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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-10-27
Warming About Neglect
Credited to Franklin

The authorship of the old saying
about "for want of a nail kingdom
was lost" is attributed to Benjamin
Franklin. In the preface of his poor
Richards Almanack for 1885," Richard
Saunders, the name Franklin assumed
in the writing, quotes man named
Father Abraham as saying: sand
again, he Richard adviseth to circum-
spection and care, even in the smallest
matters, because sometimes a little
neglect may breed great mischief, add
ing, for want Of nail, the shoe was
lost; for want of a shoe the horse was
lost; and for want Of a horse the
rider was lost, being overtaken and
slain by the enemy, all for want of
care about horseshoe nail" No his
torical incident of this nature is
known, and it is believed that Frank
lin invented the story. In old school
readers, Franklin's precept is given as
follows: "For the want of nail the
shoe was lost; for the want Of shoe
the horse was lost; for the want Of
horse the rider was lost; for the want
Of rider the battle was lost; for the
want of battle the kingdom was lost
and all for the want Of horseshoe
nail"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-10-27
Mankind Yet May Find
Use for Desert Wastes

Whoever finds a cheap way to sep
arate water and salt will change the
face of the world. Deserts, according
to the late Prof. Percival Lowell, are
the beginning of the end of life upon
the earth, and they are widening.
Lower California and the west coast
of Mexico, Central and South America
down to Cape Horn are arid most or
the year. Australia is ringed around
with water and vast stretches OF bar
rem beaches. The Sahara and Arabia
are bone-dry all year. Yet here are
the seas, covering more than three
fourths of the earth, used by us mere
ly to sail on and fish in.
In every 100 pounds Of sea water
there are only three and one-half
pounds of salty materials, three
fourths of the salts being sodium
chloride, or common salt. If we knew
how to separate the salt and water
economically, we could drive back the
deserts from every shore.
Nature knows one way; she evap-
crates the water, leaving the salt be-
hind, then condenses the vapor into
rain. On ships at sea, man makes use
Of the same process, but this evapora-
ton process is too expensive for use
ashore. Unless willing to let nature
take it's course, multiplying man will
in time have to tackle the water prob
lem in a new way.-Los Angeles
Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-10-27

SEALED PROPOSALS for the
huil6ing of one section of State High
way, as follows:
GARRETT COUNTY: Contract G.
35-1-64: F. A. Project No. E-264
One section of State Highway
along the Blooming Rose Road from
fgae end Of Contract G-30-A, near
Rriendsville toward the Pennsylva-
MIA State Line, for distance of 4.3
EnjIes (grading and drainage).
The minimum hourly wage to be
paid by the contractor on the above
project shall be, for unskilled labor,
SIS; for semi-skilled labor, add $3.50 ;
for skilled labor, add !50H6.
WIFE be received blythe State Roads
Commission at it's Offices; Federal Re-
serve Bank Building, Calvert and Lex
Tagton Streets, Baltimore, Maryland,
r4HfE II NJ. on the 1st day of Novem-
oerz 1882, at which time and place
they will be publicly opened and read.
REORGANIZATION OF BIDDERS
REQUIRED.
Eds must be made upon the blank
proposal form which, with specifica-
tions and plans will be furnished
10y 5sEe Commission upon application
and cash payment of $1.0O, for each
sseparate project, as hereafter no
charges will be permitted.
No bids will be received unless ac-
ecu1y4Eanied by certified check, paya-
ble 40 the State Roads Commission of
MRryland, as required by Sec. 6,
G8s9pter $50, Acts of 1881, of the
a1GX1nt as set forth in the proposal
fGT1n
The successful bidder will be re-
GEuSTed to give bond and comply with
thE Acts of the General Assembly of
Maryland respecting contracts.
EAn Commission reserves the right
20 re7ct any and all bids.
BY ORDER of the State Roads
Conn ission this 18th day of October
1882
G. CLINTON UHL, Chairman.
L. Fl. STEUART, Secretary.
Advertisement 36-2t.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-10-27
Longevity of Elephants

No accurate information is obtain
able as to the extreme age an ele-
plant reaches in the wild state. Nor
is there any positive evidence avail
able that one ever lived to be more
than seventy-five years old either in
captivity or the wild state, although
it Is supposed that one may OCCASION
ally live to be ninety-five or one hun
bred years old. The director of the
New York Geological part states that
the extreme life span of animals may
be estimated with fair degree Of ac-
curacy by multiplying by four or five
the number of years which the young
Of the species requires to reach ma
turity. Elephants reach maturity at
about twenty-five and begin to get old
at sixty or siXty-flve. d.. ..
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-10-27

