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KneeIing by the marble slab, she took
one Of the burned hands in hers and
clutched it as though she sought to end
the terrible nightmare that had come
upon her.
IT'S Harry's scarfpin,' she screamed.
but It can't be Harry 1t can't be my
poor, little Harry"
Coroner Ramsey hewitt and others
lifted the woman from the side of her
child and started to help her toward the
door Suddenly she broke from their
grasp and ran toward the marrow wharf
where the harbor boat was anchored.
Morguemaster Schoenberger and others
held her while she struggled franctically.
Let me die with him." she cried
Her daughter led her to the wagon Of
the House Of Detention. And the two
were helped in. up to this time the
girls nerve had been remarkable. Once
in the van, however, she collapsed COM
pletely, and when the vehicle reached
the home was wildly hysterical Physi-
clans were summoned and friends kept
watch throughout the night lest mother
and daughters might temporarily lose
reason under the strain OF their grief.
May Smith. the younger daughter, did
not know OF her brothers death until the
van bringing her mother and sister
reached the porch of the home.
While the detectives s-Questioned
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1911-12-14

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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1911-12-14
GRAND JURY REPORT
after Making Returns to the Court
Body was Discharged Friday forming

The grand Jury, after being in session
from Monday, the 4th inst, until last
Friday, was discharged by Judge Hen
derson after making the following re-
port:
To the Honorable the Judges of the
Circuit Court for Garrett county:
The Grand Jurors for the December
Term, 1911, of the Circuit Court for Gar
rett county, beg leave to report that
they have concluded their labors and
have to the best of their ability en-
deavored to perform the duties devolv-
ing upon them as members of this body,
desire to report their proceedings and
receive their discharge.
In the performance of our duties we
have endeavored to act without fear,
favor or Partially and in accordance
with the oath administered to US and
have examined 107 witnesses and have
found Is presentments and indictments.
We have found presentments in all
CoioCS III WiIlCII VIC DClICNC lliC CNINCllNS
justified and have ignored trivial cases
and those cases in which the evidence
did not appear to warrant presentments.
In the Investigations of the illegal
sale of Intoxicating liquors, we have
had a number of young men under age,
before US and regret to state that we
have had difficulty in ascertaining true
facts with reference thereto.
In accordance with your Honor's in
structions and agreeable to the provis-
ions of law, we have inspected the pub
lie buildings, that is, the County Court
House and Jail and find them in excel
lent condition, except in few minor
instances. The roof of the Court House
and also the roof of the Jail in one or
two places are at present leaking and
this should be repaired at once in order
to save damage to the building. The
connecting pipes at the boiler in the
Jail are leaking and this should be re-
paired. The Jail is in very neat con-
dltlon andIeXcellently kept by theSherltt.
We have examined the books of the
several offices and find them in a neat
condition and well kept by the officer
having them in charge
We desire to express our thanks and
appreciation for the courtesy shown
and assistance rendered US by the court
and the States Attorney, while in the
discharge of our duties.
We now beg leave to be discharged.
Respectfully submitted
GEO. l.. MICHAEL
Foreman.
HOWARD BRENNEMAN.
JNO. D. HAYDEN,
Clerks.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1911-12-14

PARASITES! We are dropping the
word moderation" from the dictionary,
we are living in time of frenzy. Mod
GRAFTON no longer goes. We must have
the strongest adjectives to define the
the most trivial offenses, especially if
corporation or a man of wealth is con-
cerned. No matter what good either
may have done. that must be forgotten
in the anxiety of the muck-raker to at
tract attention. Note an instance: The
express companies of this country may
have their faults. One of them appears
to be that they are making too much
money. Most successful people regard
this as an evidence of superior talent.
We are led to these reflections by the
manner in which Congressman Lewis,
of Maryland, endeavored to attract at
tention to himself at a recent hearing
when the reasonableness of express
rates was being considered. Mr.. Lewis
presented figures to show that the eX-
press companies were making too much
profit. If his figures stand the test
and they have not yet been put to it
we have no fault to find. But Mr..
Lewis did not rest there. He proceed
ed. in true undertaking style, to de-
nounce the express companies as
parasites. There are parasites in
politics as we'll as in business, and we
are making it our business to point out
some of them.-Leslie's Weekly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1911-12-14
WHAT THE DEMOCRATIC LEADERS
OUGHT TO DO.

