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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1922-07-20
PERSONAL AND LOCAL
NOTES OF INTEREST

Mr.. Carl Richards. of Cumberland,
was in Oakland on business Saturday
last.
Misses Flo and Mabel White, of
Uniontown, are here for a visit to
relatives and friends.
Col. Nelson Thomassen, of Chicago,
is here for a visit to his daughter,
Mrs. Nanniene T. Offutt.
Mr.. Horace P. Whitworth, attOr
ney, of Westernport, spent last Sat
urday in Oakland on professional
business.
DR.. Stanley Mitchell, of Cations
vile, is spending a short vacation
with his mother and other relatives
in Oakland.
Mrs. John A. Grant went to her
former home at Charlestown, West
Va, last Friday for visit to rela-
tives and friends.
Mr.. Hervey Bittner went to Balti-
more last Sunday to visit Mrs. Bit
ner, who is a patient in private
sanatorium located near that city. He
expects to return to Oakland today.
Messrs. H. C. and Benz. H. Sincell
motored to Baltimore and return on
Sunday, they having been called to
Baltimore to see their brother, Mr..
E. H. Sincell, who is a patient in the
Hopkins Hospital in that city.
Messrs. Paul Naylor, Ralph Weber
and John Davis left Oakland the
early part of the week for Hoyes Run
where they will spend some time in
camp.
Mr.. Paul Daley, of Frostburg, son
of the late W. A. Daley, who is well
remembered by many Oakland, people
spent last Saturday in Oakland on
business.
Mr.. W. H. Sines and family, of
Red Rock, West Va, returned to their
home Monday morning after having
spent week or more with relatives
in this county.
PRIVATE SALE-I will sell at
private sale at my home on Friday,
July 20, lot of household goods
Miss BERTHE Cleveland.-Adverti
ment 21-2t
FOR SALE-Dodge truck in first.
class condition. Just received, stock
of Goodyear rubber straight and end
less belts. Kerins' Bros. Garage,
Advertisement 16 If.
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Mr.. and Mrs. H. G. Sanders are
on a visit to relatives in Terra Alta.
WANTED-Two experienced wait.
resses. Apply at Mountain Lake Ho-
tel-Advertisement 21-tf
Mrs. Ralph Marshall and little son,
of Pittsburgh, are here as guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Carroll A. Elliott.
LOST-On road between Oakland
and Thayerville, Friday, automobile
tire on rim, covered with black cas-
ing. Finder please return to Frantz
Hotel, Observation-Disclosures q
FOR SALE-Jersey bull calves. Ell
mer Haulenbeek, Deer Park, Md
Advertisement.
Mrs Charles A. Tower, of Oakland,
accompanied by her daughter, Jen-
nette, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Re-
becca Baird, Washington street.
Cumberland News.
Mr.. Frederick G. Schoch has pur-
chased four lots located on the State
road from Mr.. A. D. Naylor and in
a short time plans to erect thereon a
California style bungalow.
Mr.. Herman Englehart has re-
turned to his home in Oakland from
Baltimore where he had been a pa
tient in one of the hospitals of that
city for the past several weeks.
The best and purest milk to be had
is that furnished by the Frazee Dairy
of Oakland-Advertise
DR.. Henry W. McComas was called
to Cumberland yesterday to see his
son Carleton, who is just recovering
from an operation for appendicitis
DR.. McComas was accompanied by
his daughter Miss Anna McComas
and Miss Leah Sincell.
Mrs. Henry Lauer, of Oakland, was
taken to the Western Maryland Hos.
pital in Cumberland last Thursday
evening where on Friday she under.
went very serious surgical opera.
ton. This morning Mrs. Lauer's
condition is favorable for recovery.
If you want milk please put YOU
empty bottles out.-Frazee's Dairy
Advertisement.
The annual trip around the WORLD
under the auspices of the Ladies AiG
Society of st. PauPs NJ. E. church
has been arranged for the evening oil
August 3rd. The ladies are putting
forth every effort to make this the
most successful church social of the
year. An enjoyable time is assured
all. Tickets on sale at Harned's drug
store,
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Lost. Straved or Stolen.

