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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-12-15
about the Late Andrew Mullen.

Andrew Mullen, former county com
missioner of Garrett county, who died
last week a. Piedmont, W. Va. where
he moved some time ago, had an IN
usual history. He was born in Balti-
more s. years ago, four years after the
arrival Of his parents from Ireland.
He witnessed the corner stone laying of
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad at
Mount Clare and remembered well the
parade Of the different trades associa-
tons. also remembered the grading Of
the road and laying track which was
wooden sleepers on top of which was
fiat iron. He recalled seeing the first
cars, drawn by horses, between Balti-
more and Ellicott City. When seven
years old he went on farm with an
uncle in Adams county, Pa, where ne
remained ten years. He was appren-
ticed to a blacksmith He worked at
his trade for five years in Baltimore,
part of the time Q844 or 1870 for Ross
Winans and helped to build the first six
locomotives called spur wheel engines.
One was known as the Elephants and
another the Baldwin. He worked at
the old Waterman factory and machine
shop on Federal Hill, Baltimore, where
they built steamboats, and did marine
work. Here one summer morning the
the boiler exploded, killing the engineer
and wrecking the building. He then
went to the Relay foundry and machine
shops, where also steamboat building
and marine work was carried on. On
May 10, 1919, Mr.. Mullen left Baltimore
for Bloomington, Md, going by rail to
Cumberland and walking the balance of
the distance of thirty miles He Open
ed blacksmith shop and did work for
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, which
commenced to extend the line from
Cumberland west. He did work on the
engineering corps which surveyed the
line west of Cumberland Then Graf
ton had only one house. In 1853. Mr..
Mullen went to Iowa with the intention
of settling. The trip was beset with
many hardshlps. From Pittsburg to
st. Louis the journey was by steam
boat, lasting three weeks and the fare
and board was 81. He did not like the
west and returned to Bloomington
where in July, 1855, he opened a gener-
al store and continue in business in the
same building until 1908, or SO years.
He was thrice married
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-12-15
Gas Tractors on the Farm.

The coming into use of the gasoline
engine as a source of power for a good
many different uses has brought into
vogue a convenient name. A good
many people who use them call them
''gas tractors. That the gas engine
is being adopted to varied farm uses is
disclosed IN a narrative by Forrest Girls
sy, recently published in the Saturday
Evening Post. The story concerns the
operations on a big farm carried on
through the pull obtained from two gas
engines. Each of these engines was
harnessed to a sIx-furrow engine pillow,
and one plow was run on a night pillow
being guided by acetylene light. In
sixty days, through this keep-at-it
system, 1000 acres had been broken
and narrowed. And following the plows
another tractor was rugged with gang
of rollers, which was closely followed
by a gang of wheat drills. The seeding
was completed with in week of the
finish Of the blowing This 1000 acres
was later harvested by ten eight-foot
harvesters, working in gangs of five,
each gang being pulled by a gas tractor.
1t may be SAID that this sort OF farm
ing is not practicable on the smaller
farms of the East where a wheat acre
age rarely exceeds $50 acres. But why
not? One gas tractor would plow, har-
row, roll and drill $50 acres within a
period OF two weeks. At the reaping
time it would pull two harvesters and
save the crop within week Then it
would work the thresher and finally it
would haul the crop quickly to market.
And in the miscellaneous farming of
the East, the tractor could be utilized
in connection with every crop handled
On the farm referred to it is estimated
that each engine does the work of at
least ten horses. Would any Maryland
farmer attempt to seed 1000 acres
with 20 horses? The experience on
Maryland farms is that it taxes nine
good horses to prepare and seed $50
acres to wheat.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-12-15
seeeeses ssa.ess.sse.os
KEARNEY.
500 . Observation-Disclosures.

