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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-03-08

Messrs. M. N. Wilson, Of Elkins, and
N. U. Bond, of Bond, vice president
and member of the board of directors,
respectively, of the First National
Bank, spent Saturday in Oakland at
tending a meeting of the directors of
that institution.
Mrs. Lou Thayer Waters has been
very dangerously i'll since Saturday last
with an attack of pneumonia. Her CEN
dition Tuesday and Tuesday night was
extremely grave but at this time she is
somewhat improved, we are glad to an
nounce.
MIR. Ross Compton, Of near Grants
vile, who recently disposed of his prop
erty in that section and moved to
poiRt down in Virginia, was in Oakland
yesterday on business, he and Mrs.
Compton having returned to their ma
tive heath q few days ago. Mr.. Comp
ton is undecided as to the date of his
return to Virginia
County Treasurer-elect and Mrs. Hor-
ace r. Dewitt arrived in Oakland last
Thursday and are now occupying the
residence purchased by Mr. Dewitt en-
Second street The people of Oakland
extend them a hearty welcome. Mr..
Dewitt will not assume the duties of
his office until after the April session of
the County Commissioners when that
body will make the annual levy.
Mr.. Henry Mosser, of near town, was
here yesterday and informed this paper
that he has purchased the Ami Fore
man lime quarry and will at once begin
the installation of machinery for the
manufacture of graduated lime. The
quarry is located along the Yough river
about five miles south of Oakland and
in an accessible place for those desiring
to purchase his output.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles A. Tower, who
reside on Alder street, have rented their
house and will remove from Oakland to
Baltimore or a suburb of that city
sometime this month. Mr.. Tower S du-
ties as travelling representative of a
western insurance company requires
him to be in Baltimore and the cities
lying nearby nearly his entire time,
hence his removal.
Mr.. Harry Loar, Of Oakland, and his
brother, Mr.. George Loar, of Grafton,
have adopted plans for very beauti-
full residence Of brick and stone to be
erected this spring on the site now &C.
cupied by the Loar residence on Second
street The present house will be
moved across lots to Third street and
there placed on foundations and be
rented. The proposed new house will
be an ornament to Second street and a
monument to the progressiveness of the
owners.
Mr.. Arthur White, who recently re-
signed as salesman at Beckman's store
and went to Pittsburg on trip, writes
to friends here that ne has taken a DO
sition in the silk department of Boggs
& Bulbs store at Allegheny, Pa. He
entered upon his new duties Tuesday
morning. Mr.. White is splendid sales
man and a most worthy young man, and
while his friends very much regret his
departure from this city, they will be
pleased to learn that he has been as
signed to such lucrative position. -
Fairmont Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-03-08
Notice.

To the stockholders Of the Belgian
Draft Horse Stock Co: According to
Sec. 10 of the bylaws all persons who
have not paid their portion of expenses
on or before the 10th day Of April, 1905,
forfeit all interest in said company.
j. w. WHORTON,
Sec'y-Treas.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-03-08
Fer Sale.

The farm of Go acres adjoining the
property of Leonard Schell about II
miles south Of Mountain Lake Park.
This property will be sold to any re-
sponsible party on easy payments; also
10 tons of hay.
D. e. OFFUTT,
Oakland, Hid.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-05-28
conversation

1.-THE power to onverse well is a
very great charm" says Ruskin.
You think everybody can talk! How
mistaken you are. Anybody can ex-
change idle gossip. Anybody car re-
capitulate the troubles of the kitchen,
the cost of the last new dress, and
the probable doings of the neighbors.
But to talk wisely, instructively, fresh
ly and delightfully."- is an immense ac-
complishment. 1t implies exertion,
observation, study of books and peo-
pie, the receptivity of impression"
Plato banished the musicians from
his feasts that the charms of CONVEX
sation might have no interference, but
in our later fashions many prefer
music rather than the gossip of the
hour which often d~egenerates into
trivialities, wearisome and common.
place. AS a mirror reflects the face.
so the conversation reveals the mind
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-05-28
Waste Paper Profits.