Two cows left my place near
Bloomington on Saturday, June 10th,
one being red, hornless, with some
white spots and a star in her fore
head, and the other is a Jersey horn
less with mark in end of ear. Anyone
finding these animals will please re-
turn them or notify the undersigned
and receive reward.
REBECCA PAUGH,
Advertisement Bloomington, Nd,
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postmaster expired on April LIST of
this year. The salary attached to
the position is 81 900 annually.
Place your orders the day prior for
extra quantities of milk or cream with |
Frazee's Dairy, Oakland.-Advertise
ment
The Baptist Young Peoples Union
Of Ferpdale, will hold a sack social at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Smith, on the State road, north of
Oakland, on Friday evening, July 81 /
The proceeds are to be used in con-
nection with the parsonage project.
Former State Senator w. McCul-
lob Brown, who spent the winter and
spring months in Baltimore, arrived
here on Friday last, accompanied by
his two nephews, Messrs. Russell L.
and DeWolf Hubbard, of Philadel-
phia, who will probably spend the
summer here.
Rev. David NJ. Funk and Rev. Har-
man F. Miller, who was the formers
guest during all of last week, mo-
| tored to Cumberland on Saturday last
from which point Mr.. Miller went to
Keyser and conducted services in the
Lutheran church at that place Sun
day, returning to his home in Balti-
more Monday morning.
FOR SALE-Twelve room dwell
ing; bath; hot water heat; electric
lights; centrally located in Accident,
Nd Well arranged for hotel pur
poses. Basement beneath entire
house; two lots. Cement walks and
lawn. Apply to R. NJ. Ravenscroft,
Accident, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 16 If.
Mr.. David W. Walter returned to
his home in Oakland yesterday morn
ing from a visit of a week to rela-
tives and friends in Akron, Ohio, ac-
companied by his mother, Mrs Lewis
Walter, who had been on a visit at
points in Ohio and Pennsylvania for
several weeks.
FOR SALE-HOuse and lot on Lib
erty street, Groom mousse mouerh
cohNehlences' lou l@OAloo leet' Ap-
ply to John NJ. JarbOe, Oakland,
Md.-Advertisement 6-tf.
Mr.. Edward II. Sncell, OF Oakland,
who has been patient IN Johns Hop
klns Hospital, Baltimore, for two
weeks, was operated upon in that in
stltutlon yesterday morning. His con-
dition for ultimate recovery is not at
all encouraging to his relatives or the
medical staff OF the hospital lie Will
be brought to his home here as soon
Mr.. Charles Barr, who recently &C
Quired a tract of land near McHenry
and erected thereon a summer lodge,
breezed into The Republican Office on
| L utSudy anu III Ill Gu NIlCIllGI d SODNs
Democrat was allowed to subscribe
for good Republican newspaper"
He was granted the privilege, for
Republicans are of the opinion gener-
ally that if a Democrat becomes a
e''uei VI a i'ep"Oi,o''ii p"pei iie 'ooii
eii'Oi avs 'i'o i'e p''OiiOS'ii i"''ii
FOR SALE-I have for sale one
two-year old beagle hound; well
trained; excellent animal for rabbits
and groundhogs. He has captured 20
of the latter thus far this year and
will trail rabbit until it is killed
or burrowed. l will sell him cheap as
| do not need him any longer. Write
Junior Brawl, Kempton, W. Va.-Ad-
vel 'i0eii'ei'' lo1
The base ball team from Tunnel
ton, West Va, came down to Oak
land on Friday afternoon last and
took the game from the locals by a
score of to 6. But seven innings
were played because of the fact that
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Hearn in New Orleans.

