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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-03-25

else. She mastered the machine with
exceptional facility, almost at the first
essay, and was an easy and graceful
rider But being rather timid, she
never rode more than a mile or two at
a time, and that at the most moderate
pace. Nevertheless, this trouble de-
veloped itself, and did not subside for
months, to the great detriment of his
health, which has not yet recovered.
Another danger to cycling to which
DR.. Shadwell calls attention is appen-
dicitis caused by bicycle riding. The
numerous cases where the result of
cycling is nervous exhaustion, head
ache, insomnia, lassitude, nervous de
preston and prOstratiOn, which are
not induced by OvereXertiOn but by
the effect on the nervous system,
should serve as warning, particularly
to wheelwomen, to use this new means
of locOmotion with the EXTREMIST eau
ton. 1t is not only the nerves that
are affected in many cases, but a
weakness of the hearts action is also
| a symptom, and very serious symp-
| tom, of the effects produced by this
fashionable form of exercise. Dr.
| Shadwell says:
These effects resemble those of over
| indulgence in tobacco or alcohol, and
are nearly allied to that election Of
| nervous origin which is called sick
headache = The theory of
overexeration is quite inadequate to
| explain the kind of effects here des-
| cribed. The true cause seems to be
| in the extreme instability of the two
| wheeled machine, which can never
! be left to itself for a single moment
without dismOunting. In this re-
spect bicycling differs from any other
occupation whatever. The strain of
attending to it may not be very great
in itself-sometimes it is, and some
times it is not-but it never ceases;
and this incessant tension is the
thing which tells on the nerves.
How incessant it is the demeanOr OF
most riders declares with an emphasis
which still eXcites ridicule, familiar
as the sight has become.
The bicycle has not been long il
general use-suf1iciently long, at any
rate, to develop all its possibilities
for good and evil-but DR.. Shadwell'
article is likely TO call halt in its in
discriminate use. He shows that hi
cycling is attended with serious evils
and suggests that in adopting it as a
mode of rapid transit very much
greater caution is necessary than has
been generally supposed"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-03-25

1t if difficult now to speak Of the
Democratic press of Maryland"
The fitness of things is thereby
abused.
This was even 50 before last years
surrender to the free coinage craze
indeed, ever since German became at
once the Mentor and master of the
so-called democratic press"
These observations arise from a
reflection upon the inverted order of
natural relations.
Instead of being the follower OF Il
single man 1.-THE Democratic press
ought to be the leader of the Demo
cratic legions and the trumpeteer of
Democratic opinion.
But what a spectacle was that last
year, when German threw to the
winds his gold-standard platform of
June to make an impossible Demo
cratic" fight on at least four undemo-
cratic planks!
Yet this was nothing to the far
more sOrrOwful show of "a free press
clinging to his coat-tails as he raced
his way from historic Democracy into
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-03-25

In a speech delivered on Thursday
night at a banquet held at Rennert s
in recognition of the services of d. F.
Maroney in organizing the Sound
Money Democratic League of Balti-
more county, Edgar II. Cans sounded
a note of warming to the "regular'
Democracy in the State that is most
significant, He replied to the toast of
Harmony Within the Party and in
part said:
My conception of party is that it
is composed of men having like prin-
ciples which they think vital to the
welfare of the country and State.
You teach your sons to belong to the
Democratic party because you believe
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-03-25

SILVER is down very near the low
est point which it ever touched while
wheat is at high level, and is likely
to go higher. Nobody hears the par
rot talk now of silver and wheat be
ing yoaked together, but this is be-
cause the silver issue is dead, temper
arily or eternally. Ifthe issue should
be resuscitated in 1900 the follies and
falsehoods of 1896 would be repeated.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-03-25

the ranks of Bryanism, Populism and
Altgeldism!
1t was the saddest of all the party
apostacies in the history of the coun-
try-the twin companion of free
speech Indicating the only throne
and renouncing the only impersOnal
majesty set up in the organic lava
free press.
The lesson is a good one for the Re
publican press, too.
No party paper should be any
mans paper-until he is nominated
and not then if he is or becomes a
deserter from party principles.
No party paper should sustain q
party dignitary, or even the party
itself, when wrong.
No such paper is a constituent OF
"a free press. - FrOstburg Journal
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-03-25

