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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-03-03
AN oDIoUs MONOPOLY.

John d. Rockefeller, who dozen
years ago was in very ordinary cir
cumstances and who is to-day a
multi-millionaire, appeared before
the investigating committee in New
York Tuesday and talked about
the most merciless monopoly in this
Countrywide Standard Oil Com.
pany. Taking the facts even as he
gives them, they tell story that
ought to be impossible in this coun-
try. 1I
The Standard is the head of a
trust composed of from five to fifty
companies with a capital of $780,
600, 900 and with a capacity equal to
the entire oil consumption of the
United States. 1t controls absolute.
ly over three-fourths of the oil pro-
duct, and it owns pipe lines that ex-
tend nearly half way across the con-
tinent. Any small concern is pow.
erless to compete with such an enor.
nous combination, and if any does
try to compete, those insiduous meth
DDS so characteristic of the concern
soon accomplish its downfall.
And yet this gigantic monopoly
yields a tremendous influence in
places where it should meet nothing
but hostility. A member of it occu.
pies chair in the United States
Senate. It's profits pay for a large
part of the entertainment at one of
the Cabinet receptions in Washing
ton. In Florida President Cleve-
land was the practical guest of one
of its magnets, who monopolized the
presidential party and shut out the
public.
A monopoly like this is dangerous
and injurious. 1t cripples legitimate
trade and becomes a menace to our
institutions. Each year it is piling
up millions of wealth and growing
more tyrannous. There are unlimit-
ed possibilities before it unless it is
taken in hand by the law. If the
investigating committee can provide
some way to curb it and similar
trusts, it will do a public service of
inestimable value.-American.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-03-03

Mr.. Blaine is quoted by the New
York Herald as saying some strong
things, which prove his sincerity in
declining the Republican presiden-
tial nomination. His whole support
he pledges to the Republican candI.
date on a platform of protection to
American industry as against free
trade,-in favor of intelligent labor
against cheap, imported slave work.
He says further:
1t is fact that for the last
seventy-five years no man has been
elected president who has been a
party leader for any time. Webster,
Clay, and Benton, three of the great
est and most ambitious men this
country ever had, were ignored by
the people, and such men as Polk
and Pierce, and Taylor, and Harri
son, who were far inferior to them
in everything, slipped in easily"
sit is anatural ambition 1.-THE Pres
idency) of which no man should be
ashamed. / want to be president
but not more so than 10000 other
citizens of the United States do.n
If / had an uncomfortable long
ing for the place Ishould never have
gone abroad. Gen. Grants TRIP
around the world spoiled his nomina
ton in 1880. The man who hobnobs
with princes and receives presents
from kings IS not looked upon with
favor by our people. Every time
see the Queen or the Prince O
Wales it will do me harm as a can
didate. If l were a candidate de
termined to win / should not have
crossed the ocean and exposed my
self to this kind of criticism"
The Chicago Convention will be
q unit for Blaine, and the people
will elect him by reclamation
At least 1t looks and feels thai
way.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-03-03
BEDINGToN NEWS.

Sales nearly every day.
This is hard weather on the wheat,
not very good for health and not so
much like spring as you would imag.
inc.
Some of the visitors have returned
home, those remaining seem to be en-
joying themselves, and at the same
time others seem to enjoy them.
The girls are pushing their Leap
Year claims assiduously in this Sec
ton, but with what result I cannot as
yet say although predict successful
and happy ending to the cruise.
Ere your valuable paper reaches its
many readers, one of our industrious
and genial young men will have taken
to himself life companion and
launched his little bark upon the tenn.
pestuous sea of matrimony. A
man who imbibes wine to intoxica-
ton is called q Wine Bibber," then
what would you call girls who do
the same? "Wine bibbereeses
presume, well we occasionally stray
gle across some of these innocent lit.
tie creatures, their "bonnie T" "wine
bibberesses," in our section
Excellent exercises at Nipetown last
notwithstanding, Miss Ella Lemaster,
select reading Mr.. Chas. Mcdowell,
Essay Miss Mary Riner, an original
story by Miss Adah Dodd, -Declama.
tions by Benz. Crowell and Allen Por.
terfield. Debate upon, Which is
the greater curse Ignorance or Pride,
by Messrs. DILL and GA. Means
affirmative, DR.. A. j. Lemaster and
E. E. Snider, negative, decision for
affirmative. Question for March 9th.
RESOLVED, "That Lafayette deserves
more credit than Washington
Mr.. Daniel Niceley, one of our black
smiths, came near losing his life one
day last week, while shoeing colt
The animal kicked him in the face
and horribly mutilated and bruised it
We hope he may soon recover.
Feb. Goth, 1888. EDMUND.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-03-03
WHY RELIGIOUS NEWS IS NOT RE-
PORTED.

