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The Springfield herald., 1907-03-22
CLEVELAND SEVENTY YEARS OLD
Miiestones In the Life Journey Of Ex-
President Cleveland.

1s37-Born in Caldwell Eessex
county. New Jersey
1841-Removed with his parents to
Fayetteville. near Syracuse. New York.
1S55-Started West in search of en-
ployment and located at Buffalo.
1S59--Admitted to the bar.
1SG3-Appointed assistant district
attorney of Erie county.
1SG5-Democratic candidate for dis
trict attorney; defeated.
1S70-Elected sheriff of Erie county.
1Ss1-Elected mayor of Buffalo by
largest majority ever given candidate
in that city.
1SS2-Elected governor of the state
of New York.
lSS4-Elected President of the
United States.
1SSG-Married Miss Frances Folsom.
1sSS-Defeated for reelection by
Benjamin Harrison.
1S92-Elected President for second
time defeating President Harrison.
1S97-Retired from public life and
took up residence at Princeton. New
Jersey.
Princeton, N. J.-It would have re-
Il
ters, kilograms and other messages or
congratulation received at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Grover Cleveland on the
occasion of the SEVENTEEN birthday OF
the ex-President, March 18th.
1t is interesting to note that OF the
twenty-five men who have served as
President of the United States, eight
OF the first twelve who filled the Of
flee lived to be seventy years OF age
or older, while of the thirteen who fol.
lowed in the Office of chief executive
of the nation there were but four VINO
lived to the age of seventy-Presl-
dents Fillmore, Buchanan. Hayes and
Cleveland. OF the first twelve Presi-
dents John Adams lived to the age OF
ninety, james Madison died at eighty
five, Thomas Jefferson at eighty-three,
John Quincy Adams at eighty. and
Martin Van Buren, and Andrew Jack
son at the age of seventy-nine and sew
enty-eight, respectively.
OF the last thirteen Presidents, none
has attained the age of eighty. James
Buchanan. the Oldest, died at the age
of seventy-seven. Millard Fillmore
was seventy-four at the time of his
death, and Rutherford B. Hayes
passed away soon after he had reached
his SEVENTEEN birthday.
1t is now twenty-five years since Mr..
Cleveland first assumed the burdens OF
the White House. Only five other
Presidents lived so long after their
inaugurations, and these were the two
Adamses, Jefferson, Madison, van
Buren, and Fillmore. No President in
augurated in the past half century, ex'
cept MIR. Cleveland. has survived his
Inauguration for more than sixteen
years, which was the record of Gen
eral Grant.
The Springfield herald., 1907-03-22

A representative of the agricultural
interests east of Pueblo is Offering Ia
borers $50 month in addition TO
board. lodging. laundry and other in
ducement3. The farmers say thev
have never had such a scarcity of
labor and never have offered 80 much
before bj one-third.
The great Colorado eight yearoid
thoroughbred gelding Los Angeleno,
owned by II. G.. Bedwell of Grand juno
tion, won the Ascot handicap of two
miles at Los Angeles the other day in
the good time of 3:27&. Los Ange
leno is by Rey ell Santa Anita out Of
the famous mare, Angeles by GlenelS.
Spineless cactus, which has been
used extensively for pasturing and fat.
tening cattle in the Eight Mile section.
says Florence dispatch, has proven
good fe ii for goats. A Coal creek goat
feeder has removed the spines from
the cactus between there and Coal
creek. Is pasturing 100 head OF goats.
and the animals are gaining flesh
daily. The spines were removed by
burning upon them solution of gaso-
line.
1t has been asserted a great many
times by men who use scrub bulls that
they are better rustlers on the range
and are stronger and harder than pure
bred animals. The absense of pure
bred animals is usually caused by the
Indifference of breeders to pay fancy
prices for good bulls, and Grubb's bull
bill has not improved matters YER
much. for we see the same old shacklo
bones everywhere. Before we pass Vi
this subject. SAYS the Field and Farm
we would like to ask one fool question
How much better are the bulls on thr
forest reserves than those running on
the free grass Of the open range?
The Springfield herald., 1907-03-22
An Orangeman Escapes.

Casper. Wyo.-Joseph Holmes es
capped from the county jail through a
hole which was made by some one on
the outside prying out several rocks
from the wall with crowbar. Holmes
was arrested on st. Patrick's Day by
the police because he decorated him.
self with yellow ribbons and paraded
the streets, challenging any one to take
the yellow off him. and he caused sew.
eral fights. He has not been appre-
hended
The Springfield herald., 1907-03-22
Iron Market Booming.