We are having lots of fine winter for
so early. Some of our old farmers say
it is to be an old time winter. Wonder
if they know.
Our pastor, Rev. E. T. Idelman,
preached a very interesting sermon at
this place Sunday.
Mr.. C. S. Thompson spent Saturday
in Davis on busitess.
Quite lively sleighing party We're
at Mr.. Neville's Friday night.
Emory Shillinburg spent Monday in
Oakland.
Miss Nellie Harring, who has spent
some time with Mrs. E. w. Keso, re-
turned to her home Sunday.
Paul Neville was a business caller at
S. G. Steyer's one day last week.
Two of our town girls were outsleigh-
ing recently and had the misfortune of
being thrown into a snowdrjft. Girls
do like do, take a beau to hold the
sleigh down.
Merritt Harvey claims to be the cham
pion hunter of the season.
Xmas will bring JOY to all and will
also bring our boys and girls from col
lege.
Miss Opal Shillnburg was calling on
Mrs. J. B. Shockey recently.
Several of our people are helping with
the Xmas program at Oak Grove.
We wish the editor and all the read
ers a Merry Christmas and a bright
New Year. BLUE EYED TWINS
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-12-15
Quail in Need of Protection.

with the present deep snow and the
hard coating of ice on top, it is very
hard on the quail. - said a well known
farmer Saturday morning, and every
one living in the country should help
protect the birds bY feeding them corn
or grain at this time when their ordin-
airy sources of sustenance are covered
with snow. There are more quail this
year sthan for many years and they
should be protected. They can stand
extreme cold weather all right if they
have food. They are probably suffering
already and farmers should scatter
grain where the birds can get it. -
MOrgantown New Dominion.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-12-15
THURSDAY. DECEMBER Is, 1910.
CHRISTMAS AND THE CHILD.

Does the calendar man bring on
Christmas? Not bit of it. 1t is an
easy guess that Santa Claus does it,
but here again comes an error. Christ
mas brings Santa Claus, and Santa
Claus, therefore, cannot bring Christ
mas. The twenty-ffth of December of
itself means nothing. 1t means nothing
to the EsquimauX and the Terra del
Fuegans. Santa Claus does not bring
Christmas, for in some lands that are
not visited by him. Christmas is joy
Gus festival Ii is no use puzzling
about who brings on Christmas, when
the curly headed little mischief with
twinkle in his eye, and the dimpled.
checked little miss with wonder in her
wide opened orbs, are at hand to answer
the question. Who could possibly bring
on Christmas but the happy hearted
and eagerly-anXious little children Of
the home. Christmas came with the
birth of a Child, and the children deem
it their festival They are right be-
cause if there could be a vote taken in
the kingdom of childhood, and it should
be adverse to the celebration, nothing
would be left of the festival save some
church candles and seasonable prayers.
So it is that the calendar man does
not make Christmas. The little hands
Of the little children, grasping eagerly
at the mantle of Father Time, and re-
minding HIM of the beautiful holiday,
bring on Christmas. Otherwise Time
would forget it, and the mists of neglect
would settle upon it, and the Christmas
date would become only one Of the
monotonous days of the year. Christ
mas as happy celebration abdes in the
heart of the Geld.
Of course. Christmas comes where
there are no children, because, if in
some home no prattling little ones are
heard, there is yet scarcely life that
is so desolate as not to feel the warmth
of the lovelight of the child at Christ
mastide. So the spirit of the child is
everywhere, and the prattle of the
voices. whether on the street, or in the
shops, is the musical score of jubilation
chorus of the browning day of the year
Only matter of days is the time in
tervening now. So the Christmas date
is CLOSE, and the eager beat of tine
child's heart sounds through the entire
range of sounds that signalize the COM
ing of the inspiring day of the days of
the year. Everywhere the streets and
the lanes and the roads are touched
with Christmas. A cedar in the field is
no longer such, it is now a Christmas
tree, waiting the ak; the gobble of the
turkey, the crow of the rooster,
the strident notes Of the guinea fowl,
the cackle CT geese in the barnyard all
are part Of the Christmas symphony.
Hence the spirit of the holiday not
brooding, but merry and hilarious
seems to engage every sound and to
enter into every landscape. Christmas
coming presses its service heralds
uniformed in the gray end mauve of the
season, and the multi-colors of the holi-
day times. Christmas exaults the child
and under the mandate of the little will
the big people are glad to confess them
selves children again.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-12-15
Two New Moons.

