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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09

The way of the laborer is hard in
Mexico at this time. 1t appears that
it now takes nearly two and a half
Mexican dollars to purchase what one
American dollar will command. The
following list of wages paid to the
various crafts in Mexico as com pared
with their brethren in this country
is taken from the report of a commits
sion sent to Mexico last fall by the
Trade and Labor Assembly of Chica
go, and shows clearly what must be
the condition of workmen who are
paid in a deprecated currency and
one which is continually further de
preciating. Street car drivers, accord
ing to the report, receive in Mexico
IS cents per day in Mexican silver,
while those in Chicago receive 1925
in good money. Teamsters get 81 a
day in Mexico in cheap silver, but
$40 in Chicago in American dollars,
worth nearly two and half times as
much as Mexican dollars. Printers
in Mexico get $1.25 per day, but in
Chicago So per day of money worth
two and q half times as much. Brick
layers in Mexico receive 1925 per day
and in Chicago 81 per day. Contrast
the difference here. The Chicago
man gets nearly eight times as much
as his Mexican friend. Laborers in
Mexico are reported as receiving 81!
cents a day and in Chicago $1.25.
Does a study of the above showing
recommend the adoption OF the sill
yer standard, which several States are
making their sole issue in this fail 5
! campaigns!
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09
The Game Laws.

1t may not be generally known, but
at the last Legislature the Governor
was empowered to appoint game war
dens to enforce the game laws. The
Act Of 1896, chapter 1893, defines the
word game as embracing deer, wild
turkey, primatted grouse, known as
pheasants, Monaghan and English
pheasants, woodcock, cartridges or
quail rabbits, squirrels, ducks, geese
and all other species of wild fowl. 1t
shall be their duty, says the law, to
prosecute all persons or corporations
having in their possession any game
or fish contrary to either the general
or local game or fish laws Of the State
They must also see that the game and
fish laws are enforced and obtain in
formation as to all violations. They
have the authority.tO order the seiz-
ure, under affidavit, of any game or
fish III possession of anyone who has it
in violation of the law.
CIINCi ILLS ttCb SGN tIttl game W III =
dcns, have been appointed in Gar
rett county, have qualified before
clerk of the court Tower, and are
now in the full discharge of their
duties. Section 10, Article /, Of the
local game laws, says; NO person
shall kill or destroy any woodcock be
tween the first day of FEBRUARY and
fifteenth daysOf July, or any robin be
tween the first day Of April and the
first day of March, or any wild turkey
between the first day OF January and
the fifteenth day of October, under
penalty of five dollars for each wood
cock, robin or wild turkey 50 killed
or Destroyed
The law also prohibits hunting on
Sunday, the training or coursing of
dogs where there is game on the same
day and hunting with ferrets at any
time of the year. a fine of from $50
to 500 with thirty days in jail, at the
discretion of the court is the penalty.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09

large sum in the course of a year to
the expense of the county or city that
carries on such a practice. The
Maryland House of Correction can
hold but very small part of them, so
the rest have been allowed to roam
over the State preying upon farmers,
a constant MANAGE TO peace and good
order.
So Cumberland has decided to put
these people at work, and at hard
work, too. Every tramp who can
give no satisfactory account of him
self, and has no visible means of sup
port, will be put to work on the streets,
and will have a chain fastened to his
leg with a ball on the end of it, to
make sure that he does not get away.
This is radical treatment, and has
not been tried in Maryland before, as
far as we know, but it is sure to cure.
No tramp will stay long in place
where he is made TO do such work as
this in such a way as this.
Cumberland has by this plan quick
ly solved the tramp problem as far as
Cumberland is concerned, for the vag-
rants will now steer clear of this city
and go elsewhere. 1t will, therefore,b be
necessary, if the problem is TO he
universally solved, for other places to
adopt similar measures. The whole
matter in a nutshell is simply this: A
man who wants to live at the public
expense, who can work and won't
work, best be made to work.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09

During the month of August Clerk
E. 2. Tower issued twenty-siE mar
riage licenses, six of which were mark
ed on the record don't publish. "
One applicant in his examination
when he applied fora license admitted
that the woman he wanted to marry
was already married to another mar.
Eddie Moran, OF Marion county. ".
Va, and Flora Plum, of Preston
county, w. Va.
Edward Burke, jr., of Preston
county, w. Va, and Ella Mannion, of
Bellaire, 0.
Birdette erosion and Obey King,
both of Garrett county, Md.
Ambrose Hull and Fannie May
Rutherford, both of Harrison county,
w. Va.
James Alvin Smith and Lula May
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09
The Ethics of Business.

