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Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1891-09-16

A good looking young lady, with pair Of
seashore shoes on, was crossing City Hall
park the other day, says a New York paper,
with the strings Of one shoe Tipping and
Hopping about with every step she took
She knew all about it, and she realized that
every man she met was looking right at that
foot. but she hadn't the nerve to stop and
tie the strings. The situation caught the
eve of a small bootbaclI who crossed her
path, and he did the right thing at the right
time and in the neatest manner. Running
up to her he dropped on his knees and
placed his box for her foot. She placed it
there, and he gathered up the strings, deity
tied them into a double bow knot and rose
up and dofTed his cap and bowed like lit
tie gentleman.
"You are the smartest boy in New York y
she said as she reached for her purse, and
the next instant he was galloping down the
walk and shouting:
"Oh, jim, look-a-here Made mash and
strnck half a dollar all in a mint y
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1891-09-16

q wonder why Corkhill shot himself?'
at was the result Of Kentucky feud.
His father, the last Of the family, married
the last of the enemy's family, and every
body thought the feud was over, but it broke
out in their son, and he's killed himself"
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1891-09-16

"My boy Of ten" said mother recent
ly, "has heretofore been my greatest re-
sponsibility in long journey. He is
restless and likes to 60 to the door of the
car and wander about. never feel sure
that he will stay in his seat while / read
or dose. This summer | hit upon re-
source, by mere chance, that got him ca
silly through a twelve hours ride, and
some other mother Of an uneasy lad may
be glad to initiate it. lie got hold of
time table, one on which was every sta
ton we passed, and he spent the entire
trip in watching the progress of the train.
"He set his watch by the conductors,
and was as interested as the engineer in
making the stations on time. Once the
train lost twenty-five minutes, which was
positive boon, for until we had made
that up my boy timed the distances be-
tween mile posts in his desire to watch
the trains speed, and when we got 'on
time again he was as pleased and proud
as if he we're responsible. A time table
and watch are the best Of travelling com
papions for boys"
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1891-09-16
n G. GREEN,
ATTORNEY ATLAW.

Cha-les,oun Jefferson County, West THgiaia
win practice in the Courts of Jefferson, Berke-
ley and Morgan counties, in the United States
District Court ot Martinsburg, and in the Su-
preme Court Of Appeals of West Virginia.
Special attention TO the collection of claims,
and prompt remittances of the same.
Office In Law Building rear Of house.
Aug. 6, 1S9Q.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1891-09-16

A high parsonage, on visiting a small
country place, asked the Sindacio;
Chow is it that all the children 60 bare
foot in this neighborhood?" ?"
BEG your pardon, Excellenza, they arc
born so.n
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1891-09-16


japan, says GOlitI,caite's Geographical
Magazine, possesses at this moment 1000
newspapers. Considering that not sin
gle journal of any kind existed or was
thought of in the country twenty-five
years ago, this rapid rise and spread of
the newspaper press there is one of the
most remarkable facts in the history Of
journalism. Japan now boasts of a great
er number of newspapers than either Italy
or Austria, Of more than Spain and Rus
sia taken together and of twice as many
as the whole continent Of Asia. The ap-
petite of the Chinese for news is sufficient
ly fed by the Pekin Gasette-which is, in
fact, not a newspaper at all-and two
small sheets published at Shanghai.
Corea possesses an official gazette since
1884, and nothing else resembling a news.
paper exists. The French have already
started a paper in their new colony
LAvenir de Tong-king-but, as it is a
purely French sheet it can hardly con-
tribute much to the enlightenment Of the
natives. The Persians are insensible to the
fascinations of the daily paper. The six
papers which they possess owe their ex-
istence to the reigning Shah, who is
man Of letters himself, and composes
poetry in his spare hours. The natives
of India have 900 newspapers.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1891-09-16


Bill Nye tells good many funny sto-
ries, but he considers the following his
best, because it is true and happened to
himself
l was barn storming once in a small
town in Texas, and went to the leading
hotel for dinner. The larder contained
only tough piece of steak, and so | had
that and a cup of bootleg coffee. When
the bill was handed me | asked the pro
prietor, who was also waiter and cashier,
how much | owed him.
"Two dollars !" was the calm reply.
1.-TWO dollarsl I" l said, "what for p
"For the steak and coffee"
But this is outrageous" | answered.
II can get really good steak and coffee
and other things too, in New York foe ST..
What makes you charge 50 much p
"Well, to tell you the truth, ] need the
money"
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1891-09-16

