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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-02-21
TIE DEATH RECORD.
MRS. SARAH E. PAUGH.'

Mrs. Henry Paugh was born Feb. %,
1910 and died Feb. IL. 1918. aged II
years IL months and IA days.
Mrs. Paugh, whose maiden name was
Tichnell, was born over on Backbone
Mountain and spent her youthful days
there or until some forty years ago
when she became the wife of Henry
Paugh and since which time has spent
with her husband on farm near the
North Glade settlement. She has been
faithful member of the M. E. church
since quite young girl.
Mrs. Paugh was a good friend and
neignbor also kind and affectionate
mother, always ready to lend helping
hand. Funeral services were held at
the home by Rev. McCamic after which
she was taken to the M. E. church at
North Glade. while at the same hour
the funeral of her brother-in-law, Mr..
Nick Paugh, being held by Rev. VIM. ].
Bernard. This making a double visit
by the angel of death, both were in
tered in the Fitzwater cemetery at the
same hour. Mrs. Paugh leaves to
mourn their loss step-son and step
daughter one son and an aged husband
who has been an invalid for nearly
year and while able Mrs. Paugh did all
that was i'll her pr wer to aid him and
little did we think that she would be
the first called but that dread disease
lagrippe took hold of her nearly three
weeks before and she never over come
it. Sleep on dear mother and take thy
rest. God will welcome thee home.
A FRIEND.
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0. II. S. Notes.

The juniors have completed plane
geome'ry and are now taking advanced
algebra.
The sophomores had a class party at
the home of Wilhelm Weber Tuesday
evening. Delicious refreshments were
served and pleasant evening was
spent by all.
Arthur Michaels is confined to his
home with measles.
Miss Friend and Miss Fismer have
been working at the court house the
past week, helping to index the ques-
tionnaires.
Margaret Sinceu, Mary NayIor, Vir-
GINA DeBerry, seniors, taught at the
Grammar school the past week.
Lena Adams and Rebecca White are
detained at their homes on account of
sickness,
The following Lincoln and Washing
ton programs will be rendered on Febru-
airy 22nd. The Lancastrian Society will
give the Lincoln program in the morn
Wing at 10 O'Clock and the Yorkist Society
will give the Washington program IN
the afternoon at 80.
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Wanted To Buy.

One dozen one year old White Leg
horn chickens. GOOD LAYING HENS
ONLY WANTED. A good price will be
paid. Inquire at this Office for name of
party. Advertisement.
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MRS. ELLEN RHODES.

Mrs. Ellen Rhodes, of near Stricker's
Siding, died on Saturday last and was
buried from the Swanton M. E. church
on Monday morning, Rev. Frank Nc
Camic, the pastor, officiating Mrs.
Rhodes was aged Y years and had been
a resident of Garrett county during her
entire lifetime.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-02-21
Red Cross Receints.

Contributed by Mrs. H. R. Dewitt 81. 90
Tags sold by Mr.. w. T. Steyer.
Steyer, Md. 81. On
MRS. j. c. RENNINGRR, Treasurer,
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THURSDAY. FEBRUARY q. 1918.

AFTER all, isn't it rather cute of Mr..
Garfield to discontinue his fuelless and
voorhees, Mondays just as the weather
grows so pleasant he hasn't that upon
which to blame the failure of the great
scheme?
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At the Garrett county Creamery this
week we will pay 40 cents per Id. for
butter Fat. -Advertisement. So
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New Britain herald., 1918-11-27
Corporal Curls, BQy0neter-The,


