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Saved from AN Awful Fate.

Everybody said I had consumption"
writes Mrs A NJ Shields, of Chambers
burg, Pa. Il was so low after six months
of severe sickness, caused by Hay Fever
and Asthma, that few thought l could
get we'll, but l learned of the marvellous
merit of DR.. Kings New Discovery for
Consumption, used it, and was complete
ly cured.n For desperate Throat ard
Lung Diseases it IS the safest cure in the
WoFld Rt ana !; inf atfao nor oo.gns Ge.G5
bottles soc and Sl.O0. Trial bottles free
at A JeGedard's.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1902-06-21

Judge Blackman of Rapides has
quashed the indictments of tie
grand jury against the city admins
tration ofAlexandria for violating State
law is strictly correct, but the fact
remains that the city administration
Of Alexandria is violating State laws
regularly and regardlessly.-Baton
Rouge Advocate.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1902-06-21

Bro. Jolly Of the Morgan City Re
view jocularly remarks: Yesterday
was the Goth birthday Of the Review
Editor. It was decoration day and we
have always felt thankful to the gov
eminent for making it our birth day.
The Review will remain at $1.0O a
year.
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The Marine Oil Company is tn

The Marine Oil Company is the
cognomen by which several gen tie
mea of e are known who are
prospecting for oil at LaRomp about
60 miles above Morgan City. They
evidently mean business as the der
rick and other material for sin king a
well have arrived. Morgan City Ru-
raj Topics.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1902-06-21
Happy Time in 0IdITfEae.

I'VE felt very happy, writes R n
Beyill, Old Town. Va, when Bucklen.s
Arnica Salye wholly cured our daughter
of a bad case OF scald head.n st delights
all who nse it for Cuts, Corns, Burns,
Bruises, Boils, Ulcers, Eruptions. Infalli-
BILE for Piles. Only CSC at A J Godard's
drug store.
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Ready fo Yield.

II used DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve foi
piles and found it a certain cure" says s.
r Meredith. Willow Grove, Del. Opera
tons unnecessary to cure piles. They
always yield to DeWltt's Witch Hazel
Salve,. Cures skin diseases, all kinds OF
wounds, Accept no counterfeits.
A JGodard,
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1902-06-21
Let US do your job printing.
Notice To Tres Dassers

] hereby forbid any one to tresspass on
my lands III Vermilion parish, Louisiana.
in any way, shape. form or manner what
soever, Any person or persons caught
~trespassing on said premises will be pros
ecuted to the full extent of the law,
DAviDEJ MEAUx,
Abbeville, La. December 90. 1900.
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Tressl,ass Notice.

Abbeyille, La. January 6, 1862.
From and after this date. all persons,
save my employees or those having bust
ness with me. are hereby forbidden to
enter or trespass on my premises or those
of my renters IN this parish under penalty
OF the law. A. d. MEAUx.
jan11 OILY
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1902-06-21
Fine Stock Ranch for Sale.

Ore of the most desirable s1Oos
farms in Louisiana all under ienes'
well supplied with water and ao sosa
nee Of. pasturage. Nearly , ,.a,s
acres all in one body, running 80,
Cneniere au Tigre to Fresh $50 4
Bayou. For particulars Apply
ROBERT H1LLEBRANpI' !
Abbeyille, Le'
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YOU KNOW WHAT YOU A RE
TAKING

When Won take Groves Tasteless Chill
Tonic because the formula is plainly
printed on every bottle showing that tits
form. No Cure. No Pay. soc.
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SOUTHW ESTFRN
LOUISIANA Observation-Disclosures
LAFAYETTE, IA. ]
LAFAYETTE, IA.

