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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-05-13

Mr. Frank Carpenter, the well-known
newspaper correspondent had a two
hours chat with General
Gary, Maryland's representative in
President McKinley's official famIlyis
a thOrough-going all around success
full business man. Although his par
ents were well-tO-do, when boy the
present efficient head of one of Uncle
Sans biggest departments, worked
the same hours as other employees, lat
five dollars per month. For several
years it was six months of work and
six months of schooling. Years of sys-
tematic training, in a practical bust
ness way, laid the foundation for
fortune, and a successful career in
every way. Never an Ot1ice-seeker, for
thirty years Mr. Gary has been more
than q liberal contributor to Mary
lands Republican campaign fund.
He looks for an era of good times
about Oct. /, and that the period of
prosperity will last for some time
He has doubts as the post-oflice bust
ness ever being made self-sustaining,
for the reason that as the receipts in
creased the people demand lower rates
of postage and better mail facilities.
He is i'll favor of the establishment of
postal savings banks all over the coun-
try and hopes to get legislation
through to that effect.
THE business Of to-day is not what
it was twenty years ago" said the
POstmaster-General Il don't think
the chances of the average man are as
good as they have been. | doubt
whether we will again have the wages
and opportunities of fortune making
which we have had during the past
thirty years. The world is continually
growing smaller. The telegraph has
annihilated time and the railroad and
the steamboat have almost conqpered
space and have changed the relations
of the people of the world. They have
Sllbl ICllCu COIH lJClIOll, uIlN sOOllSI VI
later they must to some extent result
in the leveling of conditions To-day
the labor of the whole world is practi-
cally on call, or, if it is not so now, it
soon will be. There are millions in
China and India who will work for
five cents a day and the result is that
they can farm and manufacture more
cheaply than we can. They will more
and more every year work for the
world, and | do not see how, with
such competition, wages here can
materially rise. They will rise in the
poorer countries Of the world as the
foreign demand increases. They are
doubling in Japan and India now,
while here wages are falling. | be-
lieve we will be able to hold our own
by our mechanical skill" said the
POstmaster-General Il think we
have a little bit better brains than
the Asiatic peoples, and that by our
use of machinery and our Yankee in
genuity we will always beat pure
muscle. The fact that the cOmpeti-
ton exists, however, is apparent. We
we have to fight for all we get in the
future"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-05-13

THOSE gentlemen who contemplate
reiterating the recent Democratic as
sertions that the Wilson law has been
more productive of revenue than was
the Mckinley law would do we'll to
examine the official figures before
committing themselves to statements.
The Treasury reports show that the
customs receipts under the Wilson
law during its entire operation from
Aug. %, 1894, until Jan 1,1897,a period
of 30 months, are $4,000, 1876. Dur
ing the first % months of the McKin-
ley law the customs receipts as shown
by the official statements were $51S,-
S03, 0S5. People have been puzzled,
probably, to know what is the eXpla-
nation Of the frequent statement made
by Democrats that their tariff law is
more successful as a revenue producer
than was the Mckinley law. The eX-
PLANTATION is simple. The statement
is a lie
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-05-13

If ANYBODY is in doubt as to the
accuracy of the recent statement of
Chairman Dingley that a years sup
ply of foreign goods will probably be
in the warehouses of the country by
the time the new tariff bill can get
upon the statute books, let him eX-
anime the following figures showing
the customs receipts since the election
of Mckinley and a protective Con-
gress. They are as follows: Novem-
Der, 1896, $9,930,3S5; December, $40
779, 412; January, 1897, 81, 276, S74;
February, S11, 587, 2G0; March, $22,-
1913, 856; April, $24, PSI. When it is
remembered that these figures relate
only to the dutiable goods and that
there has been an especial rushing in
of nOn-dutiable goods likely to be
transferred to the duitable list, it will
be seen that the food of impOrtations
now passing through the custom
houses Of the country is something
enormous.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-05-13