It is estimated by the United States
public health service that the aver
age height of a man in this country is
about 5 feet s inches and the aver
age height Of a woman about feet 4
inches. Whitaker's almanac gives the
average heights Of natives Of the Brit
ish isles as follows: Scotsmen, 5
feet 9A inches; Irishmen, 5 feet 8
inches; Englishmen, feet IA inches;
Welshmen, 5 feet 61s inches. Books
dealing with anthropology, such as
that by E. B. Tylor In the Popular
Science library. give average heights
Of other races. Thus feet inches
is given for the Chinese laborer, 5 feet
7 inches for the Swede, feet for the
Lapp, s feet II inches for the Pata-
gonia of South America, feet 6
inches for the Bushmen and other
South African tribes.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-10-27
Old Jewish Burial Customs

The ancient Jews of Palestine bur-
led their dead by placing the corpse
either in the earth or in caves hewn
out of the rock. Sometimes the Sc
pulcher was dug in the ground in the
neighborhood of the family dwelling.
More frequently, however, rocks were
excavated so as to form compart-
ments or galleries with as many vaults
as desired. These vaults were known
as "kokim." The burial place was
often in a garden situated at least so
cubits distant from the city. The site
was usually marked by whitewashed
stone.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-10-27
Presidential Gardener

The Presidents garden goes back to
the days when John Quincy Adams Of
Massachusetts lived at the White
House, says an article in a Boston
paper. 1t was said that President
Adams had the tastes of an English
squire. In his diary he mentions that
he delighted to work in the garden
in the dew Of the morning.
"In this small garden" he wrote,
"of not less than two acres there are
forest and fruit trees, shrubs, hedges,
esculents, vegetables, kitchen and me-
dicinal herbs, dollhouse plants, flow
ers and weeds to the amount con-
lecture Of at least 1000. Ouseley, the
gardener, knows them all by their Boz
tanical Names"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-10-27
Ancient Water Organ

One of the strangest musical instru-
ments, and which, by the way, plays
an important part in the history of
music, is the ancient water organ or
hydraulic. The water organ was the
musical instrument of ancient Alex
andria and Rome. One of these old
organs was discovered in making ex-
cavations for a new electric plant in
the suburbs of Budapest, Hungary.
Despite the fact that it had been
buried for centuries 1t was in q good
state of preservation.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-10-27
Knew His Host

He was well known to his friends
for his weakness for extravagant liv-
ing and a distinct aversion to paying
anybody when he could possibly avoid
it; and the other day, having taken
and furnished a. somewhat sumptuous
flat, he invited some of his friends to
dinner.
Don't you Think" he asked, proud
", as he was showing them round
the place, "that it's rather nicely fur
nished? Don't you consider l deserve
great credit for it?"
"You do" remarked one of the
party, dryly, "and l should imagine
you've got it, too" g
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-10-27
Beautiful Old Cathedral

The cathedral at ROuen, France,
which is Of the Thirteenth century pc
riod, is one of the most impressive In
existence. 1t once possessed the heart
Of Richard Occur de Lion, which is
now in a museum. 1t is AT feet long,
the nave is 90 feet high, and a tower,
built to replace an old one struck
by lightning, is of iron, 500 feet high.
The front varies from ROmanesque to
the Flamboyant. The fine rose win
dows and the sculpture about the rich
gabled portals are noteworthy.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-10-27
Americans Use Most Power

Some years ago farm power sur
vey showed that each Farm worker
in the United States produced more
than six times as much farm prod
ucts as the average Italian farm
worker, and used 2.05 horse power
as compared to 10 horse power for
the Italian worker. Now the aver
age Nebraska farmer with more than
5 horse power available is able to
produce IS times as much as the aver
age Italian. This difference in pro-
ductive capacity accounts largely for
the difference in their scale Of living.
wisconsin Agriculturist. 4
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-10-27
PUBLIC SALE
OF
STUDEBAKER PHAETON