in it and its principles. Ii you find
the members of such a party asunder
on fundamental principles, you can
not unite them except by bringing all
to believe in the fundamental truth.
The unity of party is organic unity.
1t is as a tree and its branches. The
mere fact that men label themselves
Democrats amounts to nothing. The
Democratic party in Maryland is di-
vided into two camps. Our camp is
larger than you have any conception
of. This was demonstrated last fall.
1.-The fight for sound money in
MARYLAND was made by virtJf of Dem
ocratic votes. They are thu earnest
thinkers of the party, the sound men
the men who don't want Office. They
love the principles of DEMOCRACY and
they want to drag it out of the mire
into which it has been draw1 by its
leaders. The other camp in the party
is composed of men who hold office,
want Office or hang with it because of
family tradition. The two CAMPS are
far asunder. What will bring, them
together? There are two practical
questions to submit.
1.-The elections this fall will @lect a
WlllCl W Ill SClSCD ~ ilIUCN
States Senator. Who is to We that
Senator? Is it to be Senator German?
| MOI You and | believe iIl sound
money. Thank God the peoHe of the
United States do. You believe in a
clean party organization, with clean
leaders, and not in political t;icksters
and charlatans.
Il look upon Senator German as the
destroyer of the Democrat II party.
He has affected an organization and
held it together on low lines. The
people say that we have Gormanpho-
bia. Why? If you find a man always
in your way you have got to knock
him aside. He is the incarnation of
the worst in politics. 1t is essential
that Senator German shall not go
back.
you can't get men to buy the
hatchets simply to heal differences in
party ranks. They havemade it de-
ISOLATION and call it peace" We want
peace through truth; without truth
there can be no peace. The sine qua
non is that those who believed in free
silver must come to us; we will not go
to them. Mr.. Bryan, the boy orator,
/ said that we must come to them in
sack-clOth and ashes. Are you will
ing to bend the knee to the silver fall
, lacy after you have fought it? True
men never bend the knee except to
| truth"
The Republican party must awak-
en- itself to the situation. Here is a
condition of affairs laid bare, which
means great deal, provided the Re
publican party will make acceptable
nominations. The independent ele-
ment in the Democratic party will
come to their aid if worthy candi-
dates are presented and a clean po-
litical organization is maintained.
Political bossism and jobbery must
not be allowed to creep into the ranks
of the party, and there is an element
in the State which will be of far great
er service to the party than any dis
satisfied voters who may come, and
that is the young people who are just
ready to attach themselves to some
political policy which appears to them
most worthy of their first vote. The
opportunity of Republicans is at
hand.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-03-25

dows, of Morgantown, W, Va.
Samuel Judson Zearley, of Point
Marion, Pa, and Sylvia Rowe, of
Scottdale, Pa.
Lloyd Franklin Broadwater and Lu
cretia Weitzell, both of Garrett
county.
Roswell John Fletcher Bartlett and
Mrs. Margaret Catharine Smith, both
of Garrett county.
Franklin Stewart and Annie Con
ner, both of Corinth. W. Va.
William Yost and Clara Musgrave,
both of Monongalia county, w. Va.
Waitman Lloyd Hovatter and Ida
Bolyard, both of Barbour county, W.
Va.
Albert j. Rexroad and Ella +. Har-
desty, both of Garrett county.
Two were marked don't publish. ="
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-03-25

There will be a special party leave
eastern points on March Goth and
April 9TH for North Dakota, which
will connect with special trains from
Chicago, leaving Chicago the even
ings of March Both and April 9th, Uid
the Wisconsin Central and Great
Northern Railways to the homes of
the original Bunker settlements.
The special low rate of ten dollars
and fifty cents will apply from Chi
cagO on the above dates. Purchase
the cheapest ticket to Chicago. call
on Mr.. Max Bass, 220 South Clark
Street, Chicago, and he will furnish
you with a ticket from Chicago to
North Dakota at the above rates.
Advise A. c. Harvey, ~ South Bird
Street, Philadelphia, Penna., if it is
your intention to join the party. 81
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-03-25