OFFERS to the people of Jefferson County,
~ Insurance in a safe Company at the actual
cost of insurance, which is much cheaper than
the rates usually charged, and keeps the money
at home Good risks from responsible parues
are invited.
Executive Committee meets every FRIDAY
Dryrrrops-Jos. Trapnen Henry B. Daven-
nor. i. Garland Hurst, John w. Rider, W. ii.
+. Lewis. r. Preston Chew, VIM. L, Wilson,
Eugene Baker. S. w. Washington, II. L. snyder
Charles p Wilson, Jehn H. little, JACOB D
Melvin, Z. G. W. Herr, isaac II. Strlder.
JOS TRAPNEL ........ PRESIDENT
II. b. DAVENPORT. ,............ ........ treasurer
Executive CoMMITTEE-J. G. Hurst, VIM.
II. T.. Lewis, Eugene Baker Isaac h. StriueI'
Jos. Trapnel, S. w. Washington.
Local AGENTS rs.-Middleway-J. G. Shirley
Harpers Ferry-Chas f. Trail; shepherds
town.. S. Fleming; Dufields-C. l.. .BarnharI;
Washington Alexander.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1891-09-16

coon ENOUGH Family Oil Cans, brass
(T bottoms, valve and trimmings, for sale by
- J. W. RUSSELL.
GOOD FNOT III glass fount tubular Ian
" terms, best ia the market: for sale l.t.,1l, by
DRASS KETTLES. all sizes, cheap. Wash
Is Kettles. guaranteed to be perfect and very
heavy, for sale by w. RUSSELL
NEW PROCESS VAPOR STOVE, best and
safest in the market, for sale by
May IL, 1889. j. w hOooAi'H'
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1891-09-16
Thyme cresOI.

4 " excellent Wash 20 destroy Ticks and
a scabs ON sheep, Just received by
April 22 1901. j. AID, CHEW.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1891-09-16

A young Euglishman, a reporter on
one of the New York dailies, relates this
as one of his early experiences:
81 was sent up to interview fellow by
the name Of Hayes, don't you know, who
was stopping at an uptown hoiel.
"The slip I was given by the city edi-
tor read:
"'See ex-President Hayes at the -
Hotel, and get something about his plans
in New York
Il found the hotel and sent up my card.
1 was received quite nicely by Mr.. Hayes.
He told me what he was going to do, and
then, as wanted to make my story COM
plete, l asked him what he was ex-Presi-
dent of.
"He told me he was m ex-President of
the United States. 1t was awfully con-
fusing, don't you know" concluded the
young Englishman, plaintively, "but
there are so many ex-Presidents here"
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1891-09-16

but our orders were to fall back to the
river. Did you make the Wilderness
campaign?"
"Yes."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27
NEGROES SEEKING HOMES.
Threatened Organized Invasion of the Soon
to-Be-0pened Lands in Indian Territory.

GUTHRIE, o. T.. Aug. GA movement is
on foot to c~olonize with negroes the Indian
lands which are soon to be thrown open to
general settlement. The movement has its
origin at Langston City, the metropolis of
the negro settlement, not far from here.
The agents, $50 in number. of the Langston
Colonization Society. are now laboring
with zeal among their brethren in the
Southern States to persuade them TO come
to the new coun try. Thousands of circu-
lars have been sent out with the same OBJ
ject In view, and to-day, at q meeting OF
the association, the following resolutions
were adopted:
Whereas, From the most reliable information
obtainable we believe the new lands VIII speed
lily be opened: therefore,
Resolved, That we notify our people, colored
citizens OF the South, 10 be here on the 10th OF
September, and that those who intend 10 drive
through to the Indian country 70 start at once.
Resolved, That the $50 Langston agents
throughout the Southern states notify the peo-
pie of the Importance OF being here BIZ the 10th
of,September TO join with us in securing new
homes in the new lands.
As a result of the work of the Langston
agents in the Southern States hundreds of
are being cared for there by their colored
friends until the time for the invasion ar
rives. Many negroes are arriving daily,
and by the time the lands are proclaimed
open to settlement it is believed thousands
of colored people will have arrived here to
take part in the race for homes. The
Langstons believe the government owes
them homes, and they intend TO secure
them at any price. Most OF the negroes are
armed, and it is believed they will make
an organized effort to exclude all but men,
bers of their race from settling claims: at
least, until each negro has found a home.
The organization Is secret, n until to-
day their objects and plans have been
known to none bat themselves.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27
For Public Morals.

