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we are ministering unto Him. But the
custom of giving costly gifts to those
who do not need them has grown so
that such things are expected of GER
tain persons and we find persons esti-
mating the money value which others
ought to give them, much as political
assessors gauge the amounts which
office holders are expected to contribute
to a campaign. 1t is also curious to
note the sliding scale by which donors
regulate the prices of their gifts accord
ing to the degrees of relationship or
intimacy between them and the re-
cipients. The aggregate cost of their
Christmas remembrances has grown to
be heavy tax on many persons, and If
they should be so selfish as to balance
| the value of the things received with
those given and find the result in their
favor, they would still have to admit
| that the things received were largely
what they did not want or could do
without, and that both sides would have
been better off had they chosen mex
pensive presents. Automobiles, dia-
monds and such expensive articles are
not properly Christmas gifts, and the
spirit which is behind them savors too
much of the Saturnalia. Food for the
hungry, medicine for the sick, clothing
for the naked, cheerful words for those
in sorrow and distress, inexpensive
keepsakes for our loved ones, with
peace and good will toward all men, are
more in keeping with the birthday and
the spirit of Christ.
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MORE SPIRIT LESS CASH.

Very possibly the custom of giving
presents on Christmas dates back to the
day Of the Nativity, when the Wise
Men sought out the infant Savior and
bestowed on him gifts Of gold, franklin
cense and myrrh. Yet although Shad-
rach. Melchor and Balthasar were
merely paying homage, as they thought,
to an earthly king, there is no reason
to believe that their gifts were of any
great value, for in a short time Joseph
and Mary again took up their journey
to their humble home, no apparent
change having been made in their tenn
poral circumstances, and nothing in the
New Testament leads us to believe that
their lot was ever afterward aught but
one of honest poverty. The presump-
ton is strong, then, that the first
Christmas gifts, though choice in quail
ty, were not of great extent and were
merely tokens of good will. Had the
donors realized the purely spiritual ma
ture of the newborn Rulers kingdom,
it is likely that the gold would have
been omitted and the fragrant incense
alone given.
Historians claim that the general eel
! ebration Of Christmas was made more
easy by the fact that it supplanted a
pagan festival held about this time of
! the year, it being the wise policy of the
Christian Fathers to establish their re-
! ligion with as little shock or change as
possible to the existing order. 1t must
be admitted that there is in modern
Christmas customs something to lend
color to this view, and it seems as il
the present tendency is more toward
the pagan original than to an increase
of spirituality in the observance of the
birthday of the.Redeemer The Christ
mas feast, with its roasts, pastries ant
liquors, doubtless surpasses anything
the ancients ever enjoyed, and the
money spentsin valuable presents in the
United States this year would have
bought the whole city of Rome in thu
days when the Saturnalia hourished.
! We do not mean to denounce the Civ
J ing Of Christmas presents, for it is
, beautiful custom and one which make
many people happy both givers an,
receivers. Children, especially, ar
gratifed by this concrete form of tn
holiday which they can readily gras
and understand, and the suffering an
the needy may well be remembered a
this time with articles which will allie
5 viate their temporal wants. Thes
e classes were the peculiar objects of tn
= Savior's loving care, and we have Hi
e. warrant that in ministering unto Their
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uation could not have been anticipated
and provided against If, as Mr.. J. J.
Hill charges, the retail dealers are
largely to blame because of their fail |
ure to lay in a store of coal during the /
summer, it is strange that the whole |
sale dealers have not so organized the !
trade as to avoid tine present state of
affairs. 1t is also remarkable that the
railroads should have passively permit
ted the situation to develop, of which
they could not have failed to have had
prior cOgnizance, without any effort,
apparently, to get the coal shippers to
appreciate the necessity of beginning
early to distribute the commodity to the
trade.
/ The one whose rights should be rigid
ly safeguarded in all such cases is the
consumer. He has nothing to do with
either the production of the commodity
or its handling by the trade; he stands
ready with the cash to pay for the
! goods, and has a reasonable right to eX-
pect that the ones who make it their
business to supply him shall be as pre-
pared to meet his wants. All the pres
ent talk as to the reasons for the sit
uation, the efforts of the railroads to
shunt their responsibility and of the
wholesalers to lay the blame upon the
retailers, and these in turn to pass back
the responsibility, is but an illustration
Of the adage that "hindsight is not as
good as foresight"
1t is very well for the Interstate
Commerce Commission to be informed
Of the causes for the coal famine and
the grain congestion, but this body is
not disposed to agree with Mr.. Hill
that the blame should be laid upon the
shoulders of that intangible creature,
prosperity" 1t has made certain rec
concentrations, some of which will
doubtless be formulated into laws, that
the railroads shall be compelled to an
ticipate and provide for the needs OF
carriage at their heaviest season; that
the companies shall without fail render
to one another the cars that they may
mutually need, and other provisions by
which the railroads may be stimulated
to measure up to the needs even of {
prosperity era. The evidence brought
; out with regard to the indifference 0.
the homogeneous to the demands O.
shipment, their failure to keep up thei
rolling stock in quality and quantit!
and their efforts to run their roads will
= the maximum haul and the minimum
= sized crews, with reference always t,
! the showing upon the stock market
seems to place the blame for the pres
ent situation upon the railroads them
selves, even though the situation a
e pictured by Mr.. Hill exists.
i 1t is unfortunate that the railroad
should compel the government to eX
, ercise 4 constantly increasing super
u vision over their operations, but tn
7 consuming publicis to be protected, an
S if the roads will not themselves excl
= else an intelligent regard for it's right
I they deserve multiplied federal stat
utes for the regulation of transports
: ton.
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MOST POWERFUL OF BATTLESHlPS
4 Task About to Be Undertaken in
This Country BY Reason Of an
Act of CONGRESS-.