New York.-The statistics collected
by the Iron Age show the output for
February of coke and anthracite pig
iron amounting to 2,045,0GS tons, as
compared with 2,205,607 gross tons in
January. This is an increase in the
daily rate of production from ills
tons in January to 73.02S tons in Feb
ruary. an increase of 1,Ss0 tons daily.
Indications from the achievements
thus far this month are that the
March output of pig iron and of fin
ished products of the larger producers
will exceed the banner record Of Oc-
tober last.
The Springfield herald., 1907-03-22
Fast Mail Takes Fire.

Cheyenne, Wyo.-The Union Pacific
fast mail caught fire east of this city
at l O'Clock Monday morning. The
Dining car on .he train was burned to
the tracks. and several negro walters
and cooks had narrow escapes from
death. BY a speedy run to Hillsdale
the rest of the train was saved.
The Springfield herald., 1907-03-22
G. A. R. win Meet september sth.

Toledo, O.-J. Corey Winans. chief
II staff, Grand Army of the Republic,
has received notification from the citi-
ems committee at Saratoga. N Y. fix-
ing the date OF the national encamp-
ment for the week Of September 9Th
Mr., Win1ns wired acceptance.
The Springfield herald., 1907-03-22

Every commercial body in all the
towns of the state has been asked to
contribute to the fund. and there is
confident expectation that the full
100000 OF very near it Will be sub
scribed before long Simon Gusgen-
helm wired his willingness to contrib
ute in proportion to the other sub
scriptions, and number of other in
dividuals are knos;n to be merely
awaiting the action of last night be-
fore contributing heavily to the fund.
w. A. Hover announced himself last
night as willing to be one of ten job
bers to contribute $500 apiece. and 1t
is thought that other branches of in
dustry Throughout the state will adopt
similar methods.
The Springfield herald., 1907-03-22
WILL BOOST COLORADO.
An Enthusiastic Meeting at Denver
Launches Advertising Enterprise.

Denver. = Believing that Colorado
has hitherto done herself an injustice
through failing to properly place be-
fore the world m adequate Idea OF her
limitless resources, the Colorado
State Commercial Association Wednes.
day night gave banquet at the
Albany hotel to 200 business men of
the state, at which over $1,000 was
raised as IA nucleus for a fund of $780,
900 to be used in publicity work simi-
lar to the, which has brought thous-
ands of PEOPLE to California and the
Northwest.
John T. Burns, secretary of the or.
ganization. pointed out in forceful
address the manner in which Califor
MIA maintains Il press bureau. has
$4,000 in the bank for carrying on
the immigration campaign Of the com
ing year, and hires scores of experts
to distribute Information in every pos
sible form, telling of the opportuni-
ties that California affords.
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-01-10
HE WAS LIKE A MODERN NERO
Career of "Robber Governor" of
South Carolina -Death Recalls
Queer Story.

One OF the most picturesque and
complete scoundrels this country
has ever known came to the kind
Of miserable end that might have
been expected for him when
Franklin J. Moses was suffocated
yesterday in his room in a board.
ing house near Boston. He was
one of the few men we have known
who seemed to be devoid absolute
" of moral character, or even a
suggestion of honor of any kind.
Physically, he gave no indication
of his inward state. In his young
er days he was rather a handsome,
we'll appearing man, with a keen,
clear-cut and kindly face and
pleasant manners, so me dash and
occasional flashes of what amount
ed almost to intellectual brilliancy.
He never was devoid of physical
courage, but would accept insults
apparently because he did not have
the moral sense to be ashamed, or
to realize that there was honor TO
protect, or realize for resentment.
He was born of an old and we'll
establish family originally Jewish,
and had every opportunity TO be
gentleman. AT the age of twenty
three his prospects were unusually
good. He was the private secre.
tary to Gov. Pickens, of South
Carolina, received everywhere and
recognized as promising, aud his
family was wealthy, his father be-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-01-10

cratic State government i'll ex-
change for the abandonment of the
prosecutions against Democrats
accused of fraud and violation in
the elections.
Since then he has appeared
from time to time in the newspa-
pers as prisoner in the courts of
New York and Massachusetts,
usually charged with some petty
swindle or breach of trust and suf-
ficiently serious to incur long i'm
prisonment. He was aplausibS J
talker and Speaker, with some elo-
quence. and his favorite pose was
to stand before the judicial desk,
with bowed head and hands folded
in front of him, and begin in a
clear and not unmusical voice and
good enunciation: May it please
your bonor, | have done the State
some service"-then would come
plea for pity.
He fooled the magistrates the
first three or four times, but after
this was convicted invariably, his
expression that he had done the
State some service losing the dig
nifty of it amazing impudence when
considered in connection with his
career, and becoming a joke be-
cause the service he had done the
State was recognized to have been
performed in various jails and pen
itentiaries. He became known as
an habitual criminal, with his pic
ture in the rogues gallery; and
now he is gone aud the world is
we'll rid of him. Richmond News
Leader.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-01-10
ParOid
Roofing

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We know that our felt is right
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We make il because we cannot
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for Paroid.
Other manufacturers who buy
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wherever they can get it cheapest
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We couldn't give you the money
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There IL no room for doubt
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-01-10
Blind Editor a Prodigy.