In addition to being the month of the
shortest day, and the month of the
greatest holiday, December this year
has the distinction of having two new
mOons-one on the first day. Thursday,
and one on the last day, Saturday, the
thirty-frst. The new moon of Thurs
day slowed its thin crescent shortly af-
ter one o'clock in the morning.
Two new moons in month are said
to mean great good fortune, peace,
prosperity, success.and happiness to the
people of the earth.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-12-15
Fifteen Train Crews Transferred

Fifteen of the B. & 0. crews were
transferred Monday from the Wheeling
division to the third division to assist in
handling the heavy shipments of coal
on that division. Not in years has the
Consolidation Coal Company's eastern
trade from the Fairmont field been as
heavy as it is at present. There were
six hundred cars of coal living in the
yards at Fairmont Monday awaiting
shipment to the Atlantic seaboard. The
increase OF traffic on the third division
is fortunate for the Wheeling railroad
men. as traffic on the Wheeling divi-
sion is rather dull at present.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-12-15
Dissolution OfCo-Partnershlp

This is to give notice that the firm of
Cuppett, Leighton & Co.. doing a gen.
eral mercantile business in the town of
Loeb Lynn Heights, Md, will be dis
solved by mutual consent December 81,
1910, Mr.. H. N. Cuppett retiring from
the business. All persons knowing
themselves indebted to the firm are
hereby notified to call and naked set
Element on or before the above date.
All accounts not settled by that date
will be placed out for collection.
CUPPETT, LEIGHTON & Co.
November %. 1910.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-12-15
SAYS SQUARE DEAL PAYS.

Cardinal Gibbons, in an interview on
the noticeable tendency of men in charge
of ssome big business organizations to
deal in absolute fairness and honesty
With the public, declared that the coun-
try would benefit greatly if the proper
Christian spirit were manifested in the
management of all business enterprises,
great and small. He believes in pub
licity of the affairs of corporations.
1.-THE confidence of the people. he
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-12-15
Dates for Orphans Court.

The Orphans Court for this county
will be in session on next Tuesday, the
goth, instead of the following Tuesday
The first session of the Court in the
the new year will be held on Tuesday,
January 18th. This change ofholding the
court is made so that a session will not
occur during the holiday week. All
persons having business before the
court are requested to observe the
above dates
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-12-15
Oakland Pharmacy
JOS. E. HARMED. Prop,
Drugs, Chemicals, Stationery, Cigars
Cameras and Photo SuD0HeS

nR. W. w. GRANT.
u DENTIST.
ONCE, McComas Building, Second street,
Oakland, Md
Bridge and Crown Work a Speciality.
Gold and silver Filings. 2l-Gg-lY.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-12-15
New Roller Process for BucKwheat.

Mr.. T. B. Bowman desires to inform
the farmers and others of the neigh
borhood, that he has installed the lat
est and best roller process for the man
ufacture of buckwheat -four. He will
give as good a turnout of flour as any
mill in the county.
Arizona republican., 1910-05-07
BACK TO THE FIRST LOVE.

A travelling man who visits the southwest four times a year tells oi his experiences with somewhat fickle- minded hotel proprietor in a little city in Arkansas. The hotel ever since he had known it, and up until last September. bore the time- honored yet somewhat nondescript name of Revere House." Shortly after the first tiding came from 'farthest north." the traveller visited the town, and at the station found a porter who insisted on taking him and his baggage to the Hotel Cook. ' The traveller demurred until he was assured that there was no more Re were House." and learned that the old hostelry had been rechristened in honor of the intrepid explorer.
 On his next trip to the town, some three months later. he was impor- tuned. or rather captured, by a porter from the "Peary" The same process of elimination and explanation was made, which served to convince him of "mine hosts" change or exchange of loyalty. Now the tourist has just returned and tells that on his last visit he was invited to take the bus for the Revere House, the only first class hotel in the city" He found the name emblazoned in gold leaf on the old sign board from which it was erased eight months ago.
Arizona republican., 1910-05-07
uNsuslNEssIIkE WoMEN.

The manager of one of the largest dry goods stores in the west says his firm does not object to exchanging one article purchased at the store for an- other or even refunding the money if the articles is not satisfactory. But" he said, the most unreasonable de- mands are made on us. A woman will bring us an article purchased else where and insist upon our giving her money or exchanging it for something else. Usually she has won the article at a card party and she does rot want a cut glass vase. but she does want a new waist or. the money to buy some thing somewhere else. Generally she becomes furious when we try to ex- plain that we cannot. exchange or re- fund the money for an article bought at some other store"
 The privilege of exchanging is some thing often greatly abused. A woman received Christmas gift of silk un- derwear she: took 1t to the store from which her friend had purchased it, and declared, it was not at all what she wanted. she wanted a refund Of the purchase pricd J15 tcaeh aRd with tue money bought tllS4ser 'tislke}s for her family.
Arizona republican., 1910-05-07
'lElGuE BASEBALL
 AT EAsIlAkE PARK
Capitol and Valley Bank Have Their
 First Meetiny Today.