Charles Dana Gibson has made a
great hit with his Dickens illustra-
tons in Ihe LddieS' Home JOUrRdl.
In the June number We have rare
opportunity of seeing what a great il
illustrator can do in one picture with
four famous characters in fiction. Mr.
Gibson presents Mr.. and Mrs. Micaw-
Der, David Coppertield and Traddles.
The long, quaint curls of Mrs. Micaw-
Der, and the characteristic of hei
gloved hands as she lays the case
before David Coppertield, have been
admirably caught by the artist Mr.
Micawber, selt-poised and satisfied
wears a calm judicial expression as
he balances his glass in his hand.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-05-13

To the ditor OF The Republican.
Recently my attention was drawn to
the published statement of the tinan-
ces Of Garrett county. In persuing
the levy list, land I gave it a close
reading}I failed to find one item which
in any manner showed extravaganza
on the part of the Board, notwith-
standing the statement of a news
paper published in Oakland to the
contrary. / think the Board should
be commended for the wise and
economic administration of the tinan-
cial affairs in this county and not be
held up before the public Eas spend
thrifts when all honest thinking men
know that they have made a record
which has spread beyond the bounds
of our own county.
| am a Democrat, but not such a
staunch one that it interferes in any
way with honest Judgment of the true
worth of any man or set of men. y
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-05-13

The Department of Agriculture is
receiving very gratifying reports from
the farming community. The con-
tinuation of high prices for wheat,
the unusual foreign demand for corn
and the activity among farmers in
preparing to make an earnest expert
ment in the production of sugar beets,
combine to make the condition among
that class Of population unusually
healthful and encouraging. Dollar
wheat, " for which farmers had scarce
ly dared to hope, was coincident with
the incoming of Mckinley, while the
extraordinary demand for their corn
adds to their general encouragement.
Coupled with this comes the activity
and interest felt in the experiments
which are to be made in all parts Of
the country in the production of our
own sugar, and it is apparent that
the farming community is not only
feeling the return of prosperity, but
is occupying its mind with cheerful
thoughts and prospects rather than
the gloomy ones which were a con
slant feature Of the four years of the
Cleveland administration.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-05-13

IT WAS IS months from the inaugu-
ration OF President Cleveland until
his free-trade Congress had put its
Wilson law upon the statute books.
There is reason to believe that the
Dingley law will be upon the statute
books within 18 weeks of the inaugu-
ration of William Mckinley. But I'M
til that happens people have no right
to expect resumption Of activity in
manufacturing.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-05-13

No PARTY ever gained anything by
violating its pledges. The Republican
party in 1896 pledged itself to a pro
tective tariff and another effort to
bring about international bimetal-
lism. The people who are complain
ing that these pledges are being car
ried out ought to realize that failure
to keep them would not be only bad
faith but bad policy as well.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-05-13
Saturday, June 5th, 1891,


all the following parcels or tracts of land, sit
uate and lying in Garrett county, Maryland:
LIST. All shat lot or parcel ofland situate and
lying in the town of Selbysport, in Garrett
county aforesaid, containing one-half of an
acre OF land more or less, fronting on the
MorgantOwn road, it being the same property
which was conveyed by John NJ. and Catha-
rim KesSler to Jonas FraZee by deed ated
the 9th day of April, 1856, and recorded in
Ltper W. II. +. No. IL, folio 1886. one of the
Land Records of Garrett county, except the
Sarah h. Friend
This property is improved by good stable.
%. All that farm or tract of land known as
the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-05-13
Two Acres OF Land,

more or less, all cleared, it being the same
property which was conveyed by John Riley
and wife to Jonas Fra2ec by deed dated the
10th day of May, 1880, and recorded in Liber
E. H. T. No. Ii, folio -, one of the Land Rec
ords of Garrett county,
This property has no buildings upon it.
9Th. All that farm or tract of land situate
and lying about mile and a-half north east
of the town of SelbySpOrt, in Garrett county
aforesaid, containing SI&TY-THRkE ACRES
OF LAND, more or less, known as
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PEMITTANCES;

R'mi'lr"ces made by money order, postal
not, registered letter or bank draft will be at
our risk, j. made Otherwise at the risk of the
sender. Address,
THE REPUBLICAN,,
Oakland. Md
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-05-13
THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1897.