Saturday, November 5th, 1882
At the hour of 200 o'clock P. NJ,
in front of Wilson Brothers. Garage in
the town of Kitzmiller, Garrett Coun-
ty, Maryland, we will offer at public
sale to the highest bidder one 1927
Model Studebaker Phaeton, serial No.
1252740; Motor No. ER-25-45-42.
Said automobile will be sold under
the lien and authority of the Act of
Assembly of Maryland to satisfy and
discharge an account for labor, parts
and accessories, storage, ETC., made
and furnished to said car and due the
undersigned.
TERMS OF SALE-CASH.
WILSON BROTHERS,
36-2t. Kitzmiller, Md.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-10-27
Tuesday, the 9Th Day of
November, 1892,

For the purpose of balloting for
Eight persons for Electors of Pres
ident and Vice-President of the Unit
ed States;
One person for member of the Unit
ed States Senate from the State of
Maryland;
One person for member of the
House of Representatives of the
United States in the Seventy-third
Congress from the Sixth Congress
sional District of the State of Mary
land;
For TIE Constitutional Amendment,
against the Constitutional Amend
ment, said proposed Amendment to
the Constitution of the State of Mary
land being as follows and known and
designated as
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-10-27
Supervisors Notice
ELECTION
Office of
The Board of Supervisors of Elections
For Garrett County, Md.
Oakland, Md, Oct. 25, 1882.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN To
the Judges and Clerks of Election and
to the qualified voters of Garrett
County, Maryland, that in accordance
with the provisions of Article SO of
Chapter POP of the Acts of the Cen
eral Assembly of Maryland, passed at
the January Session, 1896, and amend
ed by the Acts of 1900, 1901, 1902,
1920, and also by the Act of 1927, an
election will be held in the several dis
tricts and precincts of said Garrett
county, at the usual places of holding
elections, and at the places herein
named, on
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-10-27

Fund, District No. 7.... 1908
Deficiency in General Road
Fund, District No. g.. 117.54
Deficiency in General Road
Fund, District No. g.. 1920
Deficiency in General Road
Fund, District No. H.. 14.50
Deficiency in Special Road
Fund, Districts 2, 5, 6 and
IA ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 445.70
Deficiency in Special Road
Fund, Districts 4, 7, 8, 10
and Is NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 21.19
Deficiency in Constables'
Fund .................. 562.45
Deficiency in Water Fund. 1910
Deficiency in Printing and
Publishing Fund. ....... STOOL
deficiency in Election Fund 129.45
Deficiency in Magistrates
Fnnd Observation-Disclosures. 290.33
Deficiency in Road Equip
xnent Fund ............. 3,87O.39
Deficiency in Court Fund. 638.22
Deficiency in Sheriff's Sal
AIRY Fund .............. 926.75
Deficiency in Pauper Fund. 4,028.60
Total .$58, 5O4.54
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-10-27
Department of Public Works
STATE OF MARYLAND
STATE ROADS COMMISSION
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS
Emergency Construction High
way Projects

Under the Provisions of the Federal
Emergency Relief and Construction
Act of 1892.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-10-27

FOR RENT-Dwelling house on
Water Street, Oakland. Apply to
Neil C. Fraley, Garrett National Bank
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 12-tf.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-10-27

of repairing and heating public school
buildings in said county, and being
known and designated in the Acts of
Assembly passed at the January Ses-
sion, 1881, as
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-06-30

the judge relative to his wife's unjust
indictment.
Phillips Holmes is featured In the
cast as the taxi driver; Walter Huston,
plays the crooked Judge, and Anita
Page has the most dramatic role of
her career as the frame-up victim
Other prominent players include
Lewis Stone, Mary Carlisle. John
MILAN, Jean Hersholt, Tully Marshal,
and Noel Francis. The picture was
directed by w. S. Van Dyke, who &C
complished such wonders with Trad
er Horn" and "Tarzan The Ape Man.
The dramatic material on which
the plot is based leaves room for a
wide variety of powerful episodes
such as the vivid sequence in which
the stool pigeon" forces his entry
into the girls room in order to
frame" her: the gruelling persecu-
ton Of the taxi driver when he at
tempts to interfere with court in
justice, and the exciting incidents
which entail the crooked judges ulti-
mate downfall.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-06-30

