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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-08-21
THE RIVER OF LIFE.

It's ileeting, changeful river.
/ Blent of calm and crusted wave,
Flowing in and out forever
Tween the cradle and the grave.
Changeful river, ever flowing,
Narrower and broader growing,
Flowing, flowing, ever going
| Toward the still and solemn sea.
Forms of light and shapes of shadow
Float upon its troubled breast.
Through the moorland and the meadow,
On; the waters will not rest.
Here bud, by churl hand wrested,
Flung into the angry foam.
There flower with blooms invested
Plucked and rayished from Its home.
Youth and age, and strength and weak
ness,
Beauty, innocence and sin,
Pride and power, and love and meek
ness.
All in turn are gathered in.
Time and Death, two grand old warders,
Watch it rise and mark it flow.
Death, upon the still seas borders,
Bids the ice wind on it blow
Changeful river fond hearts parting,
In that still anu solemn sea
Joined to heal the grief and smarting
Bud and flower with stem shall be.
For DER Time and Death an angel
Gods strong angel walks the waves,
Claiming with his trump, Evangel,
All that pass within the grave.
Claiming for his Lord and Master,
By the flaming cross he wears,
Although battered by disaster
All the sullen river bears.
Changeful river, ever flowing,
Narrower and broader growing,
Flowing flowing, ever going
Toward the still and solemn sea.
&C. d. Stuart in New York Ledger
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-08-21
No. 5

The happy people are not those who
do right, but those who are blessed
with conceit.
The way to make people anxious
for thing is to pretend o prevent
their having it.
When two souls have but single
thought, they should stop spooning
and get married
He who seeks after what is impos-
sible, ought in justice to be denied
what is possible.
Marrying man to reform. him 10
equal to putting your fingers into
fire to put it out.
A mans cynicism is bounded on
the north by his vanity and on the
south by his digestion.
A woman's idea of kind husband
is one who will let her dig mp the
yard anywhere to plant flowers.
The secret OF success has been fairly
we'll kept considering that so many
are so anxious to tell about it.--Puck.
He who scorns to make little things
matters of conscience will soon be
constituencies in regard to greater
things.
We have never yet seen girl so
pretty we would be willing to carry
her violin through the streets. Atki-
son Globe.
"A man open changes his politicks
fob to make hisself heard, says
Brother Watkins. de rooster allus
flops befo' he crows,
Your personal affairs are of mighty
little consequence to the outside world
unless you have been doing some
thing you oughtn't to. Life.
A close friend is one who will not
lend you any money and a dear friend
is one who borrows all you will lend
him. Columbus State Journal.
A tariff that opens workshops and
gives a million idle men constant
work is a kind OF "a robber tax that
the people will like.--Chicago Inter-
Ocean.
There are now in the United States
over 500 cities with a population of
over 5. 900, the numb having doub-
led in the past "a years. One hum
dred years ago there were only six
with that population.
A Democratic paper in Maryland is
at loss TO know why Mr.. Bryan is
called "a matchless leader unless
it is because he enabled the Republic
cans to carry every county in that
State except four.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
whether man Is happier work.
ing for his own good or for the good
OF others is merely matter of tenn
permanent. said the philosopher. ut
all depends on whether man would
rather have money or monument"
indianapolis Journal.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-08-21

A frightened sheep dashed into a
church at Harrisburg, "a. and Great
ed panic. The congregation stood
not upon the order of its going. and
the minister resigned his pulpit tenn
porarily in favor Of the sheep. Some
of the holder spirits ventured back and
succeeded in ejecting the animal when
the interrupted service was resumed.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-08-21

1t is great thing for this country,
now that there is an existing gold
standard of value, that while we have
an abundance of silver, $52I, 900, 900,
in the Treasury, we have so limited
it that we have the use of both money
metals without fear of the depreciation
of either.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-08-21
Best on Earth.

