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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-03-24

Surveyor of the Port Ravenscroft
was in Oakland on business last Sat
urday.
Do you eat? If not, why not ? Get
the habit Try Whites restaurant,
Railroad street.
Mrs. F. H. Bab'", of Keyser, West
Va, was the guest Tuesday of Miss
Nell Offutt at her home on Second
street.
Mr.. John E. Gnagey, of Accident,
foreman :of.lthe grand jury at this
term of Court, made this Office very
pleasant visit Monday evening.
Mrs. M. L. Scott, who was in the
eastern cities last week purchasing a
spring stock of millinery goods,
arrived home Saturday evening,
Major j. NJ. Burns, of Morgantown,
is in Oakland this morning being on
his way home from visit of a week
to Washington and Annapolis.
Joe White has opened first-cass
restaurant on Railroad street. He
will be pleased TO serve the general
public with all the delicacies of the
season.
Mr.. J. NJ. Conneway, was at
Swanton last Saturday where he
became a member of the Grange Or
ganized at a meeting of the farmers
held there that day.
Hon. Ferdinand Williams, ex-Judge
of this circuit, was in Oakland Tues
day evening on professional business.
Judge Williams has many warm
friends and admirers in Oakland who
are always glad to greet him.
MUCO-SOLVENT j. the remedy
which should be. used fol every sore
throat, because it is also specific for
the sore throat which precedes and
accompanies diphtheria or scarlet
fever. See advertisement in another
column.
Mrs. G. E. Jaseph, nee Nelson.
of Evansville, Ind, is here as the
guest of her brother Mr.. Thomas Mel
son. From here Mrs. Jaseph will go
to Pittsburg to visit her mother and
other relatives.
Mrs. w. Y. Waltz, of TOWNSVILLE,
W. Va. who visited the family of
the venerable Rowan White in Oak
land several days recently, returned
home Tuesday morning. Mrs. Waltz
was accompanied by her daughter,
Miss Margery.
Attorney Thomas J. Peddicord,
who spent the winter in Washington,
arrived home Friday afternoon and is
engaged in court this week. Both Mr..
and Mrs. Peddicord were extremely
ill during almost the entire time the
latter still being confined to her room
in the above city.
Mr.. Morgan w. Orr, of Hiorra, w.
Va, who with his family occupied the
Nelson property last summer, has
rented Mr.. A. d. MAYORS house on
First street and will take possession
shortly. Mr.. Naylor, with his family,
will occupy Crooks Crest. which he
purchased some months ago.
A freight breakman, injured at
Anderson, few miles west of Rowles-
burg, was brought to Oakland last
Thursday afternoon in anunconscious
state aud taken to the McComas San
itarium where he was examined and
restoratives administered. He rallied
and recovered to such an extent as to
allow his discharge, going from here
to his home at McKeesport the same
night.
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Monday, April IL, 1904,

as required by law, for the purpose OF max
ing the 1904 Levy. All persons having ac-
counts for same are requested to file them ON
or before the above date.
BY order OF the Board.
A. G. ROSS, Clerk.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-03-24
Meeting of County Commissioners.

OFFICE OF THE
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS FOR GARRETT Co. !
OAKLAND, MD, March "a, 1903. !
The County Commissioners for Garrett
county will meet at their office in Oakland ON
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-03-24
ADMINISTRATORS MOTT

This is to give notice. that the subst
OF Garrett county, Md, hath obtained
the Orphans Court of Garrett county. M
land, Letters of Administration on til
sonal estate of
CHRISTINA MILLER.
late OF Garrett county. deceased.
persons having claims against the dec
are hereby warned to exhibit the SAINT,
the vouchers thereof legally authentica
the subscriber, on or before the 24th
September next; they may otherwise
be excluded from all benefit of sadie
All persons knowing themselves indeb.
said estate are requested to make imm,
payment.
Given under my hand this 24th c
March, 1904.
s1E JOHN f. GNAGEY
Administered,
3-ft Accident,
The evening world., 1904-02-25
Fl Defense Of Mrs. Nagg.
By Nixola GreeIev-Smith.

To the Editor of The Evening World:
The evening world., 1904-02-25
DANGER FOR THE TENEMeNTs.