Business is more than money and
property, exchange and accumula-
ton. 1t has its ethical side which
can neither be ignored nor de!ied
with impunity. How many intelli
gent men seem to be obliviOus to this
fact?
Business has no popularity which
properly eXempts it from the ethical
rules applicable to individual, domes-
tic, social and civil affairs. 1t is
alike amenabIe to the law of truth.
Yet who expects absolute verify and
equity on both sides of bargain?
How many boast of the cunning
which gave them the advantage!
"Tricksters' Row. is a very long
street, and it runs through all the
cities of the world. He is a prince of
trade, indeed, who grows rich, not by
trickery, but by large views, original
plans, patient industry and magnan;-
NOUS methods. When business is
business" only, it becomes both base
and brutal. Success without self
respect is the worst kind of failure.
Finance becomes fraud when robbed
of good faith. Trade devoid Of truth
and commerce divorced from con
science are the dire precursors of
individual and collective ruin.
Still, poverty has no exclusive title
to sainthood, and success is not a sin.
Business means education. Its myr-
lad activities are worth more than its
gains. There is no premium on stu
pidity and no bounty for imprudence.
We must keep our eyes open and
clear, but their glance should be kind
as well as keen.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09
Governor Tillman made some thrill

Governor Tillman made some thrill
ing remarks the other day to little
band of free-silver Tr0jans in New
York State. He told them that any
body who said prosperity was coming
was miserably mistaken, and that the
present boom in wheat and the gener-
al prosperity movement was nothing
but Il balloon" affair, which
would soon collapse into nothing. In
fact, the wheat advance was simply
a movement on the part of designing
men to aid Mark Hanna's political
aspiration, and anyway New Workers
would suffer by it, for it would increase
the price OF their bread. If the Gov
enor had half an eye for viewing the
signs of the times, he could see that
the day has passed for this kind of
talk
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09

Senator Jones, Chairman of the
National Democratic Executive Com
mittee, has informed a Texas inter
viewer (if the interviewer doesn't iie)
that ''W. J. Bryan, to all intents and
purposes, has been nominated in ad-
vance for the campaign of 1900, and
the financial plank of the platform
of 1896 will be reallirmed by the regu
lar Democracy of this country"
A great many things may happen
before the year 1900 which are not yet
disclosed to mortal ken. The major
ity of the Democratic party may con-
clude that a mistake was made in 1896
or that it would be better to try a
new man-its usual course in the
case of defeated candidates. A new
issue may be brought to the front.
Such things have been. Mr.. Bryan
may change his mind. He may cut
loose again from Democracy and
turn Populist. Phere are innumer-
able contingencies in the game of pol
itics which defy the calculation of the
wisest. If we consult what has been
in the effort to ascertain what will be,
we find that where a candidate and Il
party have once been thoroughly and
conclusively licked on q side issue the
candidate and the issue are, as rule,
thereafter abandoned.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09

Mr.. Bryan has apparently fell it to
be his duty as a party leader to step
into the breach and show the people
who see wheat going up and silver
going down that the fact does not up
set free coinage argument. Wheat
goes up because there is too !itrlc Of
it. Silver goes down because there
is too much. No national or internal
tional legislation would avail to stop
the rise in the price o. wheat, nor the
fall in the price of silver. But Mr..
Bryan still argues in a circuitous and
roundabout way that value can be
legislated into silver by the simple
process of changing from bars to discs
and putting u Government stamp
upon it.
Nation after nation has been oblig-
ed to stop the free coinage of silver,
because, in the face of oversupply, it
was found impossible to go on and
the nominal value of the
coin. But the financial experience
of the world and the frightful losses
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09
AN ENORMOUS SUM.
What Increased Prices Mean to America



