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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-03-31
SunnySide.
BLACK JOE.

1t is quite seldom that the public
hears from this place through the
columns of The REPUBLICAN. Why
such is the case ! can scarcely give a
reason.
The writer has been informed that
this is one of the earliest settlements of
what is now Garrett county. How
long it has borne the name Sunnyside
| don't know. 1t is situated midway
between Oakland and Aurora and
within two miles of the historic Red
House. 1t is also within two miles of
ex-Judge Henry G. Sanders property.
In speaking of Judge Sanders | would
say that he is the owner of one of the
smoothest and most productive farms
in this part of Maryland.
A great deal of labor has been ex-
pended within the last few years by
our farmers in the way of improving
the soil by the use of lime. A few
years past many of the farms were
nearly worn out - would produce
scarcely anything. Now in season
there may be seen growing upon these
once worn out farms heavy crops of
grain and grass, all brought about by
merely sprinkling "a little lime upon
the land Notwithstanding the
abundant crops that we produce, we
are without Touring mills, stores and
drinking saloons at this place.
There has been some sickness in
this part this winter and some are
still on the sick list. In distant
neighborhoods there have been sew
eral cases of diphtheria.
Mr.. John Ridder, of the Mason
neighborhood, and several members
of his family have been severely
afflicted with diphtheria. One mem
Der of his family is in a very critical
condition as result of that disease.
Miss Kate Beachy, Of Aurora, w.
Va, former teacher of this county,
is on a pleasure trip through the
central, Rocky mountain and Pacific
states, sojourning at the present time
in the state of California.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-03-31
Krug.


We are having plenty of rain and
mud at the present writing.
Mr.. Alfred Reckard is lying at the
point of death with heart trouble.
Mr.. Henry Krug went to see his
sick brother last week.
Mr.. Alfred Kelley, of Blooming Rose,
was visiting friends at the Club House
last Sunday.
Messrs. G. b. and Floyd Hook, of
this place, were visiting friends at
Buffalo, Md, last Sunday.
Mr.. Matthias Teets, of this place,
was visiting friends at Addison. Pa,
last Saturday and Sunday.
- Miss Hannah Hook was visiting
gftaeisds and relatives at sjeAe kAsss,
Pa, last Saturday and Sunday -e,-
Miss Hester Jenkins was visiting
at Friendsville Saturday and Sunday.
There was recently surprise party
given to Mr.. Bramble. Those present
were Messrs. Fred Allen, Arthur AL
len, Edward Dixon, William Good
win. Matthias Teets, Patty Knabb;
Misses Allen, Hester Jenkins, Hannah
Hook, Oracle Hook, Edith Allen and
Emma Conneway. A very pleasant
evening was spent, and after refresh
ments were served the happy COM
pany returned to their homes
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-03-31
Glade Valley.

Farmers are now looking forward
to the time of planting and sowing
the spring crops. Some of the hustlers
of this section have already been
plowing.
Oakland is quite business place
and place where farmers dispose of
a great deal of produce, and goods
can be bought as low as almost any
place in this end of the county. New
ertheless it has some drawbacks
which ought to be remedied before
farmers can call it a desirable place
for trading. One nuisance is the COWS
running at large in the streets. They
rob the wagons of hay and throw out
umbrellas and robes and trample
them under foot. We hope the town
authorities will look after the rights
and privileges of the cows and also
the rights and privileges of the far
mers, and if the authorities consider
the cows have fright to plunder the
farm wagons and damage what they
contain, we hope that the farmers
will consider that there are other
places to trade that are free from the
annoyance of cows.
AT this writing the grass looks as
green as it sometimes looks the middle
of May. The buds on fruit trees are
showing the effects of the continued
warm weather, in fact everything
looks like spring.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-03-31
Accident.
& Accident ssies
I'v zz6is1ssles and iHufnps are raging in