There is not the slightest objection
to conference among Democratic
leaders and Democratic members of the
Senate and House of Delegates with
view to perfecting plans for teamwork
in the next Legislature. There is OBJ
lection to secret conferences, because
the business concerns the public init
rately and there is every reason why
the public should hear the arguments
that prompt action.
1t ought not to be necessary to argue.
however, that the conference should
concern the carrying out of the pledges
upon which the Democratic Legislature
was chosen. The party has no moral
right to cook up program and, taking
advantage of the incidental power it
holds during the first week of the Legis-
lature, jam through radical changes in
the laws, changes not mentioned in the
in the platform upon which a Democratic
majority in the Legislature was elected,
not discussed during the campaign. and
which nobody dreamed would be under
taken in such circumstances.
The proper course for the party to
pursue is SO clear that it is difficult to
understand why men who profess to
desire to advance the public welfare
could miss it, Instead of setting to
work in a way which, had the purpose
been to make the people believe the
party leaders were bent on contempt
BILE grab for patronage, could not have
served better, why didn't the leaders
get together in Baltimore, call in every
one whose advice was worth while, let
the people hear the discussion, make
clear their intention to live up to the
letter and the spirit of their campaign
pledges? This would have won public
confidence and appreciation, and then
the details of the legislation could have
been. arranged in business like fashion;
program of wisely framed laws could
have been sent to Governor Goldsborough
in the expectation that he would meet
the situation in the same broad spirit.
Right thinking men would have lined up
behind such program, and Governor
Goldsborough would have been com
PEELED to give due heed to the demand
for its enactment,
AS matters stand, the actions of the
men who have undertaken to control
the Democratic majority in the Legis-
lature have left the whole state with
the uneasy fee ling that they are inter
ested in nothing but the petty business
of getting as much patronage as they
can for themselves and their followers.
1t is most unfortunate to spoil fair
prospect by such wretched tactics
Baltimore News.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1911-12-14

ardship in the matter of the expenditure
of six millions of dollars Of the peoples
money Thus far he has escaped.
Strange as it may seem, the people have
never been thoroughly aroused to the
fact that the expenditure of this great
fund has been almost exclusively COM
mitted to Crothers' own hands. The
President of the Commission, John M.
Tucker, is Crothers' personal repre-
sentative" was appointed as such,
after having been his local political
lieutenant for many years. These twain
are one-two souls with but a single
thought. Their word has been law in
handling this great enterprise-AND
ABOUT THE ONLY LAW. To be
sure the Act creating the Commission
provides that it shall make an annual
report to the Governor, but as things
now stand and have stood for these four
years THAT is SIMPLY THE GOV
ERNOR REPORTING TO HIMSELF.
What other and further publicity has
been given to the Commissions proceed
ings. What do the people of Maryland
know about the way their millions of
dollars have been handled, or any other
administrative feature of this giant en-
terprise? 1t is almost Incredible that
any set of people, beyond the age of
infancy, would commit the handling of
such enormous sums and the conduct of
ly be in the hands of one man. without
any adequate accounting or satisfactory
reports.
But the day for this sort of business
is past. Crothers knows it is past.
Hence his scramble for a vantage
ground. This is why Crothers has call
ed together the party leaders to map
out a program for the first week of the
legislative session, while he is still Gov
ernor. He has made a show of want
ing this, that and the other done BUT
THE ONE THING FOR WHICH HE
IS PLAYING IS A BILL THAT WILL
GIVE HIM WHAT HE WANTS IN
THE MATTER OF THE GOOD
ROADS COMMISSION. 1t will not
avail. We beg to assure the Governor
that the day of reckoning has come.
The Road Commission has got to be
dragged before the high court of public
ODiniOn He can make what deals he
pleases with the politicians, to jam
through saving legislation. BUT 1T
WILL NOT SAVE. HIS COMMITS
SION AND ITS WORK HAVE GOT
TO COME INTO THE LIGHT, how
ever little Mr.. Crothers may relish the
unpleasant prospect.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1911-12-14
OPPORTUNITY

