davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-09-29
ENGLAND AND THE ELECTION.

PlTTsBURG, Sept. r. William
Gardner, of this city. formerly engag-
ed in the manufacture of pottery and
fire brick, returned to-day from trip
to England. He said:
The anxiety Of English manufac-
turers f or Free Trade in the United
States can not be exaggerated. In
Doulton the proprietor of large pot
terry establishment, who employs 220O
people, admitted to me that he has
sent $500 to the Commercial Exchange
Club, of London, who turned it over
to the Golden Club. The latter sent
it to the United States to aid in the
election of Grover Cleveland, who, in
his opinion, was the most progressive
and representative American that
ever lived. He stated further that he
and many others in the pottery bust
ness would give three years of their
earnings to see the Mills bill, or Free
Trade, successful in the United States"
" Do you know whether the Golden
Club is sending Free Trade literature
to the United States as it did in 1850
and 1884 2"
L asked that very question of a
manufacturer, and his reply was :
No, not this year. We made blasted
fools of ourselves before in sending
printed stuff to the States, you know,
but we've substituted barrels of the
useful stuff and hope for the success
Of the Democratic party Then put
an emphatic why?' at my volubie
informant, and he said: 1t will rid
US of our surplus stock, it will give us
gigantic trade in the United States
and it will reduce our taxes here. j
admit that we depend on the southern
people in your country to aid us. Why
not? They are recognized in England
as the true aristocracy of America
This being the case, if the old sense
of honor stay with them, we will vel
see the day when the Confederate
bonds still held in England will be
fully redeemed with interest" 5.e
Mr.. Gardner stated that If any o.
his statements were doubted he would
be perfectly willing to make afiidavi'
that they were strictly correct.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-09-29
IOr and Home ImnWsfry +!

iff-as Mr.. John Bright said few
days back in published letter to
his correspondents-is only a tax
which the community pays to sup.
port the particular industry benefit.
ed by it. AS matter of fact, what
do we find in Americas Why,
their manufacturers can actually
beat us out of the field OH the score
OF mere cheapness only. So far
from Protection enhancing the cost
of their goods, they can turn them
out at rates with which we, with all
our Free Trade, cannot manage to
compete. The Yale lock makers can
afford to pay the carriage of their
goods to England and yet undersell
the Wolverhampton masters in the
very heart Of the lock trade, just as
the Belgians can quote lower rates
for angle iron delivered in Derby
than the local iron masters of the
Midlands. The Philadelphia engine
makers can turn out us seryiceable
a locomotive as any English firm,
aud ship it all the way to New Zeal
and for G600 less than the English
tenders. In South Russia the agri-
cultural implement trade is said to
be- passing entirely into the hands
of American exporters in spite OF
English and German competitors,
through the latter are nearly 5000
miles nearer to the local market.
With the exception of made up
clothing, which is dear because labor
is highly paid, and rot because the
duty on stutfs is so heavy, there is
not single manufactured article
produced in the United States, from
carpets to cotton, from locomotive
engines TO steel axes, from agricul.
tural implements to cutlery aud
Yankee notions, which is not as
cheap or even cheaper there than in
this country.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-09-29

Probably the most curious ring in New
York is worn by the wife of a wealthy
and well known lawyer. She has three
handsome, manly sons, but only one
daughter, who made her debut into soci-
ETY. this season, and was much admired.
This girl Is the idol Of her parents, and
the ring worn by her mother is a testi-
mony to their affection, though a very
eccentric one. When the girl was 10
years of age the father presented to the
mother at Christmas a ring in which
were set two little semi translucent
stones surrounded by diamonds, and for
q long while resisted his wife's entreatfes
to tell her what sort Of stones they were.
she never having seen anything at all re-
sembling them. Finally he confessed to
her a little shamefacedly that when their
small daughter had lost her pretty little
milk teeth he had saved the two front
ones and carried them about in his peck
etbook for long time until the idea oc-
CURED to him Of utilizing them in this
way. The wife laughed at him a good
deal, but continued to wear the ring and
still wears it, though very few persons
know the story of its setting Brooklyn
Eagle,
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-09-29