this community.
Misses Carrie and Rosa Boyer have
returned home from their schools.
Fish Commissioner Gnagey is in
Baltimore this week on business.
Chas. G. Speicher was confined to
his room last week with a severe at
tack of the mumps.
Merchant Englehart was in Balti-
more last week purchasing his spring
stock of goods.
Mrs. Jno. Sperline, who has been
seriously i'll for the past week, is i'm
proving slowly. We hope for her
speedy recovery.
The little son of. Jno. Englehart is
i'll with the measles.
Mr.. VIM. Zinkan, who is working in
Somerset county, Pa, is home on a
visit,
The heaviest rainstorm ever wit
messed by our Oldest citizens passed
over this community last Monday ev-
ening and continued throughout the
night.
Sneak thieves entered the smoke
house of Silas Miller, of Engles' Mill,
last Saturday night and made away
with lot of sausage and pork. They
| also made an entrance into the store
of JnO. p. Miller, of the same place,
and procured about forty pounds OF
tobacco, stogies, candy, cakes, cheese
and a watch. On taking their depart
ure they found they had more than
they could lug away, and left the
sausage and pork at the store The
I-heavy rains of last week left the roads
in such condition that the burglars
were tracked for several miles and
entered the woods where the trail
was lost. But on Monday a part OF
the stolen goods was found concealed
in an old deserted house only short
| distance from where the track had
| left the road. Warrants were issued
for G. G. Walls and Jno. Cochran, who
were arrested on suspicion and
brought before Justice McMillen or
Tuesday morning. But owing tc
lack of evidence they were released
without a hearing. 1t is about time
there was something done to prevent
this manouvering as these are not
the only places that have been enter
ed. A word to the wise is sufficient
The entertainment on NJ Monday
night was a decided success from be
ginning to end. The performers did
excellent for the short time they were
preparing. Despite the continuous
down-pour of rain the house was
crowded. The band deserves much
credit also for their assistance.
Mrs. Mary Beachy, residing between
this place and Bittinger, died this
Tuesday from stroke of paralysis
Interment will take place Thursday
at 10 a. m, on the farm.
QUIET OBSERVER.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-03-31

of West Point. A 'bloody riot" oc-
scurred at Franklin college, Indiana,
and during the struggle a $4,000 tel
Hescope was badly damaged; this is the
chief Baptist college of Indiana. And
thus the daily news comes from the
universities, all proving that it is the
height of imposition for the poor and
humble tax payers to be saddled with
any iota of the expense attendant
upon the preservation of such classes.
FRANCIS b. LIVEzEY.
Sykesville, Nd.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-03-31

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Price 25 cents per box.
For SALE BY A. G. Sturgiss.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-03-31
NUMBER 4.

not yielded by Monday. Leaders
who called at the White House we're
satisfied with the presidents course.
A caucus of one hundred and fifteen
representatives tonight agreed ON
this program.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-03-31

Rear Admiral, Chief
of the United States naval force on
the North Atlantic Station.
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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24
Tho Birds, balance of Power.

In a recent lecture Prof. Wilmer
Stone of Philadelphia cited many facts
to show hat birds are natures great
check on the excess of insects, and
that they keep the balance between
plants and insect life. Ten thousand
caterpillars, it has been estimated,
could destroy every blade Of grass On
an acre of cultivated ground. In thir-
ty days from the time it is Matched an
ordinary caterpillar increases 10, 900
times in bulk, and the food it lives and
grows on is vegetable. The insect
population of a single cherry tree in
tested with aphides was calculated by
a prominent entomologist at no less
than 10000, 900! The bird population
of cultivated districts has been esti-
mated at from 700 to 1000 per square
mile. This is small compared with
the number of insects, yet as each bird
conJumes hundreds of insects every
day the latter are prevented from be-
coming the scourge they would be but
for their feathered enemies.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24
THINGS TO KNOW.