Discussing the great foreign de-
mand for wheat, the big crop and
high prices, Mr.. Richard H. Edmonds
editor of the Manufacturers Record,
said:
The rapid advance in wheat has
so concentrated public attention
upon the activity in that staple that
the general advance in prices of other
farm products, and in some cases of
manufactured goods, has not received
the attention it deserves. This is not
simply an upward movement in
wheat, but a general trend to higher
figures ofall farm products, and prob
ably to be followed by higher range
Of prices of other commodities.
a careful investigation shows that
at prices now ruling the advance in
farm products and live stock means
that the farmers of the country will
receive at least $500,000,O00 more for
their crops than they received for
them in 1896 AS the cost OF raising
was, because of enforced economies,
probably less this year than in 1896,
this enormous gain in values practi-
cally means an increase in net profits
to the farmers over 1886 of upwards of
$500, 100000. The increase in wheat
alone, counting the increase in the
yield and the increase in price, viii
make up $150,OC0, 000 to $500, 600, 0G0 of
this aggregate.
1T has so happened that coincident
with our great wheat crop, estimated
in round figures at about $4,000, GEO
bushels, there is q shortage in the
worlds supply of wheat, and not
since the boom year of 1879 has there
been such demand for American
wheat at steadily rising prices. The
demand for steamers to carry grain to
| Europe has brought into service al
most every tramp steamer in the
shipping world. and charters have
been made for shipments from every
port from Boston to Galveston, run
ming into millions of bushels. Many
western roads are already reported as
blockaded by the heavy movement
of grain, and it seems safe to predict
| that the railroads have before them
many months of exceptional heavy
| traffic.
In every direction there are signs
of increasing business and the promise
of wide-reaching prosperity. After
the Barring failure, the low price Of
cotton started Southern farmers to
economic and to the raising Of food
| stutfs at home. Later on, when the
panic of 1888 caused such general de
| preston, the farmers Of all other see
| lions commenced to economic. Pur-
chasCs of all kinds, agricultural i'm
PIGMENTS and home supplies were cur
tailed to the utmost, and great efforts
were made to reduce all farm indebt-
| edness. The'result has been that for
six years farmers have been buying so
| little that mercantile trade stagnated
everywhere, and every line ofbusiness
necessarily suffered. But during all
this period debts have been gradually
reduced and the farmers of the coun-
try through this enforced economy
have been able to get into such shape
that they owe less money than at any
time for many years. They are now
in position to enjoy to the fullest
the new era of prosperity which this
wonderful advance in prices has in
augurated.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09

About the Chain Gang at Cumberland Nd.
The mayor of Cumberland has re-
Gently issued and put into operation
an order in regard to the treatment of
tramps, which seems to have proved
very quick and effective solution of
a problem that had long puzzled the
authorities of the Queen City. Cum
berland, on account of its many rail
roads and its canal, has long been a
sort Of rendezvous or headquarters
for large number of tramps and vag-
rants of all classes. Arresting such
people and locking them up in jail,
where they are allowed to remain in
idleness, does no good, does not reduce
the number, but it does add very
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09
2. E. OFFUTT s SONS.

Drane, both Of Doddridse county,
W. Va.
ZeiIon d. Robinson and Icie Anna
Google, both of Marion county, VIVA.
Joseph \. Wilson and Rosa Jane
Loughridge, both of this county.
Charles Campbell and Rebecca I'm
derwood, both of Pittsburg, Pa.
Werner 0. Bowman, Of this county,
and jamie r. Mace, of Grant county,
w. We.
Alfred S. Garrison and Jessie Sycks,
both of Green county, Pa.
Edward g. Smith and Ella Fritz,
both Of Elk county, Pa.
Rev. J. e. Johnson, OF Richie
county, W. Va, and Nancy c. Biggs,
of this county.
William Lambie, of Ellins, W. Va,
and Kate c. Spedden, of Oakland.
Earnest Il. Smith and Stella jamie
Silcott, both of Harrison county, W.
Va.
John Ebert Carlow and Lena Anne
Harden, both of Grafton, w. Va.
Lucky George Cree and Annie Nit
chelI, both of Green county, Pa.
Robert y. Henderson and Emma
Elke Hockins, both of Grafton w. Va.
Milton Manear and Alice Gull, both
of independence, w. Va.
Thorton Dalton and Alice Nichol-
son, both of MonougaIia county, W.
Va.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09

incurred by this Government in at
tempting to create such a demand
for silver as would stay its downward
plunge have no weight with Mr.. Bry
an. The markets, the facts, the fig
ures confute him; but he can still
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09
Mountain Lake Park.