DOSSIBLy there was no more
l. uneventful period in Hearn's
life than the few comfortable years
he spent in New Orleans, working
for subsistence on the daily papers
and boarding with Mrs. Courtney,
who lived above a grocery on the
corner of Gasquet and Robertson
streets. Although il was there, in
the two rooms that he occupied.
that he wrote his first books, Stray
Leaves from Strange Literature"
dedicated to Page NJ. Baker,,
"Gombo Zhebes," Some Chinese
Ghosts" "Chita" dedicated to DR..
Rodolfo Matas) and his wonderful
series of. translations from the
French. Hearn and this landlady
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became great friends ("both being
Irish," as she bossted); and it
proved to be one friendship, at least,
to which he was faithful. He wrote
to her from the West Indies and
from Japan; wrote her when he
married and when his children were
born. And during the years he
boarded with her. whenever he left
the city in search of literary ma
terial, he always wrote to her as he
might have done to a mother
From "L0Icddio Hearn aad Denny
corcoroH." By LaciHe Rat!oRd 80
the Double Dealer"
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file. The rest were, mainly, sub
scriptiOn editions, but not Paul de
Kock-though / found a copy of
Cousine Bette buried deep in a
closet-no. they were portfolios of
engraved masterpieces of art; emf
nent men, among which my grand
Understanding the sale of at least
two sets-was invariably present;
and elaborate affairs, bound always
in fooled dark leather, biographical
or having to do with the Protestant
Church. - From "Tintupcs. By
Joseph HcrgsSheimeT IA The RE
rietcer.''
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A Crandfather's Library.

THE walls there were filed with
Il bookcases and the bookcases
were filled with the most valueless
books procurable. His Thackeray
was made hideous by the reproduc-
tions of Thackeray's hideous draw
ings; his Bulwer Lytton was
printed in double columns, and his
Scott was a small Edinburgh edi-
tion of small type and depressing
steel engravings. ! forget whac the
Dickens was like-even then /
found Dickens stupid. One COM
prehensive set Of English poetry,
Pickering's, was as good as pos
sible; but what remained, William
Cullen Bryant, Emerson, Lowell,
couldn't well be duller. / tried
Cooper. without success-I rather
preferred Pepper and Salt. collec-
tion of roverbs-followed Peter
Ibbetson in Hdrper's Mdgdzine, and
found a story by Whyman, Francis
Cludde, in dusty and unpromising
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Scene of The Merry Men,

