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The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-04-13
Mr.. SHEPPARD'S
ADVICE TO-. %
~. CATARRfH
# SUFFERERS

Before going TO DR.. Frey, ] suffered
very much with the HEADACHE AND
SORE THROAT. and not only that but I
was constantly HAWKING AND SPIT-
TING the mucns that kept falling in Inv
throat EVERY MORNING | WOULD
FIND THAT MY THROAT AND EL::-
TRlI.S WE'RE DRY. and it was a l!.rt.
task for me to breath through my HoSt:'i.s
and would have to breath through ~.
mouth. In this condition I called 2n DR..
f!rey and took treatment under him. and
now | never suffer enough 10 amount 70
anything with any Of these symptoms and
take great pleasure III telling how MITCH
better feel since cured. used 10 dread
my work. but now ! feel so strong ana
well that working is one Of my creates.
pleasures. ] advise any who may SUITE.
from any of the forenamed troubles TO
consult DR.. Frey. and | am sure he Will
be OF much benefit to them.
WAl. II. H. SHEPPARD,
With W. a. Fskc. printer, Portsmouth,.
Residence Scottsvillc, Portsmouth. Va.
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Furniture ut Auction.

Note elsewhere an important sale Of
household furniture at Morris auction
house this morning at 10 o'clock.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-04-13
TO CUIsEA CoaD rNosE n.y

IaEe Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money n r.
fails TO cure. 25c. spS-tu, thu sat, I'm
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-04-13

that the baby will be healthy and happy
a marvellous medicine for young mothers
is DR.. Picrccs Favorite Prescription. Taken
during the period preceding motherhood it
makes strcng healthy and vigorous the or
gaiiS upon which rest the burdens Of ma
ternity II allays inflammation, soothes
pain, and restores Steadincss 10 the nerves.
II does away with the dsconlforts of the
cxpcctant period 1t insl,rcs the health Of
baby and makes its coming easy and almost
painless. IL Is the discovery Of an eminent
and successful specialist, Dr. x V. Pierce,
chief consulting physician to the lrvalids'
~ took Dr.. Picrcc's Favoritc Prescription
q short !imc, writes Mrs. Minnie A. Peterson
RON 5. I:iS,ofi, Fresno Co. Cal. The physician
said got along unusually we'll think the
medicine saved great deal of suffering and I
get all my friends who need il to try it,.
One Of the best known of American n,efi-
zeal men said If YOU want to reform a
man, begin with his grandfather" That
would be wise if it could be done. Since it
cannot be done, try something else. Reform
the future grandiathcrs and gIandinothers
DO this through education The greatest
thing for a man or woman to know is him
self or herself. To know one half the capa.
bilitics and disabilities Of tho. human body
is Il liberal education. good start for this
education is DR. Picrcc's Common Sense
Medical Adviser. Any one can have this
finely illustrated 1ooopage book for the
small price Of twcnty.ore one cent stamps
This is simply to pay Cor mailing If YOU
would like the book in fine cloth binding
instead Of paper, send thirty one stamps 10
Worlds Dispensarv Medical Association.
e. Aaic SsIeet Buffalo IA. X - bt. J.,
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-04-13

FOR SALE.-Nicc now residence, Cooke
street Park Wow: 10 rooms; all modern
Conveniences: also truck, diary AMI grain
1arm near city. Apply to Y. G. PR1TCH-
AID, corner Cook and Holiday street,
PORTSMOUTH, Va. ma2S-lm
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-04-13

do your eyes burn, or hurt? Are yo,,
troubled with headache? The proper
glasses, In most cases, will afford relief.
See DR.. Week. E5l5 ! B u !.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-04-13
FOR SALE.

FOR SALE; PRICE 500 Typewriter,
nearly new and in perfect condition ):
cost 500. Apply Tuesday or Wednesday.
lpo South Maltby avenue. apr13-1ta
10 FAMILIES WANTED.-F:ve to fifty
acre tracts already plated of choice,
high well drained land finest OF soft wa
ter: 80 minutes drive on Princess Anne
shell! road. On easy terms TO improvers
ApnlE at Client OF the owner G. l..
l1ODGNtAN aDrS-1m
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-04-13

Iho Union Central Life Insurnucc
C0uipnny.
Numbers among its policy holders many
OF Norfoik's best business men. Thomas
10. Seorel, general agent, Hadd!ngton
building.
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.NSssHa

New Ribbons for Easter wear.
New Dress Goods for Easter wear.
New LaceS for Easter Dresses
New Silks for Easter Gowns.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-02-04
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Protection and Free Trade.

