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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-04-01
OAKLAND HIGH SCHOOL
GRADUATING EXERCISES
Program To Be Rendered Friday Night
In the Opera House.

Friday night of this week the COM
mencement exercises of the Oakland
High School will be held in the Oakland
Opera House, when the graduating
class will be presented with their d.
plomas and program of interest will
be rendered.
The members of the class have mailed
a large number of invitations to their
friends and the prospects are that the
Opera House will be well filed.
The members Of the graduating class
are Miss Orpha Ashby, Mark Sherman
White and Dean Cook Skinner. all of
Oakland and most excellent young peo-
pie. Miss Ashbv will read an essay en-
titled The Power of Purpose" and
VIII also render q vocal solo. She has
a well mCdulated voice and her ability
as a singer is recognized by excellent
Judges. The male members of the class
will also read essays.
Musical numbers will also be render
ed by quartet and DR.. Robinson will
play violin solo.
The feature of the evenings enter
tainment, however, will be an address
by Hon. Philip Willet', late of London,
England, but at present a resident of
Mountain Lake Park. Mr. Willett' S
addresses in all parts of the country
have been well received and he has been
the recipient of many fattering press
notices.
The program for the evening is APP
pended below:
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-04-01
10 YEARS FOR MATTINGLY
Killed Brother At GAINESVILLE Over
Business

Joseph Mattingly, who killed his
brother, Thomas Mattingly, at Cranes
vile, w. Va, and was stabbed by the
latter in the encounter, was sentenced
at Kingwood Saturday to Is years in
the penitentiary. He had been convict
ed of murder in the second degree.
The murder was the result of mis-
understanding over a business trans
action.
Judge Holt, at Kingwood, also'sen-
fenced Dan Marcerelli, an Italian store
keeper of Newbnrg, w. Va, to four
years and sixmonths in the penitentiary.
He was found guilty of voluntary man
slaughter, having killed William Cox, a
young railroad man. At the time of
the murder mob sought toglynch Mar
cerelli, and all that preventedJwas that
a rope was not at hand.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-04-01
Receiver Named for Hotel.

In the United States district court at
Philippi, w. Va, Judge Daytonfpresid-
ing, B. G. Williams, proprietor of
SINNERS Tavern in Fairmont, has been
adjudicated bankrupt and HGeorge
Hoge a clerk at Peabody Hotel:,at Nor
gantown was appointed a receiver for
the hotel, Mr.. Williams assets are es-
timated at about 100000 and liabilities
at approximately the same amount.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-04-01
BLOOMINGTON.

Messrs. John Rowland ands. Daniel
Walker, of the town of Kitzmiller.
were guests of friendsT and.Irelatives
during the week
The fair and festivalI held by the
ladies of the M. E.! church on last Fri
day and Saturday evenings in,the Junior
hall, was decided success in every par
ticuar. Enough money was realized to
pay the pastors salaryaand other Incl
dental expenses.
DR.. Kemp was visitor to the county
seat on Saturday.
a wreck on the Hampshire spIane on
Monday morning entailed considerable
expense on the Masteller Coal Co. Four
loaded cars broke loose fromathe rope
shortly after leaving the tip, ran down
the plane and collided with the empties.
reducing eight cars to kindling wood.
If this accident hadi occurred, an hour
earlier when. the men were riding the
plane to work, 1t would have been at
tended with serious consequences. in the
loss of life
Mrs. Adah Green, wifeTof James
Green, Of Elkins, auditor of the w. Va.
division of the w. NJ R. R., is in town
this week visiting relatives She is ac-
companied by her two little boys, Bay
ard and Frederick.
Mrs. Bessie Burleigh and children, of.
Blaine, left for home on Tuesday, after
a very pleasant visit to.her parents. Mr..
and Mrs. John Wolf.
Miss Ansie Conley, of this place, is
the guest of relatives at Tunnelton.
Prof. Browning, of Oakland, secretary
and examiner of the Garrett County
School Board, while on,a tour of inspec-
ton of the school work in this end of
the county, spent few hours with the
Bloomington school on Thursday His
talk to the pupils on education was in
structive and entertaining.
Saturday was pay day at the Pattison
mine.
Mr.. Carter Brendlin turned out with
his Masonic brethren on Wednesday,
and attended the funeral of Mr. Robert
Campbell, at Blaine.
Miss Celia Durham is living i'll with
typhoid fever at the home of her parents
on the Mob.
Mr.. Robert Grant, Jr., of Elk Garden.
accompanied by his wife, spent few
days of this week in town, the guests of
relatives.
Mr.. William Moody was business
visitor to Cumberland the first of the
week.
Ex-County Commissioner Masteller.
who recently accepted the position as
general manager of the Piedmont and
Potomac r. r., with headquarters at
Fredericksburg Va, moved to his future
home the latter part of the week. He
has been a resident of Barnum for the
the past .twenty-four or twenty-five
years, and can be saidito have founded
the place. His beautiful home which
stands on plateau east of the w. M.
r. R. station, is for sale. We under
stand negotiations are pending with the
Monroe Coal Mining Co., of Barnum,
for the purchase of the property, and in
case the purchase is made, it will be
used as home for the superintendent.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-04-01
Marriage Licenses.