The Salvation Army industry in
waste paper provides some astonish.
ing figures. Every morning horse
vans, men with hand trucks and men
with bags go the round of the London
business premises and collect the &C
emulation Of paper and rubbish of all
sorts. 1t is taken to the army's set
Element, where the unskilled workers
are set to sorting it. The waste paper
SO collected is sorted into no fewer
than ffty-two different classes. Last
year the army collected 7,O35 tons OF
waste paper, obtaining for it a sum
well over $4,000.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-05-28

ernity out of Lethean slumber; that
mighty Samson who pulled down
"The Pillars of Society" yet stood
firm as the r%oek-based mountains
amid the social devastation. While
accepted theories swung back and
forth like cobwebs caught in those
~tottering pillars, he stood like a bat
tering ram, lunging again and again
his hard-headed front into the face
of mock modesty, of cowardly sham,
of gilt-edged hypocrisy. He was fear
less and terrible, he was scathing
and shocking, but he was honest, and
we loved him for his loyalty, his
courage before conviction. his right
about face to duty, as he saw it.
Many a craven who had long bent the
neck to the yoke of society-as-it-is
knew that the mighty Ibsen had ut
tered truths long ringing in his own
heart. The head had reasoned them.
but the cowardly self had not dared
speak them.
1t was Ibsen's wont, at midday, to
read the papers and sip his coffee at
the Grand, unless curious eyes be-
came too many. In which case he
SHE'D away for intermittent spells. He
does not like publicity or scrutiny.
and the trio was warned that he had
the manners of a grizzly bear. He
would not speak nor be spoken to by
the hoi polloi. But the general had an
irresistible way of her own, and fear
lessly would she walk up to the can
mons mouth. or beard the lion in his
den. In very pretty words she aired
her summers study of the Morse, and
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-05-28
"siIver erays.n

"Silver grays' in politics was a
term applied to the wings of New
York who supported the administra-
ton of President Fillmore, and re-
garded the slavery question settled by
the compromise of 1850. A conven-
ton of the administration was held at
Syracuse Sept. 81, 1850, to secure a
vindication of the Presidents policy,
etc. The convention resulted in an
emphatic majority against the admin
istration; %whereupon the chairman,
Mr.. Granger, and several other ad.
ministration men, left the convention;
as they were elderly men, they, with
their following, were Immediately
dubbed silver grays."
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-05-28
Ienorson,a cheerfuI PhlIosophy.

We spoke of happiness, writes
Francis Wilson, in Scribner. Joy"
| said. "was the God of our house.
hold. No one was permitted to hang
crepe on the door of our feelings"
That's the proper way" he made
answer. Happiness is the religion
of our family. To begin with, we
take all the comic papers. No one
is permitted to read aloud, and he is
begged not to read, even to himself,
about the mangled corpse of the
father and the roasted bodies of the
babies-subjects with which the
daily papers disgustingly teem."
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-05-28
Sea Water tor Street sprInk!lna.

Many European cities on the sea-
coast use salt water for watering the
public thoroughfares, calling it a
waste to make use of fresh water for
this purpose. They are the more sat
isfed because certain properties of sea
water eliminate the necessity of fire.
quent applications. On the other hand,
salt water exerts a very destructive
influence on the paint and varnish OF
vehicles and merchants affirm that
the salt is found everywhere and that
its deliquescence is attended with
harmful results. And again. salt
water is destructive to the pipes and
metallic fittings, and the leakage OF
the pipes kills vegetation in streets,
parks and gardens.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-05-28

