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New-York tribune., 1901-03-30

trated. II is destined contain the collection Of
sketches. photographs autographs and such
souvenirs as the duchess will obtain during her
Colonial tour. Miss Constance karslake originated
and executed the decorative design.
The volume is about eighteen inches square, and
for the binding a highly polished morocco OF a
warm shade of green has been employed, inlaid
with gold and red with flights Of swallows I'm gold
rOOling- Upon The cover is the duchesS's cipher
..N. N - snrmounted by her coronet.
New-York tribune., 1901-03-30
MONEY ACKNowLEpGEp.

Miss Anna J. HartneSs, Of Vermont, has sent
s. 20 70: new badges Mrs. r, NJ. Lyman. Is cents
"A Friend 81 annual dues for Mis- Maud Kent:
Mrs. J. b. X. six cents for postage. and Hester
Carson Rash, seycl cents for badge.
Mrs. a 7. Harms, an active worker in the Lit
tie Mothers Association. IS seriously I'll her
home. No los East Tenth-st. VIII some OF the
7. s. 5. members place Mrs Harms their Est
FOR Easter cheer OF flowers or some kindly remem-
bTanCe:
New-York tribune., 1901-03-30
GOVERNORS ISLAND, \. ", March D

l@l-Sealed proposals will Be received here upsa =,
NJ April IS 1901. for furnishing iron pipe Afrrs.
nyaranss Information furnished appication C.
part thereof Envelopes containing proposals sho,,la ~
narked proposals for ripe.' addressed s. r. JONS
New-York tribune., 1901-03-30

/ hold that Christian grace abounds
Where Charity is seen:
That when climb TO Heaven. 'tis the rounds
or love 70 -(Alice Cary.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-12-26
A GAIN FOR ALL TIME.

President Roosevelt's special mes
sage recommending the acquisition of
great tract of mountain and forest
in Southwestern Virginia, Western
North Carolina and Eastern Tennes-
see, is one that should receive the
hearty and urgent support of the
press, of public bodies concerned with
questions of national welfare, and of
all public spirited citizens The pres
ervation of natural resources OF this
character constitutes an interposition
of the Government for the lasting
future good of the whole nation, in a
way which is wholly free from the OBJ
lection of paternalism. The only pos
sible valid objection to the policy EN-
bodied in such an act would be the
charge of jobbery or personal interest
in the purchase of the land, or in the
selection of its situation. The former
must of course be guarded against;
as to the latter, there is no room for
such objection in the present instance.
The reason chosen is so distinctly
marked out for the purpose by its
natural qualities and it's situation in
regard to the water-courses of large
part of the county that there can be
no question of its pre-. eminent desira-
bility. 1t may safely be said that the
expenditure of the money required
for its acquisition is the veriest trifie
in comparison with the permanent
benefit to all future generations which
would come from the preservation of
the splendid forest area which it is
sought to save from mutilation and
destruction. -Balto. News.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-12-26
Shortest Day of Year.

Saturday was the shortest day OF
the year. There we're just hours
and 81 minutes of sunshine. The
sun rose at "a minutes past o'clock
and set at As minutes past o'clock.
This is the calculation in the alma
nae, with which all are familiar. The
United States Weather Service takes
no account of these astronomical
calculations; the forecasters recognize
a certain number of days in Decem.
Der which have the greatest possible
number of hours and minutes of sun
shine. which they reckon at an
average of about hours and four.
tenths. In the calculation this allows
a small margin either way.
The almanac also notes Saturday as
the first day of winter The sun en-.
tered Capricorn. and begun the win
ter solstice.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-12-26
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 90, 1901.
APROPOS THE SEASON.