James Q. Smith has purchased the
National Hotel. He will move into
it at the close of the season. His wife
will open the house next season for
boarders.
DR.. d. L. Thistle, OF Washington,
Pa, purchased three lots on Deer
Park avenue last week He expects
to erect ten room cottage next
spring.
Mrs. NJ. w. Parsons, Of Grafton, w
Va, has purchased lot on N street
and Oakland avenue, with a view TO
building q summer home some time
next spring.
Joseph RemboId, ESQ. of West Viz
ginia, purchased the two lots on the
corner of Baltimore avenue and II
street from S. H. Shaw. The price
paid was $500 cash. He will build
shortly.
The lumber is on the ground for a
house to be erected on the north east
corner of H street and Baltimore av-
enue. Judge Cuppct has the contract
for the building.
s. e. Flowers s Son are erecting a
cottage of eight rooms for Hon. w. /.
Woodcock, of Altoona, Pa, on the
corner of Allegheny Drive and Oak
street The cottage will have large
porchCs.
Thomas Harris has enlarged the
porchCs at the Herring cottages.
This has very much improved the
property.
The Assembly House, Mrs Cornwall,
Miss Harris, Briarbend Seminary and
Others still have boardcrs, who are
enjoying the Park.
Miss Emma Hammill, one of the
best teachers of Garrett county, has
been secured as principal of the Park
public school. The school will be
graded, and will occupy two rooms in
Assembly Hall.
NJ. NJ. Schrock has all the rooms of
his house engaged for next summer.
l.. 7. NOder, of Pittsburgh, was
elected president and treasurer of the
Mountain Lake Hotel Company at
the late meeting of the stockholders.
The Mountain Lake Hotel will close
for the season on the 18th. Mrs. V.
/ Slime is to be congratulated upon the
successful manner in which she has
run the hotel. a number of guests
have engaged rooms for next summer.
The Assembly House will be kept
open all through the winter. Mrs.
Sawyer hopes to receive considerable
patronage.
Judge King and Mr. Hartman, Of
Baltimore, are guests Of the Assembly
House.
Gen. Payne, wife and daughter, OF
Washington, ID. c., are guests Of Mrs
Cornwall.
Owing TO over crowding and bad
ventilation, the air of he school room
is often close and impure, and teach
ers and pupils frequently suffer from
lang and throat troubles. To all
such we would say, try Chamberlain
Cough Remedy. For coughs, colds,
weak lungs, bronchial troubles no
other remedy can compare with it.
Says y. G. Freed, superintendent of
Schools, Prairie Depot, Ohio: Having
some knowledge of the efficacy Of
Chamberlain Cough Remedy, | have
no hesitation in recommending it to
all who suffer from coughs, lung
troubles, etc" For sale by Oakland
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09
cRDMR MIST.

Robert r. Il anderson vs. r chard Larne and
Alice larne.
No. $50 Equity. In the Circuit Court ion Gar
rett County.
Ordered, this 18th day OF august, in the year
eighteen hundlcd and niutty-sevep. bY the
Circu Court for Car EFT county. sitIlng in
equity. that the sale made and reported in
the above cause 10y Robert Il. Her de- son,
trustee. be ratified and confirmed. unless
cause to the coI trauy thereof be shown ON or
before the Eth day Of September. 1897, provI-
d"d copy of This order he published in some
newspaper pUni sncd Ia Garrett county On,r
Il we, k for tire successive weeks hC:O q the
18th day 81 september. 1851.
The report states ;he amount of sale to bc
$500 +. h. TOW Err Cl-rk.
irue cO1y-'TcSt: L. Y. OVER. Cierh. 80
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09

The real estate market will have its
turn next. Profits made in other
markets will seek investment in
something safe, and brokers should
now plant the seed which will bring
the big harvest in due season. The
most fertile soil is the advertising
columns OF live newspaper.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09

