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The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-08-03
Six whole Miles of Elk.

WyOming's game warden is credited
with the statement that the number of
elk wintering in Jackson's Hole (Wyom-
ing country is greater than for many
previous years. A conservative esti-
mate fixes the number at 30, 600 They
are on every hill and in every valley,
and the nights sounds are most piteous
from the crying of the calves lost from
their mothers. Every morning thou
sands are seen travelling from the great
swamps along the Snake river to the
eros Yentre hills. The game warden
says:
81 recently gazed upon sight which
far surpassed anything / had ever seen,
and it utterly astonished aud amazed
me. For distance of six miles
herd of elk was stretched ont The ani-
mails had made trail through the snow
which was packed as hard rs 6inted
ice. know there were 10, 900 head
of elk in that band. Sports Afeld.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-08-03
WORDS OF WISDOM.

The soul fed upon husks, never gets
fat.
The best men are mother-mado
men.
Fear of offending, enslaves us to
others evils.
A poor free lunch costs more than
good dinner.
The cause of our not being esteemed
Is in ourselves.
God pity the man who murders his
own innocence.
= The true life is the life we 1.-Two
within ourselves.
The one who fails in character, has
made the greatest failure.
If there is nothing in a man, his
opportunity" never comes.
Sheep are sometimes taken over n
bad road to good pasture.
When we grumble much it is a sure
sign that we pray too little.
1t is easier for water TO run up hill,
than for a selfish man to he happy.
The evils of our friends are more
dangerous than those of our enemies.
Many n man wants better preach
ing, who has no wish for better living.
Some families have good home
made bread and bad homemade man
ners.
Justice and Love are Siamese twins.
and we cannot have one without the
other
The fellow who is always straining
to be great, wears himself. smaller
and smaller.
Some peoples virtues are like the
boys fish-when the head of vanity
and the tail of selfshness are cut off,
there is nothing left to eat.
The mathematics of marriage
becomes an integer instead of frac-
ton; he ''halves his sorrows, dou-
bles his joys" and multiplies his use
fulness.-Ram's Horn.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-08-03
EVANSVILLE, W. VA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 2. 1897.
THE ARMY SHOE.
an Old Soldier Recalls His Experiences
With Footwear.

With Footwear.
The first pair of shoes L had in the
army" said an old soldier in the New
York Sun, were two sizes too big for
me. lwore skies; my first army shoes
were Fights. i didn't take them from
choice 4 got the nearest could to
my size. We We're being fitted out
from head to foot for the first time:
that was when we were mustered in /:
and the required numbers of pairs of
shoes, of assorted sizes, had been de-
livered to each company. When got
at them they had been culled over so
much that there was nothing left
smaller than Fights"
81 didn't think it would be possible
for me to wear q shoe two sizes too big
for me, but L tried a pair on. They
were brogans, having flaps, with two
eyelets on each side, lacing over the
instep with leather shoe strings. They
tied snugly, so that the heel and often
part of the shoe, and the sole, did not
shuck on the foot. The forward part
of my foot felt as though it were out
doors; but | thought they might do;
had got to have pair of shoes, and L
took them.
Il wore those shoes for months. and
with the greatest comfort. They were
enormous, or they looked so to me.
As soon as | began TO wear them the
thick leather of the uppers bumped up
into big, rounded edges, with valleys
between, across the top, giving to the
top of the shoe sort of huted or cor
ruSated effect. These corrugations
remained always just the same as long
as / wore the shoes. They were not
what you would call handsome shoe.
but, as L said, they did not shuck
around on my feet, and they were
mighty comfortable.
But it doesn't follow that after thai
L always got shoes two sizes too big
for me; as a matter of fact, L didn't;
but always did get shoes plenty large
for me; plenty; and found comfort in
wearing them.
Sometimes we used to draw boots;
cavalry boots. And it was kind o. fun
to get boots. / remember very well
the first pair of boots 1 drew. / think
/ felt perhaps in little maturer sort
of way, though not much so, eitherl
~ 4i4tNAi pAOttoth ONci lllub pair
of boots as L did with my first red
tops when L was boy. To get on
pair of cavalry boots sort of made
man feel little bit less like plodding
infautryman, and little more like n
cavalryman; it gave him sort of
horseand- sabre touch. But this was
only as he walked down the company
street after drawing the boots from the
quartermaster; the next day, on picket,
the boots were about the same to him
as shoes would have been.
"Still there were men who preferred
boots and always drew boots when they
could get them. But for myself like
shoes better. A mounted man, of
course, wants boots; but according to
my notion the most comfortable thing
for an infantry soldier to wear is a
good, roomy shoe that can be made
snug enough somewhere so that it wont
shuck around on the foot.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-08-03
wedding n Cotton Field.