SO long as the policy of protection
Femaines established by the sanction
of the people at the ballot boxes from
and after the process Of canceling the
war Indebtedness began, the revenues
Of the Government were enough for
its expenses, enough for its pensions,
enough for the payment of its bonds
at maturity, enough to reduce stead
lily its rate OF interest paid, and in
the course OF very few years, when
the worst effects of the war upon
trade and commerce had passed away
and q wise and salutary protective
system had had time to produce its
full effect, the revenue piled up and
up; in spite of the abolition Of the
income taxes, in spite of the return
to specie payments, in spite of paying
the debt over so much faster than it
became due, the revenue piled up
and up, under the protective system
searving it's natural fruit, until there
was a surplus in the Treasure so huge
that it threatened disturbance to the
currency equilibrium, and how to re-
duce the surplus became problem
of craftsmanship.
In 1899, for the first time in thirty
six years, a Presidential election was
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-02-04
Rear Frosty Rails,

During these cold days the engineers
of fast express trains often feel a little
uneasy while thinking of the posi-
bilities of striking broken rail. The
big heavy express trains that go
laundering over the road, striking a
rail with tremendous force at every
revolution, are liable to be hurled
down to destruction by the swapping
of a frost-affected bar OF steel, and
such a catastrophe always comes with
out the least warning, and its results
are fearful to contemplate. 1t is a
hard matter to find five or six hun
dred or thousand miles of steel with
out occasional flaws, which are diff
cult to locate, and when one of these
weak places is made still weaker by
frost, it is liable to give way under the
strain of the wheels.
Railroads in these days are very
nearly perfect, but there are accidents
which cannot well be guarded against.
Heavier steel rails now introduced add
to the safety limit, as they will stand
a greater strain, and they give the
engineer a greater degree of conf
dence.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-02-04

carried by a party which declared
itself hostile to the protective princi-
pal. Within less than two years pro-
lection, as a recongnized object of
tariff law was expunged from the Fed
eral status book. No sooner had
protection been voted down by the
country than the revenue began to
fail. No sooner had protection been
discarded by act of Congress than the
Governments receipts began to fall
behind its expenses at the rate of ten
of millions of dollars per annum. No
sooner was protection given up in the
name of revenue only than the
revenue shrank to so small a figure
that not only could no more payments
be made toward liquidating the ma
tional debt but the debt had present
ly to be increased by borrowing once
and again, until at length 5000, 600, goo
were added to the Understanding
burden of the Government, in time
Vi ptdCt, " ulttG CuIItIlJ GA JtllSGS
and to enable the Treasury to keep
its promissory notes from falling be-
low par
SO much for the result from reve-
nue. point of view of discarding the
protective principle near the end of
the nineteenth century. To find an
other instance we have to go back
through the path of history nearly
forty years. James Buchanan, like
Grover Cleveland, was elected on an
-protectiOnist platform. The tar
if of 1857, like that of 1898, was for re-
venue only. Then, as now, it yield
ed revenue with a vengeance! Buch-
anan's administration, like Cleve-
lands, had to face a deficit, had to
borrow money and was at its wits end
to escape bankruptcy.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-02-04

ers is small one, occupied almost ex-
clusively by the followers of 1.-The
light that failed" last November. In
the words of Mr.. William A. Smith,
the veteran ex-president of the New
York Stock Exchange, in a recent re-
view of the business situation: at
takes time to re-establish business,
and it is better that the start should
be steady and sure. A false begin
ming would be disaster" But he ad-
ded that there can be no doubt that
improvement is already taking place
and that sit will grow and widen I'M
til we are in the midst of great pros
perity. BALTIC. Sun.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-02-04
AVilton,
The weather has moderated som