The relative size of the earth as
compared with the sun is, approx
mately, that of a grain of sand to an
orange.
The pEsltery of Spain is supposed to
have been introduced into that coun-
try hy the Moors. 1t is still. in COM
mon use among the peasants.
The eye of the vulture is SO con-
structed that 1t is a high power tele-
scope, enabling the bird to see objects
at an almost incredible distance.
The Eastern hemisphere, On which
owen n%lnety-two per cent of the pop
ulation CT the world, has 170, 1872 miles
of railway, or forty-six per cent of all
the railways.
A snake does not Climb a tree or
brush by coiling around 1t, but by
holding IN with the points of its
scales. A snake on a pane IF glass is
almost helpless.
The cid log cabin in Front Royal,
Va, in which George Washington liv-
ed while surveying between 1748 and
1852, is still standing in fair condition
and is used as a spring house.
It is said that the patterns on the
lnger-tips are not only Interchangeable
through life, but the chance of the
finger prints of two persons being
alike is less than one chance in Ca
600. 00o, 900. H'&''S
II China government appointments
are determined by the literary attain
ment of the aDplicants and numeroua
instances are known of men spending
many Years in preparing for the gov
ereIaent examination.
The number of miners employed in
gold r.ining in New South Wales dur
ing 1896 was 1909 in reefing, 9,482
Europeans and TO Chinese in alluvial
working, making a total Of %, 207 men,
az increase Of 77s on the number so
employed during 1895,
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24
CURES RHEUMATISM, ETC.
A Recent Discovery That Is workins
WOudpra.

A Recent Discovery That Is working
Wonders.
The most prevailing Affections that
for a century have been engaging the
most scientific skill of the medical
world are rheumatism, neuralgia, ca
tarrh, asthma, la grippe and their kin
dred ailments. The country is full of
sufferers from these complaints. Al
though the most learned experts of the
medical profession have labored for a
century to produce a curative. until
quite recently no positive results were
effected. To the Swanson Rheumatic
Cure Co., 167-69 Dearborn street, Chi
cago, belongs the credit for having
produced the new remedy. 1t is being
extensively advertised under the
trade mark Of Five Drops" The
trade mark is self-explantory. Five
drops make a dose. The effect is mag
ical. In days gone by other alleged
cures have been marketed with the
promise to take effect in thirty days
or more. Five Drops begins to cure
at once Immediate relief Is felt. In
order to more effectively advertise its
merits the company will for the next
thirty days send out 100000 of their
sample bottles Of this positive
cure for 25 cents a bottle by mail pre-
paid. Large bottle, 800 doses, 81 (for
thirty days 3 bottles $2.50.) Those suf-
fering should take immediate advant-
age of this generous offer and write
them to-day.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24
the boys gave their wosd that not ont

the boys gave their word that not one
should escape.
During Whaien's absence In the city
he went out of the sheep business even
more abruptly than he went into 1t the
previous autumn. The instruction to
the boys was fulfilled to the letter
not n got away.
1t happened on a hot day in June,
when. contrary to usual custom, the
boys brought the flock to camp and
the shade of sheds at noontime. II
never ain in that arid region. but
sometimes pours. This was one Of
those times. Charged with ice and
water. a great black cloud came drift
ing down the wind and emptied II its
load upon the camp, and the hillside
above it. The canal. curving around
its base. formed an eavetrough for the
whole mountain. and poured several
thousand inches Of water into Whal-
MS i~mprovised sheep sheds. The
Hood very soon subsidized. but when the
cloud had passed and the sun again
shone forth. there were no living
sheep. Not many minutes are required
TO brown a rat in a hole.
Meanwhile, the boys. greatly fright
ened by the sudden storm, and with no
thought for the safety of the flock.
were in the shack. The hail pounded.
and the wind shook it. Water covered
the floor.
Pray, Billy said the one on the
barrel.
No; you do it," he answered from
the tabletop.
The shack had no window, and, with
the door closed. it was pretty dark in
there. When Whalen reached home
about W hours later, the floor was
still wet. and the boys were yet roost-
ing on table and barrel, but outside, in
the bright sunlight, the ground ap-
peared already almost dry. A solitary
goat stood upon the shed roof; he had
been among the sheep in the pen.
you can't keep a good man down
any more than you can a goat" was
Bricks comment on the catastrophe.
While Whalen was working the boys
double time at pulling the wool from
dead sheep, he had the happy thought
Of stocking his ranch with bees. Hav-
ing money enough from the proceeds
of his wool sales to buy a hundred
stands, he promptly carried the thought
into effect.
Again he sat down in the door of
his shack to double his money"
This is better than Sheep" said
he, "for they herd themselves. And
they are like mules in one thing
you are liable to get hurt If you fool
with EN-"
This wave Of prosperity broke up
as soon as former ones had done, for
he had imported a bad case Of foul
brood, and within a ear the hundred
swarms had petered out. When we
went down there last summer in the
interest of a new company which had
taken up the work of completing the
canal, Whalen gathered the bones out
of the old shed in the hut and hauled
them 10 tho railroad. where he sold
hem for fertilizer, realizing enough to
buy two more mules. With his four
mule team he is at work in the ditch
for days wages. Somewhat grizzled
now. and not SO br.ckred of hair and
&h;skcr as formerly, he is happy as
ever, and sanguine that he will double
his money.
Here's hoping that he may.-Ar-
gonaut.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24
Use for Old Gold.

