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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-11-06
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Don't apologize for doing your duty.
One way to unsettle a question is
to argue about it.
Never form your opinion of an egg
until the lid is off.
The average husband is silent
partner.
Even a fast man may not make a
rapid recovery when he's i'll.
It's only the brilliant sayings of the
first baby that count.
The man with grievance never
misses an opportunity to mention it.
= fool friend can WELD a hammer
as effectively as Il bitter enemy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-11-06

France still has probably a million
and half of men capable of bearing
arms. most of them under arms, who
have never been to the front. There
are the very young men and the re-
serves of the older classes who are be-
ing TRAINED for taking their places on
the battle lines and to serve as the
material for repairing the wastage.
France. therefore. can lose one and a
half million men and yet maintain her
gigantic armies on the fighting lines
at their present strength.
The same thing may be true of Ger
many-it probably is-and therefore
military observers in Paris cannot be-
1ieve in a short and decisive war. The
immense operations which have already
taken place are looked upon as merely
the beginning, as merely the deploy-
ment and opening engagements of
war which may not reach it's greatest
gioleAce until spring.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-11-06
Careful Of Lives.

Gen. Joffre and Field Marshal French
are careful of the lives of their men.
They seek to accomplish large results
by letting the Germans attack under
unfavorable circumstances, when they
will do so. and the allied commanders
appear to consider that the Germans
may be engaged to greater advantage
in France and in Belgium than in Ger
many. The effort is to dispose of the
allied troops upon this or that part Of
the vast front SO that important frac-
tons of the invaders may be destroyed
or captured. For the allied simply to
drive the Germans before them-if that
should be possibie-would be to drive
them back upon their bases with armies
intact. The problem of beating the Ger
mans on this frontier would be more
difficult every mile they were simply
driven back.
the headquarters in the field and at the
ministry of war that the war is to be {
long one; that the victory is TO be wor
solely by attrttion, and that this process.
or attritlon can be applied as we'll il
northern France and in Belgium as or
the Rhine.
The profound care of the military ad.
mintstration is not to be extrayagant
with the unreplaceable human material
1t is poured out lavishly for defense
and also for attack where the point has
an important relation to the larger
plan, but lives are none the less
guarded where there is no capital mill.
tary object in pouring them out The
look ahead is for a long war-a yeal
or more-and the men must be kep
alive to carry il on.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-11-06
Held on Forgery Charge.

Charged with forging the name OF
Rev. DR.. George Dudley to a check for
$3.50. Horace A Bell was arraigned in
the Police Court yesterday before Judge
AIullowny. He was held for the action
of the grand jury in $1,000 bonds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-11-06
Not Granted Leave to Visit
Relatives and Friends While
Waiting Marching Orders.
FEEDING OF THE TROOPS
CAUSES MUCH COMPLAINT
Ottawa Dispatches Say Next Con-
tingent to Go Abroad Will
Consist of Is, 900 Men.
Correspondence of the Associated Press.