There is, and has been for ages, float
ing around in the form of aphorisms,
proverbs, familiar quotations, or by
whatever name a lot of sophlstry. that
passes with many for wisdom. No sub
iect is of more vital interest to young
persons or to ambitious persons of any
age, than Opportunity, and none has
been more persistently distigured and
misfgured by poets, photographers, max
ers of epigrams and such others as have
the ability to give to fancy the appear
ance of fact.
Shakespeare is the greatest offender,
because he is the greatest of poets. His
utterances are considered authoritative,
and when he reminds US that
There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at its flood, leads on to
fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life IS
bound in shadows and in miseries,
we begin to wonder whether we have
missed our one opportunity or whether
it is yet to come. A more modern sooth-
sayer has said: opportunity knocks
once at every mans door," and the
statesman-poet, Senator Ingalls, has in
dited fine poem to the thought that
we must be ever on the watch, lest OPP
portunity come when we wit not and
pass before we catch him.
The real truth is that opportunity
doesn't do much travelling about, and he
is not single Individual that passes
favors around to those who wait. The
figure of speech that represents him
thus is false figure. 1t is wrong end
foremost. No common sense person of
today believes in the lazy philosophy of
sitting around waiting for Something
to turn up" in passive readiness to
seize it and appropriate it. The fact is
that opportunity or opportunities in
Vulnerable await those who go out after
them. Those who succeed do go after
the opportunity, and if they fail to get
it, they go after another and another
until sometime, somewhere, they secure
success. Many men and women are sue
cessful in more than one line of effort
and such persons have no time for the
contemplation of the fatalism of oppor-
tunity as set forth by Shakespeare and
his followers.
The tide GIBBS and flows every day.
Each morning begins a new life and a
new chance to profit by past mistakes,
and work out of even adverse circum-
stances a measure of fortune that will
bring contentment, which is the most
certain evidence of success.
The truer ring of wisdom is that which
comes from the anvil of Longfellow' s
'Vlllage Blacksmith"
''Thus at the flaming forge of Life
Our fortunes must be wrought;
Thus on its sounding anvil shaped
Each burning deed and thought"
That is the Gospel of work; and work
is the key to the door of Opportunity
of any opportunity. Theodore J. Goe,
in Good News MAGAZINE
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1911-12-14
KITZMILLER.
.<.l.y..ssk.ss(.sscsssaGessal

Business has been dull in this vicinity
this week.
The stores are all making prepara-
ton for the holiday business and the
windows are all filled with toys and
Christmas goods of all kinds.
Messrs. George j. Pool and Albert
Craver started to Oakland, Md, Tues
day with a horse and buggy, but the
horse baked on the return trip home,
and the gentlemen had to foot it home.
A large number of persons from this
city attended court at Oakland this
week
Mr.. and Mrs. George Hose, who have
made their home here for several years,
moved to Morgantown, w. Va, the first
of this week Mr.. Hose was employed
here as mine boss, and left a great many
friends here who did not like to see
them leave here.
Mr.. Christian Helmick spent a few
few days in Oakland this week on bu-
siness
The club composed of young men from
Blame and Kitzmiller have moved from
the Miller Building to the rooms over
the pool and Southern bakery.
Mr.. Milton Pritts, who has been IN
the army for some time, returned home
this week and has accepted position
with one of the mining companies here.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1911-12-14
GORTNER.
5ao ssse ssesess,s sI.ssssIss 90.

We are sorry to note the illness of D.
J. Slabaugh and Peter Miller, two aged
and highly respected citizens of this
place.
Miss Nora Wamsley, who spent the
past year in Westernport, spent several
days recently with her parents.
A number Of young people of this
place have been attending the protract-
meeting at Pleasant Valley the past
two weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. w c. Welch and little
son spent several days recently at Terra
Altar
P R. Wotring, TRAVELLING for the Crys-
tai Candy Co., of Piedmont, was bust
ness caller at Gortner last week
Rev. Loucks, of Scotdale, Pa,
preached two excellent sermons in the
Union church Sunday
Misses Fannie Welch, Leola and Ruth
Schlossnagle and Walter Schlossnagle
spent Monday afternoon at Wamsley's.
Misses Anna Gortner and Laura San
ders spent the latter part of last week
at Crellin
Mr.. George Schlossnagles of Accident,
spent several DAYS recently with his
nephew, ]. J. Schlossnagle, of this
place.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1911-12-14
Dissolution of Co Partnership.

Notice is hereby given that the CO.
partnership heretofore existing between
E. F. Smouse and H. Z. Gibson, in the
Mountain Lake Park Baggage and Elk
press Company, was dissolved Novem-
Der LIST, 1911.
The business will be continued by H.
2. Gibson. Bell phone after December
10th, 1911. E. F. SMoUsE,
H. z. GIBSON.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1911-12-14
THE ROAD COMMISSION WILL BE
PROBED.

Austin L. Crothers evidently sees the
handwriting on the wall. He realizes
that the day and hour draws nigh when
he must give an accounting of his stew
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1911-12-14
Notice to Creditors.
AT OAKLAND,
AT FRIENDSVILLE.