DERHAPS not SO many as have
L read Kidnapped" are ac-
quainted with The Merry Men, +"
though il is q singularly artistic
short story. even more intimately
and completely associated with this
island. It was Stevenson's first
literary use of his memories of
Earraid, and his remark TO Graham
Balfour. 81 began with the feeling
of one of those islands on the west
coast of Scotland, and l gradually
developed the story to express the
sentiment with which that coast
affected me-" shows how he not so
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much set the story in this particular
place as built up the action to suit
the island atmosphere he loved. All
who have read that fantastic
sonata about the sea and wrecks"
know that the action and, indeed,
the characters owe their nature TO
the situation and topography of the
island.-From "Eilean Earrdid; the
Belored Isle Of Robert Louis Stercn-
son." By LleDeHyn N. BHeH in
"Scribner's."
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a few minutes he tore out some
more pages.
What are you doing. Rube?" we
asked him.
Improving the book" he replied
as he serenely ripped out another
chapter
"whaddye improving it?"
we asked him. -
I'm tearing out the dun parts. =
said Rube. cit will be better book
when / get through: and the next
guy will have an easier job reading
it" With which the Rube proceeded
to rip out another chapter.
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He ttrue, IL trdS the least bit raw
Obeyed the Prohibition Law!
At once there sounded wild acclaim;
The nation rang with Jasper's
name;
The papers gave him front page
space;
News weeklies teemed with Jas.
per's face.
The publishers who'd turned him
down
And on his book bestowed a frown,
With self-condemnatory squirms
Now begged for it on any terms.
He sold it (don't know how much
for);
1t made an absolute furor;
The play ran several hundred
nights;
Ounce Pictures bought the movie
rights.
Thus Fortune to our Jasper came;
Thus he arrived at name and fame
AS agent p. had said he would
And Jasper saw that it was good.
He rose. Alas! would that were all,
But there's no rise without its fall,
And Jasper's was a frightful flopi-
He'd started-but he couldn't stop.
Publicity" became to him
For breath of life" the synonym;
We, reader, better balanced, float
it
He simply couldn't live without it.
He could not sleep, he could not eat,
He could not saunter down the
street
In anything like peace of mind
Without six camera men behind.
Each day he'd read the papers thru
Ut was his daily custom to)-
The Star, the Bee, the Globe, the
Call
From coast to coast he read them
all.
He counted that day lost whose low
Descending Brooklyn Sun had no
Excuse the gag) wild yarn to
splatter,
With Jasper as its subject matter.
If printed on an inside page
He'd seethe with apoplectic rage
And with a terrifying roar
Berate the cringing editor.
Each day he found the longed for
blurb
With naught his pleasure to dis.
turb
Until he oped, one fatal morn,
The Zdmbo County (Okla.) Horn.
Poor Jasper's breath came thick
and fast,
Whats this? What's this?" he
choked at last.
Here is q paper (can il be?)
without a word concerning ME,
Here's Quake Wrecks Toion on
Amazon
spd Cops Raid Joint While Crotods
Look On;
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The Original Col. Sellers
'COL. SELLERS" was a Lamp

~ VOL. SELLERS" was n Lamp
~ ton, and q tolerably near
relative of my mothers; and when
he was alive, poor old airy soul,
one Of the earliest things stranger
was likely to hear from his lips was
some reference TO the head of our
line" flung off with a painful cas-
ualness that was wholly beneath
criticism as a work of art. 1t COM
PEELED inquiry, of course; it was in
tended to compel it. Then followed
the whole disastrous history of how
the Hampton heir came to this
country a hundred and fifty years
on so ago. disgusted with that fool
ish fraud, hereditary aristocracy,
and married, and shut himself away
from the world in the remoteness
of the wilderness, and went to
breeding ancestors of future Amer
lean Claimants, while at home in
England he was given up as dead
and his titles and estates turned
over to his younger brother, usurper
and personally responsible for the
perverse and unseatable usurpers
of our day. And the Colonel always
spoke with studied and courtly def
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Genius and Amiction.

II lST0RI teens with examples
Of artists crippled with SEN
sorry insufIiciencies. Homer and
Milton We're blind. Beethoven was
deaf. These exceptions do not dis
prove the rule. Ii is rational 20
assume that Homer, like Milton,
was afflicted late in life. Beethoven's
hearing deserted him completely
at 81; by that time he had composed
the Ninth Symphony and the Missa
Solemnis. his noblest works.-FroE,
What Makes O Genius" By Aler-
dndcr LiRdey ia the Art Reuietc."
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The Book Factory
PUBLICITY.
By EDWARD ANTHONY.