Boston Advertiser.
However strongly opposed one may be to
President Harrison. politically, it would
seem as if no one who has the cause of true
morality at heart could refrain from APP
plauding one of his most recent acts. This
IS his sturdy refusal to grant the prayer of
certain petitioners for the pardoning of
Haywood. Several months ago this man,
who is notorious as the leading exponent
of the free-love doctrine, was arraigned be-
fore the United States Court in this district,
charged with the offense of sending i'm
moral publications through the mails. He
was given o long and impartial trial and all
the subterfuges known to lawyers were re-
sorted to TO save him from the peniten-
tiary. All was in vain. and the offender re-
ceived a righteous sentence of two years
Imprisonment, which sentence he is now
serving.
The same sentimentality which leads it's
votaries to decorate the cells of condemned
murderers with flowers led to the presenta-
ton of q petition TO the President for the
pardon OF this man. A strong pressure was
brought to bear TO effect this object, but
happily in vain. The law which the con-
vict deliberately violated was placed upon
the statute book for the purpose, and this
purpose was to preserve uncorrupted, so
far as might be, the morals of the people,
and especially of the yonng. A more
laudable purpose cannot be conceived than
this: a poorer occasion for the manifestation
of sentimentality than this cannot we'll be
imagined. True men and women. of every
religious OF political creed, should unite in
gi7lng to President Harrison the highest
praise for his commendable position.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27


HARPER'S WEEKLY, while it clings to
mugwumpism in general, expresses full
sympathy with the Republican effort to
secure the carriage of American mails
in American ships in order to build up
the ocean-carrying trade. 1t closes a
recent article on the postal aid law as
follows:
The passage of this bill is an encouraging
sign that something may be hoped from
government protection to American ship
ping, whereas the past has been chiefly
productive of congressional reverence for
the prairie schooner" and the schooner
with fr0th." 1t has always been q marvel
that the government should be entirely
satisfied to pay for mail transportation to
the waters edge ana not beyond. But per-
haps the postal subsidy bill isthe precursor
of more enlightened legislation favorable
to American shipping and ship-building In
terests. At all events. it is an important
step oward the breaking down of an alb
surd prejudice against subsidies. more esDe-
cially concerning ships. England has not
only fostered Der by subsidies of
various kinds, but has thereby also estab-
lished her supremacy as u builder of ships.
Give the American mechanic the Same line
of government help and it will not be long
before he will build ships as cheaply as his
British competitor, and thus once more the
American flag will carry to all parts of the
world the fame of our ship-yards and ship
builders.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27

PRESIDENT MCGRATH, of the Kansas
State Alliance, created a sensation at
the Alliance commercial convention i'm
Topeka, last week. by declaring that it
is time that the Peoples party stop
bowling about calamity and advocating
reputation. He said that he received
scores of letters from the East asking ii
Kansas farmers are really regulators,
and seriously intend to confiscate
everything in the State which does not
belong to them. He said that he was
weary of sending out contradictions of
such Impressions, and called for a sur
cease of the damaging rot about the
starving farmers of Kansas and an hon.
esq statement of facts. If the Alliance
accepts the advice of President McGrath
the Peoples party will come to a sudden
end in Kansas.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27
The Tariff Not AN Issue.

