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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-06-21

A famous sOothsaYer expounded this
dream to mean that the land had en-
Joyed seven years of plenty and would
in turn suffer ike period of adversely
because Of poor crops. To those who
believe in dreams and to others who
sometimes seek to peer into the future,
the thought may come that we have now
IN this country had just seven
years Of unexampled prosperity, due
also mainly to good crops, and there
may be just suspicion that on the
verge of the coming harvest the cycle
of fairness is about to complete one full
revolution. While it is greatly to be
hoped that this suspicion will prove i'll
founded, it must be confessed that there
are at present sufficient elements of I'M
certainty about the future to warrant
prudent men in being little conserva-
tive in their plans. The very prosperity
itself which has prevailed has brought
about a condition of imitation which will
be its own check, and following the law
of reaction, a period of comparative
stagnation is due to succeed period of
activity.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-06-21
Horse Killed on the Railroad.

Two very handsome and valuable car
riage horses belonging to Mr.. Thomas
Deveney, of Fairmont, who resides at
the Park during the summer, got out
of the owners stable at the latter place
last Wednesday night and came to Oak
land. One Of the animals stopped at
the Martin livery stable here and the
other wandered down onto the railroad
track. At Weber's station it was
caught by train and instantly killed,
entailing loss to the owner of $500
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-06-21
BITTINGER.
90 sss@eaeasssssasaasae

On last Sunday afternoon Mr.. and
Mrs. C. E. EIithorp of this place, in
company with Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel
Broadwater and Mrs. Gregg, of New
Germany, started from here to drive to
Oakland. The party was accompanied
by Sport, " valuable bird dog owned
by Mr.. Ellithorp, and when the party
had reached point near Thayerville
the dog was taken violently i'll and died
by the roadside An examination gave
evidence that the animal had picked up
poison somewhere along the road.
Edward S. Brenneman was sporting
a new driving horse last week, and on
Saturday drove over to Hoyes to show
the animal to his friends.
Mrs. Elias Orendorf, one of the good
old ladies of this village, has been con-
fined to her home for a few days with
a serious illness.
Mrs. Katie Ann Bittinger of this
place is arranging to hold festival in
her grove on Saturday evening, June
23rd.
Messrs. J. P. Shirk and A. C. Ober,
of the Garrett Lumber Company,
passed through here last Friday even
ing on their return from Oakland where
they had been attending court.
Mrs. Turner j. Lohr and little daugk-
tor, Alma, have been visiting relatives
at Oakland and Sunnyside for the past
week.
Miss Cora burst, of New Germany,
was visiting about this village last Sun
day.
Mrs. Sallie Ralston went to Cumber-
land last Sunday afternoon, to visit her
daughter, Mrs. Thomas Henderson,,
for few days.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-06-21
TIE GARRETT COUNTY SUNDAY
SCHOOL CONVENTION.
To be Held at Bittinger Saturday and
Sunday, July 3Oth and 3Ist.

The program for the Garrett county
Sunday School Convention has been
prepared and will be mailed throughout
the county this week.
Amongst those who are expected to
take part are Rev. w. H. Faust, Rev.
VIM. H. Clary, Mr.. Charles NJ. Miller,
Rev. j. B. Shoup, Rev. Albert Engle,
Mr.. Geo. E. Bishoff, General Secretary
Geo. H. Mock, Rev. Mr.. Hudson, Rev.
j. B. Metheney, Mr.. W. W. Sweet and
others.
The convention will be held in the
Lutheran church at Bittinger and will
begin at 10 O'Clock Saturday morning,
June Both, and continue until Sunday
night, July LIST.
morning the subjects to be discussed
are, County Needs" "The Field"
''The Seed, " The Sower," "The Har-
vest" There will be a symposium on
The Teacher; (a) "On his Knees;
(b) "In his Study; (c) Before his
Glass;; (0 Between Sundays"
There will be round table on Sunday
school problems.
On Sunday morning at $50 there will
be an hour for retrospection. At 1890
the convention sermon will be delivered
by General Secretary Geo. H. Mock.
At 2o'clock a children's rally will be
held. At night after a song service
THE Sunday School, an Evangelizing
Agency, " will be discussed.
tits desired to make this the greatest
convention in the history of the county.
Let there be general rally of workers.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-06-21