and manual training. + ~ 'e arts d ssas
offers thorough course in English, French, Mathematics Histrr So. -
keeping. stenography, Drawing, Gymnastics, Music and MannaiH pr yysss Science A
o.o 49, ~ = ~ ADMISSIONS: Age, fourteen years. or Idrh III.
ammlnat n reading writing, spelling. arithmetic to no9nna tem atsfaon
m Well. Try Try agg eograp a ia history certificate, showing completion Of uamsn As
pel fGGVe 20 toF entrance without examination. 'esagah0 III
COZ Girls board in new, brick dormitory: board, $3.50 per month. w.haa. q
Washing 100 to $500. =. SlAN per MmS
TUITION FREE to all regular students. Incidental fa cnn , -
$500 per session in advance. - " @Wp per half year
Session of mine months begins Wednesday,. SeDeenoharsrs uaa.
NPP5 100 '"n'oN LIZ oodiu' du ZOE printed circular of information M.
1 e. |. STEPHENS, premIamaa
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The Best Prescription for MAIN.
rim

Chills and Fever is a bottle of Groves
Tasteless Chill Tonic. 1t is simply iron
and q~uinine in a tasteless form. No cure,
No pay. Price SOC.
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This signature is on every box of the genuins
Laxative Bromo=Q uiEi7e Tablets
the remedy that cures q cold In, ONE day
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1902-06-21

A bill exempting towns Of over
10 90 inhabitants and parish seat
from paying parish taxes, has passed
the house.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1902-06-21
Stops tlae Cough
end Works OF Cold.

Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tablets cure q
cold in one day. No Cure, No Pay. Price
25 cents
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-04-10
THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1902.

A CLOSE study of the financial state
ment of the town published in these
columns week or two ago will re-
veal some things that do not appear
upon its face that will be well for the
citizens to keep in mind for future
reference. For instance, for the past
two years law has been in force
leVylng an extra tax of ten cents for
the redemption of bonds which, I'M
der the act authorizing the bond is
sue, was to go into sinking fund to
take up these bonds when due and to
pay accruing interest. This amount,
in round numbers, should be $14OO,
and should be cash in hand aside
from the general fund. According to
the statement published there is no
money in the sinking fund and in the
general fund there was less than one
thousand dollars. Some time ago we
called attention to this fact but it
was treated lightly by some members
of the Council and their mouthpiece.
This fund should have been kept sep
arate from the general fund, as the
law directs. Had this been done the
much-vaunted economical admins
tration would have made very poor
showing indeed. AS it is the endeavor
to make appear something this is not
will rebound very little to the credit
of the former administration.
The new officials start on the right
track by setting aside a considerable
amount to form a nucleus for sink
ing fund which will be placed where
it will bear interest to further in
crease it.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-04-10

gle purpose for which it was elected.
The stream cannot rise higher or be
purer than its source Yet it is a
keen disappointment TO Democrats
who are not such for revenue or office
Only to feel that they have been be-
trayed in the house of their friends
and that the party is still dominated
by the foolish and narrow spirit
which has frequently overwhelmed it
in defeat III recent wears, and which
has been steadily alternating many of
those who have loved and served it
best in the past. What Maryland
needs are public men who will lead it
out of the old-fogy paths which it has
been treading SO long and put it on
the high road of progress. If the
Democratic party will not furnish
these leaders, the people will look for
them elsewhere. A great State can
not be bound down forever by Lilli-
putian politicians We want up-to-
date statesmen who can get move
on the State-a move forward. not q
move Observation-Disclosures Sun of
April End.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-04-10

storms will visit many sections from
Wednesday, the 18th, to about Satur-
day, the 10th. Cloudiness and April
rains may be expected up to the 21st,
with reactiunary storm period CEN
trail on the 22nd and 23rd, and general
and wicked storms of rain, hail, wind
and thunder. There may be late but
decided squalls of snow in the north
ern part of the country.
If a marked and persistent low bar
ometer should cover the gulf regions
with rapid storms, followed by high
barometer and northerly air currents
rushing out of the northwest, it will
be wise to anticipate possible damage
by frost, well down toward the south.
The last storm period for April is
central on the 2Sth, extending from
the Goth to Both. At the beginning
of this period the barometer will fall.
the temperature will rise, and more
storms decided in character will de-
velop in the West and run their cour-
ses eastward during the last three
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-04-10

fixing it could avail nothing except
that it may, let us hope, lead to better
methods in the future. The system
is so thoroughly vicious, so utterly
without excuse that there cannot be
the slightest defense for it or pallia-
ton of it. By such a system, the
whole work is carlessly and negligent
ly done. defective laws are passed,
meritorious bills are killed and vicious
ones placed on the statute books; and
such blunder as that which has
now been made is liable to occur at
any moment. Bad politics is at the
bottom of the wrong, politics that
looks only to personal or party adj
vancement and cares nothing at all
'or the public good.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-04-10
WHERE THE BLAME RESTS.