ways smiled serene1y and did his duty
as snappily as he could.
AT length came the day when ne re-
celVed his first lesson in bayonet work.
The soldiers had never seen so marked
and so ludicrous a contrast as that
afforded by the spectacle Of this ten
der youth welding a barbarous bayo-
net
You, there! You've got to get mad
der than that" stormed the INSTRUCTOR
wagging "a finger at Curls "Growl;
show your teeth; get vicious and show
Fritz you mean business. See?"
curls, his tendrils spiraling about
his ears, was a sight for pity as he
stood in the stretched-f forward posi-
ton of long point" He began to look
miserably out of place.
AS time passed ID grew better ac
quainted with the bayonet, handling it
swiftly, cleverly and with more steadi.
ness of nerve. Yet the instructor
baW-od him out. Because, no matter
how much he improved, MS gentle.
tlmid appearance belied his dexterity.
Say, you! Get fierce with that
thrust or you will double-time over to
that tree and back" bawled the in
structor, almost crushing Curls. 1T
tell you once more, you've got to get
1nad!"
These hard-boiled corrections served
their purpose, however pitiless thew
seemed to the pupil or fruitless to the
instructor, for Curls took more pains
to get every movement just right than
to look fighting mad. He acquired a
certain amount of facility. but all the
While it was being overshadowed bv
the appalling look of feminine help
lessness in his face. This discorra eed
him a ittle-enough to blind him to
his growing efficiency in the art.
But the hardest blow of all was the
majors decree that all heads be
cropped to one inch.
Take off your hats!" he COM
manded from his mounted position In
front Of his battalion on inspection
Iuorning. His keen eye swept from
man to man, resting suddenly with q
piercing beam on CurIs
THAT man over there wearing curls
get those things cut off right after
this formation" ordered the officer.
Where did you get the idea this
was dolls parade?"
The embarrassed boy heard mirth
escaping on all sides, while here and
there whispered and repeated TITS
a dirty shame!" sounded off. But they
realized they were now in the army.
The treasured relics of his child
hood ordered cut off, The physical
charms he was known by! It was
like flag losing it's colors or dog
his master or a bird her song.
New Britain herald., 1918-11-27

many feet of film he had run forward
without exposure, and this he esti-
mated to be enough to cover the
action that was to take place.
AT word from the director the
man in the tree rose and sprang clear
from the limbs. landing on the ground,
the camera meanwhile recording his
movements. The film that recorded
his feat was run backward instead
of the crank gear especially made for
such work, as explained. When it
came time to show this to the audi
ence the first frame that met their
eyes was the last one taken, the one
showing him striking the ground AS
q result to them he seemed to be ac-
comp1ishing the startling feat of
standing still and jumping to the top
of tree"
What is known to the profession as
the fade-in and fade-out or when a fig
New Britain herald., 1918-11-27

uaed In the picture. One of them was
workman who had both his legs cut
off above the knees and the other
actor, who was made up and dressed
to resemble him, was, of course, com
plete with his full number of lower
limbs. The real actor was the drunken
workman in the picture UP to the
point where the accident occurs. The
motor was run up to just the point
where one Of the front wheels APP
pears to touch his legs. Then the
camera was stopped and after the
actors position had been marked in
the road the limbless double took his
place and a pair of property legs
placed next to his stump. Then the
taking of the picture proceeded to
show the automobile pass over the
mans legs, cutting them off. After
the double reached first for one of
/ the severed limbs and then for the
other and apparently replaced them
the camera was again stopped and
the actor resumed his place in the
road. 1t was the latter who arose,
apparently uninjured by the accident
and proceeded on his way
One of the early kind of trick pic
lures that always caused a laugh
showed an actor, or, as it might be,
an object doing something in reverse
action. For illustration. one of them
pictured q man jumping from the
ground to a tree top. OF course such
Il feat is amazing and. Of course, it
is impossible. Yet it was shown on
the screen and this is how it was &C.
complished:
ITO make the jumping picture the
man crawled to the top of a tree and
the camera was focused on him. The
New Britain herald., 1918-11-27
LAND-HOW THEY FILM "THRILLERS'

pulls the animal down and out Of slgnt
in the tall jungle grass. To the spec
tators the beast has been slain, put
tigers and even leopards are too costly
to be shot off in this manner.
The making of the comic cartoons 1s
another mystery to the spectator VINO
is a movie fan. 1t requires the draw
ing of an innumerable quantity of pic
lures, in which the cardboard come
dams are shown in various parts or
each action. When projected the
effect is perfect and the little jerky
movements which are occasioned by
the failure to get each figure exactly
like the last drawing only adds to
the ludicrous effect. When these
comics were first attempted it required
many months for the artist to draw
all the parts required, but a years
work of this kind only required ten
minutes on the. screen. Through Inn
provements that have been made in
the comic, a years work is now re-
duced to a few weeks or even days.
Now parts of the picture are printed,
such as the background, and the artist
only has to show the movements Of
his characters. Some of these can be
repeated in the showing, and this
further cuts down the number Of
actual drawings needed.
New Britain herald., 1918-11-27