One Of the most sensible 'fads"
among the girls just now Is to save up
all their old jewelry, old gold thimbles
which have the tops o off, gold fob
chains, gold bracelets, and pins, and
ever necklaces, and take them to some
reliable jeweler, who will either melt
them down and make what she wants
out Of them, OF else will exchange
them, allowing her for the weight of
the gold. One girl made a collection
for several years of boken bits of jew
elry and, with some of her grandmoth-
er's added to them, sold them to her
own jeweler and now is the happy
pOssessOr of a beautiful pearl necklace
which she got in exchange.-Harper's
Bazaar.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24
MISSING LINKS.

During a part q last month the Mis-
souri, river was so low at Jefferson City,
Mo, that it wa said that people might
walk across it without wetting their
feet.
For refusing to act as fence viewer,
an Office that survives yet in part OF
New England, a Deering, Me-, nan was
fined 80, and he had to pay $40 TO
escape arrest for trying to dodge the
first fine.
An old negro, being informed that a
member of his race had forged a note
er edication. I got ten chillun, but
thank de Lord, not one er dem kin read
er rite!"
The Court of Appeals of New York
has held that it was no ground for a
new trial because the jury in a MUIR
der case attended church on Sunday in
custody of the sheriff and heard a SER
mon on the prevalence of crime.
A noted woman ~phrenologist, after
an examination Of female heads in
various cities, says that "the Boston
girl is apt to think most men are fools,
and nearly drives them frantic with
her knowledge born of schools"
One million and a half of men work
in the coal mines of the world. OF
these Great Britain has 535, 600; United
States, 100000; Germany, 285, 900; Bel
GUM, 100000; Russia, $4,000. The
worlds miners Of metal numbers
1000, 900.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24
LENGTH OF A
Surprising Results OF Experiments Made
by . Noted British Scientist.

by y Noted British Scientist.
How long does it take a man to
think? Professor Richet, at the recent
meeting Of the British association,
gave the results of his Investigations
into this subject. He found that by
mentally running up the notes of the
musical scale for one or more octaves
and then dividing the total time by
the number Of notes thought OF, the
time taken for each note was one
eleventh of a second. There are va
rious ways Of arriving at conclusions
as to the amount of time necessary for
realizing any physical sensation or
mental impression. If the skin be
touched repeatedly with light blows
from a small hammer a person may,
according to Professor Richet, distin-
guish the fact hat the blows are sep
arate and not continuous pressure
when they follow one another as fire.
quently as 1000 a second. The small
est intervals of sound can be much
better distinguished with one ear than
with both. Thus the separateness of
N-S Va ISNoiNihS toONAASo VAASSA
was noted by one observer when they
did not exceed sixty to the second, but
using both ears he could not distin-
guish them when they occurred often
err than fifteen times a second. 9
The sharp sound of the electric
spark OF an induction coil was distin-
guished with ear when the rate
was as high al 500 to the second. Sight
is much less keen than hearing in dis
tinguishing differences. If a disc half
white and half black be revolved, it
will appear gray when it's revolutions
exceed twenty-four per second. 1t has
been found that we can hear far o
rapidly than we can count, SO that If
a clock-clicking movement runs faster
than ten to the second we can count
four clicks, while with twenty to the
second W. can only count two Of them.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24

Alleged Marriage Of Archduke to til,
Daughter OF nm Engineer.