WHATEVER hope there is for free
silver lies in international action;
whatever hope there is for interna
tional action lies in the Republican
party.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-05-13
Home Form Of HE I0te ClIiStiQn Fike,
situate and lying about mile and a-half
north east of the town of SelbyspOrt, in Gar
rett county aforesaid, containing
One Hundred and Sixteen and One-q quarter
Acres of Land,

more or less, the greater portion thereof being
farming land. it being the same property
which was conveyed by Lucian FraZee and
wife to Jonas FraZee by deed dated the Sth
day of October. 1888, ana recorded in Liber F.
f. No. "A, TOTO ii3. one of the Land Records
OF Garrett county.
This property is improved by a good barn.
Sd. All That farm or trace of land situate
and lying along the NOughiUgheny river,
about one and a-haIf miles north of the town
OF Selbysport. containing
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-05-13

BY encouraging discussion,
through its columns, as to the two
Marylanders most worthy of being
honored by statues at the National
Capitol, the Baltimore Sun is afford
ing readers rare opportunity of ia
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-05-13
Sixty=seven Acres of Land,

more or less. About GDrty-five acres of this
land are cleared and under cultivation, and
is good bottom land. ii being the same prop
Fike to Jonas FraZee 10y deed dated the 2lst
day of February, 1859, and recorded in Liber
+. Il. i. No. u, folio 40, one OF the Land Rec
UrdS of Garrett county.
This property is improved by frame dwell
ling, IN fair condition, and by an Old barn.
sugar house. wagon shed and granary.
18th. All that lot or parcel of land situate
and lying about a mile and a-half north east
of the town ofSebysport, in Garrett county
aforesaid, containing
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-05-13
7 e Republican.
Il ELL, Editor and Proprietor
f. o. SMITH, Local Editor.
Rates OF SUBSCRIPTION:
ADVERTISING RATES.

Ft.st insertion for square OF ten nonpariel
lin u. each additional insertion after first
81 mis- n"r square of ten nOnpariel lines
Pos ive'z 49, deviation will be made from
lhe .bpv, "rt=S.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-05-13
pROGLAM NATION.
STATE OF MARYLAND.
EXECUTIVE DEP r.

}
WHEREAS. satisfactory information has
been received by me of the adoption by the
States OF Virginia and West Virginia of the
PROV isions OF Chapter 49, OF the Laws of Mary
land OF 1896, entitled AN Act to repeal See
tons 10, Al and Il of Article - of the code OF
Public General Laws. entitled "FiSh and
Fisheries, and to rc-enact a portion thereof
with amendments. and
WHEREAS, The provisions of the said Act
have been adopted by the state of West Viz
ginia to become operative on and after the
nineteenth day of May, 1887.
Now, Therefore, l. Lloyd LOwndcS, Cover
nor OF the State of Maryland, in pursuance Of
the power and authority vested in me by the
said Act do hereby proc lain and declare that
| the provisions OF the said Act are applicable
and effective from ana after the said 18th day
OF May, 1917, ana that from and after the said
date under the provisions or said Act at
| XIII any black bass, green bass. rock bass
pike or pick erel or wal-eytd pike ,cDmmOn-
~ known as salmon between the lJIh taV OF
April and the list day % June in each wear:
nor catch or Kill any Of said species uf fish al
any other time during the year save only
with rod, hook and line or dip net The
words hook aud line shall not include trot
lines or ont lines.
Any person violating the provisions OF
this Act shall be guilty Of misdencanor
and shall be punishable on conviction by I'M
prisOnment in the county jail not exceeding
SIX months, or by fine not exceeding two
hundred dollars, or by fine and imprison-
ment: and ii shall be the duty ofthe circuit
court of the counties abutting on the Potomac
river above Little Fails, at each session Of the
grand jury, TO call its attention to the proviS-
ions of this law. The provisions of this law
snail not be applicable below the Little Falls
near Washington,
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OF the State of Maryland.
Done at The City of Annapolis on the sixth
day Of May, a. ID. eighteen hundred and nine
ly-StVen.
By the Governor,
LLOYD LowNDEs.
RICHARD DALLAM, Secy Of State.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-05-13

In testimony where
OF | have hereunto SET
my hand, and have
caused TO be affixed
hereto the Great Seal
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-11-19

