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West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1888-07-27

QctCS SotiQu VI aSA - -
before that committee and say, "We
are losing, not money, but our la
Dor. and we cannot live on the prices
of this market of your making" the
delegation would be told that the
great American system of protection
was devoted to fostering mining
and manufacturing industries, and
when that was done the farmers
would reap consequential good
which the committee hoped they
would be patriotic enough to ac-
cept. And when the door closed on
the disgusted delegation, a roar OF
laughter would 60 mp over the shay
seeders.'
Now, let US see how the Internal
system works as to the farmer I!
His market is foreign one. All
the surplus that is over the home
demand goes to Europe, where our
Congress has no jurisdiction. and
where the price is fixed, not only for
what is sold there. but for all that IS
sold at home. This is free trade.
He is free to sell, without tax or
charge, wherever be finds demand
And in this market he comes in con
tact with the lowest form OF pauper
labor known to the world. How is
it when he comes to buy? 1t is
protection. Every article OF cloth
ing, every material that goes to give
him a shelter, all that is necessary
to carry on his work, is increased,
as to price, to twice or thrice its
value. He then buys under protect
ION and sells under free trade.
Small wonder the poor man
stands aghast in the midst OF bis
overtilled fields, and sees the very
ground slipping from beneath him,
as, year by year, this fearful abuse
goes on. To meet his loans he bor-
rows money on mortgage, in the vain
hope that the next seasons crop may
prove more prosperous, pay him out,
and save his poor home and few
acres to his family. That season
never comes. read story once
of man confined to solitary impris-
onment in round tower in which
was a circle of windows. The vic
tim woke every morning to the fact
that his prison grew smaller by the
disappearance of 8 window, till, at
last, the mysterious wall of death
closed in on him. This is the farm
er; and the poor fellow cannot un-
derstand the awful system that
slowly but surely contracts abouthim
with its worse than de.th; for it
is perpetual servitude to his chill
dren's children, wrought out by a
government that was built above
him by the patriotic fathers for the
sole purpose of affording him and
his equal rights under the law.
am writing this as any other old
man would who suffers in himself
public wrong, while / know there
are thousands of ADLER pens engaged
in exposing the crime. Ii found
worthy of publication, l hope you
will correct the sentences so as to
make them readable, for my stiff
fingers and dull head are not accus-
toned to this sort of work.
ITO be concluded nert week.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1888-07-27
A Yankee Sheriff Frightened.

A we'll known sheriff who lives in
Maine, had been given up to die with
what his Physician called consump-
ton. friend advised the sheriff to
try Puritan Cough and Consumption
Cure, recovery soon followed. much
to the surprise of the Doctor, who
now prescribes it for Coughs, Colds
and Consumption. Price 20 Cents.
Ate F. Jones' Drug Store.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1888-07-27

An old hunter said: ''I've known
a great many foxes TO grow gray,
but ] never knew one to grow good"
Some men use no other means to
acquire respect than by assisting on
it, and il sometimes answers their
purpose, as it does highwayman's
in regard to money.
To wash lamp chimneys so they
will not crack place them in cold
water, and then gradually heat un
til the boiling point is reached, then
allow them To cool slowly. by re-
peating this operation several times,
the glass will become thoroughly
annealed, and no fear of cracking
need be had.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1888-07-27

The Car has an album contain
ing photographs OF all the revolu
tionists who have been tried for
plotting against his life. Recent
events have added largely to the col
lection, and the book is now nearly
full. These unpleasant faces repre-
sent unpleasant phases in his Maj.
esty's experience.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1888-07-27

A man came into an editors room
with a large roll Of manuscript un
der his arm, and said, very politely,
IL have trifie here about the beau
tiful sunset yesterday, which was
dashed off by friend OF mine,
which would like inserted, II you
have room.'' PLENTY Of room.
Just insert it yourself" replied the
editor, gently pushing the waste
paper basket toward him.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1888-07-27

