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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-08-14
FINANCIAL FACTS.

New York looks forward in the
Autumn tt some interesting develop
meuts in the foreign exchange mar
ket and the gold import movement.
There does not seem TO be much new
in the situation, except that the mer-
chandise balance is largely one way
and Europe has practically exhausted
her ordinary means Of credit on the
current account. 1t looks as if Eu-
rope would have to pay cash. Exact
ly the same condition Of affairs ex-
listed last year, but, instead OF pay
ing, Europe ran into debt to New
York OH the dollar down and dollar a
week plan in preference TO shipping
gold. The debt was not paid until
May. For seven years Europe has
tricked us out of millions Of gold by
using exchange machinery and devi-
ces, but it looks as if there is now no
way to prevent gold from coming this
way within a few weeks except by
resorting to the store book plan OF
last year.
Bar silver has recovered slightly
from the low price of Thursday, when
a5H pence per ounce IN London was
the quotation and IS u cents per ounce
in New York. Silver sold at 20 pence
in London on Saturday, and closed at
25M pence bid and SO cents in New
York. The European newspapers in
sist that the decline in silver is due to
constant pressure of sales from
America. In this country the de-
cline is attributed to bear movement
in the metal which originated and is
carried on i'll London.
The Treasury lost gold last week
almost to the full amount exported in
the previous week and on last Tues
day The receipts of the Treasury
are still unsatisfactory. The dehcit
during the first week of August was
So, 800, S44, and for the year it is SI4,
go, 38S. The redemptions of paper
money for the month have been 81,
2oI 900. The gold holdings have
been above $40, 600, 900 and now
that gold exports have ceased, it is
likely that there will be an increase
in them even before gold imports from
Europe begin.
The increase in the circulating
medium of this country in July was
$442, S93, and the increase as com
pared with last year is $13I, 900, 900.
The Treasury estimate of the money
in circulation per capita on August I,
is $22. So, the population being esti-
mated at 73,o6S, 900. This is an in
crease of $I.35 per capita as COM
pared with year ago. The total
amount of money in circulation on
August / was as follows:
Gold coin ---------$ 519, 074 300
Standard silver dollars ~ 81 ,655, 722
Gold certificates ----------- 81, 266, $40
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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-08-14

We like the to ne of the civil-service
plank adopt ed at the Kentucky Re.
publican vention this week. 1t is
"Fourth-We are opposed to a
system of civil service that builds up
an official class practically a life
tenure in almost all branches of the
public service, and we demand that
the civil service laws be SO modified
as to limit the terms of service to four
years, with the privilege of reappoint-
ments or promotion subject to such
restrictions as will secure competent
officials and to every section Of the
country its proper portion of them.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-08-14
Hoods
Sarsaparilla

Is the One True Blood Purifier. All druggists. 81.
Prepared only by G. /. Hood g. Co, Lowell, Mass.
The herald., 1897-01-29
THE MINING BUREAU

Professor Hilgard has been ambitious
to make an agricultural soil survey Of
the state. and 10 this end he has ne
elected to properly look out for the in
terests of those already established in
our various agricultural pursuits.
He complained in his lectures before
the farmers Institutes last fall that the
mining bureau had $4,000 to carry on
the mineral survey of the state. but that
he had nothing in the way of state ap-
propriatons to carry on the soil survey
of the state He now seeks to get hold
of the mining bureau appropriation and
undoubtedly combine the mieral and soil
surveys of the state under his own con-
troll.
If Professor Hilgard, or the Univer-
sity of California. should succeed in get
ting hold of this appropriation and run
the mining bureau on the same irnprac-
tical and inefficient basis that he has
run the agricultural department, the
money would be worse than wasted.
The mining men of the state had better
take warning and enter their protests
early and often with their representa-
tiyes at Sacramento against any such
move as is now on foot to strike sterility
and death at their important industry.
The herald., 1897-01-29
IN THE PUBLIC EYE