Alleged Marriage of to the
Daughter OF an Engineer.
A sensational statement has been
disseminated by several Continental
newspapers to the effect that the Arch
duke Franz Ferdinand, heir presump-
tive to the Austrian throne. and who
represented the Austrian Court at the
queens jubilee, had been secretly mar
fled to one Fraulein Hussman, daugh-
Ter OF an engineer at Kohlscheid. A
brother of the lady is a Roman Cath
oiic priest at Ruhrort, and another is
a retured cloth merchant at Essen.
lhefe was some tendency to suspend
judgment before rejecting these reports,
Which originated at Aix-la-Chapelle,
because of the we'll known romantic
p~ropensities Of the members of the
mousse of Hapsburg. One Of these arch
dukes married a village postmaster's
daughter, another welded an actress
n yet another casting his royal rank
10 the winds and taking a plebian sta
ton, welded an Austrian soubrette,
II sailed away into oblivion. A very
emphatic semi-oficial denial was
promptly issued at Vienna, describing
the alleged marriage as "a ridiculous
invention Thereupon the Vienna pa
1efs began to busy themselves with
inquiries concerning the archduke's
movements. Last week, it is stated.
MS imperial highness passed several
Gays n Syria, and he is now in Hun
gary, whittier he went, according to re-
port, to take part in the reception OF
me German emperor. AS regarding the
state CT health of his imperial high
ness, he Is said to have struck every
in Hungary with his robust ap.
pearapce. However, the following ex.
traordinary explanation of the rumors
was published in Berlin by the Kreuz
llltung, a highly responsible conser-
vatiVe paper, which describes that the
whole story originated in a barefaccl
fraud by a designing scoundrel who
passed himself off as the Austrian heir
presumptive. The supposed archduke
addressed himself to the young lady as
Dr. Arend, medical assistant, and when
established in the family's good graces
revealed his pretended imperial status.
he persuaded the young lady to 20 to
london to be married. On Septem-
Der 9Th she celebrated her birthday in
the midst of a large family circle at
the house of her brother. a Catholic
priest, the future bridegroom also be-
Ing present. On September 10th the
couple disappeared, the young lady
leaving a letter. in which she stated
she was going into "the wide world
1t is feared. adds the Kreuz Zeitung,
that the soi-disant doctor is an agent
for procuring girls, since it appears
that he made attempts to take away
the young sister of his fiance also, but
without success. The missing girl was
the possessor of a little fortune of
about forty thousand marks in cash,
which she had probably taken with
her.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-24

One Of the most successful Of recent
novels debates a question hat has
probably occurred to many thoughtful
men and women. Is it possible for
n who forms a part of our complex
and tempestuous civilization to lead a
Christ-like life? The novelist's con-
clusion is, on the whole, unfavorable,
and, therefore, condemnatory of civil
ization. Such a theme, SO treated, was
certain to awaken controversy. Chiefly
opinions rage around the hero of the
story. 1t is asserted that his failures
were chargeable to his character. not
his environment; and the criticism is
sound enough-as far as it goes. 1t
cannot be an adequate statement, be-
cause 1t fails to take note of certain
fundamental truths. In the first place,
1t is important to remember that the
author' inquiry is no novel one. For
eighteen centuries, the earnest and the
faithful, straining their eyes at the
ideal OF human brotherhood that Christ
set up, have wondered despairingly
whether man could ever reach 1t. The
better the man-judged by the stand
ard of others-the more hopeless, to
him, has seemed the attempt. Thus
the recent raising Of the inquiry does
not mean that a single good mar has
all at once perceived the world to be
growing worse. Does it not rather
show that an artist. keenly susceptible
to the mental influences that mold the
time. has been impressed by those as
pirations toward general helpfulness
and justice which unquestionably tend
to dominate mankind? We believe
that he misreads the answer to his
question. But eve il we were forced
to side with him, coneeding that the
world has not gained wisdom as il has
grown older, We might comfort our
selves with the thought that human
nature has at least not changed. There
are no new pitfalls on the road to per-
fiction, though some of the old ones
may bear new m The saints nj
the early centuries lived, as We must.
in the midst of rich and poor. Phari-
sees, publicans, sound and sick, sinners
and righteous. And in our day. as
in theirs, the aids to noble life are all
within"