and says 1T can't quit" you will have
discovered one of the slaves of the cot
fee importer. Treat ouch kindly, for
they seem absolutely powerless to stop
the gradual but SUR destruction of
body and health.
Nature has a way of destroying a
part of the people to make room for
the stronger. 1t is the old law of 'the
survival of the fttest" at work, and
the victims are many.
We repeat the assertion that coffee
does harm many people, not all, but
an army large enough to appal the in
v~estigator and searcher for facts.
The next prevarication of the coGee
importers and roasters is their state
ment that Postum Food Coffee is made
of roasted peas, beans or corn, and
mixed with a low grade of coffee and
that it contains no nourishment.
We have previously offered to wager
500, 100000 with them that their state
ments are absolutely false.
They have not accepted u wager
and they will not.
we will gladly make a present of
SIS, 100000 to any roaster or importer of
old-fashioned coffee who will accept
that wager.
Free inspection Of our factories and
methods is made by thousands of peo-
pie each month and the coffee import
ers themselves are cordially invited.
Both Postum and Grape-Nuts are abso-
lutely pure and made exactly as stated.
The formula of Postum and the an
alysis made by n Of the foremost
chemists of Boston has been printed
on every package for many years and
is absolutely accurate.
Now as to the food value of Postum
It contains the parts of the wheat Der.
ry which carry the elemental salts
such as lime, iron, potash, silica, etc.
etc, used by the life forces to rebuild
the cellular tissue, and this is particu
larly true of the phosphate of potash
also found in Graps-Nuts, which com
bines in the human body with albu
men and this combination, together
with water, rebuilds the WORKOUT gra!
matter in the delicate nerve centers al
over the body and throughout tn,
brain and solar plexus.
Ordinary coffee stimulates in an VI
natural way, but with many people |
slowly and surely destroys and doe
not rebuild this gray substance S
vitality important to the well being O
every human being.
These are etersal facts, proven, WEI
authenticated and known to ever
properly educated physician, chemis
and food expert.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-05-28
GIVE SCHOOL CHILDREN MEALS
French Authorities Allow None Of
Them to Go Hungry.

In Paris the city government gives
every school child one full meal a
day. This does not tend to pauperize
the children or to lessen the respon1
sibility of the parents; for all those
who can afford to pay for the meal
are expected to do so. On the other
hand. no jealousy or contempt can be
felt by the richer children for their
starved comrades; for all are sup
piled with the same metal token,
which has to be given up in exchange
for the meal. The "cantine s%colaire,"
as this municipal soup kitchen is
called, is not confined to Paris. In
the provinces, the "soupe s~colaire,"
it's equivalent, has sent up the school
attendance by leaps and bounds.
Here, however, instead of paying for
their midday meal, all those who can
possibly do so are encouraged to
bring to school their handful Of
vegetables and the like and the con.
tributions are all put into the com
mon soup.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-05-28

old bersekers dashed through the wa
terry main, with their foaming dragons
headed for foreign shores. They
whipped up the sea with fury, and
they pillaged all in their path. Far
back in 500. the great Charles wept
for the havoc which these northern
sea kings would bring to Southern
Europe. His prophecy was fulfilled.
They were grim and hardy pirates.
these foam-lecked adventures, and
when the wild life of sea robbing was
over, the sturdy viking chief was laid
to rest in the brave craft which had
borne him on wild waters. To us
who have watched swift greyhounds
and skipping yachts, how clumsy and
bungling seems this relic of the seas.
But it served the time and need. The
square sail was rugged to the central
mast, the rudder chung to the right,
and sixteen rough rowlocks were
wedged into a side plank. We should
say, God pity the wild man who set
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-05-28
In Norway's Old Capital
Sights of Christiania VIII Repay Traveller for Tinas
Taken in Journey to the North
Especial Correspondence.l

With regret for the loss of pleas
ures proved in lovely Stockholm, with
anticipation for the joys of a town un-
tried, with a solid nights ride across
country, we three emerged from the
sleeper, wide awake to the interest
and novelty of Norway's capital, re-
nowned for it's busy shipping port,
and its fair harbor of long arms and
deep dents, which lend a beauty UNI
rivaled amid the glories of this earth.
The Crown Prince paid us a visit,
and for miles away the country flock
ed to the city. Peasant and farmer
were packed with surging humanity.
Flags fioated from palace and cot
tage; the booming of cannon the rat
tie of hoofs, and the advance of the
royal guard proclaimed the noble en-
try. The ladies held a charity ba-
zaar, in his honor, and radiant signs
flashed out their greeting. The great
structure never had more than push
ing room, for the crowds which
swept on to this interesting center.
Norway's fairest girls, arrayed in ma
tional emblems, allured the buyer to
their dainty booths, which famed in
colors gay. Stalls outside satisfied
the coarser taste for fries, for yards
of sausage and schooners of beer.
Within, the buyer could choose from
a list that included an iced cake or
a cart wheel. Many of the heavier
goods took their chances, being loan
ed as advertisements by the city
merchants. And a mint of money
was made in lotteries. This was the
Norwegian magnet. 1t riveted the
Matron till she was dragged away,
with purse depleted. Kroner after
kroner she passed over to the beguil-
ing maid, who encouraged her weak
ness. as she took just ones more
chance deep down in the well-flled
churn, or in the revolving wash ma
chine, to draw up only a blank,
where n in score might find a
magic number.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-05-28
The Coffee Debate.