put by this inspector-in an unnamed
newspaper, however, which is a pecul-
lar circumstance-the amount of NAL
practice in the preparation of food
stuffs for the British market looks very
serious.
After all, from large point of view,
the chief interest of the question turns
on the kind of persons and establish
ments that are guilty of bad practices,
and on the degree in which they pre-
vail in places where the public had a
right to expect voluntary adherence to
right standards. What was so shocking
in the disclosurs of conditions in the
great Chicago packing-houses was the
fact that concerns which were owned
by men of enormous wealth, which had
been the source of fortunes notable
even in these days of vast accumulation
should have been carried on with dis
regard of the requirements of decency
and cleanliness for which no excuse
could be offered. Whether the condi-
lions mentioned by the Camberwell in
spector prevail in any such degree as to
constitute similar arraignment of
prominent British producers is a ques-
ton that is not answered by such in
definite assertions as those in the cable
dispatch we have quoted. But that the
people who are willing to add to their
profits by vile adulteration of food are
not an invention either of this country
or of this time needs no proof; it is an
old story. Many person, wherever
the English language is spoken, must
have recalled in these latter days the
bitter words in Tennyson's Maud"
beginning:
But these are the days Of advance, the
works of the men of mind,
When who but a fool would have faith
in bridesmaids ware or his word?
1t is just half a century since MAUD
was written, with its bitter arrangement
OF commercialist England, in such lines
as these: - 49, -.
When only the ledger lives, and when
only not all men lie;
Peace in her vineyard-yes-but a COM
pany FORCES the wine.
Or these, which hit even nearer to
the theme Of the present day:
And chalk and alum and plaster are
sold to the poor for bread,
And the spirit of murder works in the
very means Of life.
If the stirring-up which has started
from this side of the water shall reveal
some ugly things in the Old World, they
will certainly not be in the nature of
new thing under the sun.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-06-21
ENGLAND AND ADULTERATED FOOD

A London special dispatch in the New
York Times Of this morning is designed
to bring comfort to Americans in these
days OF the great meat packing ex-
posture. British editors have been rub
bing it into their American cousins. and
bringing the blush of shame to the
cheeks Of such Of our countrynaen as are
just now mingling in English society.
but some of the Americans in London
says the Times dispatch, have been in
slstlng that every unclean practice al
legged against the Chicagoans is daily
duplicated in England, while the British
ers have listened to this with compla-
cency in the confident belief that all
such statements were unfounded. "Now
comes sanitary inspector in the en-
ploy of the Borough of CamberwelI. )"
the dispatch continues, with reveIa-
lions which, the newspaper PUBLISHING.
them says, show that the Indignation
poured out'on Chicago might as well he
turned to give an impetus to the move
ment for the removal of horrible abuses
at home" 1t is hardly worth while
perhaps, to go into the details at anv
length. They cover such things as the
working over by one firm of great
quantities. of old timed meat into
"delicacies" such as ported chicken.
thousands Of tins of putrefying and
poisonous meat" having been seized
from this firm; the use of rotten fruit
for the making Of jam; the utilization of
scraps and refuse for the manufacture
OF sausage, and the turning of rotten
eggs into confectioners' delicacies. As
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-06-21
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
HUTTON.

The box supper at Mrs. Glover's Sat
urday evening, June 9th, for the bene-
fit Of the Sunday school, melted about
$27.
Miss Marie Grusendorf entertained
the eucher club lastWednesday evening.
E. K. Browning, of Oakland, has
moved to Hutton and is working at the
tannery.
W. r. Pendergast's store was burg
larized last Saturday night of lot of
shoes, shirts, etc, valued at about $50.
The B. & 0. R. r. Co. is working a
large force of men here, putting the
eastbound track in excellent condition
B. c. Scott spent Sunday at Fair
mont with his brother.
Mrs. Margaret Cornell is visiting at
her old home here.
Mrs. NJ. w. Pendergast is spending
several days in Baltimore.
Mr.. Broadwater, of Minnesota, for
merly of Garrett county, was the guest
Of H. M. Miller for couple days.
L. j. Stewart is now firing on the B.
& 0. R. R.
The abandonment of the telegraph
office is great loss to this place. "You
never miss the water until the well runs
dry"
Mr.. U. G. Palmer is arranging to
make 200 sides of Union Sole Leather
at Warrington, w. Va, for Swift and
Company, the Chicago packers.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-06-21
TAINTED PAPER MONEY.