| Correspondence Of the Associated Press.
| SALISBURY, England, October %
The members of the Canadian contin-
gent are anything but happy in their
camps on the lonely plains of Sails
| bury. They find the distances to the
| inhabited part of the country are as
great as at the Valcartier camp, and
! the parsimony of their commanders in
granting leave has added to the dis
content.
The English-born members of the
contingent are especially anxious to
visit relatives and friends, but few of
them have yet been granted leave. The
men have also missed the glorious re-
ception promised them on their ar
rival here. At Plymouth they were en-
Enthusiastically received, but this was
only a tieeting view Of England, for on
disembarking they We're hurried by
night to Salisbury plains. arriving
there just before dawn, after weari-
some march of eight miles across the
monotonous downs.
Liberty Cut Short.
Arriving in camp they found the dry
regulations prevailing at Nalcartier
were still the rule in the new encamp-
ment. After camp was pitched the
soldiers used their few hours of leave
in general exodus to the nearest viii
lagos, where their celebrations became
SO boisterous that their new-found lib
erty was soon cut short by provost
guard, which cleared all the village of
every man in uniform, not even Off
GERS being exempt from the raid.
The feeding of the Canadian army
has also proved q prolific source Of
complaint. which began before the
transports were out of sight of land
The soldiers assert that the stewards
were allowed to hoard all the daintles
on board and sell them at exorbitant
rates. The same complaint is being
made against the mess contractors at
the Salisbury plains camps.
No huts have yet been prepared for
the Canadians, and the small conical
are crowded are not proving weather
proof The men resent the idea OF
spending winter on the plains. and are
ella moring to be taken to the front as
soon possible.
Next Contingent, $4,000 Men.
OTTAWA, Ont, November 4.-Plans
are well under way to send Canada
next contingent of soldiers for service
in Europe. which will consist of l5,ooo
men. The sending of the troops is In
compliance with request received
from the British war office, winch mas
asked that the second eXped1tlonarE
force from the Dominion shall be Or
ganized to bring the extra men OF the
first contingent which went to England
some weeks ago up to the strength ol
an army division. At present taTdud
~. in .he mother country Il full army
division of between $1,000 and 22'ooo
49,, and four additional battalions OF
infantry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-11-06
100000 BRITISH
TROOPS IN FRANCE
BN December ! Field Marshal
/ French Will Have
| 100000.
HTCHENER'S NEW ARMY
/ WILL NUMBER 1000, 900
Germans on Firing Line, 1,750,W 900;
Allies. 2.225, 900. Is the Out
side Estimate.

Correspondence Of the Associated Press.
PARIS, October 20.-No fewer thar
30e, 900 British soldiers are under the
orders of Field Marshal Sir John
French on the firing lines at this time
Beyond these, however. there were
many auxiliary troops on duty at the
transport and supply base. This army
adtsr as a complete unit in conjunction
with. their French comrades, under the
command of Gen. Joefre.
The British base is near port on the
English channel, and the field of &C
tion of the British troops is near the
belgian frontier and in Belgium itself,
Virtually all these British soldiers in
the fed are Of all branches of the army.
of the men with considerable amount
of service. many of them having had
from ten to twelve years training and
having participated in Great Britain's
little wars in various parts of the
world.
The gaps In their ranks are filled by
rc-euIisted men, who have FASTENED
back to the army at Lord kitchenerS
call. By December /, this year, when
II is expected large bodies of British
tcrritorials who have volunteered for
foreign service will have been trained
sufficiently to take the field, it is esti-
mated that the force at Sir John
L'renchs disposal will have reached
100000 men. These will include the
British and native troops from India
and Gibraltar BY that time, also.
many of the Australian, Canadian and
New Zealand detachments Will have
Joined the forces on the continent.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-09-17
Old Defenders Day.

Last Saturday was observed through
out Maryland as Old Defenders Day
and state holiday.
Defenders Day" marks the one
hundredth anniversary of the heroic
and stubborn defense of Baltimore at
the battle of North Point and Fort
McHenry, by Maryland troops. The
British forces after defeating the
United States forces at Bladensburg.
and sacking Washington, attempted to
capture Baltimore. Maryland state
troops in charge of General Sam Smith
and Major Armistead. hastily gathered
from Baltimore and other parts of the
State engaged the British at North
Point, and inflicted such losses upon
the invaders that the British withdrew.
1t was during skirmish that General
Ross, the British commander was
killed.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-09-17
CHARITY

Faith, hope and charity, but the
greatest of these is charity" Charity
coverth multitude of SINS
How fortunate that the mantle of
charity is built on the same lines as a
rain coat. 1t saves so much trouble for
US IN fixing up to look respectable
Just slip on the mantle of charity,
button it up close and. 10, we are ready
to have our picture taken.
Charity suffereth long and is kind "
The good people of the United States
must have super abundance of charity.
They are so kind that they have per-
mitted, helped, aided and abetted old
Rum IN collecting his toll out of the
manhood and lives OF their sons,
What grand spectacle! 1t is worth
travelling far to see. Such unselfsh-
ness, such martyrologv (by proxy.
10 sacrifice upon the altar OF their
gods Mammon and Alcohol, the man
hood, lives and souls of their sons.
What grand thing is education. 1t
raises one above the little petty ways
of doing things.
The poor benighted, untutored natives
of India, thought to appease their
gods by sacrificing the life of one of
their children to the god of the Gangus
and crocodiles each year.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-09-17
TIE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
State Scholarships In Ensineerine
Course.