Eternal vigilance is the price of health and life for the
people OF the tenements. When they gain a little ground
In the fight against disease and misery they never can be
sure of holding il. There is never a legislature that
would not sacrifice them to the greed of landlords too
stupid to know that civilized dwellings are better worth
owning than pigsties If a determined public sentiment
were not necessarily on guard.
This year a peculiarly audacious assault on the safe
guards of the Tenement law is on foot. Senator Hawkins
has introduced two bills designed to give the Tenement
House Commissioner authority to relax the requirements
IN the statutes with regard to old buildings at his dlscrc-
ticn. The proposition is practically to abolish the laws
ind institute the unchecked will of the Commissioner.
Such q scheme is an invitation to graft. 1t would
make the office of Tenemcnt-Hou Commissioner a prize
70 be fought for by every corrupt politician in Tammany,
end the price would be paid in disease and death by the
E%lffering people of the tenements. 1t might not produce
its logical effects under the present administration, but
imagine its results II Mayor Mcclellan should be sue
ceeded by a Van Wyck!
The evening world., 1904-02-25

fer themselves up as sacrifices to Hymen, just to prove
that they can marry II they want to.
Everybody will admit that q good husband is the best
thing that can happen to n woman, but a bad one Is 30
much the worst that one of the great problems of the world
is how to save the woman from her. folly who is marrying
not for love. but to prevent spinster from being engraved
on her tombstone.
Strangely enough, the answer to this enigma comes from
China-the very land that these misguided old maids have
been calling "heathen,' and in which they have been sup
porting missionaries by means of making plncushions and
flannel petticoats, and knitting fascinators for church bn-
zaars. In China, a few weeks ago, n young maiden of high
degree had the misfortune to lose her betrothed by death
just before the wedding, whercupon, feeling that her heart
could never be anothers, yet desiring the dignties and per-
qulsites of a matron, she was solemnly and with great pomr
married to q red flower vase.
There. in a nutshell. you have the solution OF the whole
case OF the woman who maTries just to be married. Let
her marry a dead thing. instead of Il live thing. Nor Ia
the idea so startling as It appears on its face. Many
woman discovers after marriage that she wed n whlskey
bottle instead of a man. and would be glad enough to swap
1t off for any kind of a flower vase. There are men so full
of conceit and vanity that their wives might just as well
have espoused a gas bag in the first place. There are
ether men so stingy and so hard to get money out of that
they might with advantage to their wives be cash registers.
The woman whose husband sits up like n craven image
all evening with the paper glued before his eyes would find
a wooden Indian just as entertaining. A vinegar cruet
might be substituted for many n sour lord and master with
out his wife finding it out. while there are millions of men
so absorbed in their business that they are no more COM
pany for their wives than n double-entry ledger.
On the other hand, the advantages of being married to n
hower-vase husband are many and obvious. 1t would have
no bad habits. II would never'row about bills, 1t would never
nights. True. there would always be the danger that n rec
nower-vase spouse. like n human husband, might get full
or go broke. but these are risks that a wife is bound &c
take anyway.
In "A word. II the fower-vase idea can be popularized It
will give a woman all the privileges and none of the PEN
nlties of matrimony. and 1t is hereby commended to the
consideration Of the women's clubs. AS a happy expedien
for the missing man 1t takes the wedding cake.
DOROTHY DIX.
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Now, she's out and won't come back
IN again. She'll be lost: / know she
VIII! That's what YOU are after. You
see the poor dumb creature is attached
TO me. and, of course, you turn 1t out
to die in the storm! Why don't you
close the door. Mr.. Nagg? Because the
cat may come back in. you say?
o course, of course! You hold the
door open for a cnt n leave your wife
to die In an icy ~draught! OF course, you
care more for a NANCY old cat thar you
do for your wife! Oh, 1 might have
Known 1t. MY own mother told me she
saw your cruelty II deceit.
Nov you are swearing. Oh. no, you
are. not swearing at the cat. Mr.. Nagg,
you are swearing at me! But 1 am
used Ito It
Nov you'll tell me why you must
be ut the office early. oh, please don't
tell me. Mr.. Nagg, Keep your conf
dences for others.
That's right, toss around and swear!
You were not going to swear? Well,
I'd sooner have you swear than to
groan and toss that way!
"Oh, I'll not get to sleep now, your
cruelty to that poor cat and your cru
city to mo have me all upset.
You can't get to sleep either, YOU
say? What difference does that make
you can take a nap tomorrow. but I
cant, because it's the hired girls dav
out, and I'll be all alone In the house
and when l am all alone 1 am SO afraid
Of burglars.
THAT'S right; don't answer a word
when l am talking. Treat me with CON
tempt. Mr.. Nagg. just because | am
cheerful and want to chat with Won
over. the events of the day.
There he's snoring! That's how
much he cares for me! Oh, how Ions
will i be able to bear with such an uns
feeling man! And to think how no
swore at the poor cat, just because he
bumped his shins against the rocking
chnirt
iii get UP early, too, for they give
double the number of trading stanps In
the morning. Ali well. I will try 10
be happy despite his treatment OF metz
The evening world., 1904-02-25

