of Missouri, Kansas, Illinois and
 Nebraska Express Their Views.
 NEW YORK, Dec. 22. The New York Journal sent letters to the governors of the various states asking for an ex- pression of their views on the Cuban question and what aid in the way of volunteers their states would give in the event of war with Spain. Govs Altgeld, of Illinois, Stone, of Missouri, Morrill,. of Kansas, and Holcomb, of Nebraska, each expressed sympathy for Cuba and said their several states would furnish all the recruits neces- sarv in case of war.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23
A JAIL BREAK.
Prisoners Used Dynamite to Escape,
 but Were Recaptured.
KENTUCKY NEGRO LYNCHED
A Suggestion Taken Up to scnd a Train of Provisions to New York and Chicago for the Poor-The Veterans
 Town Damaged.

SAVANNAH, Mo-, Dec. 20. Three of the prisoners confined in jail here made a bold dash for liberty at eight o'clock last night They blew the lock off the outer door of the jail with dynamite and rushed out The alarm was at once given and number of per- sons started in pursuit Two of the prisoners were captured short dis tance from the jail. Red" OBrien, who was incarcerated on charge of robbing the state bank here in Febru- ary last, evadeG his pursuers. He secreted himself in Il cellar several blocks from the jail, where he was found half an hour later.
 Kentucky Negro Lynched.
 MAYFIELD, Ky. Dec. %. Sheriff Cook and w. A. Usher arrived here yesterday morning from Louisville with Jim Stone, the negro brute, his trial having been set for tomorrow in the circuit court. A large crowd was about the jail all day, and at 10:a0 o'clock last night 800 masked men as bled. hrolSc into the jail and hanged the negro in the courthouse yard and then riddled the body and plunged knives into it. Two previous attempts had been made to lynch Stone, one of which the husband of his victim pre- vented.
 Plan to Advertise Kansas.
 TOPEKA, Kan, Dec. 92 Kansas newspapers are taking up the Topeka Capitals suggestion that this state should send train load of provisions to the destitute of New York and Chi cago as a rebule to the metropolitan newspapers of these cities, which have rdiculed the state because 1t gave populist majority. The scheme Is urged as the biggest and best adver- tisement the state could have. Gov elect Leedy and leading populists fa- vor it.
 The Veterans Georgia Town Damaged.
 INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Dec. 22. -P. H. Fitzgerald, who with other Indianians founded the veterans town of FitzRer- aid, Ga, received u dispatch yesterday announcing that fire had destroyed all the business blocks on Grant street on both sides from Pine to Magnolia. Loss, S75, 900; insurance about $25, ,000.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23
Kansas Railroads.

TOPEKA, Kan, Dec. 22. The 14th an- nual report of the board of railroad commissioners places the total railroad mileage operated in Kansas at s,9so a small decrease for the year 1895. Of the 26 roads operating in Kansas, only two, the Chicago. Burlington & Quincy and the Chicago, Rock Island &s Pacific, paid dividends--the former four and the latter two per cent. The employees of the roads number o0,565, and their annual salaries aggregate SlO All ,646.