"My blood was in very bad con-
ditiou and ! had eruptions all over
my body. l took few bottles OF
Hoods Sarsaparilla and it entirely
cured me. have not had any trouble
with impure blood since that time.
believe Hoods Sarsaparilla to be the
best blood purifier on earth" Joseph
T. Jones, Henderson. N. c.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-08-21

The manufacturers and the farmers
are now engaged in race to see who
shall show the greatest evidence of
prosperity. Come to think OF it, that
was Just what the Republicans claim
ed last year-that prosperity in manu-
featuring and prosperity in farming
went hand III hand.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-08-21

Such as are thy habitual thoughts,
such also will be the character of thy
mind, for the soul is dyed by the
thoughts. Marcus Aurelius.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-08-21

The first six months Of the McKin-
ley administration is in marked con-
trast with the corresponding period
Of the Cleveland administration
Then banks were tumbling, business
houses were putting up their shut
tiers, manufactures closing, farm
prices falling, railroads going into the
hands Of receivers, men were idle
everywhere, and strikes and riots
were the order of the day. Now the
railroads cannot furnish cars enough
to move the crops. the prices are good,
and the farmers hunting for more
help mills and factories are reopening
banks are complaining only OF a
plethora of ready money, and general
activity and cheerfulness are resum-
ing.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-08-21

People who were favorably i'm
pressed with the wheat and silver
theory last year are now wondering
how they could have been so easily
fooled.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-08-21

The people are utilizing the first
fruits of Mckinley prosperity in pay
ing off Cleveland mortgages. Wise
people!
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-08-21

Hoods Pills are the only pills to
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and yet efficient
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-08-21

plain how it is that the silver stand
ard of money the world over, from
India to Mexico, and China to Spain
inclusive, means the degradation and
abject poverty of workingmen?
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-08-21
Fifty Years Ago.

President Polk in the white House chair.
While in Lowell was Doctor Aver;
Both were busy for human veal
One to govern and one to heal.
And, as a presidents power Of will
Sometimes depends on a liver-pili,
Mr. Polk took Ayers Pills trow
For his liver, so years ago.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-08-21

The most encouraging feature of
the reports showing the return of
business activity is that they come
from small as we'll as large places.
When every community finds itself
busily employed the professional agi-
tator finds his occupation gone and
the country prosperous.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-08-21
POLITICAL MISCELLANY.

The smiling fields are giving the
calamity shriekers the Ha! Ha!
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-08-21

The horrible plot of the sound
money men to ruin the country by
putting up the prices offarm products
still goes on.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-08-21

The Ohio and Iowa Democrats who
made the silver question the sole
issue OF their State campaigns this
year are very blue now. The bottom
has fallen out of the silver argument
by reason of the further drop in the
price OF silver and the further in
crease in the prices of farm products
and general prosperity, and now they
are left with nothing to support their
doctrines or their platforms. 1t is
sad, but the people who took the bit
in their teeth and adopted the plat
form of calamity in opposition to the
views of the wisest men of their party
must bear the responsibility of de-
feat.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-08-21

1t is vain for the advocates of free
silver coinage at the ratio of 40 to to
deny that their policy would include
the silver standard, and will they ex-
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-08-21
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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-08-21
BANKS AND BANKING.

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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-08-21

The whole world seems to be in
league with the sound money men to
capture the farmers of the United
States. Not only are wheat and 9TH
farm products still advancing in
prices, but the foreign demand for.our
corn this year is far beyond anything
ever before known.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-08-21

An inferior quality of money always
cheats the Garner of wages. Capital
knows all the ways and means of
guarding against contingencies, and
labor has not the chance to do so.
The fact that the silver standard OF
money is everywhere associated with
impoverished, servile labor tells the
story.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-08-21

The Cleveland "Plaindealer," a
daily Democratic newspaper Of Sena.
tor Hanna's home reluctantly admits
that there is some evidence of re-
turning prosperity" 1t is moved to
this admission by the fact that a
single rolling mill in that place which
has been silent for years has started
up with $500 men at work.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-08-21

Orator Bryan is not SO busy these
days as he was at this time last year.
The New York Democrats bought his
silence and absence with flick and
PROMISE" the Ohio Democrats have
given him notice that his presence
will harm their cause in that State;
the Maryland Democrats have nc
place for him In view of their straddl.
ing platform, and his own managers
have warned him that he is endanger.
ing their cause by keeping up his
talk upon a subject which everybody
knows is becoming every day more
unpopular.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-03-19

