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The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-08-24

man would map out for himself n his
Maker granted him the privilege. You
would have 60 visit at our home 70 ap.
preciate my fathers character and to
understand how terrible this sorrow is
to him. Every morning OF his life he
spends an hour after breakfast with
my dear mother, who is a cripple from
hip disease. He takes her in his arms
and brings her down from her room to
the library as If she were a child. lie
then reads to her-and he knows good
books as well as he knows his friends.
After he takes mother back TO her
room, he gives an hour to our people.
the blacks of the plantation and his
white tenants throughout the county.
He IS a father TO them all. He settles
all their troubles, big and little. Then
for hours he and go over his business
affairs. Every afternoon from four to
Ave he devotes 10 his estates and the
men and women for whom he acts as
trustees. He has often said to me:
We have a clear million OF money and
property, and that is all any man
bUONlu nave III AlutIltds II 10 All hh
Is entitled to under our form of gov
eminent ANY more than that an,
honest man should in one way or an:
other return to the people from whom
he has taken Il. | never want my
family to have more than a million
dollars When he went into the Sea.
board affair. he explained to me that
It was to assist the Wilsons-they
were old friends, and he acted as their
solicitor for years-in building up the
south He discussed with me the
right and advisabilty Of putting in the
trust funds. He said he considered Il
his duty to employ them as he did his
own in enterprises that would aid tho
whole people of the south, instead OF
sending them to the north to be used
in Wall street as betting for the 'Sys.
tenn grinder. These fortunes were
made in the south by men who loved
their section of the country more than
they did wealth, and why should they
not be employed TO benefit that part
of the country which their makers and
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-08-24
ohservant Man.

1t is popular belief that no men
understand dress" still, 1t should be
known that they have sort of rough
appreciation of general effects. They
can distinguish between the woman
who dresses well by instinct and one
who does so with an effort. They are
able to recognize at glance the girls
and women who go through life in the
wrong kind Of garments and wearing
hats which infatuation has impelled
them to buy against their better judg-
ment.-Lady's Pictorial.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-08-24

not settled what II is best to do abou,
fathers affairs"
After a little we did begin to tall,
business, and finally agreed that
Beulah should write her father, word
ing her letter as carefully as possible
to avoid all direct statements, but
showing him that she had made but
little headway on tho work she had
come north TO accomplish. Bob was a
changed being now; so, too, was Beu
lah Sands. Both discussed their hopes
and fears with a frankness in strange
contrast to their former manner. But
there was one point on which Bob
showed he was holding back. / finally
put It to him bluntly: Bob, are you
working out anything that looks like
real relief for Miss Sands and her
father?"
Il don't know how TO answer you
Jim. | can only say have somo ideas
radical ones perhaps, but-well, am
thinking along certain lines"
saw he was not yet willing TO take
us into his confidence. We parted
Bob going along in the cab with Miss
Sands
Two days afterward she sent for us
both as soon as we got TO the Office.
u have this telegram from father
It makes me uneasy: Mailed to-day
important letter. Answer as soon as
you receive"
The following afternoon the letter
came. IL showed Judge Sands in a
very nervous, uneasy state. He said
he had been living a life Of daily ter.
ror, as some of his friends, for whose
estates he was trustee. had been re
ceiving anonymous letters. advising
them to look into the judges trust af-
fairs: that the Relnhart crowd had
been using renewed pressure to make
him let go all his Seaboard stock
which they wanted TO secure at the
low prices TO which they had de.
pressed II, in order that they might re.
organize and carry out the scheme
they had been so long planning. Judge
Sands went on to say that the day he
was compelled to sell his Seaboard
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-08-24
IN AN ICEBERG PRISON.
Marvellous Play of colors on Sides Of
the Ice Mountains.

We had scarcely taken dozen
strokes when we discovered ourselves
to be in the midst of a plunging fleet
of icebergs. Observing an opening be-
tween two bergs that we concluded
must lead to open water, we pulled
through IT,
sea rolled up, the opposing sides
Of the bergs came together with a
crash that shook tons of ice into the
sea. The next moment found us COM
pletely surrounded by some dozen
enormous icebergs, held together by
their cohesive force.
The white and abrupt walls that
hemmed us in were at first but dimly
perceived; but gradually the interior
of our ice prison became clear Of all
yapor, and we saw that the bases OF
the bergs were marked by sharp.
shelving projections that slashed into
the water with the whirling move
ment of mammoth reapers; and by
long, deep gorges into which the sea
launched itself with a sullen mnge.
Along their SUBMITS stood a thous.
and spires. ranging from giant icicles
to towering peaks. Rivulets and
diminutive cataracts poured down
through the assures and gorges they
had fashioned, for the sun had now
reached its zenith.
A series of many colered ribbonsA
red, orange. green, blue, indigo and
violet-conforming to the convexities
and hollows, in lines zigzag, vertical
and horizontal, stretched themselves
along the faces of the icebergs.
Around transparent colonades, ser.
pentine folds of light wound and un.
wound.
An obelisk. leaning from the abrupt
side of gorge, one moment wore a
coronet that glowed like a ruby, then
II cleaned like an emerald. On Q
crystal dome an Aurora slept.
The bergs nodded, heaved; the raina
bow hued ribbons wavered, danced,
ran into each other. A stronger i'm.
pulse of the ocean that set all the
bergs plunging and leaping, and the
Aurora slipped from the dome, pur.
sued by flight of golden spears; the
colors mingled, unraveled and again
merged until the bergs from base to
summit were bathed in an iridescent
uproar of flaming color.-New Eng
! land Magazine.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-08-24
slmplleIty,s Saving Grace.