Lady Randolph Churchill is described
as being one of the most graceful skat-
ers in England. She learned to skate in
New York
One plan proposed for marking Queen
Victoria's longest reign on record is for
every little community in Great Britain
to establish garden, park or playground
in her honor.
Eleonora Duse has finally consented
to appear In Paris. Curiosity Is very
keen in regard to the outcome of the war
that will ensue between the Italian act
ress and Bernhardt
The fountain presented to West Point
by Mrs. James Marsland Lawton as a
memorial to her husband and her faith
er, Major Robert Anderson of Fort Sum-
ter fame, was made from her own de-
sign.
The Queen of Roumania, the queen
regent of Spain. Queen Amelia Of Por-
tugal. who in this respect follows the
example of her mother, the wife of the
Comte de Paris, and the queen of Italy
are all smokers
An Auxerre, France, woman has had
seven children within a year-four re-
Gently, thine girls and a boy, all alive
and well, and triplets less than year
ago. Her name is Drouet and she is
stopped Louis XVI in his flight at Va
rennes.
An international exhibition of gastron-
omy and of culinary art is to take place
at Vienna in 1898 in honor of the fiftieth
anniversary of the reign of the empe-
ror of Austria Hungary, who, as is well
known, Is the most abstemlous monarch
in Christendom in all matters relating
to food and drink
A French writer, Edouard Toulouse,
has examined Zola's mental peculiari-
ties and discovered a peculiar weakness
of memory. He could not recognize we'll
known citations from Moliere, Balzac,
Hugo and George Sand, and in some
cases even failed to remember his own
early writings when passages from them
We're read to him.
The late w. A. Conchman of Clark
county, KY, was the perpetrator of an
extraordinary practical joke. Return
ing from hunting trip one evening, he
was attracted to a country church where
a revival was in progress. After watch
ing the services for awhile he climbed up
on the roof to get better view Though
the hole where the stovepipe was meant
to go. In the excitement of the evening
one of the congregation shouted out:
Gabriel. blow your horn. I'm ready to
go," The temptation was too great for
Conchman, and, putting his horn to his
lips, he blew blast through the flue
hole and stampeded the congregation to
a man. The grand jury discussed the
propriety of indicting the sacrlegious
hunter but no proceedings were taken
against him.
Mrs. Hobbs, an intimate friend of the
first duke of Wellington, has just died
in Ireland at the age of 103 years. Her
husband was badly wounded at Quatre
Bras Five of her fourteen children and
six of her forty-four grandchildren are
serving in the British army, and she has
besides thirty-two greatgrandchildren
and two greatgreatgrandchi On
her one hundredth birthday the duke of
Cambridge congratulated her in behalf
6 = a,,t,,
The herald., 1897-01-29
A SKIPPER'S HARD LUCK.

An old Yankee skipper, Capt. L. W.
Tibbets of Portland, Me, was at the
house yesterday and called on Speaker
Reed. He had made sixty-two trips in
his craft to Cuba and feels more strongly
than Senator Hale does about the indie
pendence of Cuba. After the treaty of
1886 he took cargo of jerked beef to a
Cuban port, and the indignant Spaniards
not only refused to let his vessel enter
their harbor, but took her in hand and
ran her on the rocks. The captain has
a claim before congress which the
speaker gave him little encouragement
for collecting. In 1860 he took his stout
ship Tornado out of New York harbor
with 5000 kegs of powder. AS she was
pushing her prov into the gulf of New
Orleans a great gale struck the Tornado
and dismasted her. She was compelled
to put into st. Thomas for repairs, and
when she was again on her voyage
Louisiana had seeded and blockade
of the Mississippi had been declared.
Back sailed the Tornado to New York
harbor, where the surveyor seized his
cargo of powder. The unlucky skipper
never received his SIS 900 for freight and
expenses, which he now wants the gov
ernment to pay im-Washington Post.
The herald., 1897-01-29
THE SUNDAY HERALD

The Herald of Sunday, the S1st inst,
will be thoroughly up to date. abound
ing in interest throughout
The fullest news of the world, with
special cable letters from London and
Berlin, will keep the reader au courant
with the very latest events at home and
abroad. The letters of The Herald's s
efficient staff of correspondents through
out Southern California will reflect all
matters of moment in our own territory,
while all the accidents and incidents
of day in Los Angeles from pink tea
at p. m. to a murder or hold-up at =
a. m, will, as usual, be faithfully
covered"
In view Of the special interest-ex-
cited by the murder of Little Pete
concerning the Chinese within our gates
and the rumors of a probable outbreak
in Chinatown, The Herald has commits
stoned a special reporter to investigate
the troubles between the rival tongs.
and the result will be some very inter-
esting information concerning the vexed
questions between the Sam Yups and
the See Yups The article will be fully
illustrated.
Mr. Abbot Kinney will contribute a
paper on the Primary Ballot Law,
A dissertation on Moristic Philosophy
will prove of interest to those who keep
abreast of the modern developments of
religious thought
There will be graphic description of
a tough ball in the Bowery of New York.
which, while tough" enough, has none
of the depraved features indulged in at
the notorious Seeley dinner at Sherry's
Other interesting articles will be:
The Italian Colony of Cotton Growers
in Arkansas, showing how the Italian
is gradually ousting the colored folk
who were once inseparable from the cot
ton fields.
The Art of Watch Making, illustrat-
ing the strange timepieces of olden
times.
The Women of India and the Rapid
Disappearance of the Zenana, or Harem
especially interesting a this time, when
the Affections of famine and plague are
overwhelming that country.
A Literary Review from the erudite
pen of Judge Enoch Knight dealing
the the lstest and best books. the
Drama of abe Day, and the Musical
Column will comprise other attractive
features.
The herald., 1897-01-29
AN ARBITRARY MEASURE