III the session of 1866 Con-
gress authorized the construction
of a battleship Of the greatest of
fensive and defensive power, with
the condition than plans for the
projected monster Should be first
drawn and submitted by the Btu
reau of Naval Construction. The
proposed fighting machine is to
equal in power any battleship now
ahoat or contemplated to be built
by any foreign Power The plans
have not been submitted, and it
is impossible to make comparisons.
The most powerful battleships
now afoat are the British Dread
nought and the Japanese Satsuma.
A battleship which would equal
either of these two in strength
would fulfill the requirements of
the act of Congress. The Satsuma
carries twelve guns in her main
battery, four l2-inch and eight 10
inch. The main battery of the
Dreadnought consists of ten I2-
inch guns. Assuming that the
bigger the gun the better it is, the
British vessel wonld outclass the
Japanese in that it carries six
more pieces Of ordnance of the
largest size and longest range.
In the gun-power Of her main
battery the ship planned by the
Bureau Reconstruction would equal
the Dreadnought. It is proposed
however, to place the five turrets,
each of which would carry a pail
of I2-inch breeCh-loaders, on the
centre line running from bow tc
stern of the ship. The effect O
this arrangement would be thai
the entire battery of ten guns coulc
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Administrators Notice.

THIS is to give notice, that the subscriber
the Orphans Court of Garrett County, in
Maryland, Letters Testamentary on the per-
sOnal estate of
IEPHANIAH DUCKWORTH
late OF Garrett County, deceased. All per
sons having claims against the deceased are
hereby warned to exhibit the same With the
vouchers thereof legally authenticated to
the subscriber, on or before thel 9Th day of
March next; they may otherwise by law be
excluded from all benefit OF said estate. All
persons knowing themselves indebted to
payment.
Given under our hands this 18th day Of
September, 1896.
SARAH DUCKwORTH.
BXecutTiX.
Heyser, Nd.
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ORDER NISI.

Fred \. Thayer. Assignee, ". j pa
Mowery.
No. l42S Equity. In the Circuit Court for
Garrett County, Maryland.
Ordered, this 25rd day of October, in the
year nineteen hundred and six, by the Ut
cult Court for Garrett county, sitting, in
Equity, that the sale made and reported III
the above cause by Fred. A. 1hayer as
signee of mortgage, be ratified and con-
flrmed, unless cause to the contrary thereoI
be shown on or before the 9th day OF Dec
ember 1895; provided a copy of this ordeI
be published in some newspaper published
in Garrett county, once week for three
successive weeks before the 10Th day OF
November, 1906.
The report states the amount of sale to be
Sl02i.
e. Il. TOWER, Clerk.
True Copy-Tcst:
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Notice to Creditors.

This is to give notice, That the subscriber,
of Garrett county, hath obtained from the
Orphans Court of Garrett county, in Mary
land, Letters of Administration on the per
sonal estate of
DELLA +. WILHELM.
late OF Garrett county, deceased. All per
sons having claims against the deceased are
hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the
vouchers thereof legally authenticated to
the subscribers. on or before the 18th day OF
April next; they may otherU Use by law
be excluded from all benefit of Said estate. All
persons knowing themselves indebted TO
said estate are requested to make immediate
payment.
Given under my hand this 2Srd day Of
October, 1866.
FRANK W. WILHELM.
Administrator,
Sand Patch. Pa.
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PhotOsraphS.

Pritchard has moved his gallery to the
Ravenscroft building over the silver
smith shop. Bring your babies and
find gallery as warm as summer time
and photographs as good as the best at
only 81. rs per dozen for cabinet sizes.
This price is good until May LIST. Pict-
ures finished four days after making
the negative; no sunshine required for
the latest process.
G.. II. PRITCHARD.
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BLAMING IT ON PROSPERITY.