81 like simplicity" said Senator
Beveridge. Simplicity saves us lot
Of trouble, too.
Two men met in front of the Blank
hotel the other day and fell into po-
itical argument. They were ordinary,
everyday sort of men, but one of
them had an extraordinary flow of
polysyllabic language. He talked half
an hour, and his companion listened
In n daze.
"'And now the speaker pompously
concluded, perhaps you will coincide
with me|
The others face frightened up.
"Why. yes thanks, old man. he ar
swcred heartily. moving toward this
barroom door, I don't care If l do"
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-08-24

The stumbling. logged walk, into
which he fell, led him he knew not
where.
Some time later in the evening,
hearty voice awoke him to a sense of
his surroundings. 1t was that of Bill
lings, a newspaper friend. What was
he doing way over here on Cherry
street at this hour on such a night,
when he might be snug at home with
the prettiest little woman in town?
As for himself. o, he had just writ
ten up a suicide case at No. AZ. Over
dose of laudanum. morphine. or some
drug, so the coroner had just decided.
Well, he must say good night and
hurry on.
As Billings left Bagley put his
hand weakly to his throbbing head.
Cherry street. Suicide. No. AZ? A
sob burst from his throat, his chin
dropped to his breast. The drug had
done its work The secret was no
longer his! The incriminating phial
was in the hands OF the police!
Now that he had heard what he
had feared to hear, Il seemed as
though his last, feeble flicker of spirit
wavered and was puffed out. He stag
gered on down the street. In the dark
ness he discerned a group of police,
with a wagon at the curb before No.
~. The door was slammed and lock-
ed by man who ran quickly down
the steps, and all entered the vehicle,
which disappeared into the darkness.
Mechanically Bagley entered the
gate, and, passing to one side, reached
the rear and stumbled over what
seemed to be small pile of rubbish
recently deposited by the police who
had just left
His abrupt movement, in recover
ing his balance, dislodged his hat, and
the light of the match he used to re-
cover 1t fell on the rubbish pile. Sew
eral bottles. such as contain drugs,
lay in sight, many of them labeled
Morphine or Laudanum. The coroner
had spoken of these two. One bottle
at his feet caught his eye, and he
took 1t into his hand as the match
fell to the ground.
His whole figure became rigid as
he read the label, but not with the
rigidity of suffering. AS the match
burned and blistered his finger-tips,
he still stared at bottle, as yet un-
corked and full of poisonous drug
Prescription No. 1919.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-08-24
Prl"llenea Of Old Acc.

Old age has It's drawbacks. but II
has also It's privileges, Not the least
II these is leisure; not idlGnesss. for
that way lie wretchedness ard disin-
tegration-but freedom from the
stress OF unlovely rivalry, and oppor-
tunity for the calm and moderate pur-
suit Of congenial occupation. With
it's advent one may doff the armor.
hut not the apron, and choosing ones
bench, work, not as a slave, but as a
master, Senator William p. Frye. in
the Circle.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-08-24
unlos Of Protest.

who is that screaming so?" asked
tho Inveterate shopper of the shop
girl who had just come out of the
room whence issued the screams.
ITS a shoplifter," the girl replied.
she is declaring her innocence.
And is she innocent?" queried the
lnveterate shopper.
"They had only unravelcd ten yards
80 silk from her person when l left"
The shop girl replied
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-08-24
Wisconsin Mink Farm.

A recent venture not yet listed as
paying or otherwise is a mink farm,
started by a man in northern Wis.
consin, who, noting the popularity OF
mink and the scarceness of good
skins has turned his few acres into
mink farm from which he hopGS q
make big proaA
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-08-24
Another One on Chicago

First Vassar Girl-That Miss Smith
from Chicago got magnificent tour
ing car for a Christmas present.
Second Vassar Girl-Hang up her
stocking for 1t. suppose.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-03-21
THE REPUBLICANS OF
MARYLAND To MEET
Bring About an Organization as Re-
quired by New Party Constitution.

