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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-04-15


William Henry Butler, better
known to his many friends as Harry"
Butler, died at his home in Terra
Alta on Tuesday evening of this
week, from complication of diseases.
The funeral occurred to-day (Thurs-
day. from the Presbyterian church,
Rev S. M. Engle, pastor, officiating
lnterment was in the Terra Alta
cemetery directly afterward. Mr..
Butler was aged about Sc years, and
had many friends throughout this
county and in Maryland. He had
been very badly crippled in the late
war and for many years passed was
compelled to use a wheel chair in
getting around from place to place.
not being able to walk a step. He
received from the government quite
large pension and was very chart
table in the use of his money. Any
one in distress, and particularly old
soldiers or any member Of their fami-
IlCSI hoNSl dpillSu W MI. bulleE III
vain. He was a member of the
church for many years past, yet not
at all obtrusive in his religion and
was very seldom seen at church, but
his well-worn Bible at home and his
many expressions TO those who knew
him best told far better tale than
does the outside lives of many ardent
church members. Mr.. Butler leaves
three sons to mourn the loss of a kind
and devoted father, and the c. a. r.
post has lost true and faithful mem
Der, while the country at large has
lost one more of those brave and gal
land men who gave up their health
and lives to protect their loved
country. And so they pass over the
hills of time, to answer at the final
roll-call and to be enlisted into that
great army which will never be mus
tered out" A few years hence and
the good old comrades Will have
passed forever to the last and most
blessed of all reunions: a few short
seasons and but their memory will
remain; the bugle call is sounding
ever and in reply to it the veterans
step across the dividing line between
this world and the next, leaving to
us the empty echo of their departing
footsteps and the deeds of valOr per-
formed by them in the struggle for
right. In the death of W. H. Butler
the roll of the G. A. L. is decreased
one more, yet as the drum beats its
muffied funeral march and as the
dark pail descends over a soldiers
grave, there is rejoicing in the Great
Army over the enlistment of another
tried and acknowledgement Jour
nal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-04-15

from other human beings; and then a
paradoxical thing happens, because
liberty of action is enjoyed alone it
becomes a very fiat and uninterestfng
possession. No civilization can hold
together unless the members of it feel
a mutual interest and responsibility;
or, to express it still more CLEARLY
where there is the highest degree of
social service there is the most endur-
ing and most helpful form of govern
ment, and, therefore, the highest de-
gree of liberty. You can doubtless
point me to selfshly prosperous per
iods in the worlds history. l, on the
other hand, can demonstrate to you
that selfish individuals are not the
right material for an enduring fabric.
1t is the fond dream of Americans
that this great Democracy is to go
on growing grander with the progress
of time, we believe it is to demonstrate
once and forever the possibility of
people developing in condition of
peace and retaining through all their
material growth the strongest kind of
love for the institutions of the coun-
try as originally laid down by the self
forgetting ones who counted their
lives as naught if they could but let
the Liberty-bell ring out Freedom
over the nations. But this Urea fG-s1ll
remain dream if we are content with
the kind of progress that has charac
terized the past century, grand though
it had been. So much of territory and
of prosperity could be acquired by the
strenuous toiler that individualism
has run riot and the gaining of wealth
! has been the only standard to rally to.
! If we are to live as nation, selfishness
in our relations to our fellow men
MUST cease or, like the selfish strug-
giles of the unrefecting brute, the
weak and the strong will struggle to-
| gether and destroy one another. Too
many of us feel as though we were au
| tocratic mOnarchs of our land our
|
families, ourselves; free to do what
we like with every thing we have no
matter how much outsiders may suf-
! fer. Herein do we err, for we are all
tied up together like stocks in fagot;
weak alone, but strong when bound
close to even weak neighbors. l care
not how great man you may feel
yourself to be, either by your illbal-
anced self-approval or by the plaudits
of your fellows; you must realize that
without others to sustain you and to
approve of you there would be no
greatness in you at all. The debt is
not all on one side. Who are you then
to neglect the ill-favored and the I'M
favored? All, all are brethren in a
Democracy like ours.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-04-15