Please remember we never say or
binary coffee hurts everyone.
Some people use it regularly and
seem strong enough to withstand its
attacks, but there is misery and dis
ease in store for the man or woman
who persists in its use when nature
protests, by heart weakness, stomach
and bowel troubles, kidney disease,
weak eyes or general nervous prostra-
ton. The remedy is obvious. The
drug caffeine, contained in all ordinary
coffee, must be discontinued absolute
ly or the disease will continue in spite
OF any medicine and will grow worse.
1t Is easy to leave off the old-fash-
Toned coffee by adopting Postum Food
Cofee, for in it one finds a pleasing
not breakfast or dinner beverage that
has the deep seal brown color. chang
ing to a rich golden brown when good
cream is added. When boiled long
enough (l5 minutesl the flavor is not
that OF rank Rio coffee but very like
the milder, smooth and high-grade
Java, but entirely lacking the drug
eHec OF ordinary coffee.
Anyone suffering from disorders SET
Up by coffee drinking (and there is an
extensive Variety can absolutely de
pend upon some measure of relief BY
quitting coffee and using Postum Food
Coffee.
IL the disease has not become too
strongly rooted. one can with good rea.
son expect it to disappear entirely in
a reasonable time after the active
cause or the trouble is removed and
the cellular tissue has time to natural
~ rebuild with the elements furnished
by Postum and good food.
sense.
Now with the exact facts before the
reader, he or she can decide the wise
course, looking to health and the
power to do things.
II you have any doubt as n the
cause OF any ache or all You nav have,
remember the ~far-reaching teleerams
OF a hurt nervous system travel from
neel TO head, and it may be well worth
your while to make the experiment of
leaving Off coffee entirely for fen days
n using Postum in its place.
iou VIII probably gather some good
SOLID Facts, worth more than q gold
mine, for health can make gold and
slckness iose 1t. Besides there's all
tne run Tor it's like a continuous in
termal frolic to be perfectly well.
There's a reason for
j POSTUM
Postum Cereal Co.. Ltd, Battle creak MiOn
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-05-28

With concrete mixed six parts grav-
Ell to one part cement 1t would take,
337M barrels of cement when no
stone filters are used. But If filters
are used 1t would take. cement 270
bbls., gravel 240 yds., stone filters 60
yds, You can estimate the amount
of material required by the follow
ing. A barrel of cement contains four
cubic feet. When mixed six to one
this would build "a cubic feet of wall.
When small stone filters are used,
figure on one-ifth of the whole wall
for stone. Should large filters be used
in size, say, from one cubic yard down
to a cubic foot, figure two-ifths of the
whole. Thus for 800 cubic yards Of
wall built with gravel and cement,
cement S37h bbls, gravel. 800 yards,
with small stone filters, cement 270
bills. stone GO yards. gravel, $40; with
large stone filters, cement 202h bbls.,
stone 120' yards, gravel $50 yards.
Care must be taken to thoroughly bed
all filters and keep the large filters at
least six inches apart.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-05-28
Rubber Cement.

A very good and easily made rub
Der cement is the following: Digest
some nnely-shredded c%aoutchouc Gin
.dia rubber) with about four times its
volume of naphtha or carbon
bisulphide for several days in
a well covered vessel. Another
good cement may be made
by softening and d~issolving shell
lac In ten times its weight of water
ammonia. A transparent mass is thus
obtained, which, after keeping three
or four weeks becomes liquid, and
may be used without requiring heat.
When applied 1t will be found to soft
en- the rubber, but when the ammonia
is eyaporated it forms a kind of hard
coat, and causes it to become imper-
vious both to gases and to liquids.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-05-28

buttonholed the mighty Ibsen quite
as If he were her equal, and
should be honored by the greet
ing. With quaint slips in her
hating speech she told that literary
lion how well he had written, and
how well she liked his stories, his Ian
guage, his country and himself. The
Professor stood aghast before the
brazen e~ffrontery. The Matron was
mute. The victim was brave. and re-
taliated with other kindly speeches,
which assured the general that her
skin in the language did credit to
America. "See Ibsen and die" had
been the slogan of the trio, and RI
valing the memory of Christiania's
glorious harbor, one Of the many
most beautiful" views in the world,
above the memory of the shattered
and dismembered viking ship of cen
turtles past, is the treasured thought
Of that towering Goliath of modern
literature.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-05-28
Look for pleasant Thlnns.