Recently attempts have been made
to destroy the bridge over the Poto-
mae river at Shepherdstown. coal oil
having been poured on the West Vir-
ginia end of the bridge and ignited.
Fortunately, the fires have been dis
covered by persons on the Washington
county side of the river in time to
prevent serious damage. The alleged
excessive tolls charged have excited
the ire of many people on both sides,
and are supposed to have been the
motives of the crime,
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-09-29
FROM THE ENEMY'S LAND.
EXTRAORDINARY TESTIMONY ON
THE BENEFITS OF PROTEC-
.r ED, TION IN AMERICA. ....l
London Morning Post, Aug. %.

According to our friends of the
Golden School, American commerce
and American manufactures ought
to be declining rapidly under the
whitening influence " of a protec
tive Tariff. Instead of this, the
statistics to which we refer show
that in twenty years the population
of the United States has increased
by 60 per cent. the hay crop has ill.,
creased LOG per cent. the cotton crop
1914 per cent. and the production of
pig iron over 1856 per cent. Railway
construction to the extent of over
$1,000 miles was projected last year
and over 900 miles of it were act
ually constructed in twelve months.
A feature Of last years immigra-
ton was the Unusual number of me-
cbanlcs. bricklayers, plasterers, and
masoDs, from Scotland, Wales and
the north of England, who went out
to the States in response to adyices
from the other side stating that
there were good openings there for
such handicraftsmen. And yet
there are scores Of politicians here
so blind to what is going on i'll the
world as to stick to the old fetish
formula that protection is more in
iurious to the country that adopts it
than to the country against which
the hostile Tariffs are aimed. ts4
But for the serious consequences
eutailed upon our British working
classes, who feel every day more and
more the pinch of foreign competi.
ton, it would be decidedly amusing
to note how completely every one
of the principles assumed by the one
sided Free Trade school of this coun.
try is negatived by facts and falsifi.
ed by experience of commonplace
business men. We are constantly
told that Protection raises the cost
of commodities; that hostile Tar
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-09-29

The souring OF milk Is caused BY the
change OF the sugar Of milk into tactic
acid. under the influence Of the casetne.
or cheesy matter. which the milk con-
tains. Boiling. however. deprives caseine
Of the power Of converting the sugar OF
milk into Tactic acid Now. II the milk
be put into bottles which. after being
well corked, are placed In can with
cold water, and gradually raised TO the
boiling point. and after being allowed 70
cool, be taken out and placed IN cod
place, the milk win keep perfect for more
than a half year. II the milk be ex-
posed to the air after boiling. the caseine
gradually RECEIVERS It's power Of convert
inc sugar into Tactic acid. In this case
the boiling has to be repeated every day
or every second day. and milk may thus
be kept fresh for two months or move
Halls Journal Of Health.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-09-29
No. BAD for the Eyes

There Is common notion that electric
light Is bad for the eyes. The only
foundation can think OF for such no
ton Is that It Is trying to the eyes TO
gaze directly at the bright electric light
It is bad to gaze long at any source OF
Light, and the brighter the source OF light
gazed at the worse for the eyes, the sun
being the worst Of all. have seen more
than one person whose eyes were per-
manentiy injured by gazing at the sun.
during an eclipse or otherwise. As .
matter of fact, nothing short Of sunlight
Is better than the incandescent electric
light to read by or to work by.-Professor
David Webster, Nd
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-09-29

Mr. Flick well known that is not necessary
his history his record He has taken active part in public
affairs this for years. and perfectly acquainted with the
people and their He has been strong but liberal Repub
can and did much for the Democrats that uses them in vot
ing for him. He Poteconst of the Tppecanoe kind having
been named after William Henry Harrison in 1910 The differ
between Wilson and Flick simply this Wilson voted to
put so cents southern sugar and 100 per cent tariff rice
and voted make West Virginia coo and lumber FREE
Mr. Flick will prove friend to the laborng to the
farmers and miners by voting to Protect Home La
Dor and Home INDUSTRY!
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-09-29