Treasury Treat has submitted to Sec
retarYi Shaw report recommending
provisions. of lawsfor cleansing the coun-
try's paperzcurrency. Mr.. Treat does
not say why such laws are necessary
IN the United States rather than else
where. 1t was not within his province
to Go so, but it is suggestive that other
countries do not have paper. The treas
ury counters are sickened, by its odor,
and there have been cases of blood poi
soning traced to it. Why it is that the
United States has tainted" money in
a sense about which there can be no
dispute?
In other countries currency has life
like that ola plant or animal. When
it has survived its cycle it dies natural
death, and that is birth of another mon
etary unit, in an equally natural man.
ner. In some countries the life of cur
rency is that of a tax period. Currency
is issued to facilitate tax collection, and
when 1T comes into government hands
1t is not reissued. In other countries
currency is issued for planting the
crops, or harvesting them, and when it
has discharged its duty it dies until the
next crop season. Generally the life of
a civilized currency is that of trade
cycle, corresponding roughly to the life
OF an average promissory note, two or
three months, more or less.
None of these considerations affects
the life of our currency. Bank notes
are not issued when and as wanted, but
only when the issuing banks bond ac-
count shows a profit, and redemption.
instead of being assisted, is INSTRUCTED
by law. Legal tenders are taken from
the bank reserves when wanted for use.
and are returned when not wanted. The
consequence is that bank reserves are
almost always deficient or redundant in
the United States, and both conditions
are alike uneconomic. Deficiency of
bank reserves does more than upset the
banking situation-it affects prices
and through them disturbs trade and in
dustry, thus doing harm which NAV be
very serious. And redundancy of bank
reserves has similar i'll effects in fever
ish stimulation Of prices and trade. The
corollary of an elastic currency would
be undlsturbed bank reserves, and each
proportional to the need for it. If we
had a clean currency we also would have
sounder conditions of credit, a ouieter
money market and less nervous TRADING
on all exchanges. 1t is because our Cur
rency has no normal term of life, but is
used until it is rags, that is so dirty and
so unsound. Mr.. Treats report is con-
vincing, but he does not hint at even
stronger considerations than he men
tons. Washington Star.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-06-21
ADVERTISING RATES.
REMITTANCES;
THURSDAY. JUNE q, 1906.
The ISSUE OE 1896.

Mr. Bryan's Commoner is engaged in
a little controversy with the Washing
tod Post as to the nature of the Presi-
Dental campaign of 1896. The Com
moner had said that 1.-The Chicago plat
form still lives"; the Post declares that
free coinage at sixteen to one was the
only vital issue" in the campaign of
1896, and that it would be folly to re-
vive the memory of that at a time when
the Democratic party has a chance of
recovering that strength which it has
so long been without, and which it can
not attain without 1.-The cooperation of
the conservative Democrats" To this
the Commoner replies that "the Post
forgets that the radicalism of 1896 has
become the conservatism of 1906" and
adds: "The Chicago platform did not
deal exclusively with the money ques-
ton. What the Post calls sixteen to
one was not the issue. Indeed, six
teen to one was the bugaboo which Re-
publican leaders held up for the pur-
poss of frightening the people"
If Mr.. Bryan were not just now so
far away from the editorial sanctum of
the Commoner, these remarks would
furnish occasion for some interesting
comments .on the psychology of mem
DRY. Imagine anyone telling Mr.. Bryan,
some time in October, 1896, say, that
he or his paper would be declaring
within tensyears that "sixteen to one"
was not the issue in that campaign!
Thereewere other issues, to be sure, but
that was so far the predominant one as
to make all others 'look like thirty
cents" And it was not the Republi-
can leaders that held it in that position,
but the Bryan Headers and above all
Bryan himself. He devoted his great
Madlson-Square Garden speech prac-
tlcally entirely to that subject; he iden-
titled himself so completely with it that
everything else seemed altogether sec
ondary at the time. In so far as Re-
publican leaders gave fictitious values
to issues in order to brighten the peo-
pie, what they did was precisely the
opposite of what the Commoner now
fancies; they did not magnify the sill
yer nobody could have represent
ed 1t as bigger than Bryan did-but
grossly exaggerated the radicalism of
the other features of the Chicago plat
form. And the Commoner should not
forget that even in 1900, in spite of the
''paramountcy" of the issue of i'm
perialism, the one thing that Bryan in
sisted on as the condition of his accept
ing the nomination was that the silver
plank of the Chicago platform be ex-
pressly reasserted. Doubt thou the
stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth
move, doubt truth to be liar, but new
er doubt that the free coinage of silver
at the ratio of sixteen to one without
waiting for the [aid or consent of anv
other nation was the paramount issue,
the one great overshadowing issue of
the Bryan campaign of 1896.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-06-21
The Blue fountain Magazine.

This paper has received the current
number of the magazine published at
Hagerstown bearing the above title.
The magazine is most pretentious in
size and arrangement and compares
very favorably with publications of the
same class issued from the great liter
airy centres of the country. 1t is re-
plete with excellent articles of historic
interest and is finely Illustrated. Mr..
J. Frank Ridenour is the editor.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-06-21
Sunday School Picnic.

There will be social Sunday school
picnic at Bray's school house, Saturday
June 80. The surrounding community
is invited to come and bring large bas-
kets well filled and take a social dinner
together. Rev, A. Engle, of Cranes
vile, and other speakers from Oakland
will give us talks. Ice cream, lemon
ade, and box supper in the evening
for the benefit of the NJ. E. church.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-06-21
Court Adjourned Yesterday.