The people who ''loathe" Christmas
are again to the fore. One hears
them protesting that the holidays are
a bore and that they'll be 500 glad
when they're over. Christmas is for
children, they explain, and grown
folks have no interest in the feast.
In the humble opinion of the writer
all of these remarks are of the purest
tommyrot. Eliminate Christmas from
the year and a chorus of groans would
arise from these very mortals. Every
one, knowingly or unknowingly,
looks forward to it with anticipations
of pleasure. He enjoys the mystery
which pervades the air, the displays
in the shops, the holly and mistletoe
and the fragrance of baking cake
that is waited to his nostris here,
there and everywhere.
The day itself may be like an un-
usually dull Sunday, as some one has
said, but those that lead up to it are
attractive even to the poor little chill
dren who have neither money nor
hopes of visit from Santa Claus,
and whose only pleasure consists in
looking in shop windows at the pretty
things to which luckier young 'ters
will fall heir.
The holiday season is a blessed one.
It's time of more or less worry, to
be sure, but it is also time of joyful
preparation, and whether one is Civ
ing fine cushions or diamond rings as
gifts, the choosing of them makes the
whole month of December a cherry
one, which after Christmas" is a fiat
kind of a time.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-12-26
HARMONY VERSUS MANHOOD.

The session of the Legislature is
close at hand, and the process of
gradually rounding up the Demo
cratic members in the slick and quiet
manner characteristic of that kind of
performance. The ideal toward which
it is directed is that of a complete and
touching harmony, a condition which
might be described by reversing Ma
caulay's line about the golden days
of the Roman Republic, when none
were for party, when all were for
the State" The Democratic Legisla-
turemen are desired to be for the
party-no, not for the party, but for
the party managers, first, last and
all the time. All questions of indi-
vidual opinion are to be suppressed,
all assertions of manly independence
to be forborne. The Democratic
members are to be hypnotized in pre-
liminary proceedings, and to act dur
ing the session upon the impulse
transmitted to them before it began
by the skilled psychologists of the
machine. This is the programme of
harmony, and those lawmakers elect
who like to play the part thus as
signed to them will doubtless step up
and be corralled with all due gentle.s
ness and decorum. If there are any
Democratic members elect who rate
their manhood and independence
above the managerial harmony, they
will preserve their self-respect by
keeping out of the corral.
AS to the future of the Democratic
party itself in this State, there is no
difficulty in determining upon which
side it's advantage lies. The aban-
donment of personal independence,
and submission to the determination
of the party's action, and that of each
of it's representative in the Legisla-
ture, by series of "gumshoe" con-
ferences, will be just as fatal to party
vitality as it will be to individual self
respect. Indeed, it is a simple prop
osition--though one which the ma
chine managers in this State seem
never able to comprehend-that there
can be no real party life in the State
unless there is real individual life in
the party. 1t was through the sup
preston of all personal independ-
ence and personal initiative that the
Democratic party in Maryland grad
ually sank to the low condition in
which it has now been for many years,
in spite of its natural possession of SO
preponderating share of the best
elements of the population. 1t has
lost the attachment of those elements
in an extraordinary degree. 1t will
never amount to anything as a party
though it may succeed, by hook or
by crook, in hanging on to the offices
until it regains that attachment.
Those who really care anything for
the Democratic party as an agency of
government and means of promot-
ing the public welfare will not lend a
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-12-26
GOOD ROADS MOVEMENT.
Not q Recent Development, bat
Steady Growth of Years.


Steady Growth of Years.
In appearance the demand for high
way improvement is a sudden develop
ment, but in reality it is the manifesto
ton that is sudden, says the New York
Tribune in recent editorial. Forces
of which the work is now visible have
been in steady operation for years, and
the result suggests the analogy of wa
ter on the verge of boiling, which gives
only slight indications Of what has
been going on below the surface.
The passage OF the Higbie-Armstrong
act, under which the reconstruction of
public roads is proceeding in this state,
was not responsive to a strong general
demand. In the view Of many mem
bers of the legislature who voted for
the measure it was conceded rather to
the opportunities of few individuals
whose good intentions werA recognized
ed Even its most earnest advocates
were not prepared to see it's utility so
quickly INDICATED by local applications
far outrunning the state appropriation
The simple explanation of the steady
and rapid advance of the good roads
cause is, as we have repeatedly said,
that the proof Of its right to prevail is
absolutely convincing wherever it is
practically presented. There is moth
ing to be said on the other side to
which a man thinks it worth while to
listen who has once driven a loaded
vehicle over road converted within
his observation from a bad to a good
condition. For him the demonstration
is complete, and he forthwith becomes
an apostle. Such is the universal and
unbroken experience. 1t is a remark
able fact that the movement has never
received a setback anywhere. 1t has
inevitably gone forward from a small
beginning more rapidly in some locali-
ties than in others, but it has not retro
graded in a single instance.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-12-26
More About the Oakland and Sang Rur