1t is not difficult to discover causes
after the fact for the congestion of the
cOal-carrying railroads of the North
west, but it is remarkable that the sit
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Remittances made by money order, bank
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test ourrisk If made otherwise, at the risk
efthesender. Address.
THE REPUBLICAN,
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We experienced farmer
has learned that some
grains require far differ
ent soil than others
some crops need differ
enthandling than others.
He knows that a great
deal depends upon right
planting at the right
time, and that the soil
must be kept enriched.
No use of complaining
in summer about a mis-
take made in the spring.
Decide before the seed
is planted.
De best time to RENE
dy wasting conditions in
the human body is be-
fore the evil is too deep
rooted. At the first evil
dence of loss of flesh
SCOTS Emulsion
should be taken imme-
diately. There is moth
ing that will repair
wasted tbs sue more
quickly or replace lost
flesh more abundantly
than SCOTS Emulsion.
1t nourishes and builds
up the body when ordi-
nary 70 Cd S absolutely
fail.
W. 9,,,U e,,I vOI a Ssrr1clc free,
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1906-05-09

schools in good school buildings,
electric lights and water works,
and other public improvements
of that kind which caused towns
and cities to forge ahead and be
come prosperous and give bust
ness and employment to the
blacksmith. the bricklayer, the
carpenter, the doctor. the lawyer.
the merchant. the baker. the
butcher and everybody else.
My friend acknowledged that
he Lad never before We've; the
question of the proposed bond
issue in such a broad light, and
he readily agreed with me that
it was decidedly to the advant-
age of the poor man and the
man of moderate means for the
special tax to be carried on May
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1906-05-09
The Poor nan'S Chance.
Communicated.

Communicated
To The Advertiser:
AprOpos of the much talked of
bond proposition the following
incident may be of interest to
some of our people:
A friend of mine whose modest
home property is assessed at one
thousand dollars, land who is the
happy father of five chjldren), in
formed me the other day that he
was against the proposed bond
issue. l expressed much sur
prise at the fact and asked him
to tell me on what ground he
based his opposition. "Weu",
said he, Il am a poor man with a
large family, and 1 don't feel
able to pay any more taxes than
what l am already paying"
why, man alive, 1 exclaimed,
because you are a poor man and
have a large family is the best
reason in the world why you
should be in favor of this special
tax, and asked him to let me
show him that he was in the
wrong. "All right" he said.
| began by making him under
stand that he would not be pay
ing any more taxes under the
new bond issue than what he
was now paying, because it is
not an extra or additional tax
that it is proposed to levy. but it
is simply a continuation of the
present special tax of five-mills
which we have been paying for
the past ten years, and the pur-
pose of continuing this tax is to
enable the town to carry out
much needed public i'm
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-. And when. at last. | ex-
planned to him how the railroad
and nOn-reSidents would be pay
ing One-half of this special tax,
according to the assessment
rolls, and how the large resident
property holders would pay the
most of the other half of the tax,
he walked away well pleased
over the great discovery he had
made, and my friend has been
very busy ever since working for
the success of the movement
which he now understands is
calculated to accomplish a great
deal of good not only for himself.
but for others also.
This is a true story, and | be-
lieva that it furnishes good food
for thought.
N. P. Moss.
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provements that will be of great
benefit to the community in
general.
In the next place | showed nv
friend that the amount of this
special tax of tive-millS he would
have to pay each year on an as
Sessment of $1,000 was only five
dollars, which would amount to
a total of one hundred and
twenty five dollars for the entire
twenty-five years. Then [ re-
minded him of the fact that he
had five children who must be
given an education, and he ad-
mitted to me that unless he
could send them to the public
schools it would be impossible
for him to pay for their school
ing. With pencil and paper we
figured it out together that ten
years of schooling for each one
of his children at a private or
pay school, allowing eight months
for each school year at two dol
lars a month, would amount to
S16O for the education of each
child, or $3.50 for all five children.
| subtracted $125, (the entire
amount of his special tax during
% years., from $3.50 and made
him see a clear gain to him of
$755 on his original investment.
l then asked my friend if he
was carrying any fire insurance
on his home. He replied that he
could not afford to pay the in
surance premium. His home is
in one of the new additions to
the town not originally provided
for in the water works system
and for which no allowance could
have been made in the beginning.
So l directed his attention to the
fact that one of the main objects
of the proposed bond issue was
to extend the water and light
system of the town so as to give
him and others in a like position,
the benefit of fire pOtectiOn.
l went on and pointed out that
it was such things as good
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believes tine certain growth of
the town will cause values to go
higher and thus bring him a
profit. For the same reason
owners hold at those figures, so
that the few people who need a
home are forced to pay the
speculative pricesnOw demanded.
Consideration of the foregoing
facts brings US to the inevitable
conclusion that the largest ele-
ment in property values is the
speculative which practically
determines the commercial
value-and this is particularly
and especially applicable to
towns.
Now, because confidence is the
basis of all speculative values,
because growth is essential to
confidence, in order to maintain
values it is absolutely necessary
that a town shall grow. This
requires energy on the part of
its citizens, liberality and a
readiness to put their hands in
their pockets to add public i'm
prOvements which will attract
people and capital.
This is dictated by plain,
ordinary business sense. Be-
cause speculative values do pre-
vail "a lot may be worth $1,000
to-day and tomorrow it may not
sell for 500. 1t all depends on
confidence, and the plain thing
to do is to maintain and
strengthen confidence. under
standing that every dollar spent
for public improvements and for
acquiring railroads and indus
tries is both an insurance fund
guaranteeing against loss of
value and an investment for the
purpose of increasing values.
In the proposed bond issue
this element of making improve
ments to sustain values and also
invest for growth is largely
present and as a business prOpO-
sitiOn, should receive the sup
port OF every property owner.
And he should support it also,
because aside from the money
consideration it deserves his
support because the school
buildings mean larger and better
and sufficient school facilities
for the children, because the
water and light extension means
convenience and fire protection
and because a new city hall
means self respect.
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A MATTER OF BUSINESS.