The following licenses have been is
sued by Clerk f. Z. Tower since our
last report:
John H. Sines, of Sang Run, and
Amanda Vansickle, of Fearer.
Charles Lawrence Merrill, of Fair
mont, and Stella Goodnight, of Farm
ington. w. Va.
John Alonzo Duty and Forest Rose
Britton, both of Pennsboro, w. Va.
Henry Wilson Friend and Pearl Riley,
both of Blooming Rose, Md.
Josiah j. Smearmond, of Accident,
and Mrs. Ida burst, of Grantsville.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-04-01
Farm For Sale.

! offer forsale my farm containing one
hundred acres of land situated one mile
east of Hutton, Md, and near the town
of Crellin, Md. About 80 acres cleared
and the balanced well tlmbered. all new
ly lined and in high state of cultiva-
ton; produced last year about 80 tons of
hay; good eight-room dwelling house,
stables, granary and other outbuildings,
good bearing apple orchard; can be
bought on easy terms.
50-6t* NJ. j. HUGHES, Huttun, Md.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-04-01
Easter Communion Service.

Rev. f. Mauges, pastor of st. Mark S
Ev. Lutheran church, announces Easter
services as follows for Easter Sunday,
the 18th inst: Preparatory services,
reception of new members and Holy
Communion at 10. 30 o. clock in the morn
ing. Special music will be rendered.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-04-01
Public Sale

A public sale of live stock farming i'm
plements and household goods will take
place at Fred Gortner's, at his residence
at Gortner, about five miles south of
Oakland, on Tuesday, April 9th, begin
ming at Il. 80 p. m. The property will
be sold on reasonable terms. Particu-
lars on posters.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-04-01
LAKE FORD.
.cSeos.s.Sesess....s

We have plenty of snow and mud at
this writing.
The farmers of this section are busiIy
engaged putting up lime kilns.
Mr.. Walter Boyer, who has been con-
fined to his bed for four months with
blood po son, is no better at this time.
We are sorry to note the death of
Guy Spahr, who died after a short ill
ness of pneumonia. Mr.. Spahr was an
ideal Young man and one who will be
greatly missed in our community. We
~ sorry to lose him but we submit to
will of Him who doeth all things
we'll His influence will linger in the
lirds of all who knew him for years
co come. His funeral was held at the
Lake Ford church on March %. The
services were conducted by Rev. J. W..
Bone, of the Presbyterian church of
Terra Alta, of which Mr.. Spahr was a
member. His remains were laid to rest
in the Lake Ford cemetery, attended by
a large gathering of sorrowing relatives
and friends
ONE WHO KNEW HIM.
For SALE OR RENT Restaurant Fix
lures in the south room of the Litzinger
building, Oakland. Nd Apply to or
address J. M. Litzinger, Grafton, w.
Va. If
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-05