Road.
To the Editor of THE REPUBLICAN.
Please allow me space in your val
ued paper to say something about
the condition of the Sang Run road.
The first section of this road is in
fair condition. ''Silent Sam" in a
recent issue of the Journal says that
there were but two miles of this road
worked with q road machine. In
stead of this there were six and a-half
miles worked with the machine and
well worked. Why did not Silent
Sam" use a machine on his section of
the road, which is the smoothest por-
ton between Sang Run and Oakland d?
Now silent Sam had $25 levied to
him on this short mile of road and
nothing was done except expanding
So or So on Deep Greek bridge. Why
did he leave the Daniel Lewis hill in
such condition? This portion of
the road was not repaired until some
time in November. "Silent Sam"
says that if the former supervisor had
opened the breakers the road would
have been in better condition. There
are no breakers there and never were
any. As ''Silent Sam has been in
charge of this road for three years,
why did he not make breaker if it
could be done?
The sideling place at Hoye Run
bridge, of which "Silent Sam de-
MES the existence, is still dangerous.
and one wagon had to be held up by
four men to keep from upsetting.
The supervisor on that section gets
1927 per mile and his road is worse
than horrible. With his appropria-
ton of $27 per mile and only teams
passing over it in week, what would
such supervisor do on road with
$40 per mile and from 10 to 20 heavy
ladened teams day over it? l think
if Silent Sam had the first section
of this road it would soon be in such
a condition that you could not walk
over it.
''Silent Sam" is very good die
tator but poor worker. He has
road leading from the GAINESVILLE
road to the Oakland road that is in
fearful condition. If he would fill the
mud holes with rock it would be bet
ter than to fill them with saw dust.
He has opened one breaker on the
one mile of his road and one he filled
with rock.
l am not a road supervisor, but
when travel over a road two OF
three times week and | know the
amount of the appropriation, l think
l can tell pretty well or not whether
the money was justly expended. If
"Silent Sam will pick the beam out
of his own eye then he can clearly see
the moat in his brothers eye.
''Silent Sam would do well to work
his own road at the proper time and
also to work men that can do an hon
est days work and not little boys
that can only pick stone.
Silent SAM" just read the first six
verses Of the 7th chapter of Matthew
and it will do you good.
A REPUBLICAN
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-12-26
What a "YuIetide" Means,

'Yuletide" is of course, again to
the fore. 1t is a good enough word,
euphonious and convenient. But
there is no use in investing in syll-
ables with too much glamor of med
ieval poetry and romance. The cold,
concrete fact is that it means the
time of yelling, or "yowling," not to
caterwauling. By all means let us
have merry yuletide, but let us not
make Rome how'll too much, nor let
our yule festivities become-as the
name might imply-a katzenjammer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-12-26

Call For Your Letters.
Mrs. Annie Shnopp, John Hayes,
Fred. Kantz, John Gray.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-12-26

hand to the continuance of party de-
Eeneracy. The better Democrats
they are, the more they will oppose
the attempt to inflict upon it ma
chine-made harmony which is not the
harmony of common purposes or COM
mon sentiments, but the harmony of
common supineness and decadence.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-12-26
Width of Country Roads.