A canvass among the druggists of
this place reveals the fact that Cham
berlain's are the most popular pro
prietary medicines sold. Chamber
iain's Cough Remedy, especially, is
regarded as in the lead of all throat
trouble remedies, and as such is free
ly prescribed by physicians. As a
Group medicine, it is also uneXcelled,
and most families with young chill
dren keep a bottle always handy for
instant use. The editor of the GrGphjc
has repeatedly known Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy to do the work after
all other medicines had failed.-The
Kimball S. ID. GRAPHIC. For sale at
25 and 80 cents per bottle by Oakland
Pharmacy and DR., j. w, Laughlin,
Deer Park
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-03-25

fecund immigrants, who can number?
Our swarming and restless popula-
ton, ever moving forward into virgin
territory, has made the area of the
United States increase from 1876, 900
square miles in 1776 to over 10000
square miles in 1897. Our people of
New England Notwithstanding the
remarkable history of the early set
Element of that region, in many cases
gathered their belongings together
and settled on the southern bounda-
ries of the great lakes and beyond
The group of southern states with
Virginia as centre scattered their
children north, south, east and west,
breaking up almost entirely the ties
of location. AS consequence of this
mixing and moving and changing of
inhabitants, it is practically impOssi-
bic to find in America the never-dying
affection for places that characterizes
more stable populations. Compared
with older nations in Europe, we are
but newborn infants. For instance;
Buda Pesth, in Hungary, has recently
celebrated its thousandth year OF
existence.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-03-25
The Bike and Its Dangers.

With the advance of spring the
bike will be more and more in evil
dence. As a fashionable fad there is
none to dipute its respectability; but
after all, does cycling pay? Does it
tend to preserve or to restore health?
Its reign has been too short to aid the
medical man to answer this question
decisively. But DIR. Shadwell, in the
current number OF The N0tioRdl Re
UielC, attempts to answer it. He ad-
mits that as a form of exercise it has
it's value; lit is good for many people. ."
But, he adds, my point is that among
the enormous number who have taken
to it within the last two years there
are many others for whom it is not
good, but distinctly hurtfuI, and that
in ways and for reasons which are not
yet generally recognized"
Regarding those who cannot ride
even a moderate distance without
unpleasant or serious consequences he
says:
They may not be so numerous as
suppose; but they exist, and there is
nothing on the face of it to distinguish
them from the rest. That is where
the danger lies. One danger
is exophthalmic goitre; + an
other is internal inflammation, of
which the symptoms are much pain
and a kind of chronic dysentery, ex-
tremely obstinate and Of the most
lowering character. The first case
that / noticed was that of lady of
good constitution, active and able to
hold her own at other forms of exer-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-03-25

The Populists in Congress have
failed to convince Mr.. Reed that they
are entitled to representation on the
House committees. The speaker says
he prefers to recognize them as part
of the Democratic organization. All
who are not Republicans are Jumped
together as the Opposition.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-03-25

We have received communication
from a correspondent near Deer Park
giving his views why the school term
should not be over five months, which
will be published in the next issue of
The REPUBLICAN.
Superintendent L. A. Rudisill is
preparing to issue a large edition of "A
sixteen-page paper setting forth the
advantages of Mountain Lake Park
as a summer and health resort. The
paper will contain detailed program
of the Chautauqua.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-03-25
vree Stop-over at Nashington.

On all through tickets between the
east, west, north and south, reading
via Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, a
stop-over at Washington can be Sc
cured, without extra charges for rail
road fare, by depositing the ticket,
upon arrival at Washington, with
the b. & O. station ticket agent at
that point. Washington is always
attractive to visitors. and particular
ly 50 while Congress is in session
This arrangement for stop-over priv
ilege will doubtless be appreciated
by the public, and will bring to the
National Capitol many travellers to
view its superb public buildings,
monuments, museums and thorough
fares. PCT
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-03-25

WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN receives
SIC, 600 as royalty for the first months
sales of his book. AS regular thing
that would far exceed the PRESIDENT
salary, but there are some books that
fully supply the demand in the first
month after they are issued.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-03-25