PUBLICITY.
(SeUcral Laps After Gilbert.)
The story propose to tell
Concerns the life of Jasper Bell,
Whereby who runs and reads may
see
The Power of Publicitee.
Publicity made Jasper great;
Publicity was Jasper's Fate.
il raised him high to fame and bliss
And then-but read the rest of this.
BY hook or by, it may be, crook,
Our Jasper wrote a brilliant book.
my book" said he, will make a
stiri"
And sent il to a publisher.
The publisher did not delay
But sent the MS back straightway,
And Jasper, sanguinest of men,
AS straightway sent it out again.
Well, not to waste too many rimes,
This happened some two dozen
times,
And at the twenty-fourth rejection,
This" Jasper said, requires in
spection!
'Demonstrably, it seems to me,
My book has verve, elan, esprit.
And yet-there is no room to err
1t simply has not made a stir!
press agents are a canny lot,
They know who's who and what is
what;
To agent Protheroe I'll whiz,
He'll tell ME what the trouble is"
He whizzed to agent Protheroe
And told him briefly of his woe.
The agent said, ITS clear to me
That what you needs Publicitee.
mo doubt your book may fire the
blood
Without my help it's just dud;
1t may be. dH coatrdire, a mess,
But / can make it success.
"To sell your book were vain to try
Unless you're in the public eye"
"I'll leave it," Jasper said, ito you;
Just tell me whatI have to do"
I've not been told the agents plan,
And since / am truthful man
His scheme remains forever hid;
However, here's what Jasper did:
Each day he donned an overcoat
And bathed in tepid creosote.
He started wearing Grecian skirts,
Pink gloves and double breasted
shirts.
He pushed a penny with his nose
From Battery place to East Cohoes;
He dieted on peacOcks' brains
And hunted flies in aeroplanes.
He did new stunts with patient
VIM
Alas! the public yawned at him!
No matter what the thing he'd try,
The public closed the public eye.
And then at last the country woke,
For Jasper sprang masterstroke:
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OH, THOSE LEFTHANDERs.

When We were at Camp Merritt,
one of the men in our outfit was
"Rube" Bressler. the competent
southpaw of the Cincinnati Reds.
One day some one handed Rube n
copy of Cooper's 'The Spy" 10 read.
Rube, after reading for a few min
utes. was seen TO rip some pages out
of the book. Then he read on. In
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The World of Letters as Others See It

erence of the Claimant of his day
second cousin of his-and re-
ferred to him with entire serious
ness as "the Earl" - From the
Autobiography OF Mark Train" in
"Hdrper's."
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oUATRAIN FROM MARTIAL