1t is told of Florida farmer not
far from Tallahassee that he has de-
vised an ingenious scheme by which
he has relegated the hoe and the cot
ton sweep to desuetude. The cotton
planter it is said, know that geese
will not touch the cotton plant, but
like very much tho tender grass that
Is the bane of the cotton patch. This
farmer noticed that his geese kept
part Of his patch free from grass, but
wouldn't go near other parts of it, and
he found that they went only where
there was drinking water. He hit
upon the idea of equipping each goose
with n CORD, which he filed with water
and cut slit in, so that any one
goose might drink from this little
trough suspended from the neck of
its fellow Then he turned the geese
loose in his cotton field, and they
cleared it Of all grass.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-08-03
PlTH AND POINT.

Robinson-''Did You hear the Col
onel tell how he escaped at Gettys-
burg?" Jenkins-"No. L escaped. :"
Truth.
Fred-"He married the girl L was
engaged to-" Arthur-"Well don't
worry. You'll ge. over it before he
does. Puck.
"How is Cullen getting along now ?"
Every well. He has just succeeded
in borrowing a sovereign from me. -
London Tid-Bits. ~-
"Why do You draw such terribly
ugly woman, Mr.. Smith," "Oh, L
just portray the kind of thing / see
around mer'-Truth.
Hoinck-"I hear that you are build
ing n new house" Tomdik-"Yes: L
couldn't very well build an old one,
you know. standard.
Robert-"Is Harry fond of female
society" Richard mmoderately.
I've known him to play whist with three
women. Boston Transcript
The Grand Vizier-"But they say
our reforms are not real" The Sultan
well, well! Hasn't the craze for
realism died out yet?"-Puck
Senior-''Now, my son, this will
pain me more than it will pain you"
Junior-"Well, pa, don't hurt yourself
too much. amt worth it."-Stand-
ard.
Brown.--"Do You think the tele-
phone has increased business?" Jones
-"Certainly! Three-quarters of the
people You call up are sure to be
busy. Puck.
"The Decree" announced the mes
senger of Jupiter, sis that you shall
be bound forever to the WHEEL"
"W-Which make?" asked Ixion,
anxiously.
Teacher -''Has anything ever been
discovered or invented that has the
property of returning toward you ex-
cept the boomerang?" Small Pupil
"Yes'm. The cat. Detroit Tribune.
my paws goin' into the chicken
raisin' business" said Johnny. "He's
goin' downtown tomorrow to buy an
incubus or an indicator forget
'~*hich' YOU call it. "-Pittsburg Bull
letin.
Old Milyuns -"Yoi1Gfe man, my
daughter tells me that you kisseo her
last night" Percival Tootles Wen.
if she wants to go Dragging about it,
that's her privilege" = Cleveland
Leader.
81 noticed the doctors carriage ut
your door yesterday afternoon. Was
it anything serious?' Serious? It
is absolutely mournful. Cries all the
time it is awake. Typographical
Journal.
Mrs. Dawson-"I don't know what
to think of my husband. I'm afraid
he is to be taken away from me, or
that something is going to happen"
Mrs. Castleton-"G oodnessl Why?"
Mrs. Dawson HE pounded his
thumb yesterday while putting up
some flower boxes on the porch, and
didn't blame il on me. "-CleYeland
Lender.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-08-03
THE MYSTERIOUS GUESTS.