IA remarkable personality i'll
Santa Fee" says Lillian Whiting
in The Land of Enchantment"
little, Brown & Co. y "is Colonel
Max Frost, the editor Of the New
Mexican, the political leader of
the Republican party and man
who, though blind and paralyzed,
is simply living encyclopedia of
historic and contemporary events.
At 8 O'Clock every morning Col
onel Frost is in his office, at his
desk, debating to three expert
stenographers, carrying on three
different subjects simultaneously.
Instead of his blindness being him,
drance to his work, he has by thu
sheer force of his remarkable ener.
gy transformed the obstacle into a
stepping stone. I can do more
work i'll ten minutes than most
men can do in an hour, he said in
reply to question. as to being
blind, l have nothing to distract
my attention. l put my mind Oh
my work and keep it there Miss
Whiting adds.
Colonel Frost's experience is
the most convincing testimony to
the phenomenal power that lies in
mental concentration He cannot
move without assistance. Physi-
cally he is wreck. Yet he die
tates columns Of work daily. He
IS the most influential leader of the
political party, and he is one of
the makers of New Mexico. Every
line of copy in his daily paper is
read to him before it goes to press,
and the vigorous and brilliant edi-
torial page is largely his own work.
For four hours every evening, Mrs.
Frost reads to him from the great
eastern dailies, the periodicals and
new books. 1t is said in New Mex
leo that Colonel Frost has been
the power behind the throne in
territorial legislation since the
time that General Lew Wallace
served as chief executive in :S7o."
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-01-10
BILLS THAT BECAME LAWS.
Tuesday Began the Life Of Several
Important Acts.

January first marked the begin
ming of the life of several legisla-
tive acts of Congress important
alike TO the nation as a whole and
to the citizens Of the District of
Columbia. These are the free
alcohol law, the pure food law, the
anti-pass section of the Interstate
Commerce law, the modification of
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-01-10
Read This Trial Offer on
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But even the best roofing must
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In every roll of Paroid you will
find q complete roofing kit, with a
supply of square, rus proof,
waterproof caps. The only rust
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These caps are patented. You
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Being square, they give YOU
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Being water-proofed on both
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And when the roof is laid, you
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-01-10

to speak of, but scattered his
plumber with a lavish hand. Any
body who might be used by him
i'll any way could get money from
him-usually in the shape of a
warrant on the State treasury.
People who cannot recollect that
time cannot conceive it. In the
train of the male carpet-baggers
who came flocking down on the
carcass of the PROSTATE State, like
so many vultures, there was a
host of women camp followers and
adventuresses, hashy, smart and
wild, every one eager and cease
less in pursuit of money, like all
their kind. 1t is a matter of off,
cial record, we believe, that at a
party given by some women of this
sort in a VIGOROUSLY and publicly
disreputable house Frank Moses,
then speaker of the house of repre-
sentative, spent ST., 500 in cham
payne in one night, and paid the
bill with an order on the State
treasury, signed by himself as
speaker, for Legislative supplies. "
With this record, he was elected
governor in I872-"Our Young
Native Governor he was herald
ed by his negro followers at the
time; The Robber Governor"
as he was called by the white peo-
pie. and has been remembered ever
since.
AS governor literally there was
no limit to his public and private,
his official and his personal de-
baucheries and corruption. He
gambled in public gaming hells,
drank in public bars-although he
never was a drunkard-consorteQ
and Edrove about the principal
streets of the capital city in open
carriages with lewd women of all
shades of color. He seemed to be
absolutely devoid of the sense of
shame. He sold pardons of the
most notorious criminals, appoint
ed the rankest and !most ignorant
blackguards TO the noblest places
for the most debasing purposes
purposes not to be named in print.
Even in South Carolina in re-
construction days there were linn
its. They were long, wide, and
horrible, but Frank Moses broke
over all. Probably one strong
reason why he was not renominat-
ed was that his fellow thieves
feared that another term for him
would mean no more left TO steal,
aud would discredit the boast of
John Patterson-the carpet Dagger
United States Senator sarcastical-
/ ly known as Honest John
that the State offers five more
years of good stealing" Other
rascals with more pretense to the
fact that the white people and
property owners, when driven TO
the last wall, would take to buck
shot and cold steel assisted in his
overthrow.
He lurked and skulked about
the State until the crash came in
1877. We believe he held some
small Office somehow, by begging,
borrowing, Matchmaking, and pill.
tering, he lived and maintained
good appearance and INDUCED in
a limited degree his favorite and
discursive vices. Then he passed
out. He secured immunity by Civ
ing evidence against his associate
rogues, who, in turn, were rel,ev-
! ed from prosecution by the Demo-
III
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-01-10

