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The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-12-09


The residents Of the lower portion
of East Crawford are complaining
abnu5 too much water in their wells.
which has been causing a number to
cave. Several of the cellars which
have never been known to be wet
contain from eight inches to a foot of
water and the residents have been
compelled to remove their winter store
of vegetables theretrom. The extra
amount of-water is supposed to be
caused by the irrigation system of the
Crawford Company.-Cramfofd Bul}e-
tin.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-12-09

.Indge Walcott delivered a temper
aIlrp address at the Methodist church
sunday evening which is said to have
hrrHt "A good one. We are not advised
Of The remedy the Judge proposed for
I { evils of intemperance.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-12-09

Blssett has no saloon where intoXi-
eating liquors car be procured and
oar druggist will not sell liquor to any
person whom be fears will use it AS "A
beverage, yet there has been more
drunkenness in BasSett during past six
months than during the same length
Of time for several years when We had
u salDon.- BaSsftt Eagle.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-12-09

The pains taking nan is not always
the man who suffers most pain.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-03-20

Very lovely and lovable is the
woman who has cultivated a DISPOSE
ton angelic enough to see the good
and not the evil side-of human nature,
who can be severe with her own
failings and excuse the faults Of
others. We are told that she is dull.
uninteresting creature. and if we take
the trouble to look into the matter,
we find that she does not laugh at
her neighbours pet weakness: she does
not enjoy hitting out right and left
at the world at large, and is always
ready with plea for unseen and un-
suspected reason, long way toward
modifying harsh Judgment. Our
lovable woman may not be witty. she
may be little prosy; but she it is to
whom we go when in trouble fol
sympathy, and confide with feeling
that our secret will not be torn L
shreds as soon as our back is turned
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-03-20
The Hen Set Right.

The California News, in the follow
ing paragraph, not only relieves the
ben of the odium of grave fault,
but corrects a grammatical error
common to nine out of ten persons on
an average:
THE reader who dosen't study
language very carefully" says the
News, "or who has no reliable diction-
airy conveniently at hand, may be
somewhat puzzled to know just when
to use sitting and when setting
A little more intimate association
with the dictionary will make il
plain. 1t is the owner of the hen who
does the setting Tor placing) of the
hen; the hen herself sits. The only
setting done by the feathered biped is
when setting the featherless biped al
defiance by refusing to sit on hel
eggs"
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-03-20

If small national banks are to be en-
couraged in the more sparsely settled
portions of the country, the question
arises whether they should be purely
local organizations or branches of the
great metropolitan banks. The old Unit
ed States bank had branches which, by
virtue of their connection with a large
central institution, had some advan-
tages over the local banks with which
they competed, but were in more than
one instance the objects Of adverse state
legislation. This spirit of local hostility
to bank located in another city, and
perhaps another state left memories
which still survive and which account
in part for the opposition to branch
banks.
But the experience of England and
Scotland, Canada and Australia, is
strongly and uniformly in favor Of large
central banks with many branches. The
banks of Canada are able to maintain a
singular uniformity in the rates of in
terest in the great commercial centers
and in the remote agricultural regions
because the banks of Montreal and To-
ronto have their branches i'll Manitoba
and the Pacific region and can transfer
the surplus capital of one locality to
meet the deficiency in another as it can
not be done by wholly independent
banks. The conditions III Canada are
very much like those of the United
States, and the success of the Canadian
banks in doing what we recognize the
Importance of having done is entitled to
great weight in our considerations. In
Scotland it is well known that the
branch system has greatly favored those
agricultural Interests which in our own
country are so much in need of financial
accommodation.
The preponderance of financial testi-
mony is decidedly in favor of the branch
system, most Of the opposition to which
comes, or would come, from local fnan-
cial interests, jealous of strong outside
competition, There is feeling of dis
trust of all banks which is born of ig-
norance. 1t increases rapidly with the
increase of banks capital and the ex-
tension Of its operations. which are sup
posed to prove the bank to be monop-
oly.-Iron Age.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-03-20
Something to Depend On.