This is to give notice, That the subscriber
has obtained from the Orphans Court OF
Garrett County, in Maryland, Letters tesla
mentary on the estate of
JOHN II. CUPPETT.
late of Har, ison County, ". Va, deceased.
All persons having claims against the de-
ceased are hereby warned to exhibit the
same. with the vouchers thereof duly anthem
ticated to the subscriber. nor before the 18th
day of June. 1912; they may otherwise by law
be excluded from all benefit of said estate.
All persons knowing themselves indebted to
payment.
Given under my hand this 18th day of
December, 1911.
o. B. CCPPETT,
Executor,
ClarkSburg.
West Va.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-12-09
|||InT TO LEAVE
FIRST OF YEAR
iinIaeaRTURE or HEAD OF WASH
McrON AND LEE CAUSES
DEEP REGRET.

fopecial to The Richmond virgin,an.l
VA. Dec S.-Ths
"a HtrAtion OF students for the pres
/ ~ session shows that there II an
s11Aar Substantial Increase In mum
sHere The total has already gone be-
yOnd jaa ysAr's Agnrea. and should
reach u leAst e3k.
prooldont Denny. after ten years
- sovvice ~ executive head OF the
16eutten. leesse January l. to take
- ~ prtstdes<y Of The State Uni
yHgs1ly q AlAbensA- His leaving has
$50 naAa thu eecosion ~ the most
iysnss1kable psetest sad uprising that
~ been known In the recent history
II WasAinassa and Lee, and indeed
'o1 this entire Eection.
DuF1ng hta AAQtn4StSAticn the en-
Aowment. the material plant. and the
equipment have been practically
doubled: the income and the student
body trebled. When HE work began.
there were marked differences OF
view among tia friends Of the uni
VARSITY eonccruing IT. policy. He
JoAvee . hArmouious and united
boArd OF trustees and faculty. and
N enthusiastic body OF alumni
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-12-09
WARREyTON WEDDING
OF WE'LL KNOWN COUPLE

Especial to The Richmond virEinian.)
wARRNNTpE. VA. Dec, 7.--At
$50 r. NJ. at the home OF the bride
hero Thursday In the presence
~ . host Of friends and relatives,
Mis- Elizabeth Fftxhugh Thornton.
laughter Of the late Mrs. Victoria
Gray Thornton and the lats Mayor
hsmAs e. Thornton. and Mr.. Miles
1hyler Hart sen Of Mrs Robert Hart.
sWnre united in the holy bonds OF
lnatytmony, Rev. Edwin s. Kinks,
- o. James Episcopal church. per-
npgmlng tbs seremony. Miss Thorn
-, who wore . travelling gown Of
ADpe. with hat to match, carried q
n0uuuet OF Brides roses and was
|D4ysn IN marriage by her brother.
~. Edward c. Thornton.
MiA Thcrntcn had ~ her only at
lonAsa Miss Victoria Gray. = dangh-
- Of Mrs. Fitxhugh Gray, and q
elsean Of the bride, who was elabo-
1Ate!y gownsd In yellow messsline
I'D carried yellow chsysanthemums.
6 NJ. Hart had a. his best man Mr..
1eaFy Awiing, Of Washington.
The house was decorated IN ported
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-12-09
rnusrEvs AUCTION aAln

II execution Of ) assd Of trsst dated
u es 5. =: sS. e 1sf : :, e; ss
Court Of CumSsriAnd county In deed
been made q tbs debt thsrein secured
! VIII sail BY tucs'on 90 the prsmisss
" rs, =: osoce e. re sne ot ,'i u
parcels Of Land With the improvements
thaFeon. located In the county OF
Cumberland. fully described as fol-
First A lot consisting Of one AGRA
lands u Aari& 'Brows and r. a Irv.
Ing. bsing the same lot Or parcel Of
land conveyed 10 r. Z Knight b,
Maria Brown .nnd others b. deed date.
'i ::sssa - - -, .o...,n,.. A.. .as
ens-h.lf .ere, BOUNDED = icl,ovs:
Tomwcsth Road. running backward
from said geea $50 yardea more OF
b. 70 sa M: '.aa e: . Ct Tn :.i lava ss e
run south waEd!y are parallel except
saiA Tract IL Sonadsd on In: east s.
the Hoiman estate, and on the vest
r: a. . & !. l. y - nceh ., n.
. sss sruat T. S:asTss
Z trusfse's eommission. taxes. lnsur-
anee preaninma ON the premises ua-
s ss .%ssss s' viii Ss:s :s e
Any rssidue 70 IS Sayasis IL snsss nt
nsats ~ oas and two years ana -
cussd ~ deed ~ trust on the Drem.
y. h wILLIAMA
Trustaa.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-12-09
Money to Lend