A GREAT many people who are
bowling about the non-appearance Of
the Advance Agent of Prosperity
might find out how he looks if they
would talk less and work more.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-03-25

MNotley.B. Browning, of GAINESVILLE
sold a tract of timber and coal land
last week to a syndicate of Pittsburg
capitalists The tract contained g
400 acres, and the price paid was S.
per acre.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-03-25

POSTMASTER GENERAL GARY an
nounced officially that unless remov-
ed for cause postmasters both presi-
dental and fourth class, will be al
lowed to serve their four year term.
ThiS is nrODer
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-03-25

Last Saturday night the large lum-
Der plant, owned and operated by
Messrs. Clark & Mccullough, near
Friendsvillc, was entirely de
stroyed by fire, entailing a loss of
several thousand dollars. This plant
was one Of the best and largest in
Garrett county, employing a hundred
or more men.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-03-25
THURSDAY, MARCH %, 1897.

WILLIAM J. BRYAN celebrated his
birthday Monday. Mr.. Bryan will be
remembered as young man who ran
for Office last fall
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-03-25
school Board Notice.

The Office of the Board OF School
Commissioners will be open Tor the
transaction of public business on
Tuesdays and Saturdays, until fur
Their notice. 3-tf.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-03-25

Because some, even many, nations
have reached their highest civiliza-
ton by means of continuous battles
and because the redolent of human
blood is not on every page of our his
tory there are not wanting those who
can see no bright future for us, Or
dained, as we are, to isolation and
peaceful development. They fear
that our civilization will come tumb-
ling around our ears some day be
cause there is no over mastering call
to arms and to the subjugation of
self that war entails. The fear is not
ill-founded, neither is it unanswera-
BILE The attempt will be made in
this column to show that peace hath
its victories and quietude its prob
lens; that there are calls sharp and
decisive, away from seltishness, and
that whether the answer of our ma
ton is to be satisfactory to all de
mands placed upon it, depends on the
young people of the present day.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-03-25

Where are we now? Approaching
the home land. When long residence
in one place, a perpetual state of con
fict, and the handing down of war
traditions by the fathers, are found
to be strong inducements to patriot
ism, what hope is there for our coun-
try? In one hundred years, or, in
other words, since the fathers of liv-
ing aged men were boys, our popu-
lation has grown from something over
5000, 200 to about 7O,OOO,OOO OF these
100000 have come from abroad,
since 1920, and the offspring of these
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-03-25
PEMITTANCES;

Remittances made by money order, postal
not. registered letter or bank draft will be at
our risk, Il made otherwise, at the risk of the
sender. Address,
THE REPUBLICAN,
Oakland. Nd
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-03-25

Furthermore, the nearer people
come to telling the deeds of heroes by
word OF mouth-as did Homer, the
Old Testament worthless, and the
bards when books were few-the cas-
Ter is it to keep alive the flames of
hate, or the willing surrender of self
to patriotic duty. When the flashing
eyes of the father accenuate the story
of his own deeds that he is pouring
into the child's soul or when the
'mOther-knee'' instruction tells why
the child's father fought and died,
then the father becomes to him "a
living epistle,n and his ancestors, "a
cloud of Witnesses"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-03-25
Some Rambling Thoughts.


l reckon that intensity of love for
ones country has always been most
noteworthy among populations that
have inhabited one region for ages.
The ''rocks and rills'' of such a land
all become, in time, the scenes of
events that makes them precious, and
the hillsides cover the bones of I'M
numbered dead, whose names are still
borne by the living. SO the hearts of
the people strike their roots into the
soil, and become part of it; as even
with the Greenlanders, whose dreary
coasts hold the feeling of the inhabi-
tants in such a thrall, that absence
means agOny-even death.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-03-25