tNTOU nave to be at tho ONCE early
Tomorrow and you want a good
nights sleep? All! Mr.. Nngg,
how many nights sleep IA I lost on
your account! How many nights have
] lain awake tossing on my pillow and
waiting for you!
AS a result l nm a nervous wreck.
suffering from insomnia. But YOU have
nothing to worry you: you can go to
sleep.
Il wonder. though. your conscience
doesn't trouble you, But, then. You
have no conscience. Mr., Nagg.
Me be quiet? Yes. that's right
whenever I, forgivinE and forgetting,
want to have a talk with you, YOU cut
me of short with "a harsh reminder
that when l married you l surrendered
all self-respect n became your slave.
Why do you want to go to the office
early? You never tell me anything
about your business; you never confde
In me and ask my advice.
Look at Mr.. Terwiliger-all his BUSH
ness is in his wite's name. She signs
all the checks.
THE sheriff would come in on him
Tor ms debts II he didn't? oh, that's
right-villify my friends! Say he is dis
honest and be don with it. He has
that reputation? | knew 1t, I knew it.
Now, why don't you say he Is a muir
derer and be done with it7 Why don't
you say he ill-trates his wife? You cant
do that, Mr.. Nagg, The only man hat
l know who ill-treats his wife Is Won
II do everything for your comfort. =,
try to be contented and happy when 7
am ignored by you in everything. tr,,
to be patient and silent under treatmen,
that a saint would not stand, and yo,,
know II!
Did you put out the cat? No, OF
course you didn't. I suppose you ex-
pect mo to get up and catch a fresh
| cold and put her out.
That's right. Commence to growl,
simply because l asked you to put the
The evening world., 1904-02-25
CHILDREN OUT OF PLACE..

The other day a couple Of New Jersey children
tramped through the bitter cold ten miles. Their pur-
pose was to find a minister who would unite them in
marriage. The boy had reached the age of sixteen and
the girl owned to fourteen. All the available ministers
were sane, and the infants were disappointed to the
verge OF tears. They were not in quest of fatherly coun-
sci. They were filled with the emotion OF love. and knew
what was the matter with them. Nothing but matri-
tuony would do.
Upon the scene appeared the mother OF the female
Foungster, and the latest minister tackled felt a burden
of responsibility roll away. He supposed she would
bang the heads of the silly children together. and possibly
Jar thei brains into activity. But no! She gave her
consent, and the babes went forth under the impression
that they were man and woman, duly Joined In wedlock.
instead of a pair OF obstreperous brats in need of z wal
Looping.
OF course, the mother had d legal right to give con-
sent; but It Is possible that a mother may herself be in
need of a guardian.
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There. You've Opened the Front Door aad Let Her in!'

cat out. You aid put her outc I say
you didn't. l hear her purring In the
room.
There, You've opened the front door
and let her In! Why didn't YOU look
and see II she was out? ] did not say
l heard her In tho front room. l said ]
thought ] heard her.
That's right Be brutal TO the poor
The evening world., 1904-02-25

out? Then. why do you wake me up
just when I'm getting to sleep the first
time In many nights to upset the furni-
ture n swear?
o course, YOU won't put the cat out
just because ! asked you to. Do I or
don't want to have the cat put Quit
oh, pray, don't ask me, Mr.. Nagg. II
u your house. ! have no authority.
The evening world., 1904-02-25

dumb animal! Kick her. Mr.. NaEg.
Only remember there is a Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
even IL there Is none for wives.
only a man with a cruel heart would
put a poor creature out into the cold a
night like this. Perhaps you think It's.
your wife you are turning out!
"oh. you're not going to put the cat
The evening world., 1904-02-25
"UP TO" THE MAYOR.