Applications for scholarships in gthe
Department of Engineering established
in The Johns Hopkins University under
the provisions of the Laws of MARYLAND
Chapter 80, 1912. should now be made
Entrance examinations for all stud
ents will be held in Mccoy Hall. The
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore,
September 22-25, 1914, beginning at
9 a. m.
If there is more than one applicant
for a particular scholarship a COM
petitive examination will be held at the
University on the day following the
September entrance examinations.
Each county of the State and each
Legislative district of Baltimore CITY
will be entitled to one or more scholar
ships for the year 1914-15, in addition to
those which have already been filled.
There will also be vacancies in the
scholarships awarded to the graduates
of Loyola College, Maryland Agr1cult-
ural College, Mount ST. Mary's College,
Rock Hill College, ::St. Johns College,
washington College and Western Mary,
land College, and in the scholarships
AT Large. which may be filled in
October. 1914.
Applicants should address the Regis
trarer, The Johns Hopkins University.
for blank forms of application and for
further information as to the examina-
ton, award of scholarships and courses
of instruction.
Advertisement. 26-4t
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-09-17
A Temperance
Talk to Voters
JASON KEEP

Though | speak with the tongue of
men and of angels, and have not charity,
| am become as sounding brass or a
tinkling cymble."
Charity means love for your fellow
man and the quicker you let up on tink-
ling your cymble and get busy trying
TO help your fellowman, the better it
will be for you in this world. and in the
next. You may become eligible for a
halo that isn't moth eaten.
1t is condition which confronts US
and not theory.
Size up this: So per cent. of.our GRIM
inal court work, 50 per cent of our IN
sane, So per cent of our paupers, 80 per
cent of our murderers and suicides, and
152, 900 deaths each year are caused by
alcohol and 500, 900 women and innocent
little children suffer want, misery and
despair.
In every town and village many of
our friends and neighbors, our sons and
maybe ourselves are on the road to
where the water freezes not and ice is
luxury.
This is bad state of affairs and must
be remedied at once.
If your house is on fire YOU don t
hesitate and debate about Just what
particular pail you will use to carry
yuo to,. in Tbov rrr r- -, - .-.....r. .....
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-09-17
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HOYES.
.e0a COCO OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

The frost last week did considerable
damage to the buckwheat and corn, also
to the gardens in this community.
Rev. H. E. Friend and daughter Miss
Sudie Of Mt. Lake, spent several days
the past week with J. A. Dewitt and
family.
Mr.. Hiram Frazee, of Selbysport,
was a guest of w. A. Smith and family
Monday night.
Mrs. Mae Enlow made visit to the
home of Charles O'Brien at Glendale,
last week.
Joe McKobie and son Gordon, of
Oakland, were in Hoyes a few hours
Monday in the interest of the telephone
business.
The following teachers left here the
latter part of last week for their re-
spective schools: Misses Della Savage,
Viola Enlow, Oscie Casteel and Messrs.
Charles and Burton Calls and Albert
Enlow.
Prof. A. w. Dewitt arrived in our
town Monday and will remain until the
new school building is completed at Ac-
cident when he will enter on his duties
as teacher.
Miss Carrie Casteel, who has been
living at Mt. Lake Park for some time
past, spent few days with Mrs. M.
Mattingly and daughter the past week.
Willie Ellis, of Oakland. is a guest of
Wayne and Cecil Smith this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Kellar announce
the arrival of new baby girl in their
home
Quite number of persons from this
place attended the all day meeting at
Sang Run last Sunday and all consider
the address very profitable.
Wesley Calls spent a few hours in
Oakland last Sunday afternoon.
Floyd Fearer and family, who re-
Gently purchased the farm of H. E.
Friend. has moved in.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-09-17