(Book 1-XXX1D
/ love thee not. Sabidius. Why?
/ know not. ] can but reply
(No other answer have I got)-
Sabidius, o / love thee not!
Perhaps Martial gave Tom Brown
bless his merry seventeenth CEN
tury soul,-the idea for his well
known:
do not love thee. Doctor Fell,
The reason why I cannot tell:
But this alone know full well.
l do not love thee, Doctor Fell.
Just as We were ready 10 give
the Century Company the manuscript
OF our new book, ". ..
$500" (what do you think OF
the tiue?), we discovered that one
of our verse chapter headings, q
triOlet, had ten lines, or two too
many. II took US half day 10 make
smooth correction of the blunder.
When we told this to Ferdinand X
Flick, the well-known head clerk of
Buckets Bookshop. and author of
Mother. Nature" he laughed and
said. What a waste of time, You
are too much concerned with form.
One Of my best sonnets contains
seventeen lines"
Personal-Wil the reader who
sent us two contributions from Can
ada please send US his name and
address?
FROM 4 AREVIEWER'S NOTEBOOK
This is a first novel of sufficient
merit TO make one hope that it will
not be the authors last.
This novel tells the age-old story
of a mans love for a woman. E.
II is pity that SO able a writer
could not resist the temptation to re-
sort TO melodrama in Chapter XVI.
This grim account Of life in dark
est Harlem has unquestionable pow
er.
Here is an intelligent piece Of
storytelling for those who are tired
Of the sickly sentimentality Of the
seeond-raters.
Do You wish TO forget the drabness
Of everyday life? Then read this
delightful romance Of the South ca
Islands. this beautiful story OF how a
jaded business man found love aud
cOntentment In picturesque Tahiti.
In "Pegasuspirations" Lemuel La
zarro. the well-known poet, has
brought together many OF his epics
of modern life. The result is disap-
pointing and proves once again that
good magazine verse does not neces-
sarily make a gool book.
When these poems appeared indi-
vidnally one ail rot notice their
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Here's Croicd Looks GA While Bdak
Crooks Flee,
BIT not a word concerning Me-
"At once I'll telegraph to warn
The editor of this here Horn
How greatly I'm annoyed that he
Has not a word concerning Me-"
He telegraphed to that effect.
At once an answer came collect.
Its tone was gruffly rude-"And
Who the (never mind). )" it said, ARE
you?"
AS when the surges smite the rock
Poor Jasper reeled beneath the
shock.
His brain grew sick. his eyes grew
dim
This oaf had never heard of him.
From that day forth he peaked and
plned;
He could not get il off his mind.
He would not read the papers more
And showed the cameramen the
door.
He brooded-could not sleep at
night,
He lost his healthy appetite,
He grew more pale and thin each
day,
Until at last he passed away.
Forgetting, by the world forgot"
They laid him in his burial plot.
The papers ran but one short line
Twas ''Died. J. Bell, aged 49,"
The reason? 'Tis not far to seek.
They had another chap that week
Who into lasting fame had slid
l can't recall just what he did.
The only thing | really know
Is-he was doomed by Protheroe,
And If | find his story's true,
Some day I'll tell about him too.
BARON IRELAND.
Not since Carolyn Wells filed half
our column for us have we fel;
en- bannN nc Raro,, lralandsc ,nar.rv
stanzas have made us. The Baron
is one OF the ablest employees Of
The Book Factory and we intend TO
give him a bonus. You gotta treat
your help right. as Frank Tannen-
baum points out in "The Labor
Movement"
Baron Ireland. by the way. is old
Nate Salisbury who has had so many
PONIES and ekits in Life in the past
few years that he ought to be rich
enough to retire soon, We hope
so. Then he'll be able TO write
oftener for us.
Salisbury. who isn't as well known
as he ought 10 be, is one of the
best light versifiers in the land. As
long as we can remember l.. L. AS
colyum his nom dc plume has deco
rated IL. Last year the boss Of the
Coming Tower called Salsbury's
Christmas Rondel' one of the best
rondels in the language.
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oUR OWN QuEsTloN poN.

OUR. OWN QUESTION BON.
Sir: Who is the. author OF The
poem beginning
Purple grapes.
Yellow bananas.
Red apples.
Blue piums
Orange oranges.
All in the pink Of condition,
On pGsh-cart
MIGUEL O'kLEINBERG.
president. Bronx Bowling and
Poetry Club.)
We are not sure; bBt II sounds
like one OF the early poems OF Amy
Lowell-Ed. Book Factory.
Mr.: I am trying TO locate a SON
net called My enstiive Soul" Can
you help me? The first quatraln,
which follows. may give you a clev:
Where we're my eyes when mar
ried stupid Jake?
Life with the boor is one pro-
lonSed regret.
While / am lccturing at the club on
Blake
he sits perusing tho Police CO.
Setfe.
HEARTBROKEN.
My Sensitive Soul is by Carol
henuicott author of THE Gopher
Prairie Blues.'-Ed. Book Factory.
AFTER READING SIMEON
STRUNSkY'S DELIGHTFUL IN
BAD AND HIS FRIENDS"
When weary OF the simian books
With which my shelves are lined
II he2rtens me 10 put my hooks
Upon the Simeon kind.
We'd like to add that Simeon
StrunslSy has our vote for the Presi-
dency of the Cap-and- Bellies Lettres
Club that we recently started in this
column. Strunsky, We thing. COM
hines fun and thought as successful
ly as any one writing in America to-
day.
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shrillness, their strident note. In
book form this falling is all too an
parent The author is reminded that
Cailiope, the muse of epic poetry, Is
not a steam calliope. He shrieks too
much; he is too hysterioal.
Although. on the whole, the book
is rotten. we expect fine things from
this author. lie has rare gift for
phrasing-as evidenced by such poig-
nant passages as tiasert dngfhiHo)-
and the spelling and punctuation are
excellent throughout.