The bill of Senator Cullom to amend
the interstate commerce law so as to
prohibit railway ticket brokerage, or
scalping, is intended to break up a legiti-
mate business enterprise and increase
the power Of railway corporations to
oppress the people. A railway ticket is
the obligation of the company issuing
it to transport the holder of it between
given points, and unless otherwise speci-
fed by reason of advantages given,
which are not provided for in the regu-
lar ticket for passage, it is as negotiable
as the company's note or bonds or stock
In selling a passage ticket the railway
is none of its concern who uses them
50 long as the holder of the ticket COM
plies with the rules and regulations of
the company for the government of the
conduct of passengers.
Unless special privileges are provided
for in the wording of passage ticket
it means that the bearer" is entitled TO
the transportation facilities sold by the
company and designated by the ticket
Just before the Wabash was placed in
the hands of receiver the passenger
department sold several blocks of pass
age tickets to a syndicate of brokers and
spectators at prices very much below
the card rates. Thousands of these
tickets were on the market when the re-
ceiver assumed the control of the prop
erty, and he promptly gave orders to
conductors to refuse to accept them for
passage. The matter was at once taken
to the federal court and the decision
was that a railway ticket was an ord-
nary promise to pay in transportation,
been placed in the hands of a receiver
subsequent to the sale of the tickets
held by the syndicate, the syndicate
stood as an unsecured creditor of the
company and that it must take rs
chances with the other creditors. Other
courts have made the game ruling.
If, then, railway ticket is merely
negotiable obligation of the company
issuing it, the right to put it upon the
market for sale is as clear as is the right
to sell the company's bond, or any other
form of obligation. Senator Cullom's
bill, while not denying that railway
The herald., 1897-01-29

ticket IL an agreement to pay trans
portation to bearer, proposes to pro-
hibit transactions in tickets by brokers.
1t would be just as consistent to forbid
the employment of middlemen in the
congress can prohibit the buying and
selling of railway tickets by middlemen
it can oblige the farmer to sell direct to
the consumer and the consumer to buy
from the producer. Senator Cullom
is becoming very much of a friend Of
Czarjspn
The herald., 1897-01-29
HAYSEEDS AND SHARPS

According to the Los Angeles Times
Sacramento correspondent, the Repup-
lican majority in the legislature is, for the
most part. composed of rural hayseeds
and city sharps The former are too
stupidity green and ignorant to go IN
doors when it rains, and the latter would
not hesitate to rob a blind beggar. The
Times is so much of a partisan sheet
that it would not thus assail creatures
which it helped to create, unless the
"hayseed statesmen" as it calls the
country members, had shown monumen-
tai innocent incapacity and the city
statesmen obeliscal capacity for plum
dering the state. The Herald commends
the Times measure of it's party's legis-
lators to the careful consideration OF
the voters, especially of the taxpayers,
of California 1t is refreshing and assur-
ing to see that the Times is disposed to
tell the truth in the premises, but, then,
the evidence is so overwhelming and
glaring that if what it says is true 1t
could not help admitting it.
The Times is disposed, however to
abuse the Duckworth investigating COM
mittee for allowing the payroll jobber
to have bully to represent him to brow
beat and intimdate the hayseed mem
bers into giving the accused quick,
clear and very white bill of acquittal.
But between the lines there is plenty of
evidence to show that it is not so much
the crime that Duckworth committed
that is botheripg the Times as it is the
load which the exposure will oblige the
party to carry at the next election, and
having a lot of "hayseed statesmen" to
still further tangle the tangles makes
the outlook for the party all the more
distressing.
Nevertheless, it is good of the Times
to admit that it's party sent a lot of
country fools and city knaves to the
legislature BY turning to the cam
paign files of the Times it will be found
that these same fools and knaves We're
"pointed to with pride" as representa-
tive leaders of the party, and voters of
all parties were urged to vote for them
because they were "clean, honest and
capable" 1t is tough on other aspiring
Republicans to prove by their own organ
that these fool and knave legislators
were nominated and elected because they
were the best material the party had
Representative Republican leaders in
principle, and with the most brains-but
that is the way the Times put it during
the campaign, and The Herald has no
wish to contradict it's contemporary. We
will take its word for it that "hayseed
statesmen" and city sharps are repre-
sentative Republican office seekers. But
while agreeing that all hayseed states
men and city sharps are Republicans
we deny thar all Republicans are hay
seed statesmen or city sharps. There
are a great many noble but misguided
men in the Republican party, and it is
lAAsntAble fact that they are not often
The herald., 1897-01-29
BUT 1T is THE LAW,

New Yorkers are laughing at an alb
surdity of legal decision in a recent case
in which 1t was held that "A dog is not
vicious in contemplation of the law until
he has established reputation by first
bite" 1t is not recorded that the Judge
offered his services for experimentation
as to the dogs vicious propensities by the
rule proposed.-Albany Argus.
The herald., 1897-01-29
WHAT GODKIN PROVED.