The Republican State Central Com
mittee will meet in Baltimore on April
3, in compliance with the new constitu-
ton of the party adopted on December
q, 1905, which requires biennial meet
ings Of the committee on the first We'd
nesday in April.
The main business to come before tie
committee will be to organize for the
coming state campaign. A chairman
will be elected and a secretary chosen
to succeed the late John C. Simering.
1t is understood that MIR. John B. Han
ma, the incumbent chairman, is willing
to continue in this position, but will not
make a contest for election. He was
originally selected upon the srecommen-
dalton of Mr.. s. A. Williams when the
latter was a candidate for governor.
He has discharged his duties satisfac-
torily and with minimum friction among
the several elements of the party. Be-
cause his acceptance to all the elements
of the party it is believed that he will
again be chosen.
The committee which drafted the new
party constitution, in recommending the
organization of the state committee on
the first Wednesday of April in each al
ternate year, said:
The purpose of this change is to give
better opportunity for effective and
and successful work by having greater
length of time for the same, and in
order that the Organization of the COM
mittee and the work of the campaign
may not be held back until the time re-
quired at which the party can now hold
its state conventions.
1t is possible that at the coming
meeting of the committee date may
be fixed for holding the state convention
to nominate candidates for governor,
for comptroller, for attorney general,
and for clerk of the Court of Appeals
1t is also proposed to begin early the
work of instructing voters how TO mark
accurately their ballots In order to
over come the obstacles put in the way
of electing Republican state ticket,
the leaders in several counties are said
to be willing to abandon nominations
for minor local offices, so as to relieve
the ticket of as many complications as
/ possible.
1t will be a coincidence that the state
committee will meet on the day after the
primaries in Baltimore for the nomina-
ton of local candidates. The opportun-
ity will be seized to bring into harmony
the elements in Baltimore now strug-
Cling for the nominations The state
leaders, who will attend the committee
meeting will insist that the winners and
losers shall bury the Ratchet; that the
losers line up behind the successful
candidates, and that everything shall
be done to bring Republican success at
the state election
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-03-21
CIRCUIT COURT LAST MONDAY.
The March Non Jury Term Convened
and Adjourned Same Day.

The March non-jury term of the Cir
cult Court for Garrett county was held
on Monday of this week, Associate
Judge Robert R. Henderson, of Cum
berland, presiding.
The several docketS were called over
and N number of cases judgments
against parties were entered.
A youth named Coffman, of Deer
Park, who was convicted at a recent
session of court of having entered the
store of D. M. Shaffer at Deer Park and
stealing therefrom articles to the value
of few dollars, but in view of extenu-
ating circumstances Judge Henderson
granting him parole of two years, was
before the court on the charge of hav-
ing violated the terms Of his parole
Coffman was examined by the Court
and admitted having been under the in
fluence of liquor on the 18th inst, hav
ing come to Oakland in company with
two other youths from Deer Park, and
visited number Of saloons where Coff-
man alleged he and the others procured
liquor and beer. In answer to inquiries
propounded Coffman stated that the
saloons of John Lee, C. A. Hesen, r. S.
Jamison and Stephen Nally were visited
in turn and that at the three places first
named liquor had been procured, and at
Lees place pool had been played by
himself and his companions. In accord
ance with Coffman's testimony warrants
for the arrest of the parties against
whom information had been made were
placed in Sheriff Lees hands and they
were taken into custody by the officer
but released upon filing bonds for their
appearance at the June term of the Cir
cult Court.
After Coffman's statement to the
Court Judge Henderson extended his
parole but warned him that if he viola
ted its terms the second time he would
be sentenced to serve a term of impris-
onment.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-03-21
BUNCH Of ALLEGED
THIEVES ARRESTED
Sheriff Lee Rounded Up Three Mem
bers Of The Wilt Family Near Pond.

Tuesday night Sheriff A. l.. Lee and
Deputy Sheriff Henry May went to
Bond where they arrested Bruce, Lewis
and Cleveland Wilt upon a warrant
charging them with having stolen from
the station at Bond Junction a quantity
of groceries which belonged to Jacob
Pence, the goods having been shipped
to Pence over the B. & o. to the juno
ton and there left to be transported
over the Savage River road to Bond. e
The theft of the goods is alleged to
have taken place last December.
The States officers brought the three
men to Oakland yesterday morning and
this morning they were given hearing
before Justice Gender who held them
for the action of the June term of the
Circuit Court.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-03-21
MOUNTAIN LAKE PARK.
.Is.Is 10000. 900. geo. 90

Mrs. Virginia Pierce and family, for
some time past residing at Rowlesburg,
W. Va, have returned to the Park and
will occupy the Pierce cottage on L
street.
DR.. j. w. Laughhn and family will
soon move from the Fallon cottage on
H street to the Davis cottage on G
street. The Fallon cottage will be occu-
pied this season by Miss Jennie Murphy
as boarding house.
We understand that Mr.. G. c. Ham
mond, one Of our merchants, has leased
the Chautauqua Hotel and will conduct
that popular house this season. We
wish Clarence" success and feel sure
that he will give satisfaction.
We are expecting number of fami-
lies much earlier in the season than
usual.
Rev. Hart now occupies the Baum
gartner cottage, where he will be pre-
pared to entertain boarders this season.
Mrs. Russell and daughter, of Par
kersburg, have been in the 7. E. Davis
cottage on G street for some weeks.
They are already prepared to entertain
their friends.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-03-21
INTERESTING MEETINGS
Are Being Held Nightly In ST. Marks
Ey. Lutheran Church.