: The Franklin Qnd.) Democrat tells
the following fable. "Once a farmer
had 1900 bushels Iof Swheat which he
sold, NOT to aasingle grain merchant,
but to 1900 different dealers, bushel
to each. a few of them paid him in
cash, but far the greater number said
it was not convenient then, but would
pay later. A few months passed and
the mans bank account ran low. How
is this he said. My 1900 bushels of
grain should have kept me in affiu-
ence till another crop is raised, but |
have parted with the grain and have
instead only a vast number of ac-
counts, so small and scattered that |
cannot get around and collect it fast
enough toIpay expenses So he post
ed up public notice and asked all
those who owed him to pay quickly.
But few came. The rest said, Mine
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-04-15

is only small matter, and / will go
and pay one of these days, forgetting
that though each account was very
small, when all We're put together
they meant large sum to the man.
Things went on thus; the man got to
feeling SO badly and rolled and tossed
about so much in his efforts to collect
that he fell out of bed and awoke, and
running to his granary found his 1900
bushels of wheat still safe there He
had only been dreaming and hadn't
sold his wheat at all.
"MORAL.-The next day the man
went to the publisher of his paper and
said, Here sir, is your pay for your
paper, and when next years subscrip-
ton is due you can depend upon me
to pay it promptly. | stood in the
position of an editor last night and |
know how it feels to have ones hon
estly earned money scattered all over
the country in small amounts.'n
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-04-15
Counterfeiter Coins,

Last Saturday evening two well
dressed strangers made their appear
ance in FriendsvilIe, this county, and
succeeded in passing two counterfeit
tive-dollar gold pieces, the one upon
Mr.. W. D. Collier, the hotel man, and
the other upon Mrs. Hughes, lady
who keeps a small store at the above
place. The coins were not discovered
as being spurious until few minutes
after the strangers had left the town.
Deputy Sheriff Brown being there he
was placed in possession of the facts
and description of the men and set
about to find them, but they escaped
him and probably played similar
game when they reached the next
town.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-04-15

During the past two months | Wis
tied different portions Of our county,
and am more thoroughly convinced
than ever that the development of
wealth in our county is scarcely lore
than begun.
While much of the timber has been
removed, little has been done to cult
vate the productive soil, from the fact
that there are thousands of acres
of beautiful farm land lying there in
its virgin state.
While there are some splendid farms
opened and operated, there is large
per cent. of the old farms worn out,
simply for the want of good fertilizer.
Accident district is exceptionally
good, as they have found out the
superior advantage of lining over
other fertilizers, and limestone seems
to be ineXhaustible in different parts
of our county. A better place cannot
be easily found for fruits and vegeta
bles. Although they mature little
late compared with the lowlands, yet
they grow rapidly and are fresh and
crisp when the early supplies have
been consumed.
All kinds of stock do splendidly
here, and sheep do exceptionally well,
affording the best mountain mutton,
and as DR.. j. Lee McComas in the
spring of 1874, said, This is natural
home of the honey bee" as many fat
apiaries attest.
Then for summer resort, different
ones have said who have visited other
resorts, that we have the purest,
sweetest and most invigorating at
mosphere to be found anywhere on
the continent. The main line of the
B. 4 O. passes through the entire
length of the county, and the West
Virginia Central is easy of access
along the entire southeast border.
The Confluence and Oakland road is
open to the public as far as Krug,
about three miles above Friendsville,
from which a narrow gauge road is
extended to Hoyes run, which we hope
would be the opening for the stand
ard gauge. | saw the owners and
operators of the company at their
Office at Krug, who informed me that
they would only make their road as
far as their timber interests extended
which does not yet go beyond the
present terminus. But we hope the
independent company forming will
soon push it through.
While we have these splendid adj
vantages on the surface, l believe the
greatest amount of wealth is under
the surface in the lime quarries, and
in the extensive coal and iron ore
veins The coal field is being operated
along the West Virginia Central in a
small way, but comparatively moth
ing has been done in other parts of
the county.
Over fifty years ago an extensive
iron plant was put in on Bear creek,
near Friendsville, of which the smelt-
ing furnace still stands. This was in
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-04-15