1t is certainly amusing, if not par
ticularly profitable, to read the state
ments that have been published re-
garding the inexcusable blunder
which has made necessary an extra
session of the Legislature Members
of one Democratic faction blame it on
the other faction, and vice versa.
Some charge that it was done with a
purpose, Others that it was simply an
accident liable to occur in any other
body. 1t has even been alleged that
the Republican minority in the House
must be held responsible, and made
the blunder possible in the hope that
the Republican party would profit by
1t. This goes to the very height of
absurdity, and it would be Just as
sensible to blame the Republican min
GRITTY with all the failures, cratic, and
at times even vicious, work of the
most unsatisfactory and discreditable
session of the Maryland legislature
that has been held within the mem
DRY of man.
1t is generally conceded that it was
the duty of the chairman of the WAYS
and Means Committee of the Hou &c
and of the chairman of the Senate
Finance Committee to see that this
measure was passed. 1t is purely an
official bill, made necessary by the
State law, and to which there can be
very little opposition at any time. 1t
Is as much part and parcel of the
work OF the Legislature as the Omni-
bus Appropriation Bill or final ad-
Journment. 1t had passed the Senate
and SO the members of that body
seem to feel that they cannot be sad
died with any of the responsibility,
but the House must bear it all, and
make to the people the best excuse if
can.
The fault in the whole matter lies
IN vicious system which, prevailed
during the whole session, and which
has characterized many previous ses-
slons of the Legislature. That body
is given ninety days in which to do
its work. The first month or six
weeks of the session are spent in de-
sultory work, the weeks are cut short
by early adjournment. the majority
OF the members seeming to be con
WINGED that they have[far morelim-
portant business in Baltimore than
at Annapolis. AS result of this pol
icy all the more important legislation
is crowded into the finishyof the ses-
sion, then rushed through at light
ming speed, without hardly pretense
OF roll-calls or recording of the vote.
A glance at the record of the session
will show that notTa dozen measures
of any kind were acted on Sby:both
houses before the last fortnight of the
session, but in the last two or three
days and nights they were acted up
on by hundreds with the rush of a
railroad train trying to break all
track records.
While there must be individual re-
sponsibility for such blunder. vet
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-04-10

days of the mouth. AS rule these
regular storm disturbances do not
reach the central valleys of the Missis-
sippi and Ohio rivers until about the
afternoon of the second day after the
center of the period.
The center of this last period falling
on the 2Sth, its storms normally would
pass the region of the Mississippi river
on the Both expanding themselves
over the eastern extreme ON and about
May LIST.
Upon the whole we believe that
April will prove a nice month for out
door work. We doubt if the rainfall
for the month will be all that is de-
sired in many sections of the Middle
West.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-04-10
OIL for the
Children.

Give them oil-cod-liver oil.
It's curious to see the result.
Give it to the peevish, fret
full child, and he laughs. Give
it to the pale, anemic child,
and his face becomes rosy and
full of health. Take a flat
chested child, or a child tia
has stopped growing, give hiI
the oil, and he will grow biz
and strong like the rest.
This is not a new scheme.
1t has been done for years.
OF course you must use the
right oil. SCOTS Emulsion
is the one.
SCOTS Emulsion neither
looks nor tastes like oil because
we are so careful in making it
pleasant to take.
Send for free sample.
SCOTT BOVINE Chemists, 400 Pearl ST., N. Y.
soc and sT.oo; al druggists.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-04-10
A SLEEPING BEAUTY.