This afternoon at 3:3O o'clock those who assemble at Eastlake park ball grounds will be permitted to witness the third game of the Phoenix league series and the second appearance of each for the Valley Bank and Capitol teams. which will face each ether for the first time. Each team has been played by the Phoenix National bank team. and each one is determined to Wreak its vengeance on the other for its previous drubbing by the third party.
 The Capitol team has the best of it at this time. so far as can be learned. for it has the moral support Of the Capitol Girls Roofing association, which has furnished it with a fine yell It is also possible that the Valleys have acquired a female auxiliary by this time to help them out. but if so they have kept it dark Both sides promise a better game than they have hitherto put up and as both have been practicing diligently it is expected they will deliver the goods.
 The Capitol team will appear in the following batting order: Hankinson, left field; Hasse, center field; Fitch. catcher; Luhrs. second base; Ames, pitcher; Peatross, shortstop; Ingalls,. right field: Craig. third base; Cleave- land first base.
 The Valley team lineup in the bat ting order it is expected will be as follows: Hull, shortstop: Ainsworth, center field; Civille. catcher; Pagan, second base; Bunch, right field: Her rett. pitcher: Battin. first base; Brooks, third base; Roundtree, left field.
Arizona republican., 1910-05-07
RATS CAN BE TERMINATED
 ONLY BY STARVATION

A writer in McClure's Magazine for ] May describes what was done in San Francisco to rid the city of bubonic plague. Of course, 1t was a question of exterminating the rat. He says: Trapping alone, or even poison. are 1 rather to the advantage of the rats Every living thing. save only civilized man. multiplies up to it's food capacity To destroy from time to time, three quarters of the rats in a city only kills off the surplus population, and makes life easy and food abundant for the rest. No matter how many are caught. there will always be plenty more The remnant, experienced and trap-shy, will get their living from granary, pam try and chicken yard, will shun baits and survive. The only way to dispose of the last few individuals is to cut off absolutely their food supply and make them choose between starvation and the chance of poison or trap.
 ''On this basis San Francisco carried on its campaign. Fifty thousand new metal garbage cans with tight metal coverings wiped out as many feeding places. Eighty-seven inspectors saw to it that all the poultry yards. brewer
 
 ies, restaurants. wharves, stables, slaughter houses. grain bins and the like. were made rat proof with wire netting and cement and induced the San Franciscan to 7forego the conven- tent practice of throwing edible refuse in the nearest vacant lot. In general. all unsanitary structures-i s-inhabitited by either men or animals were condemned and all sewers repaired and made tight and all cellar floors relaid with cement. to do away with the favorite nesting places of vermin. An elaborate card catalogue recorded the condition of every building in the city; nearly 400 recalcitrant persons suffered arrest: there were upward of S0,000 abatements of nuisance. Altogether. San Francisco became one of the cleanest cities in the world and one of the least popular with the whole tribe of vermin.''
Arizona republican., 1910-05-07
MARKET PRICE 0F
 CORONADO DEv. STOCK
It Jumped Last Night From 25 Gents
 ts $t.oo.