The series of special meetings an
nounced in these columns last week to
begin in St. Mark Ev. Lutheran church
in Oakland, have been we'll attended
ever since the initial service on last
Thursday night, when the pastor, Rev.
E. Manages, delivered an eloquent ser
mon to an interested audience
The meetings ever since Thursday
evening have been of more than passing
interest, the number attending each
succeeding meeting being greater and
the result has been an awakening of the
members of the church to higher ap-
probation of their duties both as chris
tians and citizens.
Rev. J. B. Shoup, of Bittinger,
preached q magnificent sermon last
night to a large audience.
On Friday night DR.. William w.
Davis, superintendent of the Mountain
Lake Park Association, will deliver a
lecture on the life of Dr. Martin Luther,
the great Reformer. Dr. Davis has de-
liver this lecture in other parts of Mary
land and also in the State of Pennsyl-
vania to aepreciative audiences and has
received some very f1attering press no
tees IN both states.
Rev. Manages cordially extends a
hearty invitation to all to attend all of
the meetings in his church, especially
that of Friday evening.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-03-21
CARNATIONS ARE AN OLD FLOWER
They We're Cultivated in Shakes
peare'S Time.

A florist says that we pride ourselves
nowadays on the size of our carnations,
but the florists of 300 years ago grew
carnations three or four inches across,
as large as any that we see, and thought
nothing of it.
''All through Spain, southern France
and Italy the carnation is the favorite
flower and has been for hundreds of
years, but along the Mediterranean
there are few glass houses, for in pro-
tected situations and on southern slopes
of hills even delicate flowers grow out
doors all winter long and bloom as free
ly at Christmas as in July.
The big carnations, however, were
not grown in Spain or Italy, but in
England outdoors during the summer
time and before glass houses were
known. They may have grown just as
large carnation flowers in Spain as in
England at that time, but in England
there was record made of the fact and
also of the SIZE while in Spain there was
not. Shakespeare mentions carnations
gillyfowers, or July flowers, together
as blooming at the same season, which
shows that the carnation was then
summer flower, whereas in our green
houses it is now a winter bloomer.
How the florists of those days treated
the plants to obtained blooms of such
size nobody knows, for old time florists
grew flowers instead of writing books
about them So all we know is that
they advery large carnations in Queen
Elizabeth's time without knowing how
they were grown. st Louis Globe
Democrat.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-03-21
. B. & OR. R. RAISES
WAGES OF ITS EMPLOYEES
Increase Of $4,000 a Month and
All But The Trainmen Benefited.

Under the plan adopted several weeks
ago for adjusting the salaries of its
employees, the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road has increased it's payroll about
$3.50, 900 month, a change affecting a
large percentage of its force of $4,000
persons. There has been no fiat per-
centage of increase but the distribution
of the increase, has been made general
ly throughout all the departments.
With $4,000 men at work and with an
increased payroll of $3.50, 900 month,
it would indicate that each one had
received SO a month more pay. This,
however, is not the case. Many of this
1000 received no increase at all. The
pay of some was switched up to $25 or
more month, while others may not
have gotten more than 81 or 81 more
1t is impossible to say accurately the
additional sum which will be avail
able to those in Baltimore and vicinity.
The benefciencies include clerks in
the departments, yardmen, switchten-
ders-in fact, all except train hands.
The average increase may be from $40
to SIS month, so that out of the $3.50, =
900 additional on the entire payroll per-
haps anywhere from $25, 900 to $50, 900
will be disbursed in Baltimore.
Early in the year the company ad-
justed the pay of its train hands, in
Guiding conductors, brakemen, engi-
neers and fremen. Therefore these
men are not included in the present
plan. Following the adjustment it was
believed that other departments deser-
we'd recognition. 1t is said the directors
took the matter up in January and
authorized the executives to go ahead.
Steps were at once taken to ascertain
the duties performed. When this data
was in hand recommendation for in
crease in worthy cases were made and
were at once acted on The investiga-
tons have necessarily been long drawn
ewing to the extent of the system
e.'the great amount of detail required
in getting up satisfactory reports. The
whole matter is now well in hand,
however, and the additional pay is being
disbursed.