'My attention, after suffering with
Constipation for two or three years, was
called to Simmons Liver Regulator, and
having tried almost everything else,
concluded to try it. first took a wine
glasSful and afterwards reduced the dose
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each meal. / found that it had done me
so much good that / continued it until
took two bottles. Since then have not
experienced anv difficulty. | keep it in
my house and would not be without it,
but have no use for it, it having cured
me."-GeO, w Sims, Asst Clerk Super
ior Court. Bibb Co. Ga.
Take only the Genuine.
Which has on the wrapper the red n
Trademark and signature of
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West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1888-07-27
TO
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West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1888-07-27
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West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1888-07-27
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West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1888-07-27

Inquiry viii prove, this pa
per is regularly read by more
persOns,Of the well-to-do class
in West Virginia, than any
other publication.
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brother, and she got him such food as would
be safe for him to eat after his long fast.
He regarded all her movements with the in
credulous wonderment of a child.
What has been the matter with me 2" he
asked, after awhile. - could not stir any
mere than though l was dead, but ! knew all
that was going on about me. Ugh! it was
frightful waiting there in the dissectlng-
room. | believe II was only the horror of 1t
helped me to break the frightful spell"
/" suppose you were in a sort OF trance, F"
Marion said, ~thoughtfully.
What are you going to do with me ," he
asked again.
:" don't know, I am sure, - she said, with
a sigh but you are safe here till l can
think"
~ don't expect you to believe me, but I
am as innocent of the crime for which was
brought here as you are"
Guilty or innocent, l pity you, you are
30 young.n'
Concealing him till the hue and cry were
over, Marion struggled him through the
gates in u woman's dress and with a basket OF
soiled clothes. And SO the mystery of Ay-
mer preston,s escape remained a mystery
The years moved on. Marion was twenty
FIVE. Her father was dead, Her idoliZed
brother had persisted in a brawl.. She was
| alone in the world, an invalid, living on the
merest ~pittance earned with her needle, but
the same sweet.faced, s~weet-voiced girl who
had won the hearts Of the prisoners in the
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to the story, but somehow that face haunted
the girls gentle thoughts. Perhaps 1t was
because she had a young brother who was a
wild lad, wandering Just now in disgrace, no
one knew whittier, and all the more tenderly
loved by Marion because of his sad ways.
One day, as she leaned on the window-sill,
looking with q wistful sadness into the yard
at the prisoners, one of them looked up, and,
changed as he was in every wan thin feature,
she knew again the black, sullen eyes that
yet were somehow Xix an angry, obstinate
child's.
Her glance followed him as though fasci-
mated, and as he passed from sight she sighed
softly and went in to look at 1.-THE prison
record for the poor lads name.
1t was Aymer Preston.
The next she knew of him he was in the
sick ward.
For a few weeks she saw him there, but the
gloomy eyes never softened-only gaZed
straight before them from their hollow sock
cts, or hid themselves o~bstinately behind
their wasted lids.
He never spoke; he scarcely ate and the
prison physician told Marion that he was
dying OF sheer inanitlon.
>" II is my opinion he's trying to starve
himself to DEATH he said.
Marion drew near the sick lad.
She bent over him and spoke with gentle
But she might as we'll have talked to the
blank wall, for all sign he, gave Of having
heard her.
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son. A relative of my mothers left me his
property ON condition of my taking his name.
/ have searched for you yainly, Marion Hyde.
NV prosperity has been bitter to me till now
l find you. Oh! you shall never touch needle
or work again"
mo, indeed that you shall not, 4" chimed
in she who had been the means of this happy
recognition; and as she said it, both her
arms were around Marion's neck, and she
was sobbing and kissing her alternately.
Robert always said he would never marry
anybody but you, and you'll have him, won't
you, dear 2"
II have proved my innocence of that
charge of robbing my guardian, )" said Robert
g~rayely. But It was long before l could do
so. followed up the man whose testimony
convicted me. till he lay diving, and gave me
a written confession of false witness. My
guardian paid him to injure me. He wanted
me out of the way. 1 will not be 80 abrupt
as to ask you to marry me now, but as this
rash sister of mine has said so much, / can do
no less than testify to its truth. l have always
loved your sweet, dear face, Marion. shall
never cease to wish it my wife's face till the
wish is realized"
And then he left Marion to his sisters pet
ting and soothing
'FThis morning l was alone-not Q friend
in the wide world, and now -
A burst of tears came to her relief.
She 10 Robert lessons wife now, and her
beautiful eyes are as doye-like ~ ever Win
compassion for the untortunAtes
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knew also that it was no phantom she looked
upon. DIR. Putney had been right all the
time. Aymer Preston was not dead, and
thus he was making one wild effort for
liberty. Marion stood and watched HIM.
She could not have called out Just then if
M had been the most desperate and hardened
criminal within those walls. Besides, the
poor wretch was only hooking himself. He
could not escape even o unless by a mir
acle. She saw him stop presently beside a
window, which opened into an upper hall,
and after IA long effort raise it, and slowly
drag himself through.
Obeying an impulse which she could not
at the moment control, Marion softly opened
her door and passed out without her crutch
for fear of the noise. She reached the hall Just
as this poor, wasted creature, after a brief
rest, was urging his half paralyzed limbs to
renewed effort. At the sight of her he capped
and dropped in q swoon and Marion hurried
to his side. She dared not leave him, so she
waited, rubbing his cold hands between her
tender palms, till he ut last opened his eyes
aud she made him comprehend that she
wanted him TO come with her.
IL won't go back to prison" he whispered
between his set teeth:
You need not" she said. simply, and led
him to her own chamber.
There was positively no other place. that
was safe from the strict search thar she knew
would be instituted as soon as he was dis
covered TO be missing. She procured him
some garments which had belonged to her
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HIS OWN STORE SIGN.
Charles Stoerzer the Model for the Wooden
Soldier In Front of His shop.