''BIG s1xTHE GAL FOR MEMPHIS"
AXE some special trimmings but the ma
1envers are as much . part Of the game -
putting up the money. h.
When he has been s'faded," the outside
betting commences, the thrower acting
slowly to give time for all the gamblers to
get their money up. The man who bets
with the thrower is said to "like him.
As the game progresses you can hear the
thrower US he first losses the dice exclaim:
Come seycn-c1eveni"
II he tails to either win or '.crnp out,
he will then cry, as he tries to make bis
point:'''Si Il! ssas &e. u. a I. y.
Come to Gee me Little Joe or Big
Dick or LIZ, /" or whatever his point may
be.
The men who have faded him or who
are betting against him on the outside will
"Cut him Oh, sevenl'' "Cut his throat
Deyen!'' Come under him, seven!';
When "Liz"-that Is nine-is first
thrown, the player always exclaims, Liz
is the gal fer me. . 3 s5.,
The words which accompany /" Jimmy
Hicks, I" a throw Of six, are, $ Big six, take
my gal to Memphis.
A smooth place on the ground is always
more preferable than the floor of a room.
A table is entirely out Of the question.
Many times gang of negro gamblers will
play on the sidewalk under the glare of an
electric light, and boys are stationed In
the middle of each block to keep a watch
for the approach of q policeman and to
give signal ii one Is seen coming. u
The game is played by the old and tho
young, in the country and in the cities, by
railroad hands and deckhands on the riv-
81 steamboats,. Negroes in the large cities
know scarcely any other sort Of gambling.
The steamboat hands play night and day,
and they have been known to return after
long trip with every cent Of their earn
ings gone into the pockets Of the lucky
playerS ffiI.S n q y
IN Atlanta there are all sorts Of .'drap
shooters, = including the big gamblers and
the small boys who will shoot for anything
OF value, often the clothes on their backs.
Hardly week passes without some place,
usually an alley, being raided and lot Of
the crap shooters arrested. 81 d
But the gambling cannot be broken up.
Craps" has come among the southern
darkies Of sporty nature to stay, and ~
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-11-19
sls- MN : 8 a'tH- = 'R
THE COL q DEM GRATIS.
working Hard 20 Keep the Honest Mossy
| ssss Men In Line. 5eas

working Hard 20 Keep the Honest Mossy
3si Men II Line.
The activity which the gold Demo-
Gratis arc showing in the states in which
| they have tickets in the field has pro
found significance in its bearing on
the congressional canvass Of 1898 and
the presidential campaign Of 1900. Or
tiinarily but little interest is taken in
politics in tho year Immediately sue.
ceeding presidential contest. The ten
sion and excitement Of struggle for
president creates an exhaustion which
usually is not overcome until the con-
gressional election two years later.
Thus the elections which occur IL
months after tho big contest seldom
arouse general interest throughout the
country Moreover. the elections In
those years are comparatively few and
unimportant and thus help to augment
the general apathy. 81
Naturally this apathy hits third
perty--and the gold Democracy, not
withstanding the actual historical con-.
tinuity which it holds to the Far y Of
jefferson and jackson. will have 10 be
called third party until the MAORI.
ty end Of it Drops Organism and gets
back to its Old ground ca the money
issue-harder than it does either OF the
great organizations. The gold Demo.
Gratis, however, in such states as Ohio,
Kentucky, Nebraska and Iowa, in which
they have tickets in the field, are re-
vealing greater earnestness than they
displayed last year and undoubtedly
will poll larger vote than was given
to Palmer III those states. The gold
Democratic demonstration in the spring
election in Michigan, in which that
element cast five times as many votes as
were given to Palmer in that state half
a " ar earlier. encouraged it to make
powerful rally in the fall elections.
A large vote for the gold Democratic
tickets III the elections few weeks
hence will incite that party to put up
state tickets and congressional candi-
dates in 1898 and will prepare the way
for vigorous canvass on it's part in
1900 The Bryanites are sure to make q
fight in 1900, and the finance ques-
ton in some phase or other is going to
be involved in the canvass. Probably
the Bryanites will all have dropped to
greenbacEisln by that time. Bryan has
been stamping Iowa with his fellow
grecnbacker, James B. Weaver, who was
the Greerback party's presidential can.
didate in 1880 and the standard bearer
of that rarty's Populist descendants in
1892, when Bryan stumped aud voted
for him. The Bryan Democrats will
have to Get one more crushing defeat
before they drop their financial and SO.
cial lunacies and follies, and it is to the
countly's interest tli:.t the Palmer aud
Cleveland Democrats maintain their or.
ganization and keep the honest money
men OF their party from drifting to Bry-
en-. st. Louis: Globe Democrat.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-11-19
/. WOMEN WHO SMOKE.
Eva Brodlique Tells Strange Things Of
$5a London Society. n

