Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1897-02-18

everything is to be wide open?
THE investigation of the Sugar Trust
still goes on in New York But it will
amount to nothing, fer the Sugar Trust
knows very well it is safe as long as
present conditions prevail in this coun-
trv-and that means at least four years
vet. .---..
ONE of our hopeful exchanges says:
Don't set your face against the COM
ing of prosperity" If our contempt
rary will kindly inform US which way
we shall look to see prosperity ad-
vancing we'll do our best to keep our
gaze steady.
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a RECENT dispatch from Parkers-
burg says that every department of
the Ohio River Railroad Shops has been
nut on half time, and there has also
been reduction in the number Of train
EMPLOYEES. This is somewhat differ
ent from the promises made before
election.
THERE'S war on between the
American Biscuit Company and the
New York Biscuit Company, the two
concerns which manufacture large
proportion of the crackers and small
cakes used in this country A reduc-
ton of So per cent is made as start
er, and there is a prospect that prices
Will get very low.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, it is an
nounced, will not issue the order plac-
ing the 10000 fourth-class postmas-
tiers of this country under the protec-
ton Of the civil service 1t is stated,
however, that the order will be made
in the near future-when President
Mckinley has those 10000 scalps
hanging at his belt, we presume.
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THERE'S quite an interesting war
Just now between Turkey and Greece
over the island of Crete. There has
been some lively fighting already, and
both sides are hurrying ships and men
to the scene of action. There Is a
probability, however, that the allied
powers will prevent serious trouble, as
it does not suit their purposes to have
the fracas just now. The pluck and
spirit of Greece is most admirable, and
she is fighting to protect her Christian
subjects -
WHEN the steel-rail trust was bro
ken a couple of weeks ago prices be-
gan to tumble, and now steel rails can
be bought for 81 ton, against 500 a
ton a month A The railroads have
promptly taken advantage of the low
prices, and have contracted for suth-
cient rails to last them for several
years. This has, Of course, made bust
ness very brisk in the steel industry
though wages have been reduced
but thoughtful people are considering
what an awful slump there will be
when the present orders are filled.
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UNDER the lash of the party whip
the Republican majority in the West
Virginia Legislature last week passed
a bill by which Governor MacCorkle
is prevented from appointing members
of the board of regents Of the State
University or of the board Of directors
of the hospital for the insane, and con-
ferring that power upon the incoming
Governor, Mr.. Atkinson. This par
tisanship of the rankest kind, and it
will be unfortunate for the State if its
institutions are to be banded about
from one political party to the other.
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OUR neighbors of Morgan county
are in high state Of hilarious excite
ment over the passage Of bill by the
Legislature authorizing the leasing of
the State property there to a syndi-
cate of hotel boomers If we are to
Judge from the enthusiasm of the news
papers, particularly our friend Pen
dleton's N,pS, money will grow on
trees hereafter and Berkeley Springs
will be the hub. We hope our neigh
bors may have all the good fortune
they anticipate, but it is well to
remember that booms are not al
ways soul-satisfying.
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AT a called meeting of the board of