there are tens of millions within a days ride by train. The soil surrounding us is some of the best in the world and for ages it has supported a vast population.
 Now drop your eyes to the city itself. These walls divide it into two great di- visions forming two separate cities. The one at the north is mighty rectangle, perhaps thirteen miles round It contains the Tartar city. ir which are the great government buildings, the foreign lega- tions and also the Forbidden City, where surrounded by thousands of eunuchs, the emperor lives. You can make out his home by following the lines of those tenn ple-like gates which rise high over the walls which surround 1t. His palaces are huge one-story structures with throne rooms and other great halls. The roofs are of yellow tiles. color which is re- served for his majesty alone,
 No one but the emperor and his house. hold live in the Forbidden City. Outside 1t is a space known as the imperial city, which Is largely occupied by the officials and princes, and still farther out Is the vast collection of low gray houses where the Manchus and Chinese live. A large proportion of this city is Manchu.
 The other city, on the south of the wall, is known as the Chinese city This has the chief business streets of Picking. It has thousands of stores and the chief Chinese banks. It Is the place in which the most of the commercial business is done, although there are many shops in the Tartar city as well.
 Looking over the Chinese city, as we stand on the wall. we can see some great temples with circular roofs of blue tile at It's extreme southern end. Those on our left belong to the Temple of Heaven, where. on great circular al- tar of the purest white marble. the em- peror kneels and prays for his people The little baby monarch Is too young to kneel now. and until he grows bigger. the nation will be prayed for by proxy.
 Just opposite the Temple of Heaven. on the other side of the wide roadway is the Temple of Agriculture where his majesty starts the spring blowing for the nation, and away up at the north. outside the walls Is temple devoted to Old Mother Earth This temple is square, while the oth CTS are round. The Chinese school readers of the old cfvi- lfzation state that the earth has four corners, and hence the shape of the temple.
 The Legation City.
 Now, let us look at foreign Peking. It lies right under us. in the very heart of the capital. hugsing the wall between the Tartar and Chinese cities. It fronts the avenue along which the emperor goes in his cart on his way to his prayers at the Temple of Heaven, and the northwest corner of 1t adjoins tn 2 Imperial city itself. By all rights, 1t should be tNe most valuable property
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The New Government Buildings.

The Chinese government is Just be- ginning to erect office structures in accord with the new civilization. It has already built many schools of modern architecture; and it has just completed large office building for the Wal Wu Pu, or the board of foreign affairs This Is the best office build- ing I have seen in eastern Asia. and is by far the finest of the Chinese capital. It Is right next to the old Tsung Ii Yamen, on the ground where stood the old mint which was estab- lished AZ years before our world was discovered and which was coining money for the government up until the year 1900.
 The new building and it's grounds cover seven acres, and the building it. self fourth of an acre, not including the large offices for clerks at the back. The Wal Wu Pu is a great structure of two stories. built of gray bricks. Its architecture Is entirely foreign and is remarkable for it's massive simplicity and beauty. Indeed, it would be an ornament among the public buildings of Wash ington or London.
 The Wal Wu Pu is heated by steam, lighted by electricity, and has all mod ern sanitation conveniences. There are a number of rooms for entertaining, in- cluding large reception halls and din- Ing room which will seat 800 guests. The dining room has stage for the atrical entertainments, and 1t is lighted by TOO electric globes, hidden from view in a groove round the ceiling. The building is beautifully finished the mantles and all it's woodwork having been made in China. Much of the wood is of Oregon pine, but most of the oth- CT materials, including the steel con- struction, are from England and Ger many. The structure cast 100000 taels, and it could not be built in the United States for twice that many dollars.
 The architect is MT. c. D. Jameson, a well known American civil engineer. He has been connected with the Chinese foreign office as its architectural en- gineer for a number of years. It was he who put the electric light plant in the palaces of the emperor, and he has also made some most beautiful addi- tions to the summer palaces outside Picking MT. Jameson comes from Ban gor Me- He was for a time pro- lessor of engineering at the Boston School of Technology and later on was connected in a similar capacity with the Iowa State university. He came out to China about 1s years ago and
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in Peking, and the ground upon which 1t stands Is worth millions. This city Is, l judge, about half mile long and perhaps two-thirds as wide. It is walled on the south by the great struc- lures which Yung Lo built, and on the other three sides by walls which have been put up since the siege. Inside those walls are the homes of the for eign legations. The most of them are mansions of brick and stone, built Flu ropean fashion. each collection of build tngs being surrounded by a wall of It's own.
 This city has its own police and its own soldiers. Each legation has a com pany or so to guard it, and one can see almost every uniform known to Flu rope, as he walks through the streets. Inside the compounds are barracks and on some of their walls the soldiers march up and down. The wh ole Is more like an armed camp than a city, and the ministers live like feudal lords in their castles. with their retainers about them.
 The legation city is divided up by wide streets. It is lighted by electricity and is kept as clean as a pin. It rep resents the great world outside China, and is one of the most striking parts of the Peking of 1909.
 An Orderly City.
 l knew the old Peiing well. I visited it when President Cleveland was still in his first term at the White House, and I saw 1t again just before the Japan-China war At those times the streets were crowded there was no order whatever, and stranger could hardly make his way through. The streets were the sewers They were wide, miry and un- paved; and l saw Chinese carts which were so stuck in the mud that the silk gowned mandarins within them had to be carried out on the backs of coolies be- fore they could reach solid ground
 Ioday Picking is as well policed as New York and Chicago. The street traf- nc is better managed. and the vast mass or yellow humanity is handled with but little exhibition of force and with little noise. The chief streets have policemen in the middle of the roadway at every few feet, and the endless streams of almond-eyed mortals. which are always moving this way and that. are not allow ed to flow out of their proper courses. Maintaining such order is far more diffi- cult than in America, for the traffic is much more diverse. It is composed of every sort of vehicle, from the wheel parrow, hauled by donkey and pushed by man. to the carriage, with coach man and footman in livery and retainers on horseback in front and behind. It comprises hundreds of donkeys and ponies loaded with goods: caravans of camels, ridden by red-faced Mongolians, or led along single file by ropes fasten- ed to sticks thrust through the thick
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By Frank C. Carpenter