I had three friends. L asked one day
That they would dine with me;
But when they came found that they
Were six instead OF three.
NY good wife whispered. eve, at best
But five can hope to dine
Send one away" / did. Tho rest
Remaining numbered nine.
II too will GO" the second cried
He left at once and then,
Although TO count but eight l tried,
There were remaining ten.
go call them backl' my wife implored;
Il fear the third may go,
And leave behind to share a. board, -
Perhaps score or So"
The second one thon straight returned
As might have been expected:
he with the ten, we quickly learned,
Eleven made. Detected,
We saw the first returning; no
With all the rest turned round;
And there, beholdi were my friends three.
Though six they still were found.
(For those OF you who yet may find
My riddle too complex,
III say the friends had in mind
Were IS" and Il" and "X.'O
-Ralph G.. Taber, in st. Nicholas.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-08-03

While the engine Of the Neversink
Fire Company, of Reoding, Penn, was
responding to n fire alarm one Of the
horses struck hind hoof on cobble.
stone. It's shoe was loosened and the
momentum lifted the iron TO the third
story of the building at 331 Penn
street, where it crashed against the
window Of the Rod and Gun Club and
hung TO the sash. Five panes Of glass
were broken and two members who
were at the window had narrow
escape. The shoe assembled at least
thirty feet The club viii have the
shoe framed Philadelphia Press.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-08-03

The ancieuts looked on Death as
''the daughter of Fight, the sister of
Sleep and the friend of the unhappy"
Their artists pictured the grim mes
senger who knocks with equal foot at
the cots Of the poor and the palaces Of
the rich, as n drowsy, poppy-crowned
youth, not as fleshless monster, such
ns horrifies us moderns. The Greeks
called their burying ground Coemet-
trion, the sleeping place" from
which comes our word cemetery. The
old jews, who had no horror Of the
grave, called it Bethaim, "the house
Of the living" The Germans, with
poetical simplicity, call the graveyard
Goods Acre" or "feld" The Ara
paho Indians call the grave "The
Spirits birthplace" in Morocco they
never say man is dead but that 'Hhis
destiny has closed aud the grave is
"where he ponders" The burial
grounds OF day are the most beauti-
FIJI parks near the cities Of civilized
lands, but there are those who believe
that burying must soon give place to
cremation; indeed, societies are formed
for That purpose, and we are told that
cinerary urns will take the place of
tombstones. But the fashions Of bur
inl seem to beas unchangeablea as death
himself. New York Ledger.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-08-03

Comparative Timidity OF Boys and Girls.
Boys report 2.21 fears on the aver
age aud girls as many as 355--a fact
which seems to show that they are
more timid than boys. There is an
increase i'll the number of fears up to
the age of fifteen In boys and eighteen
in girls, but this may he due to the
fuller descriptions given by older chill
dren and youths. Some of the fears
recorded, such as fear of high places,
of disease, loss of direction, fear of the
end of the world, and of being shut in,
are of much psychological interest.
President Hall adopts the standpoint
that the conscious ego or 81" in per
son is but feeble and inadequate
manifestation of the soul, "hickering
taper in vast factory of machinery
and operatives, each doing its work in
unobserved silence" Instinct is much
older than intelligence, and some of
these fears are, in his opinion, inherit
ed from swimming ancestors" like
the gill Sits under the skin of our
necks. Professor j. McKeen Cattell.
the eminent American psychologist,
does not agree with this view; though
he admits that children have certain
instructive fears, he thinks that most
of them are learned, not inherited, a
view which agrees with recent observa-
tions on young birds. Scientific
American.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-08-03

1t is said that the hen saved Ne
braska when the hot winds spoiled
the grain. The hen aud the COW are
saving the people of large part of
Kansas and Oklahoma for even in
the territory is seen the daily process
sion of milk-can-laden wagons. The
little towns of this section. that have
their creamery station and their egg
buyer are the happicst In one little
town OF western Kansas on recent
Saturday 100, 200 eggs we're taken in
on single day, aud the county seat
towns send out a million eggs week
in several instances. The care Of the
hen aud the COW is largely in the hands
of the farmers wives, aud it is to them
that is due credit for bringing into
tho family cash box some resources
when the liege lord was down on the
corner talking 'feena1eo. --Chicago
Times Herald.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-08-03

Jinks lat a party or don't see
what's the matter with that pretty wo-
man over there. She was awfully dirty
a little while ago, and now she won't
have anything 90 do with me"
Stranger "I have Just come in.
She'G my wife Tie yellow Rid,
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-08-03
Autograph Audacity.