The width OF the roadway should be
determined by the travel. On ordinary
country roads width Of twenty feet
from. outside of ditch would be ample.
A roadway of this width properly grad
ed, with sufficient height and slope to
drain quickly, with storm water quick
ly disposed of in the side bitches, should
give drainage and dry road except
during storms. -,..,--,.-..
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-12-26
4 Great ODDOrtunity

The burned district of Jacksonville. Fla, is
to be rebuilt at once. Offering an opportun-
ity Unemployment to workmen. and excel
lent prospect to contractors and capitalists.
Jacksonville is reached from all directions
by the Seaboard Air Line Railway System,
which offers unexcelled facilities in the way
of schedules and through car service to that
point nov lift
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-12-26

of the season lin ten colors) six
beautiful heads ION six sheets, 10x12
inches, reproductions of paintings
by Moran, issued by General Pass
enger Department, Chicago. Milwau-
kee u st. Paul Railway, will be sent
on receipt of twenty-five cents. Ad-
dress F. A. Miller, General Passenger
Agent. Chicago. 413t
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-12-26
REMITTANCES;

Remittances made by money order, bank
sran, registered letter or express order will
% at our risk; if made otherwise, at the risk
- the sender. Address.
THE REPUBLICAN,
Oakland, Md.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-12-26
Barnum,S
Monkeys

"All well-all happy-lots
of fun. That is the regular
report from the monkey cage
of Barnum's Circus ever since
the keepers began dosing the
monkeys with SCOTS Emul-
sion. Consumption was carry
ing off two thirds of them
every year and the circus had
to buy new ones.
One day a keeper accidcr.:-
ally broke a bottle of Scos..
Emulsion near the nor
cage and the monkeys o2r,y'
Tapped it up from tic tu....
This suggested the i1l;. &.
might do them coca. : nc
then the monkeys hay receive.
regular doses and The Ac.' 49,
report very few deaths ..t
consumption. Of course il.
cheaper to buy Scots In:
sion than new monkeys
that suits the circus men.
Consumption in monkcy-
and in man is the same disca
If you have it or are threatci.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-12-26
safes OF SUBSCRIPTION:
ADVERTISING RATES.

First insertion for square OF ten nonpsreil
loss 81; each additional insertion after first,
o cents per square of ten nonpareil lines.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-12-26

WANTED-A woman to cook and do
general homework for family of
three. No children. Apply to Will
lam Moody, dealer in general merch-
a ndise, Bloomington, Md.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-12-26

Stops the Cough and Works off the Cold.
Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tablets cure a
cold in one day. No Cure, no Pay. Price
> cents.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-08-21
CUP GOES TO CANADA
Invader Gets the Fourth Race at Chicago,
Giving Her Three.

Chicago, Aug. 15.-The weather yes
terday was Invader weather, and the
boat justified the expectations Of her
designer (who had studied Chicago
weather reports for August for twenty
years past before he designed herr, and
beat the Cadnlac for the second time
clear and clean over the Canada cup
course. This, with the race given the
challenger Tuesday because of the de-
tenders foul, makes three races won
by the Canadian boat, and the cup goes
back to Canada this year. The differ
ence between the two boats at the fin
ish yesterday was minutes and 20
seconds.
The race was nine miles to wind
ward and run home, and for the first
time the wind held true enough to
carry out the plan. The Invader was
leading both at the windward work
and on the run home Those who have
held that Hanley center-board boat is
invincible in the thirty-five-foot class
find it hard to acknowledge that the
latest creation of the famous Massa-
chusetts designer and builder Is infer
Tor to a fin-keel boat-an English cut
ter drawn by an English designer
and they give Captain Jarvis and his
men all the credit.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-08-21
Read Ii in His Newspaper

George Schaub, a well known Ger
man citizen of New Lebanon, Ohio, is
q constant reader of the Dayton Volks-
zeitung. He knows that this paper
aims to advertise only the best in its
columns, and when he saw Chamber
lain's Pain Balm advertised therein
for lame back, he did not hesitate in
buying bottle of it for his wife, who
for eight weeks had suffered with the
most terrible pains in her back and
could get no relief. He says: "After
using the Pain Balm for few days
my wife said to me, feel as though
born anew and before using the entire
contents of the bottle the unbearable
pains had entirely vanished and she
could again take up her household dut-
les" He is very thankful and hopes
that all suffering likewise will hear of
her wonderful recovery. This valuable
liniment is for sale by Wangler Bros.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-08-21
BANDITS ROB A STAGE
ToErists in the Adirondack Have Novel
Experience.