Mr.. Charles T. Lummis, in the course
of the interesting paper on the sub
iect OF Mexico that he is contributing
to HdrperS Magazine, deals in this
months issue with the personality
and career of Gen. POrfiro Diaz, term
ing the General, a little eXtravagantly
perhaps, 1.-The greatest figure, and I'M
questionably the most romantic, in
the worlds history this half century"
Diaz is a man of notable preference
five feet eight in height, erect as the
Indian, a fine combination of unusual
physical strength, and still more un-
usual grace, with the true Indian
trunk and the muscular European
limbs. His features and expression
are essentially of Spain, full of repose
and marked by a certain hauteur, but
otherwise he reflects his outdoor an
cestry. Diaz reminded Mr.. Lummis
somewhat of Bismark in the
thoroughness of the information he
possessed about Mexico, just as the
Iron Chancellor knows everything
about Germany, and can give infOr-
nation concerning any branch of the
Government without hesitation. The
Mexican General has also a direct
and he said frankly, in speak
ing of the rescue of Mexico from its
former condition of intermittent an
archy to its present peace: ut needed
something of the strong hand. But
every year it could relax. Now, al
though there are some who do not
love Porfrio, all love peace. So the
fist is wide open. There is full lib
erty-free schools, free ballot, free
press. They may do what they will
so they do not fire a gun at me-
Diaz was born in the city of Oaxaca
on September Is, 1880. His father was
of Asturian stock, which came to
Mexico in the first years of the CON
quest. His mother was of pure abor-
iginal blood, her grandmother having
been q Mexteca. The first taste of
war experienced by Diaz was under
Herrera in the revolt against Santa
Anna, and in the revolution which
ended in the expulsion of that usur-
per young Diaz became Mayor of k
tlan. Here he amused himself drilling
the half-naked Indians on Sundays;
but after while he resigned his post
and became captain in the National
Guard.
Mr.. Lummis relates with unstinted
admiration the military career of Diaz
which he says reads rather like
chapter from the Crusades than any
thing we can realize as modern Amer
lean. probably no other ruler since
the Lion Heart has run such gamut.
Hero of more than fifty battles-and
not by heliograph, but at the head of
his men-ablaze with decorations
when in full dress, but not enough
medals to cover one apiece the scars
that earned them; leader of desperate
charges and defender of fOrlorn hopes;
half dozen times prisoner and as
often escaping by the narrowest haz-
ards; forty years in service, and al
most all of it uphill on grades that
might have daunted Sisyphus-it is a
wonderful story between the orphan
boy of Oaxaca and the head Of mod
ern Mexico"
Notwithstanding his supreme power
Diaz has withstood temptations and
has always been man of the strictest
habits. He has no vices, but is alb
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-04-15
NOTICE TO TEACHERS.


OFFICE OF THE
BOARD OF COUNTY SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS
OAKLAND, Md, April II, 1897. J
The Normal Schools will open Monday,
April 26ih. for term of ten weeks
GrantsVille will he in charge of Rev. D. II.
Bender and Oakland Prof. r. II. Sanner.
The work will be under the direction OF the
Examiner, and Garrett county teachers will
be expected to attend Garrett county normalS.
The examinations for teachers certificates
will be held at the close of the normals.
The Board is pleased to announce that the
next school year will consist of not less than
five and One-half months of actual teaching
pf the State appropriations are the same as
last year, and we believe they will be much
larger)
This means that the teachers must be better
prepared,
There will be absolutely no renewals Of Ger
tifcates this year. All teachers must be eX
amined
There will be three rates Of wages as at
present, based on days of actual teaching.
The Board nrounces that they wi | deter
mine the per cent. required for the varioUS
rates of salary. Subjects for examination the
same as the past year with mental arithme-
tic added.
fhe matter of the normal at Accident is
stlll open for consideration.
BY order of the Board,
60 U. G. PALMER, Secretary.
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REMITTANCES;

Remittauces made by money order, postal
note, registered letter or bank DRAFT will be at
our risk, If made otherwise, at the risk of the
sender. Address,
THE REPUBLICAN,,
Oakland. Md
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Call FOR your Letters.
Mr.. David r. PANEL, Mr.. Charles
Bowman, Mrs. Joshua. Horner (2l.
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RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION:
ADVERTISING RATES.

First insertion for square of ten nonpariel
lines 81; each additional insertion after first
Positively no deviation win be made from
The above rates.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-04-15
THOMAS LITTLE,
ONE PRICE STORE.