O., Richmond CITY, Suburban and High
ClAss Farm Property.
SUTTON 4 co
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-12-09

plants and cvsrgYeens. while the
drawing room was = bower Of ferns
and Aovers. tbs inproyised altar
being beautifully lighted with nyriads
OF candles. Altar tina ceremony a
reception was given by Mr.. and MIRA
Edward Thornton, after which Mr..
and Mrs, Hart ieft for an extended
bridal tour through the North.
Mr. ana Mrs Hart are both we'll
known in this community. having
made their homes here. They will
reside here IN future.
Gilpin observer., 1911-04-13
WASHINGTON.

Senator La Toilette introduced a
resolution providing for another in
vestigation of the Senator Lormer
case.
The one-million.h United States
patent will be issued some time this
summer, 121 years after the first in
July, 1890.
els larger than ever raised in the Unit
ed States is indicated in the first gov
ernment report.
Senator Martin of Virginia, at the
Democratic Senate caucus was Sc
lected permanent caucus chairman and
minority leader.
Another Washington society woman
made her first flight in an aeroplane
when Miss Leonora Rizero, daughter
of the Cuban minister, went aloft with
Anthony Janus.
Two young society women of Wash.
ington, Miss Laura Merriam and Miss
Dorothy Williams. enjoyed the dis
tinction of being the first two women
in the United States to make flight
in an aeroplane at the same time.
Alleged discrimination in interstate
freight rates between Texas and Okla
homa points was made the basis of d
complaint filed by the corporation
commission of Oklahoma against sew
enty carriers operating in the South
west.
The Democratic Ways and Means
committee has decided to submit the
problem of what is to be done with the
Canadian reciprocity agreemnt by the
majority in the House to caucus of
Democrats to be held in the near fu.
ture.
In an effort to save the life of an
enlisted man lying at deaths door on
board the United States steamship
Vicksburg, the Navy Department and
State Department huriredly abandoned
all plans made out for this vessel and
ordered her to steam 500 miles under
forced draft from Corinto, Nicaragua,
to Panama.
American gunners have once more
demonstrated their efficiency in hand
ling the guns of the Zig battleships.
The first reports of the battle practice
held week ago by the Atlantic, Pa
cific and Asiatic fleets have been re-
ceived by the navy department, and
the results indicate a remarkable i'm
provement in skill.
Gilpin observer., 1911-04-13
NEWS TO DATE
IN PARAGRAPHS
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
WESTERN

Mrs. Ella Wilson has been elected
mayor of HONEYWELL, Kans.
Fire in Gore City, Kans., burned
several business buildings, causing
loss estimated at $4,000.
Some time between the closing Of
Mace's market in Portland, Ore.,' ami
the opening next morning the safe was
blown open and about 100000 taken.
The value of the stocks and bonds
stolen recently from Mrs. S. B. Ar
mour in Kansas City was s150.000 in
stead of 100000, asoriginally reported
Bank robbers raided the First Ma
'tional Bank of Dayton, Ia, but Sc
cured only $3.50. being frightened away
before they opened the inner door OF
the safe.
George w. Mcmillan, one of the best
known football players on the Pacific
coast, was run over and almost in
stantly killed by a freight train in
front OF his grain warehouse in Port
land, Ore.
.Crop conditions are good and the
railroads of the West and Middle
West are extremely hopeful for big
fall business" said ]. s. Seeley, gen
eral manager of the Nathan Manufac
turing Company of Chicago.
According to passengers arriving in
Tucson, Arix., from the west coast of
Mexico the earthquake shock which oc-
Cured in the state of Sinaloa recent
ly did considerable damage and in
jured a number of persons in different
cities.
war of determination that Will
turn Mexico into a vast burial ground
is believed imminent following the
positive statement by Madero, provl-
sional president of Mexico. that the in
surgents will never lay down their
arms until their demands are granted.
Announcement was made by the
school land department that 1,535,s62
acres OF school land would be sold in
Oklahoma beginning June 23rd. Purr'
chasers may buy as many sections as
they can pay for. Heretofore not
more than a quarter section has been
sold to one man.
That the Mexican government has
the revolution well in hand is the be-
lief OF Major r. l.. Hirst, formerly
chief of staff of the Department OF
Colorado, who returned to Denver
from the frontier. where he has been
stationed for several months with the
United States troops.