Mr.. James Jones, of the drug firm Of
Jones & Son, Cowden, Ill. in speaking
of DR.. Kings New Discovery, says thai
last winter his wife was attacked with
La Grippe, and her case grew so serious
that physicians at Cowden and Pana
could do nothing for her. 1t seemed tc
des elop into Hasty Consumption. HAY.
ing DR. Kings New Discovery in store.
and selling lots Of it. he took bottle
home, and to The surprise of all she be.
gan to get better from first dose, and
half dozen dollar bottles cured hen
sound and well. DIR. Kings New Dis
covery for Consumption, Coughs and
Colds is guaranteed to do this good
work, Try it. Free trial bottles at l.
9. Matthaei's drug store.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-03-20

In the past sixty years the forests
of America have produced the enor.
nous quantity of 824, 900, 900, ooc
feet, and the value estimated of more
than $25, 900, 900, 900. 1t is curious
reflection that the forests, once re.
garded as an impediment to the coun-
try's settlement and growth. to be
felled and burned as rapidly as posi-.
BILE, should so soon become one of its
chief sources of wealth, to be consider
ed and protected by every means
known to modern science and law.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-03-20

The people OF Wolfe Valley, Tex,
have organized rabbit club. The
club pays cent for each cotton tail
scalp, and ~ cents for each jack
rabbit The organization of this club
is a necessity. Rabbits have ruined
all fruit trees this winter which were
not protected by oak bushes. Ifsome-
thing is not done to destroy these
pests the farmers will suffer great
loss.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-03-20
ADOPTS THE GOLD STAND
ARD.
After Four Years of Investigation Japan
Decides to Discard silver.

Decides to Discard Silver.
On March | it was cabled from Yoko-
hama that Japan had decided to adopt
the gold standard at ratio of 3215 to
/, the new standard to go into operation
in October.
This act, ON top of many previous
ones moves Japan completely out of the
ranks of the semi-civilized and into those
of civilized and progressive nations. 1t
was not taken hastily, but after two
years consideration of an exhaustive re-
port made by the japanese currency
commission, appointed in 1898.
This commission found that, while
certain capitalists, especially those emu
ploying many laborers, were benefited
by the falling silver standard, the
wage earners were injured from the
fact that their wages did not rise as
fast as did the prices of what they
had to buy. The report pointed out
what every rational trader ought to
know--that silver standard country
can trade and compete with gold stand
ard countries only after paying the loss
on exchange in foreign trade. However,
as the greater part of Japan's trade was
with China and India, the two countries
of Asia still using the silver standard,
the disadvantage on this account was
not considered great.
The silverites have lost with Japan
some Of their best capital OF course
they will tell us how British gold"
was used to bride the government into
betraying its people into the hands of
the money power. They cannot, how
ever, much longer tell us that we are
unable to compete with Japan because
she uses the silver standard.
The truth is that Japan got tired of
being a second rate nation and of work
ing with second rate tools, and, after
careful investigation, concluded to get
rid of free coinage at ordinary ratios,
which drives gold out of the country as
fast as it can be coined and which re-
suits in the single silver standard, and
to adopt the gold standard at a ratio
with silver which will permit the use of
both metals in her trade 1t is wise
step. Japan is only one of four or five
nations which have adopted the gold
standard during the last / s months
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-03-20
Bryan In the East.

Mr.. William Jennings Bryan is going
about the country preaching the same
doctrine that he preached during the
campaign in which he figured as NOM
inee for the presidency of the United
States. The activity of the free silver
forces is not to be winked at They are
good and persistent fighters, They re-
alize the fact that new men are entering
into citizenship every year and that
some of them may be won over to their
side OF the currency question. They pro-
pose to hold the ground they have and
to secure more if they can. The free sill
yer advocates should be met more than
half way in this fight that did not end
with the victory won by the sound
money forces last November. Trenton
Gazette.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-03-20
The rights of strikers have bee,