Having bought the stock OF
merchandise of Hamill & Little.
| wish to inform the public at
large that | propose to sell
goods at lowest prices.
Thanking you for past favors,
| ask you to call and examine
and be convinced. Below find
some prices:
lbs. Soup Beans. -
lbs. Lima Beans. -
bars OctOgon Soap p
cans String p
deans Banana %
cans Flintstone Corn -
c'h9 AolIlduoeS''' -
cans Marrowat Peas. %
cans Table Peaches %
cans California Apricots. %
cans California q Gages........................ y
cans Salmon ....... IS
one ID. Z Muslin, the best ever sold,yd. 0j
Cotton Crash, yd............ g.
Have just received car Of
Fertilizer, which will be sold
low. Everything will be sold
low.
Keep youreye on this column;
it will save you money.
Don't forget that l am agent
for the world renowned, famous
Buckeye Mower and Binder.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-04-15

County Examiner U, q. Palmer, in
his annual report of the condition of
the schools of this county, to the State
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-04-15

Now for the application. There is
no such thing as freedom to do as you
please unless you live entirely separate
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-06-28
AWFUL BUTCHERY
THE BODY on 4 MURDERED MAN
CvT IN TWO.
Aud the Pieces Found More Than Eight
Miles Apart-A Puxxler for
Detectives.

New York. June 21.-The lower part
OF the trunk Of man was found at
one Hundred and Seventy sixth street
and undercliff avenue. this city. to-
day. II was terribly mutlated and
shows plainly that a murder has been
committed. II was wrapped In an oil
cloth and MANILA paper exactly as was
the upper part OF a trunk found In
the East river on One Hundred and
Tenth street. on Saturday. The two
are parts Of the same body. The two
pieces were found more than eight miles
apart, one In the water and the other
ON land.
The find of to-day was sent To the
morgue, where II exactly fitted the part
found Saturday. Deputy Coroner
OHanlon performed AN autopsy on the
upper part Of the trunk to-day before
the other was found. He discovered
two stab wounds. one between the NTH
and sixth ribs. and one between the
sixth and seventh. in the region OF the
heart. There was also "A stab in the
back OF the left collar bone that ex-
tended down To- the apex ~ the left
lung. DR.. O'Ilanlon found. too, n bruise
un the left forearm. and under the right
forearm was a confusion. showing the
imprint of heel with hobnails like
those in heavy boots. He found an in
rised wound In the palm Of the right
hand, which, he said. was probably
caused by the victim seiZlng the weapon
with which he was attac ck,d. There was
u knife wound two inches long In the
apex Of the heart. corresponding 10 the
wound between the ribs. The doctor
stated that the man could not have
been dead more than 36 hours. lie cal
Culates the mans age at 81 years and
his height at 3 feet 10 inches.
The detectives Of the two precincts
and the bcSt central Office men are
working on the case The second por-
ilon OF the butchered corpse was found
north II Harlem river According To the
drputy coroner's statement. 1t Is To be
presumed that the man was stabbed To
death. and the police are trying To form
theory as 10 when the dreadful work
Of murder and butchery was committed.
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Corneli's Racing Rules.

Poughkccpsie. y. v. June 2,.-Thc posi-
ton OF Cornell In college boat racing was
made known to-day rs follows; First
Cornell will. as victols. receive almost
any proposition from Yale and Harvard
that those colleges wish to make but viii
not present a proposition AS to future en-
gagements. Second, no proposition will be
accepted by Cornell that compels her to
Join In an exclusive class with Vale and
Harvard and al the sacrifice of her friend
ly relations with Columbia and Pennsyl-
Nania. Third. Cornell. Columbia aud
Pennsylvania will combine for yaces. prob
ably upon this course. and will invite the
University of Wisconsin to come In. Yale
and Harvard may also enter II their ex-
elusive dual agreement is not handicap.
Fourth. Cornell may try to arrange To
race again I'm England with purely Ameri-
eau methods and as the representatives OF
American college rowing"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-06-28
SUBMISSIVE JAPS
Trouble Was Brewing POSI-
lively Denied.