But Of all the taxes ever imposed on a
people the "birth tax" was tho most
odious- 1t lasted thirteen years, dating
from 1905. Every person not in receipt
Of aims was required to pay two shillings
for every ''little stranger" that came into
existence The tax was a great burden
to the lower orders; but the nobility and
gentry were subjected to still heavier
payments than their poorer neighbors.
Thirty pounds had to be paid on the
birth. of a duke. This sum gradually
diminished, according to certain fixed
scale, until it reached ten sAillings.-
Chambers Journal.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-09-29

The Shepherdstown Register says
that one third of the people in the
country think they are ahead of the
lawyers in ability to expound the laws;
one-half that they know more about
medicines and the science of healing
than the doctors; two-thirds are salts.
fed that they are better theologians
than the preachers, an all of them
think they can beat the editors in run
ming q newspaper.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-09-29
Parental Judgment.

Little Dot (at the tablel-Some more OF
that, please.
Mamma (who has finished her mea.
and feels sense of repletion) Mercy,
no; you'll kin yourself.
Papa (who came in late and has just
got started)-Well. if you won't help her
! will III not sit quietly by and see
child StaryR.--Omaha World.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-09-29
rhs -arittsr.. and II. Use.

The ..gritter" Is culinary implement
us. a almost exclusively in the mountain
regions of Kentucky for reducing roast-
ing ears into kind Of batter from which
a delicious bread Is baked. It Is made Of
a piece Of tin through which holes have
been punched with nail. and resembles
a Jumbo edition Of a nutmeg CRATER
New York Tribune.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-09-29
HERHLDbo

Is the paper for the family
gives all the local and general
news, markets in full, and
everything of interest in the
Full correspondence
from every district. Only $3.50
cash where the other papers are
50 and $3.50 if not paid within
the year.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-09-29

ai Mr. Fedt is well known citizen of Martinsburg semade
man and by prudence and economy has secured for himself
home property He has served the past term Prosecuting
Attorney with credit and given satisfaction the speedy
ton all business pertaining to his office He has always taken
an active part public affairs and being Republican from p
cpe has served the front ranks of the party He very pop
uar his party and has friends among the Democrats
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-09-29

Last week a two-year-old child of
Jacob Snipp, of Washington county,
Md, wandered to spring near the
house, where it fell in and drowned.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-09-29

fl, Ex-Governor Hamilton. who has
long been seriously i'll at his home in
Hagerstown, is now recovering and
is able to walk about his room.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-09-29

The Hagerstown Fair this year win
be held on October 18th, 18th. 18th,
18th and 10Th.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-09-29
! The Herald

gives all the election news of
both sides. 1t advocates with
all its might what it thinks to be
right; abuses nobody, and
respects everybody's belief
and principles.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-09-29

Our relations with foreign powers
should be characterized by friendliness
and respect. The right of our people
and of our ships to hospitable treatment
should be insisted upon with dignity and
firmness, Our nation is too great, both
in material strength and in moral power
to indulge in buster or to be suspected
of timorousness.
In inviting calm and thoughtful con-
sideration of these public questions we
submit them to the people. Their intelli-
gent patriotism and the good providence
that made and has kept nation will lead
them to wise and safe conclusions.
31ti BENJAMIN HARRISON
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-03-29
Lord Iytton in Paris.