the navigation laws to simplify en-
rollments and licenses, and law
with reference to the licensing of
druggists in the District of Col
umbia.
The pure food law contempt ates
the barring from interstate COM
merce of foods that are injurious to
health. Today the man who buys
his liquor by the bottle should
know what he is getting if the law
is enforced. The man who takes
his in a glass over the bar is TAX
ing chances.
This is one of the theoretical eff
fects of the new pure food law.
There is no money yet wherewith
to enforce the new law, but $780,
900 will be shortly forthcoming,
and then the Department of Agri-
culture will put out a force of in
spectors and buy samples in the
open market to ascertain whether
or not the packages of food and
drink correspond in ingredients
with their labels.
Several months have already
been given the dealers in which to
adjust themselves to the new con-
ditions. Many of them have done
so, but there is a remarkable idea
atioat among good many dealers
that the law will not be effective
till next March. Such dealers are
liable to be picked up by the in
spectors and heavily fined, for the
department wants to strictly en-
force the pure food law, and will
make an example of some dealer
at the first opportunity.
The sole object of the law will
be complied with if the food and
drug packages sold are labeled that
they show the real constituents of
the package, 50 that there is no
reasonable necessity for the con-
sumner to be deceived as to what he
is buying. The free alcohol law is
intended to assist farmers aud
smaller users of power to have a
fuel that in efficiency and cost shall
be cheaper than gasoline or kero-
sene.
All the regulations for the en-
forcement Of the law have not been
framed, but they soon will be.
There are efforts being made to
have the law so enforced as to en-
able the farmers to run small stills
on their farms. as is done in Ger
many, and get the benefit of all the
cheap fuel and power they can
with the least trouble and red tape
possible compatible with a reason.
able enforcement Of the revenue
laws.
The anti-pass provision of the
interstate commerce law forbids
common carriers, directly or indi-
rectly giving interstate free tickets
or passes for passengers, except to
their employees and families, the
agents of the carriers and their
surgeons, physicians and attor-
neys, to persons engaged in religi-
Gus and charitable work and to
CERTAIN other specified classes.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-01-10
HAVE YOU "SWORN on"

Inc following from the Fair
mont Times is just as applicable
to Oakland as it is to Fairmont,
and all business men to whom 1t
applies would do we'll TO heed the
advice contained therein:
Mr.. Business Man, word with
you. This is generally known as
swearing off" season, but some
times the things which we 'swear
off, are not so important as those
we swear on" We would not
be so bold as to even intimate that
you have found it necessary to
swear off anything, but we wonder
If, in looking back over the past
year, taking retrospective view
of your successes and your fail
ures, you have not seen places
where you might have done better.
If you are progressive-and what
Fairmont business man is mott
you have resolved to do a bigger
business in the year 1907 than you
did in that whose books are now
forever closed; you have resolved
to win more customers to your
store and strive in every way to
hold those you have already won.
That is the way the up-to- date
business man starts the new year
and it is equivalent to a resolution
to advertise more forcibly and
more persistently than ever be-
fore. 1t is swearing on, and if
that resolution is faithfully kept
you will see the results in the
shape of dollars which you could
never hope to garner from en- I'M
advertised business. This sort of
swearing on" is particularly
timely now. The big holiday
season is over. it is some little
while before the spring rush will
come and the foolish merchant
will think it not worth while TO
keep the buying public aware of
the fact that he is still in business.
That merchant has not "sworn
on" His farsighted competitor
sees that if he ever needs the as
sistance of printers ink in direct
ing the steps of customers to his
store it is in the dull season, and
he will keep up his publicity at
tacks with trip hammer force and
| persistency. He is the one who
will get the trade and the profits,
while the one who practices a mis-
guided economy will see the dust
gathering OIL his stocks and his
clerks sitting III idleness. There
can be no let up in the advertising
campaign, if you expect to win in
the race for patronage-you must
keep the people fully informed
three hundred and sixty-fve days
OF every year that you have the
best to be found anywhere and at
prices that are right. Let them
! forget for day or a week and the
chances are that someone else who
has kept his name and his bust
ness constantly before them will
gather them in. 1t is persistency
that wins. If you will but Swear
on" persistency and forcefulness in
yoar publicity department. for the
new year you will have no cause
to worry about the swearing off,"
pIIlc THAT DCNhMr Atuo