san Francesca June ne steamer
o'ehe prousht tue loiloWlhs auNiees
from hohoiulu. June zo' since the fhila-
oeiphia mas peeh III port weekly battalion
uiiiis nave peeh neiu: oh the li'l the men
rom po,h ,he Marion ana tne nagship
Were ahueo' WINE on harsh 10 the
uf'ii srounus an oruery niousht an oruer
anu lhe pat'h'ioh returned on noarh ms
se'ioh was taheh' u was UNDERSTOOD, on
accouh, oi 'ne ,umor 10 the erect that
tne Na,"a "ouiu iiI'u ior'e oi men 10
.ahe cnhrgc vi the faWaiah custom
house' Inc JAPANESE taiied To act ana II
peneNeu that Adinifal beardsiee
prompt action caused tne captain OF the
NaiWa 10 chanse us mihn' lhe English
speaAhe people mere peheNe there was
pcou oundauoh ior ,hc iumor IN spite oil
inc uehiai inade az the japanese eshtion.
lhere are an KINDS OF rumors noating
around saiu counsellor Aklyama' ''one
iluiculous one was 'ha, lhe Japanese sal
iors were 10 iahu ana take charse oil the
custom hous.. Another Is To the effect
that tne Naiwh Is 10 leave on "Wednesday
next ihat ruhot Is without any lounda-
uoh WhateNer' ABOUT Two months hence
aho'her nah-o war VIII D" mere ana the
NaiWa y not hhely 10 leaNe before then.
JAPANESE Munster shlnilnurh denies the
STORY 10 thc 'Hccl thhl Japan mas Win
drawn us request from me Hawaiian gov
trhmtht Tor an explanation OF the reasons
lof ,Jectihs the Japanesr immigrants.
ihefe mas be"h no correspondence be-
tween thls legation ana the minister or
toreign ahairs since June SAID Minis-
tet shimmufh' mn that u'ne ! address
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-06-28
A SHIP AFlRE.
Prompt Action of the Crew Prevents "a
Horrible Calamity.

New York, June g7.-rhe Anchor line
steamer city Of Rome arrived to-day
from Glasgow and Neville after a thrill
ing experience with lire on board ship,
Captain Hugh Young reports that the
steamer sailed on June - with 81 saloon.
~ second cabin and l5o stesraEc passrn-
gers and cargo Of general merchandise
on saturday ut 2:M y. IN. IN latitude
II ~, longitude SI.2s. the bridge officer de-
tected smoke issuing from No. I hold
Immediately forward Of the bridge. Dense
volumes of smoke soon began to ascend
The IRE alarm was quickly sounded and
the crew beat TO quarters Meanwhile AN
officer was detailed TO notify the passcn-
gers who Were calmly sitting or prome-
nading the deck,
In few moments hose WAS stretched
along the deck from the engine house TO
the hold. where the iire was then raging.
Steam and water We're turned into the
burning compartment and at y. IN. the
fire WAS under control. The cause OF the
fire Is supposed TO have been spontaneous
combustion. The amount of damage done
cannot be ascertained until the steamer :
batches are taken OF and the cargo dis
charged.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-06-28
MORNING. JUNE as. 1897.

destroyed and the bridge between Kolo-
mch anh Ttlrka has been swept away.
The collapse took place white train was
crossing and II II believed many persons
have been drowned.
There were five railway carriages and
they frll la a great heap together. As yet
there l. no definite report as 10 the num-
Der OF passengers. A terrible storm OF
hail, thunder and lightning WAS raging at
the time and added 10 the horror OF the
scene. The river had risen = feet above
It's normal level Seven officials, including
the postal stan ~ MAILMAN. have been
drowned The distress az kolomca IS ter
rible. Hundreds are homeless their
houses having been carried away with
the rush Of waters.
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ences have been adjusted In the republi-
can ranks. but the democrats will natu-
rally take advantage of their knowledge
OF the feeling existing among their op-
ponents 10 debate some OF the questions at
length. IL Is understood that coal. leather.
hides and lead ore will each he vigorously
discussed. as Will all questions. though
more briefly, OF reciprocity. the treatment
OF trusts and the disposition OF the Hat
waiian reciprocity treaty, In view OF the
determination OF the democrats to cX-
plot all these questions and others as
well. II would seem impossible to conclude
the senate's work on the bill before the
end OF this week. and Il L. more than
possible that the final work will be re-
served for the following week,