How comes it that base ball and
horse-racing news is reported with
great care and fullness, while the
leading religious events are eitherig
nored altogether or lndifferently re.
ported? Is it not because newspa.
per editors have learned that per.
sons who belong to the theatrical or
the sporting or the mercantile public
buy their papers according as they
find in them full, prompt, and SYM
pathetic treatment of theatrical,
sporting, and market news; where
as religious people, as such, do not
discriminate in their patronage of
newspapers with a corresponding
exactness In other words, do reli.
gious people feel as keen an interest
in religious news as the baseball
public feels in baseball news, or as
the horse-racing public feel in the
news of horse.raceg Do religious
people to any considerable degree,
choose one paper rather than anoth.
er because one paper gives more
prominence to religious news than
another, or treats it with a more
sympathetic apprehension? You
can go up one bench and down an
other at baseball game, and every
man in the crowd will tell you what
papers of the next morning will have
a full and glowing account of the
match then in progress, and which
will dismiss it in few cold lines,
and very many of them will make
their purchase of a paper on the fol-
lowing morning on that basis of
choice. Now apply that mode of
reasoning to religious people. Out
of an audience assembled in city
for some notable religious occasion,
how many will be able to perdict the
relative prominence that will be
given to that meeting by the news
papers ? And how many will go to
the newspaper stand the following
day and buy paper, confident, with
out looking it through, that it gives
a good account of the event? In
short, is it not after all, question of
supply and demand.-Henry r. El-
hot in the March F0ram.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-03-03
FIDUCIARY NOTICES !

A List of the Fiduciaries whose ac-
counts are before the undersigned Com
missioner of Accounts of the County
Court of Berkeley County for settle-
ment -
George Sincindiver, Guardianship,
John S. Bowers, ward.
II. Virginia bowers, Guardianship,
Fannie G.. bowers, ward.
Robert Lamon, Guardianship, Mary
bowers, ward.
John W. weist, Administration, Jacob
weist.
Thos. Kratz, Administration, E. b.
Hammill.
Given under my hand as Commissioner
of said Court, at my office at the Court
house of said County, the 2S day of Feb
ruary, 1888.
j. T. PICKING. Com'r.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-03-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Mr.. w. w. Corcoran, the Wash
ington philanthropist, died last Fri
day, in his Goth year.
Another county in Michigan has
gone for local option, making thirty
one dry counties in that state.
The grand jury that has been in.
vestigating the doings of Sage and
Gould declined to bring in and in
dictment.
MORGANTowN, West Va, Feb.
28.-Nick MADEIRA and Henry Black
| received their sentence to life impris-
onment this morning.
Dora Atkins and Lizzie CLANCY
were frightened into spasm by two
of their friends playing ghosts in
Hillsboro, Ohio.
William Krantz, the postmaster of
Honesdale, Pa, was fined 500 and
costs for using postage stamps to
pay his debts.
While Farmer Miller and his wife,
of Fair Haven, MIMI, were attend.
ing church, their house burned down,
and their three children, whom they
had locked in it persisted.
All the furnaces of the Edgar
Thompson Steel Works, at Pitts
burg, will shut down because of the
failure to settle the wage differen-
ces.
The Steamer Julia was blown up
at South Vallejo, CAL, Monday, and
from Is to 80 lives are reported lost
out Of 70 passengers. There was
great terror and suffering.
The coal operators of Western
Pennsylvania and the Hooking Val
ley have united in fight against
the Western railroads for unjust dis
elimination.
Deputy Sheriff Coy killed four OF
a band of bandits, who attacked
him near Brownsville, Texas.--A
tornado passed over Vanderburg
and Gibson counties, Indiana, de-
stroying barns and stables, and
nearly demolishing a church.
Two trains on the Union Pacific
Railroad collided near Cotton, Neb.
causing a terrible wreck, which took
fire, and number of the cars were
burned. Engineer Powell was kill
ed and a number of passengers in
ljured.
The President and his party re-
turned last Saturday from their
visit to the Florida sub-tropical ex.
position at Jacksonville, and their
pleasant tour through portions OF
the South. They were heartily re-
ceived by the people all along their
route, and especially in Charleston.
ia q
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-03-03
P0WDERLY ON THE STRIKE.