Mayor Mcclellan has asked the Corporation Counsel
70 look up the question Of the legal right OF himself or
The Municipal Art Commission to interfere with the
license granted by Park Commissioner Pallas for the
Use Of the Public Library as a background for whiskey
rnd medicinal advertisements.
That Is an unnecessarily circuitous way of reaching
IN end that is easily attainable by direct methods. The
Hayor Is not Obliged to treat his ridiculous Park Com
missioner MS a coordinate branch OF the government.
All he has 10 do is to invite Mr.. Pallas to a private in
terview and address him kindly but firmly in words
%omething like these:
My dear Pallas, when I gave you a job for which
you admitted your total lack OF qualifications your
proper cue was a modest willingness to learn. I knew
You were incompetent, hut | thought that for that very
season you would not make yourself obtrtlsively Often
Five. This administration can stand for ineficiency,
but not for aggressive indecency. II you cant run the
parks with some regard for the feelings of the people
that own them | shall have to find a man who can"
II the Mayor will give Mr.. Pallas a friendly tip Of
This kind the mural decorations on the Bryant Park fence
wf1l disappear within twenty-four hours.
The evening world., 1904-02-25

TN Z HUtTCtu III your pape recently
a series of articles relating to n
friend and neighbor OF mine, a
o unfortunate n much-abused
woman. I refer to Mrs. Nagg.
My husband tells me that these arti-
cles are intended to be funny, and that
you lend your columns to Mrs. Nagg's
alleged humorous efforts to make light
of his domestic unhappiness for the
amusement of your readers.
When you know the true facts in the
case I am sure you will not allow your
columns to be used for Mrs. Nagg's
torment and humiliation.
The evening world., 1904-02-25

' FlulSe, Not n Disnstcc.-It turns out that the Japanese
ships sunk at Port Arthur were not battle ships. but Mer-
rimacs. The extent of the Russian victory" was the
failure of n Japanese attempt to Hobsonize the harbor.
1t may be remembered that the first dispatches from
j Santiago announced a similar victory for Spain.
The evening world., 1904-02-25
Dorothy Dix,
The Most Famous Woman
Humorist in America.
MARRYING A THING.
NNE of the great

ONE of the great
est drawbacks
~ to W o m n
real advancement Is
the senseless horror
she has OF being all
old maid. Disguise
this as she will,
blur about being a
girl bachelor and
the joys OF a latch
key as she n the
feeling is still there
that 1t Is a refec-
ton upon her at
t~ractiveness not to
h a e "a husband,
and thousands OF
women Of
The evening world., 1904-02-25

From Subway to Canal--The selection OF William Bar
clay Parsons Us a member Of the Panama Canal Com
mission is doubtless a sood thing for the canal but il
may make trouble for New York. Do the Rapid Transit
Commissioners happen to know where to lay their
hands on the right man to take his place?
The evening world., 1904-02-25

The Raid on the Parks.-With only four negative votes
the State Senate has passed the Bowling bill authorizing
the sacrifice of the parks to temporary school-houses.
In an astonishing burst OF generosity the Senate allows
us. TO keep Central Park for Its original purposes. but
Morningside, Riverside, Madison Square. and all the
breathing places of the east side may be plastered over
with educational shacks, whose walls the aesthetic Pallas
will doubtless take pleasure in adjoining with the choicest
specimens of the sign-painter's art.
The evening world., 1904-02-25

GalIantry of the courts.-Perhaps the case of Cordelia
Botkin, OF Gam Francisco, will be remembered. This
ardent person is supposed to have sent to Delaware a
box of poisoned candy, with which to kill one woman.
hut really killing two. She was found guilty years ago
and sentenced to life Imprisonment. Now she is to have
another trial. apparently on the ground that the verdict
does not please her. As an extra concession, she has
been allowed a postponement, the fact appearing that
some of the people who might give damaging testi-
gallant.
The evening world., 1904-02-25