Carson New. March lI.-One OF the
nest dramatic features of the battle was
the part Mrs. Fitzsimmons played in the
victory of her husband. Never before in
the history of the prize ring has woman
witnessed the struggle of her husband
for pugulistic honors, and the new cham
pion's wife to-day established prece-
dent which will hardly ever be equaled.
Up to the night before the fight Mrs.
Fitzsimmons declared she would not be
present at the ringside, but at the last
moment despite advice of her friends,
she insisted on accompanying her hus-
band She was vigorously cheered when
she entered the arena, and appeared en-
tirely self-contained and uncorcerned as
she took her seat, almost under the chair
in Bob's corner. AS he came down the
slope from his dressing room Fitzsim-
mons stopped for moment at his wife's
side and, STOPPING, kissed her as she said
cheerly
Good luck TO you, Bob
For the first few rounds she sat quietly,
but as the rounds became hotter her eX-
element mastered her, and for the re-
mainder of the battle she stood upon the
floor or chair. excitedly encouraging her
husband, or hurting reproaches and in
structions at his seconds.
As the battle went on she became more
and more demonstrative, sometimes
breaking in with EXPLANATIONS which bor
dered on the profane. At every blow
which her la9ky spouse received from
his antagonist her eyes bulged out, and
with her fists clinched. she cried:
THE hollnd,'''' the puppy" 1.-The
puppy" 'punch him, Bob "kill him"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-03-19
ELON COLLEGE NOTES.

Elon College, n. c., March 1S.-(Spe-
| ciaD-The public lecture course at Elon
| is being ably and admirably filled this
season. Besides the eloquent and power
| full addresses of President Alderman, of
the State University and President Kilgo
of Trinity College and Rev. J. L. Belts,
! of Richmond, Va, already delivered in
! the series. the college and community
are to he favored with others in the i'm
/ mediate future.
Rev Frank s. Child, y. D., preacher
and lecturer of wide reputation from
Fairfield, Conn, will lecture Saturday
evening next in college chapel at 1880
from subject, Women of the American
Revolution"
Sunday Dr. Child will preach twice at
the college morning and night.
Monday night the Doctor will lecture
on Culture and Literature"
Tuesday morning, ON "The Poet Sidney
Lanier." These lectures are all for the
school and public free. Public friends
invited.
Friday evening, March Goth, DR.. Hume
of the State University is to lecture. This
charming and eloquent speaker has ad-
dressed an Elon audience before and his
lecture is looked forward to with much
pleasure.
The young ladies of the Psiphelian
Literary Society have invited Rev. DR..
Garter, of the First Baptist church of
Raleigh to preach the baccalaureate ser
mon here at commencement, second week
in June The Doctor has accepted.
The Executive committee of the Board
of Trustees meet here tomorrow. DR..
Staley, chairman of the executive COM
mittee and President of the college goes
to the University Saturday where he is
to preach Sunday. The presidents of
flee at the college has recently been
beautifed by handsome wall papering
and mating.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-03-19
THE CASE OF TOM ALLEN.
History of the Fight Made to Save the
Life of the Murderer.
CA sheville Citizen

(ASleylIle CltlZen.)
Few men have made harder fight for
life than Tom Allen, the Supreme courts
decision in whose case was noted in yes
terday's Citizen. Allen, in October,
1894, in Macon, Ga, killed Charles Carr,
brother-in-law of Capt. Frank O'Bonnell
of Asheville. Allen was tried for the
murder at Macon in March, '9J, and SEN
fenced to hang. An appeal was taken
to the State Supreme court, pending
which Allen escaped. The Supreme court
gave him 60 days in which to return and
surrender. This he declined to do, and
remained in hiding about - months,
finally being captured by sheriffs posse
on an island in which he had surrounded
himself with friends heavily armed.
The point made by the murderer's at
torneys was, that the Supreme court of
Georgia could not outlaw Allen as it
had done in offering him 60 days in
which to surrender and it was on this
point that the case was carried to the
United States Supreme court. AS tele-
gram yesterday showed, the higher court
had decided adversely to Allen and he
must pay the penalty of his crime.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-03-19
HAVE THE FOREIGNERS QUIT
PAYING TAX?
Baskerville Ctizen.)