- SCRANTON, Pa, February 2S.-
General Master Workmen Powder
ly, of the Knights of Labor, issued
tonight a proclamation to the
Knights, in which he says: / have
nothing to say concerning the mat
ter of a strike on the road in ques-
ton, for / do not know the particu.
lars ;bnt if it is true that the men
are making an effort to do away
with the European custom of grad.
ing the men up and down, regard.
less of merit, then they are IN the
right for making the fight for equal
ity. My opinion of man who takes
the place of another who is strug
Cling for his rights is that he deser-
YES the contempt and scorn of every
man who loves justice. 1t is true
that members of the Brotherhood
have on repeated occasions taken
the places of Knights of Labor. 1t
is true that away back in the early
days of the seventies the Brother.
hood men did the same thing with
the machlnists and blacksmiths at
the command of their chief. 1t is
true that the Brotherhood men stab
bed Knights of Labor in the back on
the Southwest system, not only by
taking their places, but by urging
to strike with proffer of assistance
if they would do so. 1t is true that
Knights were used as catspaws by
Brotherhood men in that struggle,
1t is true that Brotherhood men did
take the places of the Reading men
in the strike on that road. The
merits of the various cases herein
mentioned have nothing to do with
the principle of honor which is invol.
we'd in all of them. 1t is to the eter.
nal shame of the Brotherhood men
that they stopped to such acts OF
meanness and treachery, unmanly
conduct. The man who takes the
place of another when that other
is engaged IN a struggle with cor
poration, is a scab, whether he be a
member of the Knights of Labor or
a member of the Brotherhood of Lo-
comotlve Engineers. When Charles
Wilson ordered members of the
Brotherhood to take the places of
members of the Machinists and
Blacksmiths' Union in 1872 and 1873
he did an unmanly, cowardly act.
When p. M. Arthur allowed the
members of the Brotherhood, over
which he exercises such discipline, to
tamper with the rights of the strik-
ing employees of the Missouri and
the Wabash system two years ago,
he, too, violated that principle OF
honor which should restrain a man
when about to do a wrong"
"The spectacle presented by men
of Labor, who belong to different Or
CARNATIONS, rushing at each others
Threats whenever a strike takes
place must be gratifying thing for
employers of labor to behold. 1t
must, indeed give satisfaction to the
corporations, to know that neither
knights of Labor or Brotherhood
men dare in future ask Tor better
treatment with any assurance OF re-
ceiving it. 1t must be a consoling
thought to the monopolist to know
that his power is not half so danger.
GUS to a labor organization as the
possibility that another labor organ.
ization will espouse his cause through
revenge. Labor will be forever
bound hand and foot at the feet OF
capital so long as workingmen can
be pitted against each other"
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-03-03
While six colored men in a cano

While six colored men in a canoe
were looking for the body of drown
ed friend in a creek near Aberdeen,
Miss, the boat capsized and three
of the party were lost.-A re-
markable story comes from Ballard
county, KY, of mob hanging a
colored man twice before killing
him.--Christian Launer, ST., an
Adams Express agent, short in his
accounts, killed himself at Olney,
Ill.-Hawley Bros Phoenix Flour
ing Mills, at South Bend, Ind, were
burned ; loss $50, 000.-The grain
blockade ON the Canadian Pacific
Railroad is the worst ever known.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-03-03

CULPEPER, VA, March lone
of the most desperate and deadly
shooting ARRAYS that ever happened
in this vicinity occurred here this
morning, between Edwin Barbour
editor OF the Piedmont Advance, and
Ellis B. Williams, son of Governor
Williams, editor of Culpeper Brpon-
emit, resulting in the death of Will
liams and the serious wounding of
Barbour. Both are young men and
their families are highly connected.
The cause of the trouble seems to
have grown out of newspaper arti.
Gle.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-03-03
Personal

Mr.. N. Fl. Frohlichstein, of Mobile,
Ala, writes take great pleasure in re.
commencing DIR. Kings New Discovery
for Consumption, having used it for a
severe attack of Bronchitis and Catarrh.
1t gives me instant relief and entirely
cured me and I have not been afflicted
since. I also beg to state that had tried
other remedies with no good result
Have also used Electric Bitters and DIR.
Kings New Life Pills, both of which !
can recommend.
DR.. Kings New Discovery for Con-
sumption, Coughs and Colds, is sold on
a positive guarantee. Trial bottles free
at E. G. Williams, Jr., & Bros drug
store.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-03-03
Wonderful Cures.