Travellers in Third avenue above Tenth
street nave no doubt noticed the rotund fig
ure of a uniformed soldier standing in all the
panoply of war before the cigar store of
Charles Stoerzer.
The figure is a little below the medium
height of n man. 1t is round and full, and
ON the ford face is a military mustache and
q Louis Napoleon imperial of white. There
is the full dress coat of blue. and on the left
breast is the badge of the Grand Army of the
Republic.
An EVENING WORLD reporter dropping
into the store found the twin brother of the
sentinel behind the counter. The Jolly pro-
prietor. Mr.. Stoerzer, laughed joyouslytas he
acknowledged that the figure at the door was
the counterpart of himself.
Mr.. Stoerzer was in the regular army under
old Gen. Wool. He was q member of the
Third Artillery for five years before the late
war and was stationed in Oregon.
When the rebellion brok out he came
Pennsylvania Infantry Volunteers. At the
first battle of Bull Run he was in the Ger.
man Brigade, under Mcdowell, was
wounded, and retired; but in 1862 he re-en'
listed us an artilleryman i'll the Eleventh
Corps.
At Alexandria he was thrown from n horse,
and received n bad cut on the temple, and
was again retired as a Second Lieutenant.
He was q slim German boy then. Now ht
is a ruddy American gentleman, with q bare
poll and a white mustachea and goatee. He II
sixty -one years old and is a member OF Hex
heimer Post, "a, G.. A K.
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gloomy abode of which her father had been

gloomy abode of which her father had been
warder.
One day she was sent for to see about some
embroidery. She was received by n young
lady, and something in the young girls
bright face drew Marion's glance uncon-
~sciously. Where had she seen those eyes, SO
large and so intensely black
"Why do you look at me so ?" asked the
young girl with naive eagerness.
You remind me of some one / have
known" Marion answered, simply.
mo one ever accused me of looking like
anybody but Robert BEFORE" laughed the
"Ah, yes. you do. I see the resemblance
now quite strong, y and Marion's face flushed
with emotion. Perhaps you are related to
him. His name WAS Aymer Preston"
"Oh!" cried the young girl, springing up,
land you are lame ond your name is Marion
Hyde. Tell me. isn't it2 / knew it. Oh,
Robert, what will you say ?"
She vanished from Marion's astonished
eyes with the words on her lips. She was
back. however, in a trice, and with her came
a tall, dark, haired, heavily bearded gentle
man,
Marion HYDE! Is it possible!" he ex-
claimed, clasping both the little trembling
hands in his and putting them over and again
to his lips. which were Quiyering with emo
ton. Surely you kno me Y"
"You-you are Aymer Preston" stam-
mered Marion.
II was Aymsr Preston, I An Robert Lies
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NEWS SUMMARY.