The rights of strikers have been
defined in Michigan. Judge Mcmahon,
answering petition for injunction
against the Flint & Pere Marquette
railroad strikers to prevent them from
going on railroad property to per-
suade workmen to quit, has decided
that the strikers have "a right to us e
persuasion by legitimate means. /"
The only injunction issued by the
court is to restrain the strikers from
destroying property. The decision is
hailed as triumph for the strikers,
and it is one that is likely to be refer
red to in future litigation over similar
contests.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-03-20

The decision of the silver men to con-
time their fight for the 30 cent dollar,
despite the emphatic verdict of the peo-
pie in November, is appropriately fol-
lowed by the organization in New York
of sound money league, which is to be
national in its character and i'll the
scope of its work. From this time ON
till the next presidential election the
dissemination of money facts and cor
rect views as to money is to be contin-
ued.
The most efficient agency of the last
campaign was the sound currency COM
mittee of the New York Reform club,
and its publications, each given to
some one phase of the currency ques-
ton, were invaluable to speakers and
writers. A sound basis for currency re-
form was thus laid in the minds of thou
sands who were cropping after the truth.
These publications. it is stated, are to
continue An effort is to be made to
widen the field of operations by class
of writings of a more popular character.
In the south and west particularly hon
est thinkers are to be supplied with ma
terial for progressive thought toward
sound conclusions on the money ques-
tion.
Much was done in six months Of
1895 to uproot the erroneous ideas
planted in five years of populist agita-
ton Errors had flourished simply be-
cause they had not been confronted with
fact Now monetary truth is to be as
Systematically inculcated as fallacy was,
and the result cannot but be most
wholesome. Baltimore Sun
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-03-20

lust before the curtain rose at the
oratorical contest in the opera house
at Pittsburg, Kas., Prof. Black ap-
peared at the front of the stage and
requested the ladies to remove their
hats. A burst of applause followed,
which continued until the last woman
in the audience had placed her head.
gear in her lap and had famed away
the red in her face.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-03-20
Rrrnn,s 1rlstal.en pnliev.

Aren't Bryan and his friends making
a great mistake by continuing the dis
cussion of the silver question at this
time? 1t is nearly four years until the
next presidential election, and the peo-
pie can learn a whole lot about silver
and the effect of cheap money upon
wages and savings in four years. They
learned much that Bryan didn't want
them to know during the four short
months of the last campaign. 1t is no.
ticeable that III the states where the ques-
ton was most discussed the MAORI
ties against Bryan We're heavy or his
majorities were unexpectedly small
If the silverites will think of the great
amount of work done in the states west
Of Pennsylvania, east of Colorado and
north Of Tennessee and reflect upon the
result of the election, they will, if they
are wise and want to win in 1900, con-
clude to drop educational work and to
proceed ON some less dangerous line If
Bryan and his friends would stop talk
ing about silver for three years, it would
be difficult for the ''goldbugs" to get
people to listen to their convincing argu-
ments. If our hard times should unfor-
tunately continue Bryan might step out
few days before the 1900 election and
say, IT told you SO, f" and majority Of
the voters, without having given the
matter much thought might conclude
that perhaps the crime of 1878" was
responsible for the lack of prosperity.
But if they study the question for four
whole years they will be certain that
neither silver nor any kind of cheap
money ever brought prosperity to any
country, though they have often brought
hard times The wage earners will un-
derstand that Is to l is an uDderhanded
scheme to lower wages and the farmers
that they cannot, by juggling with cheap
money, get any advantage of the rest of
the world in the matter of prices of farm
products. This educational work must
be stopped short, or the cause of free
silver is lost.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-03-20
Heart Disease Relieved in 80 Min
.,tnc
uteS.

DIR. Agnew's Cure for the Heart
gives perfect relief in all cases of Or
ganic or Sympathetic Heart Disease
in 80 minutes, and speedily effects a
cure. 1t is peerless remedy for Pal
pitation, Shortness of Breath, Smoth-
ering Spells, Pain in Left Side and all
symptoms of Diseased Heart. One
dose convinces. Sold by A. NJ Gil
bert and M. A. Snodgrass.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-03-20
NO Free silver nlmetallism.