Jesse, David, Lydia and Nancy.
Daniel was born July Y, 1903;
died September 7, 1878; married Eliza
Compton. The following children were
born in order OF age: Archibald, Robert,
William, Harriet. Solomon, Sarah.
Hanson, Susan, Charles, Mary Jane,
David and James Madison.
Henry was twice married. BY his
first wife, Catharine Engle, were born
the following children: Lizzie, Elisha,
Simon, Emily and Katy. His second
wife was Margaret Engle, who was a
sister to his first wife: Zura, Eli, Jacob.
Marian and Henry were the children.
Jacob was born February :, 1906;
died April %, 1886, married Elizabeth
Engle, sister to Henry's two wives.
Twelve children were born: Louise.
Lizzie, Alfred, Sllas, Lydia. Emma.
Asa. William, Anna, Sally, Louis and
Harriet.
The burst race is scattered thro lgh-
out America. We have found them in
Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Chicago and in
the states of Iowa, Minnesota and Mis-
souri,. History records the name OF
Abraham, Peter and Thomas burst Of
Pennsylvania, as having fought in the
Revolution. Is barely possible they
were the three brothers aforementioned.
William burst of Philadelphia, is the
only survivor Of the crew of the mont
tor of Merrimac fame.
If this article shall help to preserve
our genealogy, the labor spent upon it
shall not have been spent in vain.
R. C. D.
New Germany, Sept 5, 1914.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-09-17

True, there is a duty men owe to
their communities as such, because the
lives of all are interwoyen-no man in
community lives unto himself alone
and when local business institutions
flourish all feel the beneficial effects.
There are the schools to build and sup
port, the roads to maintain, and last
but not least, there stretches forth in
times of disaster or distress the helping
hand of the local business man, who
looks upon you as neighbor. He is
one of the cogs IN a useful piece of
machinery, fitting in with you and me
, as the other necessary cogs.
The merchants here and all over the
land purpose to combat the present
tendency of Capitalization. If in the
the right and if their efforts are well
directed, they shall succeed. If in the
wrong, no harm will come of their eff
forts and the efforts of their friends in
the country, for, whether right or
wrong, closer bond of sympathy will
have been established between man
and man.
But they are not in the wrong.
The following from the Mayville
IN. d. Tribune contains food for
thought:
Once upon a time in the land of
Uncle Sam colony of people organ
lied themselves into a town The town
grew and waXed fat upon the produce
of the land round about and the peo-
pie dwelt happily under their own vines
and fig trees. and the tradesmen built
emporiums Of merchandise and all was
well. More people joined the colony
from year to year until the town was a
place Of population and prosperity.
But the time came when into the
midst of the town crawled a serpent Of
discord, yclept the mail order catalogue,
which whispered into the ears Of the
people a siren song of big bargains.
Thoreat the people thought they saw d
good thing, and they bit, In thu coarse
Of events the merchants closed their
doors and removed to other Joans
wherein as yet the mail order serpent
had not entered Large hs. hooks
grew up before the closed DORIS. and
grass grew in the streets whereof the
cows ate 5ogutifaly. 1t was fua for
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-09-17
Bean 20 Inches LonS.

Can any of our Garrett county gard
ners beat this bean crop? If so, we
would like to hear from them:
Earl Kimmell of Ill Orchard street.
brought into the News Office this morn
ing two of the longest beans that we
have ever seen. One of them was 26
inches long and the other one measured
243 inches. He raised them in his
garden. They look like mess for a
small family. They are on display in
the window Of the News office.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-09-17
History Of The burst Family