pnlkcys Not Good RiskH.-A monkey, recently de-
ceased. carried a polcy of 100000. An insurance COM
pany that would take SUCH a bet surely had never
ktldiec tho mortality tables OF captive simians Tho
only thing q monkey can be depended upon to do surely
M - "a early Gate Y 20 ole. ----
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which beginneth: at home and which
helps an unfortunate brother without
making him suffer the humiliation
of publicity that distinguishes the
modern fraternal organization. And
| that is one reason why it means some
thing when you meet man who has
given you the grip.
Yes Masonry is almost world wide
at least the principles of Masonry
are. They are the principles taught
by the Buddhists, by Confucius and
even by Mohammed, and there is no
| good reason why the follower Of any
| of these faiths should not be a good
| Mason. In fact one Of the best Ma
sons ever met was a Mohammedan
| dervish. And 7 do not mean a howl
| ing dervish, either. He was teacher
and a most charming and cultivated
man. IA. -
"And then, you know, in our own
times and places-in England and
America many of our greatest men are
Masons. King Edward is a Mason
And so is pr. Marion D. Shutter.
Gas for the Elks, it is forbidden any
member to tell where and for whom
good is being done. If he disobeys
these regulations he is liable to have
charges preferred against him on the
floor of the lodge room. And yet in
this great Minneapolis lodge, No a.
| with it's 500 members paying In $40 g
1 year, the lodge is. in debt, not because
! its money has been spent foolishly, but
because without ostentation and, ir
fact, in secret, It's members or their
! families have been aided when mate.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-19
Judge L. Dobbin Explains Why He Rejoc Belong Several
Fraerna ordersHe Says That Secret Society Decided
Mnomer That the Is the
of Fraternal Organization.

What have you to say in defense
of the Joiner ?" was the question to
which Judge Joseph L. Dobbin was re-
quested to give instant reply as he sat
in his Temple Court office.
The judge, moving slowly as all
chair, gazed sadly thru his spectacles
at The urnal twain, removed
the spectacles in favor of his glasses
and thus armed reached for a formid-
able looking document and said in
measured tones:
Il was just preparing little article
on that subject He then removed
his glasses in favor of his spectacles
and delivered the following homily on
the knights of the secret grip:
Il am not so much Of joiner my
self. I belong to the Masons, the Elks
and the G. A. r. and used to be an
Odd Fellow, but 7 am an active advo-
cate of the principles of fraternal or
ganization. It is not good form to call
them secret societies.
Some persons still entertain that
| hoary idea that the greatest part of a
fraternal organization is large, rank
| goat with remarkable butting proclivi-
ties. I can honestly say that the time
| is gone by when it is considered neces-
| sary to lam the life out of a candidate
! In order to convince him of the beau
ties of the order.
| Fraternal organizations are doing
much more for the real Christianizing
| of the world than they are often given
credit for. It is the practical charity
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rial aid went much farther than spir-
itual help.
''The same methods are followed by
the Odd Fellows and many other fra
ternal organizations and the world is
unquestionably much better for their
existence. I tremble to think Of the
horrible suffering among the poor
and unfortunate Of all races before
the advent Of the fraternal organiza-
ton and it's creation of immense fami-
lies whose members live to help each
other.
"As for the charges that the exist
ence of fraternal organizations is
apt to test the loyalty of it's members
to their country I can only say that
| patriotism is one Of the things most
taught and cultivated in fraternal cir
cles. Only members of these or
ganizations know how many lives have
been given up on the altar of patriot
ism by the volunteers from the ranks
of the so-called secret societies.
| "This name of secret society
which is now in such common use,
constitutes a libel on the whole sys-
tenn of fraternal organization. The
organizations do not have their pass
. words and grips for the mere pleasure
of having something secret but
rather as means Of protection from
imposters and others vulgarly known
as buffers in who would seek their
share of the benefits derived without
making that proportional sacrifice
which is the essence of the great
strength of fraternal organization life
I'm glad I'm a Mason, and I'm GLAD
Tn an Elk and I'm glad I belong tc
the veterans organizations I do, anG
I am only sorry I haven't membership
in few other orders. Bobby Burns
who was a Mason, proved himself g
|prophet when he said:
4. Then let us pray that come what may
! And come it will for a that,
| That man to man the world DER
Shall brothers me for a. that.
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JEALOUSY BETWEEN
GENERALS TO ORIG
CAR TO FAR EAST
Russian Emperor May Take Com
n1dnd to Keep Peace RetWeen EUR
0patkin and AlexieH
Special Cablegram.


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neglect to illuminate in honor of the beginning of the
Siberian Trade Stopped.
end of the war;