If in writing the obituary. notice of
the Maryland Legislature OF 1902 we
should follow strictly the charitable
admonition which tells us to say
nothing of the dead unless we can
speak well Of them, editorial ref1ec-
tions would be necessarily brief. Not
that the late General Assembly did
not do some commendable things and
leave undOne some things which were
very properly omitted. But, generally
speaking, it may be said that it failed
in most of the important questions
before it to measure up its RESPONSE
bilities and opportunities. Such a
criticism does not ignore the earnest
efforts of individual members nor the
moral value of the valiant and brilli-
ant fight made for progressive legis-
lation by certain Delegates and Sena-
tors. Nevertheless, even with the
help of the coalition led so ably by
Mr.. Straus is the House, much that
might have been accomplished for the
welfare and advancement of the CITY
and State was defeated and some very
/ questionable measures succeeded in
passing both branches 1t is safe to
say that but for Mr.. Straus the record
| would have been far worse. The
question of responsibility for results
so unsatisfactory is one which is not
/ difficult to settle. There was Dem
ocratic majority in both House and
I Senate, and upon it must rest the
responsibility for the failures of the
| session. 1t is true that the Demo-
Gratis lost control of the House, but
/ the loss of control was due to the
same spirit of Bourbonism which has
dominated the counsels of the party
for years. Like the Bourbons, the
old party whips seem unable to learn
anything from experience. In the
main, the good things that were done
in the House were not the things of
the Democratic majority, but of the
opposition. Mr.. Straus and his fol-
lowers deserve the credit for most of
the good legislation in the House.
They pulled along the unwilling
Democratic donkey by main force,
and in spite of his baking and kick
ing put through some good measures
and defeated some bad ones. Among
the good ones were the amendments
to the General Election Law and the
law for primary elections. The Sen
ate, however, proved the graveyard
of many of the good intentions of the
House, and its attitude on the Cor
rupt Practices act demonstrated too
plainly for comment the insincerity
of its professed desire for purer politi-
cal conditions. What the Senate was
the House would have been but for
Mr.. Straus' compulsory reform league.
The corporations were able to get
from the Senate almost anything they
wanted; the people next to nothing.
There have been sessions in which
more positive evil has been done to
the public interests; there have been
few in which greater injury has been
done to the Democratic party. And
this for the reason that the Demo
cratic party was distinctly on trial at
this session and that the legislative
majority distinctly and clearly dem
onstrated that it was not worthy of
the trust reposed in it, Perhaps
nothing better could have been ex-
pected of a majority elected as this
majority was elected and for the sim
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-04-10
REV. IRL R. HICKS FORECAST FOR APRIL
Prophesies a Big Variety of Weather,
Prominent In which are Numerous
Storms.


Storms.
A reactionary storm disturbance,
he says, beginning the last of March,
will expend its force by April 1, a
higher barometer, westerly winds and
cooler weather following up the dis
turbance and lasting two or three
days, during which change to fair and
cooler, frosty nights will prevail in
most parts of the Central and North
ern States.
There will be decided change to
warmer about the 3rd, eliminating
about the 9th, 18th and 8th in many
active thunder storms and heavy To-
cal rain storms, following which will
be a rapid change to much cooler and
more frosty nights. There will be re-
newed storms about the 18th and 12th.
A change to cooler will follow but will
be of short duration.
Active and possibly dangerous
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-04-10
REMITTANCES;

Remittances made by money order, bank
draft, registered letter or express order will
be at our risk if made otherwise, at the risk
of the sender. Address.
THE REPUBLICAN,
Oakland, Md.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-04-10
RATES oE SUBSCRIPTION.
ADVERTISING RATES.