The Blair Educational bill passes the Senate.
Teemer burrows Hamm and Mckay At Palatka,
Fla.
The Cotton Exchange brokers want q clearing
house.
The Southern railroads offer cheap rates to immi.
grants
lord Courtenay' is living at Albany under a
new Alias
An earthquake near Akron, O., produces q yawn
ing chasm.
Jake Gaudaur. the parsman, is still q victim Of
rheumatism.
Laryngotomy Is now talked Of by the Crown
Princes doctorH-
Col. Fred Grant joins Phil Sheridan Post, No. 81,
Sons OF Veterans.
President Cleveland will leave Washington for
Florida on Feb. 81.
The election OF President Patton Is Endorsed by
PrincetOL's Faculty.
Jack Wannop, tie English wrestler and boxer,
starts for America
The Saco Bank gets back all the securities stolen
by young McNealiy.
The ONCE OF the Elmira Advertiser IL destroyed
by IRE; loss $3.50, 600.
William slegler wins the 81, 900 pigeon shooting
prize At Long Branch.
Gypsies abduct an eleven-year-oid boy 10 the
streets Of Chattanooga.
NJ. Flourens tells Frenchmen 1t ia their duty TO
strengthen tue army and navy.
Russia sends more troops 10 the frontier, but Bis
marcE says II doesn't mean war.
Mrs. Irene Parke, of Washington, tries to kill her
two young children with q Ratchet.
Oliver p. TIuett, Of York, Pa, shoots OF part OF
his wifes tongue ana then tries TO blow out mis- own
brains.
Valley to succeed Mr.. Won Alvensleben as Minister
AZ Washington.
Lee Poo, the dusky Baralong widow OF Capt.
Bethall. tries to gel possession Of some OF his prop
erty In England.
Young VIM. j. McCausland, of Baltimore, gets
himself arrested for theft out OF spite, in order to
disgrace his family.
Patrick Daily, a Meriden Conn centenariane eats
pork, corn beef, beans and Cabbage, and drinks
hard cider for dinner.
Fifteen more irishmen are sent to prison under
the Crimes act. Mr.. Pyne, NJ. Is, sentence ID
three months Imprisonment.
Train wrecGers deIail a freight train OF the Men,
phis and Charleston road at Point Rock, Ala, and
Kill the engineer and fireman.
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THOUGHT HIMSELF A MURDERER.
John Hayden Went to Three Police station,
TO Get Arrested.

Souu hhhyueu Neut ~ u ~
TO Get Arrested.
John HAYDEN, Of SOS Second avenue, was a
we'll dressed but very much excited man
when he rushed into the Eighteenth Precinct
Station House at one of the earliest hours Of
yesterday morning and declared to Sergt.
Brophy that he had killed q man.
The Sergeant examined him closely, and be-
coming convinced that his story was the
product of an excited brain, turned MIR.
Hayden away.
Then the anxious man hastened to the
Nineteenth Precinct Station, i'll West Thir-
tieth street, and repeated his tale to Sergt.
Sheldon. He located the scene OF the tragedy
in II saloon ut Third avenue and Twenty
seventh street. As that place il i'll the
Twenty-frst Precinct, Sorgt. Sheldon took
Hayden in a carriage to the station. house in
East Thirty fifth street. There he was detained
until afternoon, by which time Capt. Ryan
had the real facts in the confused case sifted
to the bottom.
II appeared that Hayden and others had
been playing cards i'll n room beyond the
saloon referred to, and had prolonged their
game after the place had been closed up for
the night.
A quarrel arose over the cards, and Hayden
picked up n club with which he struck the
man opposite him. The man fell from the
| chair with blood running from his head.
Hayden ran from the place with the idea
that his blow had been fatal. He didn't know
whom he had struck, but Capt. Ryan discov.
cred that the injured man was William Wez'
Ter, who lives in Thirty;fourth street. neal
Second avenl;e. Mr.. Weller was not serious
ly hurt. He had no wish to prosecute. MIR,
Hayden, much relieved in mind, was allowed
to 90 his why.
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How n Locomotive Wrecks Itself.