revoke improvident subsidies granted
to favored interests.
5. The extravaganza of the farm
board, its disastrous action which
made the government Spectator in
farm products, and the unsound policy
OF restricting agricultural production
to the demands of domestic markets.
Rap Bond Sales
6. The usurpation of power by the
state department in assuming to pass
upon foreign securities offered by in
ternational bankers, as a result of
which billions Of dollars in question
able bonds have been sold to the pub
lie upon the implied approval of the
federal government.
Z. The Hawley-Smoot tariff law,
the prohibitive rates of which have
resulted in retaliatory action by more
than 40 countries, created internation-
al economic hostilities, destroyed in
ternational trade, driven our factor
les into foreign countries, robbed the
American farmer Of his foreign
markets and increased his cost of pro-
duction.
Conclusion
To accomplish these purposes and
to recover economic liberty we pledge
the nominees Of this convention and
the best effort of a great party whose
founder announced the doctrine which
guides us now. in the hour of our
country's need.-"equal rights to ALL,
Snecial nriviloceS IN mona
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-06-30
Text Of Democratic Platform

use Of federal reserve facilities for
speculative purposes.
IL. The full measure of justice and
generosity for all war veterans who
have suffered disability of disease
caused by or resulting from actual
service in time of war, and for their
dependents.
Firm Foreign Policy
ID. A firm foreign policy including:
Peace with all the world and the set
Element of international disputes by
arbitration; no interference in the in
ternational affairs of other nations:
the sanctity Of treaties, and the main
tenance of good faith and of good
will in financial obligations; adher-
ence to the world court with the
pending reservations; the pact of
Paris abolishing war as an instru-
ment of national policy, to be made
effective by provisions for consulta-
ton and conference in case of threat
ened violation Of treaties; information
al agreement for reduction of arma-
ments; and cooperation with nations
of the western hemisphere to main
tain the spirit of the Monroe doc
trine.
We oppose cancellation of the debts
owing to the U. s. by foreign nations.
IA. Independence for the Philip
pines; ultimate statehood for Porto
Rico; the employment of American
citizens in the operation of the Pam
ANA Canal.
Is. Simplification of legal proce-
dure and reorganization of the Judi
cial system to make the attainment Of
justice speedy, certain and at less
cost.
l6. Continuous publicity of politi-
cal contributions and expenditures,
strengthening of the corrupt p. ac..~..
act, and severe penalties for misap-
preparation of campaign funds.
Vigorous Ccndemnations
We condemn:
l. The improper and excessive use
of money in political activities.
2. Paid Hobbies of special interests
to influence members of Congress and
other public servants by personal con-
, tact.
3. Action and utterances of high
public officials designed to influence
stock exchange prices.
4. The open and covert resistance
OF administrative officials to every ef-
fort made by congressional commit
tees to curtail the extravagant expen-
ditures of the government, and to
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-06-30
At the Movies
PARAMOUNT THEATRE

A powerful drama of circumstances
which turned the home of a happily
married young couple into a bedlaln
of tragedy is told in might Court"
opening Friday at the Paramount
Theatre.
The story, which is based on recent
disclosures of political corruption in
courts of law, depicts the web of in
trigue and injustice which encircles
young taxi driver and his wife when
they unwittingly become involved iii
the private life" of a well-known
night court magistrate.
Because discriminating evidence of
the judges scandals falls into the
hands of the chauffeur's wife, she is
railroaded to Jail on a trumpd-up
morals charge. The taxi driver, bent
on exposing the judge, discovers the
latter's implication in a notorious
murder charge and uses this infor-
nation in forcing confession from
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-06-30
MENTION MANY MEN
IN LIFE OF nurse
II Witnesses Give Testimony
in 5000, 900 Breach of
Promise Action