BfOOkIy cldhualt- HiOD.
The Democrats arc talking around and
monkeying with the tariff, but until they
define themselves and tell what they are
going TO do. the tariff question is not before
tho country. The Republicans stand by
the tariff as it is. holding that if there is TO
be amendment, it must be by the hands of
those friendly to protection and OF kindly
intelligence on the subject. Ii is sheer
folly for Democrats TO 70 on vexing the air
with cries of tariff reform. and at the same
time offering for consideration no particu-
lar propositions.
In the impending conflict in Ohio Gov
ernOr Campbell would be very glad 10 talk
about high and low tariffs, and month the
accustomed denunciations of manufactnr-
ers at home as monopollsts. and swell
through the commonplaces that Mr.. Cleve-
land seemed to believe were original ana
irresistible, but his kick agains; the silver
plank only displays his anxiety and disap-
pOintment. The greatest of the immo late
questions is whether we SHALL MAINTAIN the
gold or collapse to the silver standard.
Several months of the Democratic Congress
will be required Ia afford information as TO
the business about the tariff law that the
Democracy will present as an issue. Now
they have nothing With edge or point
touching the matter.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27

MOBILE, Ala, Aug. 26.-There is no tel
SpriEg s CT the mountain Businesses of Choc-
taw county where forty-five Simrites are In
ambush. having sent word 10 Sheriff Mosely
that they were we'll armed and waiting for
him. The sheriff arrived at Bladen, Sun
day. with fifty men of the county armed
with rifles. shotguns and pistols. He
stopped at Bladen one night. and got all
possible information concerning the loca-
ton of Bob" Sims and bis gang of fanatics.
1t was reported there that the Simrites
we're coming TO Bladen. but they did not
come, and early Monday morning Mosley
and his men started for the hills. If the
Simrites made q stand there has doubtless
been an encounter before this time. The
home of the outlaws is eighteen miles from
Bladen.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27
INsULTED BECAUSE HE PROTESTED.

If people ON the South Side or on the
North Side do not like to have their
streets neglected by the Board of Public
Works they should beware how they
dare to make complaints. 1t throws
them open to such brutal onslaughts
from the Democratic organs as this,
from yesterdays Sentinel:
The door of the Board OF Public Works
office was open for q few minutes yester-
day, anil u wonderful thing in pants and
red hirsutes blew H." 1t jumped onto
the clerk with both big feet and wanted to
According to It's lingo such q malfeasance
was q travesty on the spirit of the times.
Clerk Parker modestly inquired if it filed
a written petition with the board asking
for the redemption of Jag alley.
Wow, WOW, not by n d-n s!ght!' was
the answer. in stentOrian grunts. Asked
the board about it three months ago'n they
said they wOuld tend to II; bur-r-r-r-slap
-bang."
1t then proceeded to walk on its ear all
around the room, and wherever it went a
glittering generality, resembling the tail
of a comet, followed In Its wake. These
things often occur; in fact. they are bound
To a cur-and yet. the world and tho Board
of Public Works wags merrily along.
The gentleman SO viciously lampooned
by the Sentinel is Il. w. Sterne, q ear
pentcr, an account of whose protest
against the criminal neglect of Linden
street was described in yesterdays
Journal. 1t is true that Sterne Is moth
ing but n carpenter, and that he dresses
no better than any other w~orkingman,
but VIC protest that he is entitled 70 as
much consideration ms though be were
John Z. Frcnzel himself. Instead of
that he is contemptuously referred to as
"It,n IA n wonderful thing in pants"
and as "a cur" It is true that Linden
houses as North Delaware or North
Meridian, bnt that is no reason why it
should be spoken of as "Jag alley" 1t
is not the Sentinel alone that is re-
sponsible for this outrage. 1t had
no reporter ON the ground, and
must have gotten its grotesQue
account of Mr.. Sterne's protest from the
office of the board, and the clerk of the
board remarked yesterday that he
thought it was done very We'll" And,
doubtless, the Sentinels reference yes
ter,lay to the poorer residence streets as
"Hog-pen alley" and .Barn-yard boule-
ward" was inspired from the same
sonrce.
Have the people no rights that the
Board of Public Works and its news
paper organs are bound to rcspect7
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27