Bulwarked by oceans, free from
European entanglements, placed
apart by the fat of the Almighty
whose will set our bounds, the mill
ions of this country, without a known
possible invader are beckoned for
ward into a new century. A nation
whose population increases by leaps
and bounds is being subjected to
none of the concentration that comes
from attack and is realizing none of
it's benefits. We have more of subju-
gated territory behind us than of
slain people, and the wars in our his
tory are as nothing to the bulk of
our population. What of military
glory have we to start the blood of
the modern boy tingling within him?
The Revolution is a mere shadow to
our myriad new corners; the war of
1912 even more so, except for Perry;
the Mexican war one of mere extern
sion; the Rebellion, battle between
brothers to have been forgiven as
soon as ended, if Lincoln had lived.
Even admitting that the Titanic
struggle was thrilling, what meaning
has it for the twelve million emigrants
who have landed and multiplied since
then? Our heroes are mere names to
| them, and the point at issue some
thing they have never seen. The boy
of other lands can know that the
| blood of his kinsmen has wet the
earth to keep inviolate from conquest
the spot on which he stands. Thrill
ed by their deeds he can swear to dare
what they have dared and can sane
tify himself to the task left by them.
But our boys father may not so much
as know the smatterings of our Ian
guage, and probably may understand
still less of our history. The average
American youth is therefore entirely
deprived of personal touch with war
riors who have fought for Home
and Native Land What he learns
of warfare and our country's battles
must be from the unimpassioned
pages of school histories.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-03-25


[ reckon also, it is easy of proof that
the ancient people most firmly knit
together in one, were those whose
precarious existence was continued
only by vigilance and conflict need
not hesitate to cite the Spartans,
since the mind of each well informed
reader will at once recall the harden
ing and unifying experiences of that
little nation, whose members prefer
red to perish together, rather than
live separated. Similar proof is given
by Rome in its early days, when it
was being prepared by most strenu-
GUS experiences for the conquest of
the world. National trials largely
account for national strength.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-03-22
prrHY POINTS
Happenings Throughout the Country
Chrouiolod for uasty Perusal.

Happenings Throughout the Country
Chronioiod for Hasty Perusal.
The collicrics viii resume operations to-
morrow.
The Superior Court win convene in Pitts
burg April H.
The teachers of Mahaboy township re-
ceived their pay ON Saturday.
The body of q nine-year-old girl was found
in the river near Wilkesbarre
The Isl punksrd" combination would
appear to better advantage had they another
play.
William Carroll has been arrested, sus.
pected Of fatally kicking Hugh McGee, at
Bristol
shamokins Board Of Trade has appointed
q committee to select site for the proposed
hospital al chat place.
The Welsh Congregational church at Maha-
uoy City has beeu completed. The new
ediGce is a credit to the town
The entire Pennsylvania National Guard
will attend the unv, ling of the Grant monu-
meut iu New York City on April 22nd.
In the two national banks at Bloomsbury
there is ON deposit. subject TO check,
si32, ,528 4s-aud yet the cry of hard times Is
heard
Another riot occurred among Pottsyille's
foreign element ON Saturday The cou' ty
seat is gaining quite a reputation in this
respect
Cards are out announcing the wedding Of
Jenkyn Gnhiths and Miss Mary Thomas,
both of Mahanoy City, to take place next
Wednesday.
George j. Wadlnger, Esq, and Hon. G. T..
King, Of Pottsville, have purchased the Tru-
mont electric light plant the transfer TO take
effect April 1st
The new iron bridge, at Lost Creek, under
course Of construction by the Taxpayers
/ Association of West Aiahanoy township was
| opened for traffic to-day
/ 1t is rumored that the p. & r. Coal & Iron
Company intends sinking a shaftat Big Mine
Run in order to reach a rich supply of coal
which is supposed to be lying there.
A child of Mr.. and Mrs James Thompson,
Of Ashland, the former being a brother OF
Mrs. William Small, Of West Cherry street,
died ON Saturday. II will be inferred to-
morrow
As the result of series Of revival meet
ings eighteen persons were yesterday bap.
tzed in Autetam Creek, Waynesboro 10y
Elder J. b. Ruthrauii, of the German Bap
tst Brcthreus church.
The Grand Army posts Of Luzerne county
favor the bill before the Legislature giving
survivors free transportation to Chickamauga
Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge, in
order that they may assist in dedicatinl
monuments.
The town council Of AIineIsville will meet
again on the first Monday in April, but it j,
not expected that the deadlock will be
broken. It is probable that the court will be
asked TO appoint couuGlmen so That borough
organization can be affected and the borough
business transacted.