Their meditation on those very neces-
sary locks.
One way of looking at it, Curls was
vain; but his vanity was of HARM
less and quite pardonable species. AL
though he had long since gotten over
the loss of the curls, and had become
accustomed to looking like the other
men, still he did not object very
much to wearing the ornaments of old
again. because the men wanted him to.
So to please them he grew girlish in
looks once more.
The barber delighted in washing and
drying and tonicking the curtis; sug-
gested new ripples, odd twists and cute
hanging positions. SO that, up at the
front a few months later, Curls had
some Of the looks of William Penn, or
John Bunyan, or Poet Milton! And
now that he had back his locks he
felt his old time pride in them. He
was really "Cur1s" now.
Again-especially in the fight-he
seemed ludicrously out of place;
banner Of some humility society would
have looked more lifting IN MS hands
than the wicked bayonet. Yes, he
was an apparently harmless creature
as he carried on among the fighting
rough -necks, but those who knew him
had often said he would do a mans
double bit when the test came. Only
the enemy would be deceived. Another
Joan of Arc, they would think. What
a savory victim for ravishing vandals
and beer-sotted Saracens.
After a while the fighting grew too
intense for any one to keep an eye
on Curls. Every man was for him..
self. Only now and then his shadowy
form, with his curls flying from be.
meath his helmet, was seen in sill
houette az he lunged at Hun after
New Britain herald., 1918-11-27
By Bruce Crawford

TURLS enlisted in the army at
~ time when the Germans were still
on the offensive. So it was clear to
all that he joined expecting to fight.
By so doing he amazed the town, for
no one had ever suspected that this
gentle youth, who still chung to the
girlish curls of his childhood, would
take part in even u cock fight, much
less q CORY death grapple of millions
Curtis! The name his parents gave
him was a misnomer, proved such in
the fact that since his childhood this
familiar nickname had ever been on
the tip Of. everybody's tongue. Be
cause his friends and acquaintance
preferred to call him. by that fond So
briquet he never objected, but allowed
it to go with the curls he grew. And
did not the military Napoleon declare,
"Nicknames should never be de-
spised; it is by such means mankind
is governed?
In the army a Hoboken man called
him Curls. Every rookie laughed
Curls smiled at the coincidence. The
name knew it's place and stayed stuck
Curls began to take discipline. His
awkward movements in drilling were
more noticeable to the hard-boiled in
structor than were those Of the others,
because Curls was so pathetically con-
spicuous And when he was "bawled
out" in army regulation lingo the
ranks Uttered and, after the command
rest" laughed aloud though good
naturedly. A lovable lad out of luck
in an army of rough.and-readys.
Worse still, whenever an extra "k.
o." was needed in the kitchen Curls
was first to arrest the mess sergeant's
eye. Same when a man was needed
on any other work detail. But he al
New Britain herald., 1918-11-27

ure is slowly brought in OR goes out
like q ghost, is accomplished by four
different methods. The most commonly
used is the simple one Of closing Or
opening the diaphragms over the lens,
which gradually decreases or increases
the amount Of light admitted to the
camera.
Where one scene fades into another
of an entirely different character the
method usually employed is what is
known as the dissolve. The effect Is
secured by slowly fading out on the
scene and then covering the lens so
that no light will enter, and then
turning the film back to where the
scene began to fade. The new scene
is now photographed on that part of
the film already exposed on the first
one.
Those pictures in which one actor
enacts two parts, and at times APP
New Britain herald., 1918-11-27
A Story of American Grit