tural and artistic whole. It might be well to have the new capitol the cen- ter, and the others grouped around i&, a large space on the edge of the city being set aside for that purpose. Ac- cording to some sketches already made, the parliament houses may cost about $7,0c0,000 in gold This would be just one million dollars more than the cost of our National Library at Washington; and with Chinese oh cap labor, 1t would mean structures equal to any that could be constructed for $14,o00.000 or $15.- o00,000 in the United States
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board of communications and l under stand it is good A few years ago, the city had no street lamps, but candles placed inside wooden framework back ed with white paper It was impossible tc walk the streets after dark without a servant and lanters, and the night life of the people was confined to their homes. At that time story was current in the foreign quarters that the government ap- propriated SS0,000 a year for lighting the city, and that this sum was distributed as follows: The official in charge of the matter took s40,00O as his squeeze and the other $+0.000 was handed over to his chief lieutenant, who pocketed s20,0Oo and gave the balance to a third man. who made similar division. The distribu- ton went on until the sum was at last reduced to few copper cash, which were given to coolies to buy oil and wicks to be placed in saucer-like lamps. They set the lamps on the streets, where the beg gars drank up the oil, and that was the end of the light appropriation.
 However this may be, no real light was furnished until the new Picking was created Today the city looks most beau tiful at night. It's long. wide streets shine with incandescent globes There are thousands of lights about the gates of the palaces and on those which go through the walls. There are many street lamps, and one can find his way any where at any hour of the evening. The new electric light plant stands close to the wall of the Tartar city, and It's smokestack is visible for miles over the country. In addition there is a plant which lights the palace, and for obvious reasons the legation city has plant of ifs
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The Wal Wu Pu. is one of large series of buildings which China is to erect in the not distant future. With the adoption of the new civilization, buildings of many kinds will have to be created for the legislative. judicial and executive machinery necessary to carry on its various departments. This is the biggest nation on the face of the globe, and 1t will eventually have an army years from now China is to have par lament of its own and the officials are already thinking of how this can be accomplished. One idea Is that the plans should be made out on a broad scale. the erection of government de-
 partments and the parliament build
 ings running through series of years, and eventually forming one architec-
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A Champion of the Cause.