Lord Lytton opened the eyes of the
Parisians at his first reception with tho
Oriental splendor of his house decora-
tions. The immense vestibule was
wonderfully decorated, and transported
one to the picturesque regions of the
Ganges. Everywhere around were
draperies of very rich old Indian curtains,
festoons of kanias, old firearms, curved
cimetars, helmets, shields of buffalo hide,
arrows and armor of all kinds, with
figures clothed in the most gorgeous
Indian fabrics. In the center of the
great panel that faces the entrance was
placed the head of colossal elephant,
whose tusks were two yards and a half
long, supposed to be the largest in ex-
istence. This wonderful object, sur
rounded as it was with tiger and leopard
skins, attracted nearly as much attention
as the model of the throne of the Ma
harajah of Mysore, who was replaced in
his kingdom by Lord Lytton when
viceroy of India. This throne, which is
superbly carved, is surmounted by dais,
and ascended by magnificent staircase
supported by caryatides of the various
divinlties and heroes of the Hindoo re-
ligion.-New York Tribune.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-03-29

'sIn no bad place, I warrant you; we
always could trust him when he was
home, and since he has been away there
have been SO many prayers offered for
him we can trust him STILL" Then at s
o'clock-for they retire early in the
country-at s o'clock they kneel down
and commend you to that God who
watches in the country and in town, on
the land and on the sea.
Some one said to a Grecian general:
s'What was the proudest moment of your
life!" He thought moment, and then
said: ''The proudest moment of my life
was when / sent word home TO my
parents that l had gained the victory
And the proudest and most brilliant mo-
ment in your life will be the moment
when you send word to your parents in
the country that you have conquered
your evil habits, by the grace of God, and
become eternal victor. Oh! despise not
parental anxiety. The time will come
when you will have neither father nor
mother, and you will go around the place
where they used to watch you, and find
them gone from the house, and gone
from the field, and gone from the neigh
borhood. Cry as loud for forgiveness as
you may over the mound in the church
yard, they will not answer. Dead.
Dead! And then you will take out the
white lock of hair that was cut from
your mothers brow just before they
buried her,-apd you will take the
cane with which your father used
to walk, and you will think and think,
and wish that you had done just as they
wanted you to, and would give the world
If you had never thrust pang through
their dear old hearts. God pity the
young man who has brought disgrace on
his father name. God pity the young
man who has broken his mothers heart,
Better if he had never been born-better
if, in the first hour of his life, instead of
being laid against the warm bosom of
maternal tenderness, he had been cof-
fined and sepulchred. There is no balm
powerful enough to heal the heart of one
who has brought parents to a sorrowful
grave, and who wanders about through
the dismal cemetery, rending the air
and wringing the hands, and crying;
'Mother! mother!'' Oh, that to-day,
by all the memories of the past, and by
all the hopes of the future, you would
yield your heart to God. May your
fathers God and your mothers God be
your God forever.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-03-29

noulnnaer and tho Astrolorcrs.