The weather has moderated some
and shedding is all the go.
Most of the citizens around here
visited the towns of Frostburg and
Homecoming Saturday.
Mr.. Charles Custer, who is teaching
the Pea Ridge school, has closed for
few days on account of sickness
among the pupils. We hope they
will soon be well again so he can go
ahead with the school.
Mr.. H. A. Friend, of Friendsville,
and Miss Clara Englehart, of Acct
dent, were the guests of NJ H. Me
Kenzie Saturday and Sunday.
A large sled load of our Avilton
folks attended the dance at Mr.
Henry Swauger's near New Germany
Friday night. They report good
time, and we know they had it, for
they did not return until eight o'clock
Saturday morning.
A sled load of folks, consisting of
Misses Mayme Liston, Nora McKen-
zie, Evelyn Nash, Minnie Clice and
Messrs. Enoch Robson, Oscar Robi-
son and VIM. Hoffmeyer were the
guests of Mr.. G.. J. Otto Sunday last
TIM JONES.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-02-04
In the Scar and Yellow Leaf.

How much money does a man need,
and what amount of property shall
he acquire before commencing to set
tie up his affairs and take some COM
fort and leisure in this world previous
to stepping over into the other? 1t
all depends on the man, his family
and surroundings. What he and his
household are going to insist upon in
the way of style on behalf of them
selves and the public generally. The
anxieties and cares of business come
to be oppressive and annoying in
most instances. Men feel that they
would like freedom and a change but
the financial demands incident to the
style in which they have maintained
their families, make them doubt the
policy of risking any reduction in
their incomes, and so they move on
hurrying and worrying as much in
the afternoon as they did in the morn
ing of their days.
These questions have been frequent
ly discussed. We should say most
men are better off if occupied. They
need work to keep them from indo-
lence and laziness, but they should
regulate their affairs so as to have
more leisure as they reach latter days
OF life. Take no greater risks than
are absolutely necessary. Economic
to some extent. Limit extravaganza
taste. Study happiness and content
ment in simple things
The quiet spirit who unselfshly
ministers to others, who cultivate re-
tirement rather than prominence, Oft
en- find more real happiness than the
wealthiest and busiest who are con-
tinually sought after.
A mans needs can be in most cases
fixed by himself and his family and
they should not be so magnifed as to
require continual strain and worry.
Think about this. Happiness is some
times the result of economy.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-02-04

Mr.. MCKINLEY has done no act
since his election to the Presidency
which will so dispose the people of
the United Stases to have confidence
in his fairness and his firm intention
to answer as far as he can the just
expectations of the friends of Sound
Money who made his election possible
as the selection of Lyman j. Gage as
Secretary of the Treasury. That ac-
ton is in effect a pledge in favor of
monetary reform and an assurance
that the gold standard will be faith
fully maintained and the public credit
kept inviolate, The conduct of the
Treasury is the point where the Ad-
ministration most nearly touches bust
ness affairs; and a most wholesome
access of public confidence is certain
to follow the announcement of final
action in the choice of a successor to
Secretary Carlisle.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-02-04
MY OPINION OF GRANDMoTHERs.

Grandmothers are very nice folks,
They beat all the auEts in creation
They let a chap 40 as helikes,
And don't worry about education.
I'm sure l can't see at all
What poor fellow ever could do
For apples and pennies and cakes
Without grandmother or two.
Grandmothers have mullins for tea,
And pies, n whole row in the cellar;
And they're apt. q they know it in tim e,
Ts ma chicken pie for q fellow.
Aud II e is bad now and then,
And make a sad, racketing noise,
They only look over their specs,
And say, "Ah, those boys will be boysI
Life is only so short at the best,
Let the children be happy to-day"
Then they look for awhile at the sky,
And the hills that are far, far away,
Quite often. rs twilight comes on,
Grandmothers sing hymns very low,
To themselves as they rock by the fire.
About heaven and where they shall go.
And then a boy opped to think
VIII find a>hot teafin his eye
To know what will come al the last.
For grandm OF hers all have to die,
l wish they could stay here and pray,
For a boy eeds their Prayers every night.
Some boys more than others spose-
Such as need wonderful sight.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-02-04
CAPITOL BURNED
Pennsylvania Legislature Out in the Cold
Valuable Records Destroyed.