your way down, and I was quite glad
to step ashore.
Am stationed at so-called rest canp
ESQ named by some humorist) in old
stone barracks that Napoleon built 90
they say, and they look it. Ii thew
claimed Moses built 'em it would still
be believable. However, merely tenn
porarily here; will be on my way I'm
to front long before this reachc Won
Have my orders, but can't say any
more: french people are verJ cour-
teous and glad to see Americans
We marched up from the boat with
band playing and townspeople turned
out to welcome us. Nearly all old
men, women and children. The old
men dof their hats and quite a few
women We're waving American flags
A little girl ran out in the street as
we came by and gave me rose, and
the street ganins chased alongside
and yelled for pennies and cigarettes.
and once when we stopped to rest a
gang of little kids corgregated and
sang in good English, Hail, hail, the
gangs all here. what the hell do we
care now?"
Weather quite chilly, and I sleep in
tent, which, as far as can determine,
seems to be just pitched over spring,
with no board floor or any other kind:
and we are glad to get that. How.
ever, as they say here, TITS the first
1oh yC0AS t1dl al tHS udTQGSC, ana
I'm inclined to believe It, Saw nv
first batch of German prisoners the
other day, and I'd take a chance latter
removing glasses) with any three of
EN- myself. It's lucky I got to New
York and got fixed up on eyes and
teeth, or I'd probably never had it
something's move too fast for those
details here and opportunities lack.
Jones refers you to Smith and Smith
to Black and Black asks why In
h didn't Jones do it?" etc. One
Of the camp officers here used to play
ball with the Fordham team on Sun
days and off days away from the
college and knew most of my old
"buddies.' Wrote grandma a letter
while aboard ship. Did she get it? I
have received no mail since I left
New York. Am in good health and
still have my gang intact. Lots of in.
teresting things done, but can't give
them.
JAMES 8. McTvTR,
Second Lieutenant, @. M c..
Sales Commissary Unit $40, A. e. E.
New Britain herald., 1918-11-27

position, launched into the points"
and butt strokes and attacked Fritz
from various vantages.
UGH" shuddered one chap with a
heavy jaw, large muscles and other
seeming indications of nerve, courage,
CUTS. T. made the big fellow actually
nervous, SO wildly realistic was
Curls's mimic combat.
Time passed and Curls grew higher
and higher in the estimation of both
officers and men. And just before
going overseas he was made a cor
poral.
Corporal Curls!" saluted his adj
nirers warmly. In fact, besides the
vaudevillian who sang rags nightly
before thousands of close clipped
l<haki-clads, Curls enjoyed more pop
ularity than any one else. in camp.
Officers, who were not supposed to
relax into intimacy with their in
feriors in rank, suppren~ed kindly
smiles b,hind the salutes they re-
turned him.
few weeks later, when the. had
got overseas, his popularity reached
various towns visited by furloughing
soldiers When was Corporal Curls
coming with them? was the question
the French girls asked the Americans.
Some Of them sent him their pictures
one of whom was beautiful singer
of local fame who played a banjo
mandolin. She was fascinated by the
description Of Curls given her by the
lads admirers, and made them prom
ise to bring Aim along the next time.
T,avitaL + Curls was to accompany
them on their next furlough.
Then appeared an obstacle. Ourls'
known for the locks that gave MN
his name. was not the original Curls
described to the French women. he
o,,ust have his curls again! And
would he have them? Really 1T was
not right. they reasoned, to call MN
NV that name and not allow hnn TO
wear his curls. So they got togelher
and besought their commander -
nrince of a man--to do all he could
through military channels to get CurIS
nermission to grow back his locks.
Would you do it, Curls?" a sergeant
asked afraid he would not have them
back.
His face lit up with a faraway' wlst'
full expression. He didn't answer at
once. but contemplated the possibility
and the common sense-of wearing
tcndrils again.
IF YOU want EN-" continued the
sergeant, you can have 'em--the G.
o. said So"
You will make me vain and silly"
aisle to his bunk for a rest and fur
New Britain herald., 1918-11-27