The horoscope, or astrological dossier,
Of Gen. Boulanger. has lately been
hawked in Paris streets. The general is
to overthrow Germany on Nov. z, 1890
and to become president of the republic
in May, 1891. Et apres? his countrymen
may remark. But Germany need not
tremble and ''come down, " lihe the coon
of fable. A sage named ElyrStar has
just published work on astrology, much
of which is as difficult and technical as
any book on .'How to Win at Roulette. I"
This hoary sage has taken the generals
horoscope himself, and he says the penny
horoscope is all wrong. 1t looks like an
insane attempt of the forty-seventh propo-
sition Of Euclid to demonstrate itself by
aid of the first. This horoscope is not
construed, but the reader can work it
out for himself if he has the necessary
knowledge. Ely-Star is ready to explain
it to Gen. Boulanger himself, and he re-
assures Germany by adding that it does
not 'tpass out' at all, as in the penny
variant. London Times.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-03-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Another English industry-asparagu
beds-are being laid down in Kent in
great area.
Atlantic steamships are still encounter
ing logs from the great raft which was
broken in pieces about two and half
months ago.
A sensible celebration of the silver
wedding of the Prince and Princess. of
Wales will be tea to 1000 poor children
in Folkestone.
A Baltimore company is going to try
to heat and sharpen horseshoes without
removing them from the horses hoofs.
All the police stations in New York are
to be painted white, so that they may be
easily recognized by strangers and others.
The archbishop of Canterbury says that
one of the greatest evils by which the
working classes are afflicted is the GUS
tom of early marriages.
A hard worked dry goods clerk Of
Waterbury, Conn, dreamed the other
night that he sold number of dress
patterns to customer, When he awoke
he found that he had torn the sheets into
strips in his dream.
A check for 1000, 600, drawn on a
national bank in Sheffield, Ala, recently
passed between two merchants of that
place. 1t was one of the largest, if not
the largest, check ever drawn in the
state.
At the trial of Wooster, O., man for
| murder it was brought out in the course
of the testimony that at the outbreak of
the war he had himself convicted of
sheep stealing in order that he might
avoid military service by going to the
penitentiary.
Among novel knickknacks intended as
presents for ladies are ball programmes,
not just for one evening, but for several
seasons. One of them is book shaped
with the lids tiny mirrors bound in gold.
On the inside are ivory tablets, on which
the names of the favored partners may
be written with jeweled pencil.
A tropical dinner given in Philadelphia
were served, and bouquet of ten straw
berries was placed before each guest.
Roman punch was served in oranges
hanging on nauural CreeS, SO GnaG Cne
guests could pluck their own fruit. The
floral decorations were all tropical.
a Citizen of Smithville, Ga, says that
the other morning, hearing voice in an
old log pen by the roadside, he looked in.
| He saw an aged and dilapidated stranger
ON his knees praying: ooh Lord, soften
the hearts Of the people that I may not
lack for bread as go along" In an
swer to questions the tramp said that he
never failed to get bread when he prayed
for it, and that he never failed to pray. :.
Randolph county, in West Virginia,
has many things to be proud of. Its area
is nearly as great as that of Rhode Island.
1t has the highest mountain ia the state
Mount Bayard, The Wilson vein OF
coal Is the richest in the world. The
Scott family, on Roaring creek, will out
weigh any family in the United States,
and Winchester park, in the county, is
the largest game preserve east of the
Rockies.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-03-29
Poisonous Green Dye.

hear from st. Petersburg that the
wife of a Russian general, well known
in Nice society, has lately been suffering
from malady the cause of which is not
a little singular. 1t appears that her i'll
ness, which was at first attributed to
over fatigue, has now been traced to the
emanations from green silk dress form
ing part of her wardrobe, and which had
received its color from highly poisonous
dya: The lady, who was seriously ill for
some days, is now better. 1t has been
ascertained that the workwomen who
made the gown were similarly affected
London Life.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-03-29


A movement is OF foot in England Mt
present, which viii probably earn the
approval and appreciation of q large
number of liberal minded Americans. 10
introduce and establish a reform in the
matter of burying the dead. With the
acquiescence Of DIR. Temple. the bishop
of London, who declared recently that
the system of interripg bodies in indie
structible cofiins and brick or stone vaults
is inconsistent with the principles of
Christianity" the Church of England
Burial association proposes to doaway
with these methods. While this society
does not advocate cremation, il distinctly
holds and promulgates the opinioli that
the proper and most sensible plan is to
bury in perishabe cofhns in the earth.
the result Of which is apid and complete
Jisintegra,ion. The association holds
that the method it advocates is most ad-
vantagcous also to the living, because it
says the dissolution and dispersion is
effected so completely and in so natural
q manner rs to render every atom abso-
lutely innocuous. - New York Press
Livery Day Talk"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-03-29
Historical Items About Emera,ds.

Pliny relates that tomb at Cyprus bore a
lion carved with eyes of emeralds SO bright
they frightened away the fish in the sea
Nero wore an eyeglass of emerald, which
was supposed good for the sight, and it is
said that lapidaries who cut emeralds have
good eyesight, because the hue of the stone
refreshes the eye. The Orienttals believe
that wearing an emerald imparts courage
and averts disaster. 1t was ground down
and taken as medicine in doses of six
grains as a cure for various disorders. At
the conquest of Peru the Spaniards captured
hundred weights of emeralds, and one dedi-
Gated to the goddess Esneralda was the size
of an ostrich egg. Cortez gave his bride a
large emerald carved like a rose, which
reused the queens envy and lost him the
court favor.-Wide Awake