Many readers may recall experiences
in getting the autograph of Henry w.
Longfellow. The author of "Chats
with Celebrities" has something to say
about this very thing:
81 remember one very pleasant party
at the poets dinner table, ~ writes Mr..
Guild, cat which Mr.. Month, Profess
sor E. n. Horsford aud myself were
present, when Mr.. Longfellow related
number of amusing anecdotes re-
speeding applications that were made
to him for autographs. He was very
kind to auto9raph-seekers aud used to
keep in little box upon his writing
table a number of slips upon which
were written.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-08-03
Yours very truly
4" Henry w T,OuOf1

Henfy w. IOn9IellOW.
zone of these would be sent TO the
applicant by member of his family to
whom he passed over their requests.
But the autograph were
not always satisfied with a mere sigma
ture and he often sent verse from
one of his poems, signed with his
name. The most remarkable request,
however, came from lady in Boston,
who the poet said, sent him by express
a package Of $50 blank visiting cards
with n letter requesting that he in
scribe his name on each of them the
next day, as she was to have a grand
reception at which n number Of literary
people would be present and she
wished to present each one Of her
guests with the poets autograph.
''This was too much for even Long
fellows good nature, and would seem
TO be hardly credible had j not heard
it from the poets own lips"
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A BROTHERS SACRIFICE.
w AS lie
by STANLEY HOWARD.

WAS leaning
against the rail-
ing in the park,
enjoying a cigar
aud w &c h in G
the carriages as
they passed. 1t
was the fash
ionable hour,
and this was a
favorite occupa-
ton of mine.
Had 1 been
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THE SECRET.

OF
som and sta hefn0uit
emotion
know mo- intone
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Ia be
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noason 'lvgya walks, but love runs
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-10-07

THE Democrats tell us that this
campaign has nothing to do with the
money question. Perhaps not. 1t is
very hard to find out where the Demo
Popocratic party of Maryland stands
In June, 1896, the Democratic State
convention met in Baltimore, presided
over by Senator A. p. German. In
the platform adopted they declared
for the gold standard. At their
National convention they declared
for the free and unlimited coinage of
silver at the ratio of Is to I. Then
Senator German was in favor of free
silver. This year he wrote the plat
form adopted at the Democratic State
convention, which was a miserable
straddle of this important question
which touches the welfare Of every
man, woman and child in the nation
The Democrats say that the money
question is not an issue, but each
week since the Democratic State con
vention the financial plank adopted
has been put at the head of the col
umns of the Mountain Democrat.
Does Brother Litzinger think it an
issue? The people of Garrett county
are in favor of an honest dollar, and
on the End of November will vote to
keep Mr.. Getty, the representative of
Gormanism and ring rule Democracy
at home, and send DIR. Ravenscroft
with Messrs. Moon and Jacobs to elect
a Republican to the United States
Senate who will vote for protection
and honest money.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-10-07

REPUBLICANS of Garrett, work and
vote for G. w. Moon and w. H.
Jacobs, both of whom have been
workers in the party for years. Mr..
Moon is school teacher and an I'M
firing worker in the party, having
been attending Republican primaries
and conventions for seventeen years
He comes from large family, nearly
all of whom are Republicans. He is
an intelligent man and will do his
best to carry out the wishes of the
people. Mr.. ". H. Jacobs is a pros
porous farmer of District No. II, fully
conversant with the needs of the far
mers, and is q good man in every
sense of the word. He with Mr. Moon
will do his utmost for the schools and
wiH be faithful to the important trust
devOlving upon Kim. Republicans,
see to it that they both get good
majority.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-10-07

THE resolutions adopted by the
Democratic county convention after
giving us the old chestnut about the
principles expounded by Jefferson
and Jackson, declares ito accept a
nomination from the people is a
pledge to the people of untiring efforts
to accomplish their wishes Mr.,
Getty's record does not show up very
we'll in comparison with this resolu-
ton. No, he went exactly contrary
to the expressed will of the people at
the ballot box and forced the bonds
upon the county in opposition to the
will of the people.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-10-07
North Glade.