To the Editor Of The Republican:
Several years ago the writer began
gathering material for a complete
history of the burst family. This has
since been given up. The older gener.
atlons left no written records and then
histories have died with them. 1t has
required much time and labor to secure
the slight information contained in this
article.
The namc is of German origin anC
indicates 'reverential fear and daring. -
Our ancestors emigrated to America
sometime before the Revolutionary
war. Three burst brothers landed at
Baltimore. Tradition has it that they
soon owned all of the land on which the
city Of Baltimore is now situated.
Several families of bursts still live in
Baltimore.
The first of whom we have any de-
finite account was Caspar burst. He
may have been one Of the original emf
grants. He came West from Balti-
more and settled on the old Samue
Beachy farm near Salisbury, Pa. He
was in every respect a very remarkable
man. The story is recorded IN Jacob
Browns book that he could spring one
of the old fashioned wolf traps and leap
out without being caught.
We know that he had at least two
sons, Jacob and John, of the first we
know nothing The latter, known as
Eight foot john" was the writer s
freat-grandfather. The title indicates
a great hunter and it was we'll earned.
Upon one occusion he walked to Cum
berland to purchase ammunition and re-
turning the same day, he succeeded in
killing a fine buck deer before nightfall.
He lived on the old home farm and his
bones are now resting in peace IN the
old cemetery at Salisbury eek Lick
We do not know where Caspar burst
was buried. "Light-foot John" was
twice married. No children were born
of the second marriage to Widow Rob-
inson, but by the first marriage, to Eva
Glotfelty, at least six children were
born. A daughter, Elizabeth. married
Solomon Steiner, the inn keeper of
National Pike fame. One son died in
infancy. The other four were Solomon,
Daniel and the twins, Henry and Jacob.
We must content ourselves with short
sketch of these tour.
Solomon was born April Is, 1897; died
October Is. 1857. Married Lydia
Steiner, June 9, 1918. Sixteen children
were born. This is the largest burst
family ever recorded. They were Jerry,
John, Michael, Katy Ann, Sam, Lu-
cinda, Phineas. Dennis. Eliza, Sarah,
Edward and Charles by his first wife.
By his marriage to Mrs. May Schrock
the following children were born:
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-09-17
Good Roaas in Maryland.

The original State highway law was
passed in 1898, Since that date there
mas been paid out for construction,
maintenance and administration, So
1852, 529; total mileage of improved
roads in the State 1925. The revenue
from automobiles during this period
was $l44, 93O.25. This latter item indi-
Gates that automobiles are helping to
maintain the roads of the State. Mary
land stands 18th in the list of the rev.
enue received from automobile license.
New York State stands first, with
81, 275, 72727.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-09-17
THE COUNTRY BOYS CREED;
ITS ORIGIN AND HISTORY
First Published in RichmOnd-Vir
ginia's Boys Corn Clubs Hold
il Sacred.


In recent issue of Golfers Weekly
the following appeared:
1--WE came upon it first IN the Green
wood, Miss, Commonwealth. But no
source was given. We traced it, how
ever, to its publication in the Progress
sive Farmer, of Memphis, Tenn. That
is as far as we have got, although a
query to that paper brings the infor-
nation that very likely the Creed was
first used by Boys Corn Club in Vir-
GINA, and was later adopted by all the
Corn Clubs in that State. 1t would
give US real pleasure to learn where and
how this expressive statement of an
ideal crystallized into words. Perhaps
by this time you are curious to read it
for Yourself:
81 believe that the country which
God made is more beautiful than the
city which man made, that life out of
doors and in touch with the earth is the
natural life of man. | believe that
work with nature is more inspiring than
work with the most intricate machinery.
l believe that the dignity of labor de-
ponds not on what you do, but how you
do it; that opportunity comes to a boy
on the farm as often as to a boy in the
city; that life is larger and freer and
happier on the farm than in the town;
that my success depends not upon my
location, but upon myself; not upon my
dreams, but upon what | actually do;
not upon luck, but upon pluck. l be-
lieve in working when you work, and in
playing when you play, and in giving
and demanding a square deal in every
act of life.
Iron sharpeneth IRON Who knows
a more succinct phrasing Of the as
piration which this country needs
through all It's length and BREADTH"
think / can supply the missing III
formation for Golfers Weekly and a
dozen or more other papers throughout
the country that have copied the above,
and expressed a longing for further
particulars The "Cseed" was written
by Edwin C-3od Grove. whose fort
seem to be creed writing. Ihave seen
quite aHunaar that came from b.speu.
The Country Boys Greed" was writ
ten by him tor the Virginia Farm
Bulletin, a paper that was published in
Richmond, but IS now out Of existence.
1t appeared in the June, 1911, issue of
the Bulletin. and Mr.. Lemon, the ed
itor, dedicated" it to the Boys Corn
Clubs Of Virginia, which were then
just getting started in this State. The
boys adopted it, and nearly every Corn
Club in Virginia has it printed in big
letters and framed or in some other con
venient shape where it can be often
seen, and know numbers of members
of the Boys Clubs and the Girls Can
ming and other clubs who nave COM
mitted it to memory, and are always
prepared to recite it on the slightest
provocation. | am not sure, but dare
say some of them use it in their devo-
tons at night, just as the church people
do the Apostles Greed on Sundays.