From The Albany E1press.l
OF all accidents most feared by railroad engineers
and one OF frequent occurrence.s that of the break
ng OF o driving rod while the engine Is running at
a high rate of speed. How 1t can occur, as 1t often
does, and those in the cab escape with their lives is
always considered a miracle. The minute the
heavy bar. or rod as 1t Is commonly called, breaks
or the crank pin which fastens the end to the driv-
ing wheel gives way, the massive piece OF
IRON goes whizzing through the air strik-
ing the engine and the ground, DatterinR
and smashing everything that comes
in contact with. Old engineers can relate some
very interesting experiences OF this Kind. One
morning during the past week, as the train leaving
here at 2. 80 on the Boston and Albany. Railroad,
drawn by No. 81, Larry" Connolly
engineer, and ''Dave" Carson fireman, was near
ing Huntington the rod on the fireman. side broke,
anu before the train could be brought to a stop the
engine was completely wrecked. The nying bar
struck the cab from beneath, demolishing IL and
cutting through an iron plate a-quarter OF an inch
thick. The occupants Of the cab, strange to say,
escaped unframed.
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Marion left the ward with a shocked and

Marion left the ward with a shocked and
anxious face.
Let me know if there is any change, or
you think of anything that l can do" she
then said to the doctor.
But at dusk the doctor was called way by
serious illness III his own family, and near
midnight the assistant, going his rounds,
found Aymer Preston dead in bed.
It's either make believe or heart break, ~
DR.. Putney said, sharply, when word was
brought him, and he ordered that Preston's
body should be kept wrapped in lankets and
not removed till he saw it.
The order was obeyed, but when three days
saw no change in the form, DIR. Putney hay-
ing meanwhile examined 1t, it was removed
to the d-Issecting-room to await the DOCTORS
verdict as to the cause of death.
That very night DIR. Putney was himself
attacked with violent indisposition, and his
+" subject ~ was left to the solitary occupa-
ton of the dissecting room.
Marion Hyde's window commanded a view
of this mysterious and horror-inspirlng
, apartment. AS she stood at her window that
night she thought, with q vague thrill of
pain. of the one cold, still tenant of that ter
rible room.
She was not a timid, superstitious creature,
nor by any means given to nervousness SO
| when she saw the window of the dissecting-
room slowly lifted, and q gaunt, wild face
appear at the opening, instead Of screaming
| N running away, she stood still. She knew
! that her heart was ~throbbing wildly, but she
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Coming Events.


Ball Of the Young Ivy Pleasure Club on March 4.
Annual reception Of the Jays at Lyric Hall on
Monday, Feb. 90.
Annual reception Of the y. s. c. at the Ten
tonia Assembly Rooms this evening.
Purim ball Of the Posener yerein, at Eckstein's
Assembly Rooms, on Sunday, Feb. &c.
Ball Of Weber & Fields and the Independent
Social Club at Turn Hall on Friday, Feb. II.
Annual ball of the efferson Club, OF the Twelfth
Assembly District, q Webster Hall on Tuesday,
Feb. 2.
Masquerade ball of the Arion Quartet Club, at
the Germania Assembly Rooms, on Tuesday,
Feb. 81.
Masquerade ball OF the verein fur Kunst und
Wissenschatt, at Terrace Garden, on Saturday,
Feb. 1a
Third reception Of the Euphonia Social Club, Of
Brooklyn, at Riyerss Academy, corner Court and
State streets, this evening.
Masquerade ball of the Bloomingdale Turn
verein, at Wendel's Assembly Roomsson Tuesday,
Feb. 81. I" Masken Scherz " will be q feature
OF the entertainment.
Young Mems Christian Association State Conven-
ton at the: Pilgrim Congregations Church, One
Hundred and Twenty-nrst street and Madison
avenue, to-day at 2. 30 p. N.
AUNT Polly Bsssets Singin' Skewl" at the
Baptist Church Of the Redeemer. One Hundred and
Thirty-frst street, between Sixth and Seventh ave-
nues, this and tomorrow evenings.