There are women, and men, too, for
that matter, who are constantly on
the lookout for unpleasant things and
who after a while form a habit Of al
ways looking at the wrong side. Such
a trait should be nipped in the bud
as soon as it threatens to gain a head
way, for it not only leads to endless
unhappiness on the part of the perpe-
traitor, but makes life miserable for
those in their immediate vicinity.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-05-28

tor could not help me, and | turned
~ Doan's Kidney Pills, with the re.
sult that the kidney congestion dis.
anneared and, with it, all the other
svmntoms. What is more, the cure
has lasted for eight years"
Sold by all dealers. so cents a box.
roster.Milbrrn 20. Buffalo. N. Y.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-05-28

80 pieces 2 in. K 4 in. K 20 #. studs
body joists.
800 pieces 2 in. x 4 in. x 10 IT.
S.400 feet dressed sheathing.
1000 feet ~clapboards.
1000 feet roof boards.
$500 feet inch flooring.
Is M. shingles.
1880 laths.
10 rolls sheatbing paper.
In addition there would be the in
side fittings and material for 16 win
dows and 90 doors.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-05-28
Pot.Hunters, Work in Australia,

Pot-Hunters WoTk IN AUStTdTIa.
A fearful destruction of animal and
bird life has been going on in Aus
tralia during recent years. From a
number of places come reports of the
ruthless name in which the black
swans are being exterminated. They
are said to be shot down in dozens
by p%ot-hunters, who frequently leave
the birds manned and wounded.
Western Australia was originally
know mas the Swan River Settle
ment." All the early issues of stamps
in that colony had a graceful black
swan floating in their centerpiece.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-05-28

The published statements Of a num-
Der of coffee importers and roasters
indicate a "waspy" feeling towards us
for daring to say that coffee is harm
full to a percentage of the people.
A frank public discussion of the sub
ject is quite agreeable to us and a
certainly do no harm; on the contrary
when all the facts on both sides of any
question are spread before the people
they can thereupon decide and act in
diligently.
Give the people plain facts and they
will take care Of themselves.
We demand facts in this coffee dis
cussion and propose to see that the
facts are brought clearly before the
people.
A number of coffee importers and
roasters have Joined a movement to
boom coffee and stop the use of Pos
tum Food Coffee and in their newspa-
per statements undertake to deceive
by false assertions.
Their first is that coffee is not harm
full.
We assert that one in every three
coffee users has some form of incipi.
ent or chronic disease; realize for enc
moment what a terrible menace to a
nation of civilized people, when one
kind of beverage c%ripples the energies
and health of one-third the people who
use it.
We make the assertion advisedly
and suggest that the reader secure his
own proof by personal inquiry among
coffee users.
Ask your coffee drinking friends il
they keep free from any sort of aches
and ails. You will be startled at the
percentage and will very naturally
seek to place the cause of disorder OF
something aside from coffee, whethe.
food, inherited tendencies or some
thing else.
Go deeuer in your search for facts
If your friend admits occasional neu
ralgia, rheumatism, heart weakness
stomach or bowel trouble, kidney con
plant, weak eyes or approaching nerN
u prostration induce him or her t
make the experiment Of leaving o.
coffee for 10 days and using PostuI
Food Coffee, and observe the result
1t will startle you and give your frien
something to think of. OF course,
! the person is one Of the weak one
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-05-28

during Ddu weather
brought on a heavy
cold, aching of the
limbs and pain in the
back and kidneys,
Severe congestion Of
the kidneys followed,
Besides the terrific
aching there werd
whirling headaches
and | became exceed.
ingly weak. My doc.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-05-28
Ready wIth HeIplna Hands.

The sun does not always shine in
%stageland, nor does it anywhere; but
the jewellers in that land are always
ready to lend each other their um.
brellas when it rains.-Mr. A. Vane
Tempest.