Mr. Godkin demonstrated to his own
satisfaction that if the prisons and pest
houses of Europe had not vomited upon
our shores a large proportion of their
inmates, the United. States would have
gone to the "demnition bow-wows;"
American dishonesty was crushed out by
this noble uprising of the honest men
imported in the steerages of steamships
at SIS per head. He proved this to be
true by showing that Mckinley carried
the states which are inhabited by these
more recent contributions to our popu-
lation.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The herald., 1897-01-29
THE MEAN THING.

OF 12S,S42 arrests in New York last
year only II, SAT were women. They must
not feel hurt at this small percentage,
however, as the gradual increase of new
women in all walks of life will no doubt
extend to the jailbird class as well.-
Philadelphia Telegraph.
The herald., 1897-01-29
sACRILEGIOUS THIEVES.

The ingenuity of the police is likely to
be taxed in recovering the rubber bap-
tismal suit which was recently stolen
from local church. 1t is difficult to con-
ceive what legitimate use plain. every
day thief could make of such a commod-
ity, and Of course 1t Is out of the question
that the garment has been borrowed
by a rival congregation-Omah Bee.
The herald., 1897-01-29
THE PUBLIC PULSE

(The Herald under this heading prints
communications, but does not assume re-
sponsibiity for the sentiments expressed
Correspondents are requested to cultivate
brevity as far as is consistent with the
proper expression of their views.)
The herald., 1897-01-29
MEMORY.

Lo, the blossom to the bee
Yields not more than thou to me
Food for love to live upon
When the summer days are gone,
Poorer than they came, to find
What was sweetest left behind.
The independents
The herald., 1897-01-29

Mr. Mckinley has requested the great
Chicago banker, Lyman j. Gage, to
visit him at Canton. The presumption
is that Mr. Gage will be offered the
treasury portfolio and it is said he will
accept. Mr.. Gage is one Of the abest
financiers of the country and knows lit
tie or nothing about practical politics
He is Republican and an admirer of
Pres SiGent CleYeland
The herald., 1897-01-29
PART OF HANNA's GOOD LUCK.

Fortunately for Boss Hanna, his ambi-
ton to get into the senate is not hamper
ed by the necessity of being elected by
vote Of the people of his state.-St
Louis Republic
The herald., 1897-01-29
CHAFFEY COLLEGE

To the Editor of the Los Angeles Her.
aid: Lest Dame Rumor should get at
work, as she seems inclined to do, in re-
gard to the new departure Of an agri-
The herald., 1897-01-29

Assemblyman Clark has introduced q
bill to abolish the present state board
of equalization. The substitute for it
will be by action of all the county as.
SCISSORS in the state. These county as
SCISSORS will then constitute state
board of equalization. We think the
idea a good one.
The herald., 1897-01-29

The ward heelers and party bosses in
Ohio want Bushnell to take Sherman's
shoes, and they want Hanna's cash.
The cash will get it,
The herald., 1897-01-29

The Nebraska legislature perpetrated
a joke the other day when it passed Il
resolution instructing Senator Thurston
to vote for free silver.
The herald., 1897-01-29

The young Castellane has both Tally
rand and Jay Gould blood in his veins
He is likely to own France one of these
days, but his ownership will not repre-
sent honest work.
The herald., 1897-01-29

Pcary has a new scheme FOR reaching
the pole, but he will expect the relief ex.
pedition to take the old path
The herald., 1897-01-29

Nebraska die not have lynching last
year, but the crops were good and the
people haG other matters to attend to.
The herald., 1897-01-29

Just how Spain is going to institute
reforms in Cuba when three-fourths of
the island is in possession of the insur-
gents is not quite clear.
The herald., 1897-01-29
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o'clock.
The herald., 1897-01-29

We beg to remind the powers that be
that the people are still clamoring for a
larger police force.
The herald., 1897-01-29

4 scientist asserts positively that the
people of Mars are trying to communi-
cate with us, but we cannot catch on to
their signals. Perhaps they are warning
us to keep Hanna a home.
The herald., 1897-01-29

"A few weeks ago the Prince of Wales
spent week at the home of the young
Duke of Marlborough. They sat down
to quiet little game. The duke is mort
gaging few of his baronies and castles
The herald., 1897-01-29

field. and now he is on his way back to
Havana to take q rest
The herald., 1897-01-29

About ten days ago Weyler took the
The herald., 1897-01-29
WILLIAM S. CREIGHTON
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special leased wire.
The herald., 1897-01-29

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