w. D. Hopt & Co., Wholesale and Re.
tail Druggists of Rome, Ga, say: We
have been selling DIR. Kings New Dis.
covery, Electric Bitters and Bucklen's
Arnica Salve for four years. Have never
handled remedies that sell as well, or give
such universal satisfaction. There have
been some wonderful cures effected by
these medicines in this city. Several
cases of pronounced Consumption have
been entirely cured by use of a few bot
ties of DR.. Kings New Discovery, taken
in connection with Electric Bitters. We
guarantee them always. Sold by E. G.
Williams, Jr., & Bro.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-03-03

The sixteen hundred engineers
and firemen on the Chicago, Bur-
lington and Quincy Railroad went
on strike, Monday, and the places
of few of them have been filed by
striking engineers and firemen from
the Reading.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-03-03

Leonard Hall and Edward Urkard,
colored lads, of fifteen years of age,
at Chambersburg, were sentenced
to the House of Refuge, at Philadel-
phia, until they are twenty-one
years of age, for placing an iron rail
and cross tie on the track of the
Cumberland Valley Railroad In De-
cember last, and nearly wrecking a
passenger train.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-03-03

NJ. Wilson, ex-President Grevy's
son-in-law, has been convicted OF
completely in the decoration scan
dals, and sentenced to two years i'm
prisonment and a fine Of 5000 francs.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-03-03
NoTTCE!
TO SAMUEL PHILLIPY, Esq.

Please take notice that on Wednesday, the
2Sth day of March, 1888, between the hours OF
. O'Clock a. m. and u O'Clock noon. at the
" Franklin house" in Greencastle, Franklin
3lst day of March, 1888, between the hours OF
10 o'clock a, m. and O'Clock p. m, at the OFF,
ice of FAULKNER & INGLES. in Martinsburg,
the dispositions of certain witnesses to be used
as evidence forme on the trial ola certain action
at law pending in the Circuit Court OF Berks-
lev County, In the State of Vest Virginia. in
which am plaintiff and you the defendant
and iffrom any cause the taking OF the said
dispositions should not be commenced on said
DAYS, or being commenced should not be COM
pleted on said days, the taking thereof VIII be
adjourned from time to time until they shall
be completed. Given under my hand this ID
day of March, 1888 LEWIS PHILLIPY.
By FAULKNER & ISGLEs,
his Attorneys.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-03-03

AnpITInNAL LOCAL NEWS.


3 Belva Lockwood will lecture on
= Political and Social Life in Wash
ineton, Tin harrisburg, March 10th,
under the auspices of Lincoln Post
No. /, G. A. r. Don't fail to hear
hor
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-03-03
SATURDAY, MARCH 3rd, 1888.

THE HERALD has the largest bona
hde circulation ofany
I'm the eastern end OF this State, and q
town circulation equal to that of the
other two papers combined. Printed
lists always open to the public.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-03-03

II win Re a Bitter Dose for man,

The position of The New York Sun in
regard to President Cleveland is just this:
ssWe viii support him for reelection II
we must, but heaven deliver us from any
such necessity. Cleveland Leader.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-03-03

hFFn Sea Wonders exist in thousands of
HkkD forms, but are surpassed by the mar
Hill wells of invention. Those who are in
AHs need Of profitable work that can be
done while living at home should at once send
their address to Hallett & Co., Portland, Maine,
and rece i've free, full information how either
sex, of all ages, can earn from IS to S25 per day
and upwards wherever they live. You are
started free, Capital not required. Some have
made over $50 in single day at this work. All
succeed. "a 80
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-03-03

Sales nearly every day.
This is hard weather on the wheat,
not very good for health and not so
much like spring as you would imag.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-03-03
HOUSE & LOT,

/ hereby certify that W. II. III. Flick, Special
Commissioner in the above entitled cause has
executed bond with sufficient security.
S, H. MARTIN, Clerk.
Dodge City times., 1888-03-22
CHILDREN'S ROOMS.
Alarming Practices Which Are Altogetl