The free and unlimited coinage of sill
v-r, when it does not preserve its parity
with gold, cannot be condition in true
bimetallism because in its effects it is
directly antagonistic to the system.
Whenever practiced, it always results in
monometallism, and silver at that Such
is the case now in all silver countries,
as Mexico and China, and such was the
case in the United States in the 40 years
prior to 1894
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-03-20

Many case s-i,paH IL. las
~ been cured by One Minute Cough
Cure. This preparation seems espe-
cially adapted to the cure of this dis
ease. 1t acts quickly, thus prevent
ing serious complications and bad eff
fects in which this disease often
leaves the patient. l.. G. Matthael
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-03-20
Current Fun.

"Ahp" murmurred the soubrette.
uihhiing thoughtfully with her store
teeth on the edge Of her handkerchief,
how dear to my heart are the scenes
Of my childhood.
well, by thunder, remarked the
heavy william. sourly. Il thought our
stuff was pretty old, but l didn't
imagine the scenery dated back that
far"
Some men never can rise superior
to shop talk, or understand the true
poetry Of the feminine mind. Gin
cinnati Commercial Tribune.
Pastor How did you like my
sermon on eternity last S6nday'
Parishoner-Sermon? Why, it
seemed to me more of an object
lesson. New York Truth
Kate is going to marry
Kammack, the photographer
Bertha--Isn't that nice? 1t will be
right in his line to have her always
look pleasant. Boston Transcript.
My doctor has not order.
ed me to go to Nice this winter But
shall get even with him. / shall
stay well whole year -Fliegende
Blaetter.
His letter-Dear sir: I enclose 81
for your sure method of exterminat
ing rats and mice. Kindly forward
at once.
The reply-Kill them.--New York
/ World.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-03-20

They are SO small that the most
sensitive persons take them, they are
so effective that the most obstinate
cases of constipation. headache and
torpid liver yield to them. That is
why DeWitt's Little Early Risers are
known as the famous little pills. L.
G. Matthaei.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-03-20
It Was Too Late.

They have been married for some
years now, during which time he has
always worn mustacbe. The other
day, however. he succumbed to the
fastest thing in masculine face wear,
and came home shaver and shorn
At dinner that night she didn't say
much, but she watched him very
closely indeed. So closely that after
while he asked her what she was
thinking about. ooh, nothing much, /"
was the answer; "only l never would
have married you had l known you
had an upper lip like that"
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-03-20
A nastardlv Act

May be committed by any one while
suffering from an excruciating head
ache. MAGIC HEADACHE POWDERS
cure all kind of headache in from 3 to
IS minutes. Do not sicken the stom-
ach nor affect the heart. Perfectly
harmless.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-03-20

f. E. Turner, of Compton, Mo-,
writes US that after suffering from
piles for seventeen years, he COM
pletely cured them by using three
boxes of DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve.
It cures eczema and severe skin dis
eases. l.. G. Matthaei.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-03-20

Don't allow the lungs to be i'm
paired by the continuous irritation OF
cough. 1t is easier to prevent con-
sumption than to cure it. One Min
ute Cough Cure taken early will ward
off any fatal lung trouble. l.. 6.
Matthaei.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-03-20
Large Currency.

Sneak Thief Sain--Pity 'twuz erbout
Jimmyi He wuz making big money, and
the perlice broke him all up.
Footpad Sim-Big money, wuz he?
What wuz his lay?
Sneak Thief Coming silver dol.
lars
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-03-20

Milton Reizenstein, a graduate
student of the Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity of Baltimore, has prepared d
monograph as thesis for degree
which he expects to receive next June.
He has chosen Tor his subject the
history of the B. & O. r. r. from its
inception on the night of February
II. 1897, when rs Of the leading
business men of Baltimore met at the
home of Philip E. Thomas and de.
vised means whereby the trade OF
Baltimore with the West could be
restored. 1t was at this meeting that
the company was organized which
afterwards built the B. & O. r. r.
Mr.. Reizenstein smonograph takes ur
the history Of the road from that night
until tracks were laid to Wheeling,
w. Va, in 1858. The 10Th anniver.
sary of the B. & o. r. r. Co. was
February II, 1897.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-03-20