In reply to a circular addressed to
employers Of negro labor in the cotton
and tobacco belts of the South, solicit
ing information in regard to the i'm
provement OF the blacks as manufactur-
ing and farm hands, and the effect of
education in promoting their efficiency,
sixty-seven employers, hiring 2,413 ne
groes, declare with emphasis that they
are steadily improving in workmanlike
qualities; forty-three employers, with
2,279 negro laborers, take an opposite
view. and fifteen are non-committal.
On the question as to the effect of edu-
cation, thirty employers, hiring 1850
negroes. say their working power and
value are improved by education; nine
ty-six, hiring $500 negroes, think edu-
cation detracts from their value rs
laborers. while thirteen are nOn-cOm-
initial. The figures are not conclusive
on any point, but, coming from South
ern men, they show a considerable de-
gree of liberality on the subject. A
generate on ago hardly any Southern
man would have admitted the posi-
bility o. the negro making any progress
as a freeman, while the idea of his being
benefited by education would have been
hooted at. The fact that a considerable
number of the Southern employers of
to-day frankly avow a different view
shows a gratifying degree of progress.
Meanwhile, no matter what the opinion
of Southern employers may or may not
be, all the facts 60 to prove that the
negroes are steadily advancing in race
culture and DEVELOPMENT.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27

done by the Board of Public Safetyf
Its members receive $500 a year, $500
for the three. and il they have done the
city Is cents worth of good since their
appointment we should be pleased to
hear of it. Two of them are partisan
Democrats and the third is a nom
partisan Republican. Beyond provid-
ing places for Democrats and doing the
bidding of Chairman Taggart in help
ing to fix things up they have done
nothing. AS now constituted the Board
of Public Safety is a mere political ma
chine, whose only use is to illustrate
how a city charter car be ignored and
violated under the pretense of enforcing
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27

tors have pnt forth regarding mortgages on
farm property in that State. 1t has been
said that Illinois was deep down in mort
cages. Now. what are the facts, as shown
by the labor bureaus! Here they are: Num-
0Sl. $50; of this domain, 1866. $50 acres are
mOrtgaged. There are 90.3S9 mortgages.
and the amount represented is Sl23. 733, 09S.
The yearly product from these m~ortgaged
farms IS 81. 229. COZ. or about three-iifths of
tho principal of the entire mortgage indebt-
edness In other words, the products of
the mortgage farms for two years would
more than pay principal and interest.
This is u good showing. The agriculturists,
as n rule. stand well in this country. The
ripid growth of manufactures and increase
in the number of operatives give a good
home market. while improved machinery
and "a fertile soil makes the American farm
er the feeder of tho world.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27
INDIANA'S GAS SUPPLY.

Delaware County Papers Deny that Wells
Have Been Abandoned in That Region.
Muncie Times.
If the gas wells in the Indiana field are
failing, as stated in the Indianapolis News,
perhaps it can explain why the Standard
Oil Company and ather gas and oil syndi-
Gates are still trying to obtain leases in the
Indiana gas field. The Standard was fairly
repulsed in it's efforts to secure and control
the gas producing lands in this section and
it looks like it is now seeking after revenge
through the columns of the News. When
the statement is made that some wells in
this part of the field have been abandoned
we are prepared TO say it is false. No gas
producer in Delaware county has been
abandoned. We shall prepare and publish
a list of all the wells drilled in this vicini-
ty, showing their present condition and the
service which they are now rendering.
The inaccuracy of the News's statements
in regard to the drilling of the first we'll in
this State is almost objectionable In a
paper purporting to be historical and truth
full. but is in keeping with the misstate-
ments in regard to the wells in this section
generally.
As to the use of separators IN the wells
none In Muncie or Delaware county, the
gas being dry. and the little water appear
ing in ONE of the wells being the result of
O~vertaXing them. in some instances. 1t is
charged, TO discourage investments In gas
stocks.
AS to the use of the separators In other
portions of the Indiana field we are not in
formed, but here, where we reach the gas
so much above the sea level, they are not
needed. and. as said, there is not q single
one in use.
Of course, if the writer of the articles in
the News had cared to ascertain all tho
facts In regard to the wells in Muncie and
Delaware county-we mean the wells that
have produced gas-and his instructions
were to publish only the truth about them,
he could have found something graf
flying ana worth recording in the
fact hat the first well put down
n Muncie in November. 1886. Is
still a good producer, showing no
signs of failure. and sending out no water,
and all other producing wells are still giving
forth the valuable fuel with q good prospect
of affording gas for an indefinite period. In
short. the writer could have truthfully
stated much that Is highly encouraging IN
the Indiana gas field, and if he had been
employed on a paper that regards the in
terests of the city in which it is published
and the State from which it derives Its sup
port as paramount. he would have been in
structed to pursued friendly policy towards
this great industrial section of the State,
instead of a policy of hostility.