A New York telegram says that to
avoid paying the higher duty which will
be imposed by the new tariff bill, the
importers there are rushing to take
their goods out of bond. On Monday
they paid over two millions of dollars to
the cashier Of the custom house. But
why should there be any rush? Have we
not been told. time and again, that the
foreigner is the one who pays the duty
on imported articles? OF course we have.
That being the case, why does he not
come forward now when he is so badly
needed? If he still continues wickedly
to remain in the background we fear
this duty which the New Workers have
paid will be charged against the goods,
and the consumer of them will be com
PEELED to pay in the end.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-03-19
ETHICS OF BETTING.
Boston View of Man Who Kicks
When he Loses.
Boston Herald.)

Boston Herald.)
Apropos of the betting on the prize
fight, it is interesting to note the fact
that the New York Court of Appeals has
just decided that a person who makes a
bet on such contest and deposits the
money with person as a stakeholder
has right to recover back the amount
from such stakeholder, irrespective of the
result of the wager.
The Court doesn't add that man who
resorts to this sort of proceeding is a
sneak. but the inference is sufficiently
plain to people of sporting tendencies.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-03-19
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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-03-19
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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-03-19
HIS WIFE At THE FIGHT
Mrs. Fitzsimmons the Most In
terested Spa ctator.
TRIED TO LICK CORBETT

She Stood on Her Chair and Frantica'y
Shouted to Her Husband or His Sec
ords "Punch Him in the Wind, >" "h's
the ONLY Way to Whip the Aouno,'
and Similar Suggestions--At the
Close She Went Wild and Struggled
% Get a Crack at Corbett.
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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-03-19
GENTLE HINTS TO SECONDS.

HENIJ1E l1INIS IL SLSoNDN.
The plan of battle after the first round
was highly displeasing to Mrs. Fitzsim-
mons, and in no gentle terms she chided
the seconds for not advising different
tactics.
"Make him keep punching Corbett S
wind, and he will win," she screamed.
you idiots, you don't know how to
second man. You have lost your SEN
ses. Do you want to defeat my husband
Do as tell you now, or I'll make you
wish you had
Not once during the entire scene did
a shade or pallor cross the woman's face.
On the contrary her cheeks were fiery
red, and she leaned over the railing in
front of her seat, her eyes blazing and
her gloved fingers crushed into the palms
of her hands, she looked veritable fury.
At the end of every round as the New
Zealander stretched himself back in his
chair, she shouted to him words of en-
couragement and advice, continually in
sisting that he aim the blows at Corbett's
body and let the face alone.
'It's the only way to whip the hound.
Bob she cried over and over "And if
YOU do as | tell you he can't land in the
last round. The whelp is going now, hit
on the body, punch him in the wind
When the end came and Corbett stay
ed on his knees until the fatal ten had
been counted Mrs. Fitzsimmons almost
went mad with joy. Shouting congratu-
latory and endearing terms to the con-
queror, she stood upon her chair waving
her handkerchief until the tide of human
ity which swept down on the sides of the
arena toward the ring carried her from
the place.
TRIED TO GET AT CORBErT.
AS from his corner Corbett made his
way TO Fitzsimmons' corner and desper-
ately attempted to continue the fight,
the new champions wife, beside herself
with rage, clambered upon the platform
and frantically struggled to get at the de-
feated man.
''I'll kill him. she screamed; ''Pll kill
the coward" and Corbett would have had
a woman to deal with, and rather for
midable woman at that, had several Of
her friends not restrained her. She was
also carried back to her husbands cor
ner, and then off the stage.
:, as soon as the turmoil inside the ropes
had subsidized, she rushed to the con-
queror's corner, where she affectionately
lSEctLtu Hill, uulIlHului VI Iue DlOOu
which dropped from his face and breast
and arms.
81 knew Bob you'd win," she said, as
she entered the carriage for the drive
back to Cooks ranch.
II have been confident of it from the
day of the match between the men, and
l have grown more confident every day
since the training for this fight began.
My husband is the greatest fighter the
world has ever known, and it was only
to be expected that he would win the
championship at the first opportunity he
had / am going back to the baby now
and tell him that he is the son and name
sake OF the champion of the world. am
the happiest woman in all the world to-
day, but am not any happier than ex.
pected and the realization Of our hopes
| is great and glorious. Now Bob and the
baby and I will settle down to more
quiet life"