From the Fliegende Blaatter
 Friend-Why do you encourage these woman suffrage meetings? Surely you don't approve of them?
 Husband-Approve? With all my heart! can come home as late as like now without finding my wife at home to ask questions.
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flesh of the animals nose. There are jnrkishas without number, which have come here since the Boxer rebellion, and there are men and women dressed in silks and cotton on foot The people are from all parts of the Chinese empire Half of them cannot understand the language of the others, but nevertheless these policemen keep perfect order, with their broomsticklike clubs.
 The New Streets of Picking.
 Within the past five years, the streets of Picking have been remade. The main avenues have been divided up into side walks and roadways. Granite gutters now run along on each side the main streets and trees have been planted throughout the whole city. The road ways have been leveled and built up with macadam, so that they are as solid as those of any street in Japan. The ma terial used was stone broken by hand Into bits of various sizes. A deep roadbed was dug and the larger pieces fitted in like mosaic. Then the smaller bits were laid together in the same way on top, layer after layer being placed until the right level was reached A steam roller then crushed the stones fine and the roads thus made are perfectly firm.
 The Picking streets are clean. When 1 was last here they were covered with nth. The city nad no sanitary COnVen- fences and one had to pick his way every where. The streets were not watered, and in the summer the dust frequently obscured the town like a fog. Today Picking is putting In waterworks, and pending their creation, Is sprinlkled by men who fetch the water in tubs from wells to the center of each block and then spread it over the roads with dip pers of basketwork, to which are attach ed long wooden handles. This watering goes on summer and winter and the dust is well laid.
 The pipes of the new waterworks are now on the ground and they vii have been laid before this letter Is published. They will go first through the main streets, and thence be extended to the side streets and houses. The water from a river nine miles away will be raised to a tower inside the Chinese city and will be distributed by gravity. The new Pen- ing has many artesan wells At two hun dred feet an inexhaustible supply of good water is reached, and many of the larger buildings, including some of the palaces of the imperial city, now have plants of their own.
 Electricity in Picking.
 Modern Picking has its telegraphs and telephones. Every official and prominent business man now has his own phone The service is under the government
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A New Parliament Building.

since then has done much engineering and architectllral work here
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Electricity in Pekinq.

Modern Peking has its telegraphs and telephones. Every official and prominent business man now has his own phone. The service is under the government
Evening star., 1909-06-01
ADAM A. wEscHLER. AUCTIoNEER.

fH5rErTy tSP STS ix SW cTlcHNs4R AkS4 TSlNPRovED
the District Of Columbia. passed In equity cause
the Undersigned inr trustees viii sell at pubc
ton. in front Of the premises, on WEDNESDAY:
THE THE, SECOND ECO d, DAY OF June AD: 1909. At At
land and premises. situate in the city of Wash
inston. in the District OF Columbia. and desg
as ana G and ots @ in
Batsons subdivision Of lot sixty -four f64, in Hol
meads addition to Georgetown. as per plat re-
corded in Liber A. r. Shepherd. No. l, fono 10
in the Office Of the surveyor Of said District
said lots being now part of square No. 1862 in
AT FIVE O'CLOCK PM.
Lots numbered four ~ and five t5> and part Of
thirteen u13,, one hundred and fourteen n14)
and hundred and fifteen d15, in the subdivi-
sion Of part Of Chichester made BY Irving Wi.
office Of said District; esid parts Of said lots
10 as IL and rs being described in deed
land records Of said District.
Terms of sale: One-third of the purchase
money to be paid in cash. and the balance in two
able semi annually. from day of sale. secured by
a the OF onon % hs SOLD Or a
each lot. to be announced by the trustees. will
be required Of the purchaser at the time Of sale.
All conveyancing recording and notarial fees at
the cost Of the purchaser. Terms Of sale to be
complied with within fifteen days from day Of
sale: otherwise the trustees reserve the right to
defaulting purchaser: after five days advertise
ment Of such resale in some newspaper published
VIM. H. MANoGuE:
Stewart building
JAMES F; PADGErT:.
Stewart building.
mv21-d&ds.eSu Trustees