Weather dry. Frosty mornings.
Potatoes are about One-half crop.
Dollar wheat has been boon to
the farmer.
Dollar potatoes is also an item of
great importance. They are now a
dollar per bushel in Philadelphia.
Gold is plentiful-almost everything
advancing in price,
Free trade and free silver we believe
are dead, and should be buried with
out much ceremony.
The Republican ticket in Garrett
county will doubtless be elected by a
handsome majority.
Mr.. j. l.. Fitzwater lost valuable
horse recently.
We are glad to have Mr.. A. L. Lee
teach our school again. Mr.. Lee is a
rising young man.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-10-07

Again in Trouble, This Time for FOrcibly
Taking Possession of Her Child-Re-
Ia,sad fran, IN Panitanfiary

AGAIN LUIS Aiiht loI
Taking Possession of Her Child-Re-
leased from the Penitentiary.
4 great deal of excitement was occa-
stoned at Terra Alta Tuesday when it
became known that Mrs Belle Free
land had arrived and had abducted
the four-year old child which, during
the past year, has been in the keep
ing of its grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs.
David A. Freeland of that place. Mrs.
Freeland has just completed a years
sentence in the State Penitentiary at
Moundsville for raising notes, and it
Will also be remembered that she
served a sentence at Joliet, H., on
the same charge.
The husband, Judson Freeland,
who also served a sentence at Joliet,
but who has been at Terra Alta two
wears past was granted an absolute
divorce from Belle Freeland, his wife,
at the July term Of the Circuit Court
for Preston county. The decree also
| gave It'll LJOSStSSlOll VI UhO Clllli' III %
Freeland went to the home of her
husbands parents Tuesday morni5.
and carried off the child. The cries
of the little boy attracted the atten-
ton of his grandmother, who ran tC
his aid, and a scuffle ensued. Belle
being younger and stronger, succeed,
ed in getting away with the chic
and took him to her brothers. A
warrant was Immediately issued fol-
the arrest of the woman, and Specia
Constable Joseph Graham made thu
arrest shortly after noon. The tria
occurred before Mayor Picking, who
after hearing the evidence of severa
witnesses, held Mrs. Freeland in $50
for her appearance at court, and de
livered the child back to the custOd,
Of its grandparents. Mrs. t'reelan'
gave bond for her appearance. Sh
is as handsome as ever and entirel
unchanged by her incarceration il
the State Pententiary.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-10-07

To the Editor OF The Republican.
Please allow me space in your col
umns to contribute letter that may
be of interest to all the voters of Gar
rett county, especially just at this
time when the campaign is drawing
to a close The Republicans have as
one of their candidates for County
Commissioner Mr.. John T. Geary, of
this district, who is an old soldier and
who served his country three years,
nobly and honorably. He is a class
leader in the NJ. f. church and in
business has been eminently success
full. He is economical and strictly
honest. He has been a lifelong Re
publican and this coupled with his
war record should secure to him the
votes of every true and loyal Repub-
lican in the county. We LOOK for his
election by a big majority.
Then we have on the head of our
ticket DR.. r. A. Ravenscroft, of Acct
dent. He is well known throughout
the county and whilst we have some
kickers in this district the feeling
against the Senator is dying out. He
is a shrewd man and will make cred
liable representative Vote for Raw
enscroft and we pledge that you will
not regret the act.
Republicans, fall in line and let Us
show to the Democrats that we can
work together in harmony even
though the aspirations of few of our
leaders We're not gratitied. G.
Friendsville, Md, Oct. 5, 1897.