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indicates that Winter might have understood and have
translated into the two foreign tongues. Unlike his
rival, Bartgis, Winter had no fonts of German type?
he used Roman letters for his German columns.

So few issues of the Rights of Man can be found
today that it is almost impossible to form an estimate
of the printer or of the newspaper's progress.
J. T. Scharf states in his History of Western Maryland
that Winter was a Federalist of the old school, and
that he was a convivial person, enjoying Fourth of
July barbecues on the banks of the Monocacy and Bush
Creek.²⁸

There are indications that the Rights of Man ran
on a narrow financial margin. Winter taught school
in Benztown,²⁹ and thereby augmented the income from
his newspaper. His son, also John Y/inter, acted as
carrier for the Rights of Man; he is said to have been
an eccentric youth, who habitually made his rounds
without hat or shoes.³⁰ When the disaster of fire
struck Winter's establishment in 1799, this notice
(bearing witness to the wide circulation of the news-
paper as well as to the financial condition of its
its editor) was inserted:

28 Scharf, J.T. op. cit. vol. 1, p. 528-529.

29 Ibid. v. 1, p. 528.

30 Ibid. v. 1, p. 529.