experience.
Albany N. Y. Aug ia stage rob-
berry in the Adirondacks is something
new, but one took place in broad day
light two miles north of Dunlap's ho-
tel at North River, on the road to Blue
Mountain Lake. The stage had left
Dunlap's on Its daily trip up the noun
tain. and had reached piece of woods
through which the road winds at a
heavy grade.
Here lone horseman, masked and
armed to the teeth, came from the for
est, and taking up a position in the
road, ordered the driver to halt. The
latter. surprised at the dime novel APP
partition, took the command as bluff
and urged his four horses on. The
highwayman thereupon shot down the
leaders and brought the stage to a
sudden stop. Then, presenting him.
self at the door, he began to relieve
the travellers of their pocket money.
he afterward ripped open the mail
pouches, took all the registered letters
and rode off. 1t is supposed the high
wayman secured upward of $1,000 by
the robbery.
San Francisco, Aug. 16.-One man,
armed with repeating rifle, held up
stage loaded with twenty passengers
on the Calist0ga and Clear Lake road
about eighty miles north of this city.
After taking the express box, the mail
bag and the watches and purses of
passengers. the bandit ordered the
stage to be driven on. he got a few
hundred dollars, but the exact amount
Is not known. The passengers were
all tourists. The hlghwayman wore
over his face handkerchief, in which
holes were cut for the eyes. This is
the third robbery in this section in
the last three months
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-08-21
500 Reward, sroo.

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all its stages and
that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure
is the only positive cure now known to
the medical fraternity. Catarrh being
a constitutional disease, requires a
constitutional treatment. Halls Ca
tarrh Cure is taken internally, acting
directly on the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system, thereby destroying
the foundation of the disease, and
giving the patient strength by building
up the constitution and assisting nature
in doiHg its work. The proprietors have
SO much faith in its curative powers,
that they offer one Hundred Dollars
for any case that it fails to cure. Send
for list of testimonials.
Address. F. j. CHENEY & Co, Toledo, O..
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-08-21
RAIDS ON THE IsTHMUs
Daily and Nightly Occur ON the Panama
Railway Line.


Chicago, Aug. ia dispatch from
Colon. Colombia, dated Aug. IA, says:
"RaidsNcontinue almost daily or night
v along the line, owing to the entire
absence of military protection. Last
night Matachin was again raided and
cattle belonging to sympathizers with
the government were stolen. Two wo-
men We're kidnapped at Gorgona station
Sunday night, and the Chinese there
We're pillaged. On most occasions of
this character the Chinese are the chief
sufferers. Consequently. they are
daily transferring provisions and mer-
chandise to Panama. thus intensifying
want and suffering all along the line.
ARMED guards, consisting of about
fifty, still accompany each passenger
train. The presence of the French
cruiser Suchet tends to allay uneasi-
nesss, and the arrival of the United
States gunboat Machias is anxiously
awaited. Ii Is hoped that she may get
here by Sunday. Beyond the loss OF
dynamite and powder the railroad has
sustained no injury. and traffic across
the isthmus continues without inter-
ruption, although far fewer local pas
sengers are now crossing. The gov
eminent is concentrating troops from
the more remote provinces.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-08-21
A Cure for Cholera tnfantum.

"Last May, says Mrs. Curtis Baker,
of Bookwalter, Ohio, san infant child
of our neighbours was suffering from
cholera infantum. The doctor had
given up all hopes of recovery. / took
a bottle of Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy to the house,
telling them / felt sure it would do
good If used according to directions.
In two days time the child had fully
recovered, and is now NEARLY a year
since) vigorous, healthy girl. have
recommended this Remedy frequently
and have never known it to fail in q
single instance" For sale by Wangler
Bros. Druggists.