I
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE, ;
ANNAPoLIS y august 2S, lN97.
To ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Notice is hereby given that application has
been made to His EXCclenCE Lloyd LOwndeS.
Governor OF Maryland, tor the pardon Of
John McMuliCn, who was convicted at the
september term, lSH6, of the Circuit Court for
Garrett County, OF breaking into an out
house with intention OF stealing, and sem
tened 10 be contincd in the Maryland Peni.
tertiary for two wears.
HHe Governor will take up the said case for
final decision on or after Monday, the il h
AGAINST such pardon will be heard, and the
papers flied open to inspection, at the discre-
ton OF he Governor.
BY order OF the Governor.
RICHARD DALLAM,
70 > Secretary OF State.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09

Is Mr.. Bryan going to sit quietly by
and perhaps allow the statesmen of
Mexico, through the direction of the
London gold power" to commit
another crime?
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09

Now is the time to subscribe for
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p gr, ~ p"'n,mfnlS Wmich are SUB ,
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cAtc: the provisions ofth!s section.
sL~rtox >. A,D BELT ,,rnr1IER ENACTED
By TUE AUTi.oEirY AFORESAID. That the
foregoing seei.oA' hereby proposed as an
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this srate submitted to the legal and ouali.
fled voters thcreoffor their adoption cr rejec-
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State ma a. mo s,fd oonaral sIoc.ion ' t,,o
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sitution shall be by ballot, and upon each
oa'o, "Scd al sal" eeG,.'A shall be PRINTED
posed constitutional amendment. 50 that
each voter at such election can designate
'hereoN IN the manner prescribed by law,
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Amendment as lie shall eject, and fmme-
dately after said election due return shall be
made 70 inc governor OF the state OF the vote
Iren.o5 ~, ''-',
s,itulion.
Approved April 9Th, 1885.
Now THEREFORE, e.. LLOYD
LOwNDEs, Governor of the State of
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09

All persons are hereby notified not
to tresp&ss upon the lands OF the
undersigned, lying near kearney, for
the purpose Of hunting.
|. \. SHIILINGBURG.
WIN. &. RILEY.
Sept s, 1887 17-5*
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-09-09
Proclamation

WHEREAS, at the January session
in the year eighteen hundred and
niact%-siX Of the General Assembly Of
Maryland q bill was passed proposing
an amendment to the Constitution Of
the State by adding an additional
section to Article fifteen thereof, 10
be known as Section eleven of said
Article, which said bill and amend
ment are in the words following, TO-
wit:
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-10-13
WANTED GENERAL PROSPERITY.

Cincinnati Enquirer.
President McKinley's prosperity is be-
ing loudly announced in all the Admin
lstration newspapers, but it does not
seem to come. The effort is being made
to have each man in the community
believe that prosperity has struck
everybody else but him. But upon COM
pairing notes each man finds that his
neighbor is just as far from the great
wave of prosperity as he is himself.
Mark Hanna is prospecting; so is J. P.
Morgan; so are the dealers in Union
Pacific, who are shortly to be made
present by the administration of nearly
twenty millions of dollars. The Fed
eral ofilce-holders are prosperous; the
highly protected manufacturers are
prosperous, the Coal Trusts and all the
other Trusts are prosperous, and es-
pecially the Sugar Trust. They are
fifteen millions of dollars more pros
porous than they were before the new
tariff on sugar was made certain. The
railroads which carry grain have had
an increase of business, owing to the
large crops Of wheat which the Admin
istration caused to grow and because
CT the blasting of the wheat crops in
other countries by order of that Admin
istration. There is some buying and
selling of food and clothing for imme-
diate use. People do have to eat some
thing and have TO cover their naked
ness. However limited this trade is, it
is trade, and it goes to the retail mer-
chants. They cannot sell goods even in
driblets without buying some new goods
to replenish their stock. And so they
buy of the jobbers, and the jobbers of
the wholesalers and importers. In short,
hard as the times are, compelling peo-
pie to live from hand to mouth, as the
saying goes, there is all the time some
business being done. These limited
business movements are heralded each
week by the great financial organs as
evidences of the return of prosperity.
1t is true our people are not perishing
from famine, although there is probably
more want throughout the country