The Coronado Development compa- ny held meeting in the city hall last night at which there was a good rep resentation of the stockholders. most Of which are Phoenix people. and will number in the neighborhood Of half a hundred. The meeting was an impor- tant one. involving more vigorous exploitation of the property as the re- suit of the enthusiasm accompanying the recent development of the unusu- ally fine ore bodies. Primarily it was projected to raise the stock from 25 cents to one dollar, and that action was carried out. At a recent meeting the directors offered 50,000 shares at 25 cents per share and 20,009 shares of that offering have been sold. De- velopment work since that time, how ever. has convinced the company that it would be foolish to dispose of any more stock at that price. so last night the directors withdrew the remaining 30,000 shares in the former offering and placed the price of stock at one dollar. Also the company decided las; night to supplant the present hoist with larger one and prepare for more extensive operations.
 The main shaft on the property is now down 260 feet, and from the bot tom drifts run east and west 90 and 70 feet respectively. In each of them a shoot of fine ore has been encoun- tered, the one in the west drift show ing 51 feet of high grade copper ore, carrying good gold values also. In- deed. it was the magnitude of this body and the wonderful values it car ries that prompted last nights action. There is another shaft and tunnel on the property also, but it is believed these two ore shoots demonstrate that instead of a very attractive gold prop erty, as it appeared on the surface, it is destined to become a big copper mine. It is situated about ten miles north of Price station in Pinal coun tN.
Arizona republican., 1910-05-07
A MILLIONAIRE CLERK.
Effort to Save Every Penny Finally
 Caused His Death.

Charles Ferdinand Hoffman. a clerk in the Wall street offices of Brown Brothers. bankers. who died one year ago. leaving an estate of S3,0G0, ,000, was one of New York s unknown miIlionaires. During his life time none of his acquaintances suspected that he was possessed of so much wealth.
 His fortune, it developed yester- day, will eventually go to his aunt, Mrs. IneZ Spagnola, of New Orleans, and his neices, Miss Margaret Cor nelia Hoffman. of 134 State street, Brooklyn, and her sister, Carolyne, who lives in New Orleans. It was at the above Brooklyn address that he lived, having a s4 a week room. Even his pretty neice knew nothing of his wealth, and although she was invited north to take care of him. she was forced to seek employment in a publishing house to pay for her own support. Surrogate Ketcham handed down yesterday a decision de- ciding that no other relatives are entitled to his money
 Hoffman had the reputation among his business associates and his ac- Quaintances in the old-fashioned Brooklyn boarding house where he lived, of never spending q dollar recklessly or in pursuit of pleasure. For twenty years he used the south ferry to and from his office. thus getting to Manhattan for the small s,Im of one cent q day. His death was indirectly due, it was said by a close business friend yesterday. to the increased price of crossing the East river. for he decided to walk over the Brooklyn bridge in prefer ence to paying the additional cent charged during the rush hour. He caught cold when facing the winds one encounters on that structure in early spring, and after a short ill., ness died.
 The career of this man who made $3.000,00 so quietly cannot be com pared with that Of any other Wall street man, for he was original. His one motto was economy" He was an efficient clerk. and even though 7e years old when he died, he con- tinued to hold the position of head of the foreign credit department of Brown Brothers. His knowledge of securities and of stocks was astound- ing, and it is still said in the of- fices he was associated with for fifty five years that he never made a mis- take.
 His first sI0.o00 he laid up by saving when in the New Orleans branch of Brown Brothers. where he started as office boy. His parents emigrated from Germany to the south about 1895 and taught him the nec- essity of saving. Every cent he earned while in. New Orleans he put aside, and twenty years ago when cotton slumped and his firm gave up it's New Orleans office, he was brought north.
 He carefully invested his money in railroad stocks and in United States Steel, for he readily saw that the age of steel had arrived. and he who got in on the ground floor would be millionaire. His wealth then increased with great rapidity. but he remained content with his office boy mode of life. remaining indoors even on Sunday to save money, and having for his literature the financial reports he would bring from his office.-New York Ameri- can
Arizona republican., 1910-05-07
BREAD oMElET.

Soak a cup of stale bread crumbs for omelet in half a teacupful of milk; beat them smooth and add half tea spoonful of salt and five beaten eggs. Butter a shallow pudding dish well. pour the mixture into 1t and bake in the oven about ten minutes. Serve in the dish at once. as it falls quick lv
Arizona republican., 1910-05-07
CORN ovsTERs.

Take one can of corn, three well- beaten egf:s. about eight crackers rolled fine. lump cf butter the size of an eges. melted Mix all together and drop into hot lard with . tea spoon and fry brown.
Arizona republican., 1910-05-07
Ribbed Vests

Good Swiss ribbed Vests, in sizes ,, 6, ', s, 9, and worth more; our price, each 9c. Base ment.
Arizona republican., 1910-05-07

Plain white and em- brOidered Wash Belt, with pearl buckle; val ues up to 35c; sale price 10c, in Basement