PonnsyIvinia Legislature Out in the Cold
valuable Records Destroyed.
HARRISBURG, PA, Feb. 2.-Fire
broke out at o'clock in the Senate
wing of the State Capitol, and the
building seems to be doomed, as the
fire department is unable to control
the flames. The fire originated III
the rooms of Lieut.-Gov. Walter
Lyon, over the Senate chamber. 1t Is
supposed to have been started by an
electric light wire. The fire burned
for several minutes before it was dis
covered.
1t had made such Roadway that
| but little could be saved in the costly
apartments of the Lieutenant-Gover-
nor, or across the hall in the rooms
of Superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton Schaffer, who was alone in his
Office when the fire was discovered.
He did all he could to check the fire,
but it was not in his power. All he
saved was the appropriation books.
| Thousands of dollars worth Of records
were lost.
The flames had eaten their way
through the Senate roof before the
fire department arrived. Part of the
roof tumbled in before the water was
started. Then the streams were SO
small that the fire laughed at the
| Il
dome was q mass of flames. That
burned like shavings.
The fire quickly communicated to
the House side. There seems to be
no possible way of saving the build
ing The House was in session when
the fire was discovered and it quickly
adjourned. The members saw the
probabilities of the fire spreading and
they began to save their belongings.
The smoke soon drove them from the
building and very little was gotten
out.
The officers in the department
buildings adjoining the Capitol are
preparing to move. The dome has
Just fallen. Before it fell one patriotic
citizen crawled through the mass of
flames and hauled down the flag.
He was loudly cheered. Several men
were slightly injured by falling TIM
bers,
2p. m.-The entire interior of the
House is in flames. The water power
is still very weak. The building
stands between those used by Adju
tant General Stewart and Secretary
of Internal Affairs Latta. These Off
Gals are removing their valuable pa
pers and furniture.
While trying to remove their desks
from the House Representatives 6.
w. Rhoads of Northumberland and
]. NJ. Hoagy of Dauphin had narrow
escapes. Just as they were leaving
the chamber portion of the roof
fell in. They were slightly injured.
$50 p. m.-The fire will be confined
to the capitol building. The entire
structure is now in flames in the in
terror. The roofs have fallen in and
soon the great pillars at the main en-
trance will fall. The walls are now
cracking and crumbling.
The loss is placed at $1,000, 900; in
surance, 100000. The loss to valua
BILE records is great, They can never
be replaced.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-02-04
Threw Away His Canes.

Mr.. D. Wiley, ex-postmaster, Black
Creek, N. Y. was so badly afflicted
with rheumatism that he was only
able to hobble around with canes,
and even then it caused him great
pain. After using Chamberlain
Pain Balm he was so much improved
that he threw away his canes. He
says this liniment did him more good
than all other medicines and treat
ment put together.
For sale at 25 and so cents per bottle
by Oakland Pharmacy and DR.. J. w.
Laughlin, Deer Park
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-02-04
THURSDAY, FEB. 4, 1897.

LYMAN J. GAGE, President of the
First National Bank of Chicago, has
been rendered and has accepted the
position of Secretary of the Treasury
in President McKinley's Cabinet.
Mr.. Gage is native of New York and
will be sixty one years old in June.
He is possessed of great financial skill
for which, alone, he seem to have
been selected as the head of the Treas
ury Department.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-02-04

CUMBERLAND, Md, Jan. 31-Con-
gresham Geo. l.. Wellington left for
the West this afternoon. 1t is thought
he will see President-elect Mckinley
and Chairman Hanna on the trip, and
will urge more strongly than ever Mr.
James A. Gary for place in the cabi-
met now that Judge Golf has positive
by declined to become Attorney Gen
eral. 1t seems a certainty that if
Maryland is given a place in the cabi-
net Mr.. Gary will be the appointee
Since Mr.. Golf has declined, the sup
Port of a number of prominent West
Vii9inians is assured to Mr.. Gary, in
Guiding that, it is said, of National
Committeeman N. B. Scott, of Wheel
inc
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-02-04