Alarming Practices Which Are Altogether
Too Prevalent.
Too much attention can not be be-
slowed on children's sleeping rooms,
especially in the matter of pure air and
sunlight. 1t is, above all, important to
prevent foul and steamy vapors from
the kitchen and laundry. damp emana-
tions from the cellar and the impurities
from gas and other lights from con-
centrating theye. Some means of ven
tilation are indispensable in every
dwelling to prevent the rising of inn
pure atmosphere toward the roof.
Shut off the children's bedrooms from
the rest of the house, and open win
dow somewhere near for the escape of
the impure air.
An alarming practice, and one alto
gether too prevalent, is the burning of
lamps in children's bed-chambers. and
this, too. all night with closed win
dows. Now, it should be known that
the flame of a lamp consumes vitalizing
portions of the air. and that room in
which light has been burning for
hours is not fit for sleeping in. In
addition to this evil. burn
ing lamp produces another. and
that is, restless slumber. as the
light causes the brain to respond
even through the closed eyelids. and
thus make an effort which should be
avoided. Teach children to sleep in
the dark, by all means. They must, of
course, be prepared for bed by lamp
light in winter. but the room may be
instantly purified after the lamp is ex-
tinguished by opening the windows
and doors and letting in fresh, cool air.
Teach chil0 also that it is just as
safe from all harm in the dark as in the
light, and that it will be healthier and
happier, and it will believe it. because
:hildren have inexhaustible faith in the
mothers word. Never allow any one
20 tell children fear-inspiring, hobgob-
in stories, and don't punish them by
sending them or threatening to put
hem in dark places; thus you will be
snabled easily to train them to sleep in
he dark.-BGbyhood.
Dodge City times., 1888-03-22
COMBUSTIBILITY OF IRON.
Conditions Under Which the Metal Will
Burn Readily.

Combustibility is not generally con.
sidered one of the properties of iron.
yet that metal will under proper condi-
tions burn readily. The late Prof.
Magnus, of Berlin, Germany, devised
the following method of showing the
combustibility of iron: A mass of iron
filings is approached by magnet of con-
siderable power, and a quantity there
of is permitted to adhere to it. This
loose, spongy tuft of iron powder con-
tains large quantity of air imprisoned
between its particles, and is, therefore,
and because of its extremely commin-
uted condition, we'll adapted to mani
fest its combustibility. The flame of
an ordinary spirit lamp or Bunsen
burner readily sets fire to the finely di-
vided iron, which continues TO burn
brilliantly and freely. By waving the
magnet to and fro the showers of
sparks sent off produce striking and
brilliant effect.
The assertion that iron is more COM
bustible than gunpowder, has its origin
in the following experiment, which is
also very striking one: A little alco-
hol is poured into saucer and ignited.
A mixture of gunpowder and iron fill
ings is allowed to fall in small quanti-
ties at time into the flame of the burn
ing alcohol, when it will be observed
that the iron witt take fire in its pas
sage through the flame, while the gum
powder will fall through it and col
lect beneath the liquid alcohol
below unconsumcd. This, however
is scientific trick, and the expert
ment hardly justities the sweeping
assertion that iron is more combustible
than gunpowder The ignition of the
iron under the foregoing circumstances
is due to the fact that the metal parti-
cles, being admirable conductors Of
heat, are able to absorb sufficient heat
during their passage through the flame
and they are consequently raised to
the ignition point. The particles of the
gunpowder, however, are very poor
conductors of heat, comparatively
speaking. ana during the exceedingly
brief time consumed in their passage
through the flame they do not become
heated appreciably, or certainly not to
their point of ignition. Under ordinary
circumstances, gunpowder is vastly
more inflammable than iron.
Another method of exhibiting the
combustibility of iron, which would
appear to justify the assertion that it
is really more combustible than gum
powder is the following: Place in a re-
factory tube of Bohemian glass guam
tity of dry, freshly-precipitated hy-
drafted ferric oxide. Heat this oxide
to bright redness, and pass current
of hydrogen through the tube. The
hydrogen will deprive the oxide of its
oxygen, and reduce the mass to the
metallic state. If, when the reduction
appears 10 be finished, the tube is re-
moved from the flame and its contents
permitted to fall out into the air, it
will take fire spontaneously and burn
to oxide again. This experiment indi-
Gates that pure iron in a state of the
EXTREMIST subdivision is one of the
most combustible substances known
more SO even than gunpowder and
other explosive substances, which re-
quire the application of considerable
heat or of spark to ignite them
Iron Aoe