Property mas tnree values, d
real, a possible and a speculative
one. The real value is deter
mined by ascertaining its earn
ing capacity and estimating what
sum will yield that amount at
current interest rates. AS for
example, a certain piece of
property rents for $3.50 a year.
Money easily commands eight
per cent, adding four per cent to
cover taxes, insurance and re-
pairs, gives a total of twelve per
cent. $500 is twelve per cent of
$4,000, and therefore the real
value of the property is $4,000.
The possible value of the same
property may be considerably
more, as it may not be yielding
as large a return as it could be
made to yield. A plain illustra-
ton of possible value is the
vacant lot. This has no real
value, as it yields nothing to the
owner; but it has a possible
value in that it can be improved
and made to do so, the possible
value depending entirely on the
amount that it can reasonably
be estimated to be made to yield.
Aside from and differing from
both the real and possible values
of property is the speculative
value. This value is directly
proportionate to the activity of
a town, and has no relation to
the actual or possible values. 1t
depends principally upon con-
fdence in the future growth of
the town. which gives a CORES
ponding trust that the specula-
tive value now will afford a profit
later.
To illustrate and at the same
time, contrast the three kinds of
values in Lafayette: Take the
business section on Jefferson
street and Lincoln avenue from
Vermilion street to the railroad.
Lots Ire held at from $50 to
500 a front foot, and some have
sold at that price. Is this either
the real or possible value? or is
it speculative? It is a fact that
at present Lafayette has prac-
tically all the business houses it
will support. 1t is also a fact
that were only the north side of
the block from Vermilion to
Congress street built up with
brick stores, it is seriously to be
doubted if even two could be
rented without vacating other
stores. There are enough lots
in the business section to pro-
vide business houses for a city
OF fifteen, possibly twenty thou
sand people. and consequently
the vacant lots at present have
no real value, only a possible
value, they might be improved
and used for residences.
But let us take notice at the
same time that there are enough
vacant residence lots in Lafa-
yette inside the corporation
limits, to comfortably provide
homes for an additional ten
thousand people, and the cor
responding fact that the five
thousand people already here
are housed. The deduction is
simple-the vacant lots have no
real value and only a small pos.
sib'e value foR gardens. pastures,
etc. It is true Notwithstanding.
that desirable residence lots
command prices ranging from
$500 to 81 900, and it is evident
that such is the case strictly
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-02-15
RESOLUTION ADOPTED
SENATE AUTHORIZES AN iNVES,
TIGATlON OF AN ALLEGED
RAILROAD COMBINE.

Washington, Feb. 13.-The senate
during the day adopted a joint resolu-
ton reported by Mr.. Tillman from the
senate committee on interstate COM
nerce, which directs the interstate
commerce commission to investigate
the charge Of discrimination and COM
bination in restraint of trade made
against the railroads.
The adoption of the resolution was
preceded by a speech by Mr.. Tillman
in which he practically charged that
the administration was not proceeding
in good faith to secure railway legisla-
ton because he was not satisfied with
the presidents advisers. Among these
he mentioned Secretary Root and Sen
ator Knox. the former of whom he
said was an adviser of the "magnates
responsible for the deyilment." and
the latter of whom had been attorney
for the Pennsylvania Railroad com
pany.
MI. Knox contradicted the charge
relative to himself, saying he had
never been attorney for the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad company.