who suffer MUST be the rule. If it
be true that as a man thinks in
his heart, so is he; then you will
promptly be found ready to sink in
dividual gain and fame, ready to fore
go the praise of man, ready to seek
the greatest good for the greatest
number even if your own personality
becomes merged in the common effort.
Would it not be of advantage to form
in your town-what shall | name it?
"a" Get Together society. Its mem
bership to be made up of those who in
divers ways are working for the up
lift of the race. Its function
to be sort of clearinghouse ideas,
where those who work give to others
the benefits of their experience, thus
economiZing the strength that is now
wasted and the damage that is done
by those who laboriously work out
plans for themselves that others have
already effectually learned. You will
say perhaps, that this is not feasible,
because each worker will be on the
watch against giving advantage to
anyone else. You may be right, but
if you are, YOU are voicing the deepest
protest that fallen humanity can raise
against the workers for good. The
poor object of their solicitous atten-
ton is pulled one way and then then
the other until he cries out Il would
rather go one way wrong, than travel
twenty different ways to be right"
If the ability to combine which has
been such notable discovery among
men, a discovery that has led him up
ward from caves in the earth to our
present highly organized civilization,
if, | say, this ability is to stop short
when it comes to moral effort, it were
almost better that it had remained
undiscovered.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-02-04
Some Rambling Thoughts.

A sub-sOil pillow, a harrow, roller,
and cultivator are all good things in
their proper place and time; but there
are soils in which the deeper you go
the more you impoverish your farm,
and there are stages in plant growth
when the use of either roller or any
other implement is agricultural sui
eide. Because these are facts main
tainable against all argument, and
because so many hundreds of thou
sands of my readers are farmers, / wish
to make these-out- of-door truths the
starting point for another Rambling
Thought"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-02-04

But l am persuaded better things.
1t is not for nothing that we are pass
ing through our little day on earth.
All nature is vocal of the value of
combination, and of growth by com
bination; all history proclaims it, and
all height of moral power and accom-
plishment are possible by means of it.
The continuity of life is nature, as
sures us is no uncertain way of the
continuity of effort - ours-yours.
Then, human fellow, begin to think
and to prepare for the generations yet
to come, who will look for blessings
from your hands just as rightfully as
you enjoy the blessings that come
from before you whom you cannot
even name.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-02-04
REMITTANCES;

Remiuances made by money order, postal
mote, registered letter or bank draft will be at
our risk, If made Otherwise, at the risk OF the
ender Address,
THE REPUBLICAN,,
Oakland. Nd
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-02-04

Humanity has from time immemor-
ial been likened to a field, vineyard,
etc, wherein laborers are needed to
pillow and to harrow, to reap and to
garner. And the call to thrust-in as
the field is white unto harvest has al
ways found increasing response since
the moment when man first began to
understand that the claims of his
neighbor are urgent upon him the
moment his own absolute needs have
been attended to.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-02-04

But enthusiasm in relation to good
work has to be combined with com
nonsense; it certainly must not be
ahead of it; or we shall find ourselves
embarked in another fateful Child
ren's Crusade, like that of the middle
ages. Enthusiasm alone will sink us
into helplessness, just as with the rear
ing and the straining of a mired horse.
To make amply clear my meaning l
will go a little further. There is
hardly a community in which you will
fail to find men and women working
for the benefit of their race from the
purest motives at the outset. But in
almost as many communities you will
find lines of effort crossing and re-
crossing one another. SO eager be-
comes the straining after statistical
pre-eminence - SO many garments
made, so many hungry fed, SO many
souls saved, etc.,-that the real object
of the humanising work, the reaching
of human hearts, is almost lost to
sight in the rush. Then, here and
there some extra enthusiastic one in
stead of trying, or pretending to try, to
water where others have planted
starts his answering pillow or his dras-
tic harrow right over the growing
crops and standing sheaves of others;
excusing himself by asserting that
their methods have been wrong. Thus
he not only undoes the work of others
but he wastes his own strength by do
ing at an improper time, a thing es-
sentially proper in its own time and
place.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-02-04
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