pears to come in contact with him
self, are accomplished by the use of
what are known as masks. These are
of two kinds, those inside the camera
and those outside.
In the early days of motion pictures
the film was exposed twice. For In
stance, a picture showing q doing
man dreaming of scenes Of his child
hood would be taken in this manner
Unobserved by, the spectators, the fire
place in the picture was one on neu-
trail background, with a wide space
either to the right or left of the doing
man. Often the background was hang
ing velvet The film was once eX-
poseds with the sleeper in his chair
The film was then reversed a second
time, with scenes supposed to be
taking place in his mind appearing
on the neutral background. Later,
with the coming of improved methods,
q mask was used to obscure part of
the field so that the sleeper alone would
appear. The rest of the background
was concealed by the mask, and as a
result left uneXposed. BY taking out
the mask and turning back the film a
new scene could be exposed on the
protected background.
Masks for such work are, as has
been explained, outside and inside.
When YOU see an actor in the picture
take up his binoculars and look
through them at a distant object, and
are Immediately after shown ap-
parently what he sees through the
glasses, the effect of the binoculars is
obtained by means of a mask cut to
resemble the openings in a fieldglass.
Much the same sort of thing is done
when you are shown a view through
a keyhole. 1t is all in the inside mask,
which cuts the picture to represent
the opening through which the view
is beheld
When the actor apparently shakes
hands with his double, which he also
enacts, the effect is obtained by an
other kind of mask. This is one
placed over one-half of the lens. A
spot has been previously arranged
where the actual handclasp is to take
place. Such a place may be over a
book on a. table or directly under
chandelier. The actor who is to play
both parts advances to the spot where
the handshake is to take place and
extends his hand. On the part of the
stage obscured by the mask another
performer stands, who extends a hand
and joins the actor, while the two
hands move up and down in manual
greeting. The actor shows, the other
performer is hidden by the mask. AS
the hands move up and down the pho
tographer counts the number of sec
onds. At the count / the hands de-
scend to a distance determined at re-
hearsals; at 2 they go up; at 8 they
go down again, and at they unclasp
and separate.
The film is turned back and the
mask shifted to the other side of the
lens area The actor again makes an
entrance and extends his hand over
the book or under the chandelier, as
the case may be, but as the handshake
New Britain herald., 1918-11-27

HERE is letter rejecting Amer
lean grit, American wit and that
ready adaptability to circumstances
which so strongly contribute to the
success of American arms. It is from
Lieutenant James Shave McIver,
Sales Commissary Unit 312, Quarter
Francis Kerr, publicity manager of
the Hotel Traymore, Atlantic City
Lieutenant McIver, who Is well known
in Philadelphia and New York, is an
honor graduate of Fordham Univer.
sity, 1915, star man on the baseball
team and is of old American stock.
1t was while young McIver was
training as an enlisted man at Spar
tanburg that his aunt, Mrs. Kerr.
inaugurated the system whereby thou
sands of boys at Camp Wadsworth
and other camps were provided with
free moving-picture shows every day.
Here is Lieutenant McIver's letter:
France, Sept IA, 1918.
Finally got here-no excitement on
way over outside of a two-day storm,
which [ didn't appreciate. They had
me stationed as lookout officer in the
crows nest about eighty feet above
the deck, and, believe me, 1t was some
job fighting your way up the rigging
in an eighty-mile gale, with the old
boat rocking back and forth like a
hobbyhorse, especially at or a. M
no lights and with waves breaking
over the foot Of rigging so you had
to wait your chance and run for it
and when you went up to yardarm
you had to crawl on your belly to keep
from blowing overheard, and a trans
port doesn't stop for Passengers after
leaving; so, if you go over they throw
you a life belt and wave good-by.
1t nearly had me buffaloed the first
time I went up--4 a. m.--pitch dark
and the old scow rocking away. When
/ got halfway up, the rigging one
minute would be up against my face
and next almost out of reach. It was
a case of fight your way up and pray