One Minute is all the time necessary
to decide from personal experience
that One Minute Cough Cure does
what its name implies. L. G. Mat.
thaei.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-03-20

If some people knew that the sun
had spots on it.sthey would almost
worry themselves to death.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-03-20
A. Ancieut Mark Down Sale.

Hewitt-Cattle were once used as cur
rency.
Jewitt-And I suppose when you
went to mark down sale you saw a
card reading: Marked Down to One
Calf. Former Price One Cow"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-08-18
Law Governing Tax Collectors.

The following act relating to returns of
tax collectors was approved by Governor
Hastings on July 8, 1897.
SECTION l. Be it enacted &C., That the
tax collectors of the several boroughs
and townships of this commonwealth
elected pursuant to the provisions of an
act of assembly, entitled San act to au-
thorize the election of tax collectors for
the term of three years in the several
boroughs and townships of this common
wealth." approved June 9th, A. D., 1898,
and all other tax collectors of state, coun-
ty, township, road, school and borough
taxes, elected or appointed by or under
existing law, shall hereafter make
monthly returns in writing to the several
persons to whom the tax collected by
said tax collector is by law required to
be paid, showing the amounts collected
by them during the preceding month,
and the amount of uncollected taxes up
on their respective duplicates, or exhibit
the duplicate showing the said uncollee-
ted taxes, at the close of each month dur
ing their respective terms of Office, and
shall pay over to the persons TO whom
the said taxes are made payable, the
amount so collected by such tax collec-
tors, monthly, less the commission or
fees to which they are entitled for the col
lection of the same; Provided, That in
the case of collectors of borough taxes,
they shall also be required to file with
the councils of their respective boroughs
duplicate returns for the taxes collected
monthly by them as aforesaid, and du-
plicate receipts from the respective bor-
ough treasurers for the amount so paid
over TO them.
SECTION 2. Any tax collector falling
to comply with the requirements of this
act shall be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor, and upon conviction thereof
shall be sentenced to pay a fine not ex-
ceeding one hundred dollars.
SECTION 8. All acts or part of acts in
consistent herewith be and the same arc
hereby repealed.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-08-18
OvERCROwDED INSANE HOSPITAL.
DR.. Curwen Issues an Important
Statement.

Warren, Pa, Aug. 12.-The State Hos
pital for the Insane at Warren, Penna.,
was constructed and organized for the
care and treatment of the insane Of the
counties of Warren, Crawford, Erie,
Mercer, Venango, Clarion, Forest Nc
Kean, Elk and Cameron, and Potter was
afterward added by Legislative Act.
The number of insane from these
counties on the first of August, 1897, was
66S; private patients from different sec
tions Of the commonwealth. SO from "a
counties outside of the district, 264 max
ing the total 1915; showing a very much
overcrowded hospital. The capacity of
the hospital when constructed was con-
sdered to be for 700 patients.
The law requires that while the
finances of the State do not permit ample
provision for all cases Of insanity. recent
cases shall have preference over those of
long standing" In order to meet this re-
quirement of the law, it is respectfully
and earnestly requested that before MAX
ing arrangements to bring patient
to the hospital statement be
sent to the perintendent, Civ
ing the sex; age; length OF time insane F.;
the first symptoms, dating back II Vt long
or than six months; any previous at.
tscks any complications that may exist,
such as paralysis, epilepsy, or alcohol
ism.
No patient will be admitted unless
these requirements are fully complied
with; the question simply being whether
this provision of the law shall be COM
piled with or the hospital completely
closed to any further admissions. d the
closing of the hospital is not thing to
be desired.
JOHN CURwEN, NJ. ID.
Superintendent