Los Angeles. June 30.-(P-Eleven
defense witnesses have testified there
We're many men in the life of Myrtle
Joan st. Pierre, attractive nurse who
seeks 100000 for alleged breach of
promise from David Hutton, singer
husband of Aimee Semple Mcpherson,
evangelist.
And Mark Jones, defense attorney,
said there were more to appear
Thursday in an effort to disprove the
contention of the twice married, 30
year-old brunette, that her associa-
ton with the rotund Hutton de-
veloped into her lone great love-"
John G. Edwards, secretary treasur-
err OF the affiliated improvement as
sociations of Los Angeles county,
said that as a neighbor of Miss ST..
Pierre in Hollywood in 1928. he believ-
ed she lived in the same house with
Albert Eben, organist.
The witness was joined by his wife
in testimony that the gay sounds Of
parties floated from the st. Pierre
home next door.
Joseph Levi, linen and rug dealer,
said George David. friend, brought
Miss st. Pierre to the Levi apartment
and introduced her as his girl"
They sat on the COUCH" Levi said.
He Rugged and kissed her. Another
time left them in my apartment and
came back Unexpectedly. He winked
to me to get out quickly"
Mrs. Lillian Benjamin said she got
angry because on two Sunday morn
ings Miss st. Pierre came running up
to my house and into the living room
where my son, DR.. Benjamin, was
sleeping. She threw herself on the
bed with him. didn't quite approve
of that"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-06-30
GERMANY PRESSED
FOR PREPARATIONS
Want Fatherland to Earmark
Lump Sum For Use in
World Reconstruction

Lausanne, Switzerland, June 3d.
R-A suggestion that Germany ear
mark final lump sum for payment
in lieu of reparations annuities, one
third of it to go to world reconstruc-
ton, was one of the principal threads
upon which hope for success of the
Lausanne conference continued to
hold Thursday.
The remaining two-thirds of the
sum. according to the suggestion,
would be set aside pending negotia-
tions of revised war debt agreements
with the United States.
Concrete proposals to Germany
were drafted Wednesday night by
committee of representatives of the
six leading powers at the conference.
The committee was headed by Prime
Minister Ramsay Macdonald of Great
Britain, whose tenacity in insisting on
some kind of agreement was credited
with saving the conference from fail
ure.
One CT the factors which contrib
uted to the lessening Of tension was
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-06-30
Shafer Is Wall0ped
BY His Home County

Watford City-Governor George
F. Shafer took q terrific beating
from his home county on the
basis OF early returns on the race
for the republican senatorial
nomination. The vote In eight
precincts was Nye $50, ehafer cit.
In the gubernatorial race, LANCER
got 472 votes to at for Hyland.
The first two precincts to report
gave strong majorities to al the
initiated measures.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-06-30

an explanation by Chancellor Won
Papen of Germany that in calling for
revision of the Versailles treaty
Wednesday he did not mean the re-
vision must take place before the is
sues of reparations and economic re-
construction had been discussed.
A German spokesman denied, how
ever, the Berlin government had de-
cided to accept the principle of fur
Their reparations payments.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-06-30
Burdick Weakness
Is Big Surprise

Political prophets, many of
whome had forecast that Usher l..
Burdick, wet candidate, would be
high man in the Republican con-
gressional race, took a wallop on
the whiskers Wednesday.
The Fargo repeal advocate ran
well In the cities but it was an
other case of hearing from the
country" in North Dakota cleo
tons.
With his strongholds reporting
early it appeared. as the returns
came in, that Burdick had little
chance of winning one of the two
places on the Republican ticket.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-06-30
Grand Forks Men Are
Injured in Accident

Grand Forks. N. D., June 3O.-(P-
Two Grand Forks young men. in
jured with seven others when an
automobile and truck crashed to-
gether here Tuesday evening, still
were unconscious late Wednesday
while five others had received hos
pital treatment and been released.
Clarence Thompson. %, and Elmer
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-06-30
Cheer for Hoover
ROuSeS Democrats

Chicago, June 30.-(PeSome-
body with a loud voice and a dis
concerning idea of huulor Is brav-
ing danger around the Demo-
cratic national convention dele
gatec.
"Hurray for Hoover" doomed
out from the balcony of Richie
headquarters in the congress ho-
tel Tuesday night. the tones car
rying all down candidates row."
The miscreant escaped before the
aroused groups could collect a re-
prisal party.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-06-30
TWO WEDDINGS AT CENTER

Center, N. D., June 30. - Two
couples were married here recently.
Miss Anna Schwalbe, daughter of
Mrs. Carl Schwalbe of Yucca, and
James l.. Nanny, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. James Nanny, former residents
of Center, were wed at the Lutheran
church. They will live near Harmon.
Miss Lillian Nagel, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Ernest P. Nagel of Yucca,
and Edward R. Walker, son of Mr..
and Mrs. II. H. Walker of Fargo,
were married at the Methodist Epis-
copal church.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-06-30

Thompson. 1S, had fractured skulls
and were in q critical condition with
prospects for recovery undetermined.
Clarence Thompson drove the truck
and Elmer was q passenger.