The adjourned March term Of the
Circuit Court for this county, which
was in session since Monday of last
week, adjourned yesterday morning
when all the cases on trial were dis
posed of.
Judges Henderson and Boyd were on
the bench during the last days of the
term both of whom returned to Cum
berland yesterday afternoon, the for
mer in company with Mrs. Henderson,
driving through the country via Grants
vile.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-06-21
Fraternity Day at the Park.

One of the speakers to be present at
the Park during the cold Home Week"
exercises to be held the last days of
July and the first day of August, is Mr..
James W. Chapman, 'Jr., Past Grand
Master of Maryland Odd Fellows, who
will be assigned to speak on July 31st,
that being FRATERNITY Day." Other
officers OF the Grand Lodge of Maryland
may also be present.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-06-21
Grange Meeting.

Garrett county Pomona Grange will
meet with Meadow Mountain Grange
on Saturday, June 80, 1906. Glow to
Make First Glass Hay" and other sub
jects will be discussed by the farmers.
Don't fail to come and bring your
family and friends and help US have a
profitable and enjoyable meeting.
J. NJ. CONNEwAY,
Master.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-06-21
Sc. and i0c. Goods.

There are special bargain tables near
the front of the store on which are
placed quantities of SC. and 1Oc.
goods that are sold at ridiculously low
prices. Look for these tables the next
time you come in. One half hour spent
in this way and the purchasing of so
cents or dollars worth of goods cannot
help but please and put many useful
articles in the home.
j. M. DAVIS & Sons.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-06-21
REEF IUST A LILLE

There is in book which no doubt
many persons in this locality have read
an account of a wonderful dream in
which seven lean kline seemed to come
up out of a river and eat up seven fat
and sleek specimens of their own race
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-06-21

WANT E D-Two parties with saw
mills to cut by the thousand. Having
several hundred acres of
timber will give steady employment to
the right party. AsHBY LUMBER Co.
Subscribe for THE REPUBLICAN.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-06-21
A Four Legged Chicken.

A chicken with four we'll formed legs
was Matched by a hen belonging to
Squire Droege at Deer Park one day
last week. The chicken lived few days
and seemed to thrive.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-06-21

w ANTE D Travelling men. Salary
Must furnish references and invest
$1,000 in first class 6 per cent bonds.
Salary and expenses paid. Experience
not requlred-we teach business at our
mills; The Wheeling Roofing & Cor
nice Company, Wheeling, w. Va. SGT
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-06-21
Headquarters for Plants.

Tomato and late cabbage by the ,O0O
now ready.
The H. WEBER & Sons Co.
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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-07-13
Road Builders Needed.

Whether the officer is called highway
commissioner" or by some other desig-
nation, the change proposed by the state
highway commission is one that should
be made, is the opinion of The st. Paul
Daily News.
What is needed is not somebody to
run lines, but an engineer to lay out
and build roads, to choose materials, to
attend to construction, to supervise
grades, to effect economies of time and
space and labor.
In other words a county organization
needs exactly what city needs. For
st. Paul or Minneapolis to leave its pub
lie works to the advice of man quail
flied only as a surveyor would be ride
ulous. Smaller cities are coming to a
like conclusion. Cities of 10000 popula-
ton and less are learning that where
not long ago they could afford to rub
along with surveyor engaged at $50
could spare, they must have now the
entire time of a man skilled in his pro-
fession And it pays them to allow
! him good wages.
Counties have work to do that re-
and experience. To depend on the spare
time of surveyor where all the time
of an engineer is needed is just as
wasteful for the county as for the city
And if a city of 10000 population or less
can afford an engineer, county of
$4,000 to $4,000 can certainly bear the
expense.
Another thing-the commission Justly
proposes that the engineer should be APP
pointed. POular representatives can best
be elected by popular vote. Experts
can better be chosen by the representa-
tives in their smaller body.
A school district elects its trustees
but the trustees pick out the teacher
Stockholders designate directors, but
leave to the directors the choice of man
ayers and cashiers. The analogy holds
in public affairs.
Counties will not get good roads until
they adopt the necessary means and
determine to pay adequate prices for
competent services. And everybody
knows the one thing any county cannot
afford to do is to let its roads 90 to
ruts and dust heaps.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-07-13
A. <. BIXBY A CANDIDATE.
Garden City Man Seeks Commission
ership, Fourth District.

Elsewhere in this issue will be found
the announcement of A. f. Bixby of
Garden City for commissioner in the
fourth district, which comprises Gar
den City, Rapidan, Ceresco, Pleasant
Mound, Shelby, Amboy and Vernon Cen
ter.
Mr. Bixby lives two and nehalf
miles northeast of Garden City, and for
many years has held the position of
chairman of the town board, and for
several years past has been manager OF
the Garden City creamery. He is emf
nently qualified for the position of com
missioner, and if elected would make a
valuable man to conduct the business of
the county.