Eva Brodlique Tells Strange Things Of
London Society.
sit Ii an unwritten law, said q Lon
don gentleman one evening as his wife
poured the after dinner coffee In the draw
Ing room and he prepared her cigarette,
& that nice women smoke only with their
husbands or brothers and not In the pres
moe Of their husband g male friends, un-
Len, 4 he demurIed, they are very old and
intimate friends, 4 whereupon he and his
wife and the company took their olga
rettes and coffee together, and there was
tho pervading consciousness Of subtle
compliment. II @ .. II &
SO = very odd, writes Eva Brodlique to
fhe Chicago Times Herald. Il know hum
dre1s Of women In America, but not one
Who smokes. I know 4 few score Of wom-
a II England and Wales and scarcely
one who does mot smoke. but Pa have yee
q - one who indulges to excea One
caaazstAe after each meal seems 70 bo the
limit, and IL % smoked with 4suoh sfave
and dainty grace, the serene brow and
thoughtful eye above the curling smoke
go Il would 10 8 very hard hearssd per-
m who would stir TO- much condemna-
ton. IL Ct Il
The man 81 England ~ grsat dsvotses
s To Wed They tn me- thas to cltuase
rsemlts much moro nicotine indu1gncs
Shan with M Perhaps that accounts foe
kho WuDen too 5777
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-11-19
MYSTERIES
CRAP SMOOTHING J
How the Game IS Played BY
Southern DarkieS.
HAS FASCINATING FEATURES


"Come scyen-eleyen" IS
Fade you'll" III
"Cut his throat, scven!''
Jimmy Hicks, tako my gal g Nom.
phis" " #s B. ~,
:. Big Dick is mine" y
"Come, Little .Joc a4 @s
These choice expressions are . part Of
tho vocabulary which accompanies any
well arranged sitting of the southern
.larky's great game Of craps R
Have you ever played crapsf Beg par
don; a more considerate question would
be. Huvc you ever seen q game a craps
played? inquiries Gordon Noel Hurtel In
the Atlanta Constitution. n
& Thr0ux ..p,a,t the entire south tho game
is now probably played, although II has
been In existence only about 20 years But
Just how the name originated Is not known
1t Is used in only one part OF the game, on
the very first throw, when the thrower ID
said to '.crap out. :
The rules under which the remarkable
game is played are interesting. Although
the police have arrested negroes for play
ing craps perhaps hundreds Of times with
IN the past 10 or ID years, yet There are
only a few members Of the Atlanta force
who know how the game Is played and
outside the police department. there ts pos
sibly not a single white person who knows
aow to ''Shoot craps ss
From one of the king crap players OF
Atlanta Ihave been initiated into the mys.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-11-19

Mr.. Ward, her majesty CONSUL gem
e1al at Hamburg, in report to the for
eign Office, mentioned that In 1895 there
was, over 1895, an increase Tor Ger
many Of 14ss62l tons q shipping, but
Tor Great Britain decrease Of 1885,
toms, making the English proportion Of
the whole IS per cent only In 1895. He
also notes that the mercantile marine
OF Hamburg increased last year BY 50
seagoing ships of 69.sl9 tons, making
that ports present total 678 ships, rep
resenting ahipping d 7l2.8o6 regis
tered tons Moreover, : further - ahips
of .2z6. 600 tons are now being built fo9
the Hamburg meEcantile deek
# There seams 70 be no doubt he says
81 lii report that the German policy
.oe subsidixing and startling Lines of
steamers direct from their own ports to
the countries with which they trade
has had On enormous influence on their
commercial development