First insertion for square OF ten nOnpareil
ines. ST. each additional insertion after first,
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-04-10

Luck Piper Heidsieck Spun
each and Honey Razor E. Rice Geenvie
Of others mentoned Red tin Tiuseys
aceo are also good for Presents;
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-05

| able to offer to the shareholders of the
Island Company in partial exchange fol
their holdings. ii has been necessary t.
make an agreement whereby the Rock
Island Company purchases the Sl2o.-
100000 capital stock of the Iowa COM
pany (the Chicago. Rock Island & Pa
! citic Railroad Company of lowD. the
| consideration for the purchase being
| The delivery to the Iowa company of Sc
much of the $3.50 100000 stock of the
| Rock Island Company as Will be re-
| quired for carrying out the terms of the
offer-that is. 100000 of the Rock
Island Companys $54,o00.ooo preferred
stock and s75,0o0ooo of its common
stock. The capital stock of the Rock
Island Company not required for the
purposes of the offer is reserved for flu
lure issue for the acquisition of addi-
tional properties and other corporate
purposes. 1t is arranged that per cent
shall be paid on the gold bonds and the
preferred stock with an increase in the
latter hereafter.
The Chicago. Rock Island & Pacific
railway in 1900 embraced 5000 miles of
tracks and trackage. and was a thru
line only from Chicago to Denver ana
from Chicago TO Kansas City, and u To-
cal proposition southwest from Kansas
City rs far as Texas. by combination
With the Burlington. Cedar Rapids Il
Northern railroad the Rock Island Il
Peoria. the Choctaw, oklahoma 4 Gulf.
building an extension to I'll Paso. a line
between Kansas City ana St. Louis. a
connection between Fort Worth ard
Galveston in Texas. ii has today 1000
miles of railroad in operation. and IN
additional 1000 miles in course of con-
struction, making a total mileage. when
completed, of 5000 miles.
This year the Rock Island placed
1000 additional cars and 200 locomo-
tives upon its lines, bringing its eauip-
ment in efficiency up to the highe st
standard in the west, and with a com
petent management its stockholtle rs
claim that the Rock Island as AN earn
ing proposition is equal. mile for mile,
u any of nine great railway systeras,
the c. x n. w, the Union
Pacific. Illinois Central. etc. and so far
as the par value of securities per mile
IS concerned it varies only slightly from
these roads.
If the Rock Island is able hereafter to
pay fair dividends on the stock it has
issued, this will be the test of the valu- /
alton and capitalization of the company
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-05
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.

The Kansas City Star. an independ-
ant paper of high standing, has made
FERROUS error in reading the Iowa re-
publican platform, for it has overlooked
The verbatim reaffirmation of the Cedar
Ranids plank, we favor any modii1ca-
lion of tariff schedules that are required
10 prevent their affording shelter to mo-
nopoly." The Stars opinion vigorously
EXPRESSED below is of interest only as
an illustration of the just criticism that
would have censued the party had the
recent convention made the same mis-
take as the Star has made and over
looked the important plank.
The Star says:
"rhe point OF greatest value is that
touching the trusts. Last years con-
yention favored any modification of the
tariff schedules that may be required to
prevent them affording shelter to the
trusts The platform of yesterday
merely favors such changes in the tar
IF from time to time as become advisa-
BILE thru the progress of our industries
ard their changing relations to the
Commerce of the world The first is
lust and courageous acknowledgement
of the Immediate and vital relations
that exist between the trusts and the
high tariff: the second. altho an impor-
tant admission of the eNpediency OF
lowering the protective duties under
certain conditions, is an evasion Of the
facts brought out in the earlier plat
FORM
"It is such trimming as this that
makes the public skeptical about the
revision of the protective tariff by its
friends. The power of the big indus
trial interests over any representative
gathering of republicans is so manifest
md so great that nothing less than a
political revolution may be expected to
bring about the needed tariff reform
thru republican action. No one doubts I
President Roosevelt's intention TO effect |
& lowering of the protective duties, es-
pecially on articles manufactured and
sold by the exacting trusts. or his pur-
pose in other ways to regulate the ac-
ton of monopolies. But there is no COM
Portable assurance that he can succeed
without the aid of democratic votes in i
congress. He failed on the single point
of Cuban reciprocity, which involved I
only one OF the highly protected and
beautifully favored interests. The SUI
gar trust was too strong for the presi-
dent in the last session. These things
are important to the democratic organ
ization. They shonld help to reconcile
and make strong that once powerful
champion of the peoples rights. They
should also bring to the front new lead
ers, capable of utilizing and coping with
the one great issue now before the
American people,"