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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-08-07
MARTINsBURG. W. va. SATURDAY. AUGUST Z, 1897

stead of further reduction of prices OF
farm products there has been a mark
ed advance, although silver still de-
clines. More money has come into
the country during the last year than
ever came into the country in a pre-
ceding year, farmers are paying of
their mortgages rapidly despite the
tact that there is no free coinage to
help them, the production of gold
during the year has greatly increased,
the international bimetallic confer
ence, which they said could not pos
sibly be realized, is practically as
sured. the nations which they pointed
to as the most prosperous silver.using
countries OF the world has since gone
to the gold standard, the tariff bill is
law, and business is reviving every
where; now what are they going to
have to support their theories this
fallp
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-08-07
-Cincinnati Price Currt

The end OF uncertainty regarding
duties on imports gives greater conf
dence alike to those who have oppos-
ed and those who have favored the
change. The greatstrength in stocks,
particularly in those OF the Granger
list, reflects assurance OF heavy crops.
The remarkable rise in wheat, not
withstanding that assurance, is based
on heavy buying for export and be-
lief that foreign demands will be
large. To these must be added an
other element of confidence scarcely
observed week ago. The heavy in
crease in receipts of gold, whether
from one side of the Alaska border or
the other, swells deposits at the minis
and in the banks of this country, and
if the yield from new regions answers
current expectations, may have an
influence akin TO that OF gold discov-
cries in California. The one retard-
ing force, the strike Of coal miners,
has caused closing OF few manufac-
turing works tor want of fuel, but me-
gotiations for settlement are still
pushed with hope. -"Dun's," July
"a, 81.
What are the free-silver orators GO
ing to do for campaign material this
fall? Every promise which they made
last fall Of the terrible things which
would happen il free coinage were
not adopted has been broken. In
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WHEELS, WHEELS.

Ere woman took to writing books
She followed mans direction;
She didn't think of gowns and looks,
Nor talk of sex subsection.
But that, you know, was long ago,
When man was force1 to till and sow,
And woman, trampled under heel.
Toiled on before the blowing wheel.
One day she rose and left the soil,
And babe her tyrant tend III
And yet she didn't cease to toll,
Nor, as for money, spend it.
She sat down and deity span
A covering for her husband man,
She loved the simple rock and reel,
And worked behind her spinning wheel.
But times, alackl have changed since
then,
For now It's hard to settle
Which men are maids, which maids are
men;
The rose appears nettle.
For woman kicks at reels and rocks,
And calmly stole mans knickerbocks,
And naught can quench her manish
zeal
They've mounted on the whirling wheel
And yet, l wonder what twill be,
The cause of evolution?
Perhaps the Amazonic she
win change the constitution;
Or fortunes wheel may lower the proud
And she who one day calmly plowed,
Then came to mount the tire and STEEL
May fall meath fortunes tickle wheel.
New York Critic.
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New York Press.
The American free trader has never
ceased to declare since the Mckinley
law went Into operation that it was
impossible to make tin pate in this
county. Here comes the British
Consul at Philadelphia and makes a
report to his home government show
ing that the tin-plate industry OF
Pennsylvania is in most hourishing
condition.
Notwithstanding all the difficult
ties encountered, il is now believed
that, with proper fostering, the time
is not far distant when the United
States will produce all the tin plate
required for her consumption. Penn
sylvania alone is prepared, should the
condition of the markets be such as
to warrant it, to produce, from the
steel billet to the finished product,
$50, 900, 900 pounds Of tin plate, or
fully one.third Of the entire consump.
ton OF the United States"
Thus every day is the Republican
principle of protection vindicated by
the foreigners who have suffered the
heaviest losses from it--losses which
were our gains.
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Silver and Wheat.

New York World.
Silver still Says. An ounce Of it is
worth 50 As cents.
The 4I211 grains of 900 fine silver
which the government calls a dollar
and makes legal tender for that
amount is actually worth only 46,II
cents.
Wheat seems to pay no attention to
these facts. 1t goes up and down on
weather reports and foreign selling
and all that sort Of thing, without the
slightest regard for the price Of silver.
Has wheat gone over to the gold
bugs2 And will the wheat-growers
go with it?
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-08-07
No. 3
FLASHES OF FRENCH WIT,
WISDOM AND WIcKEDNESS.


Man corrupts all he touches. Mon
taigne.
! The Devil and Love are but one
voltaire.
Necessity is a severe schoolmistress.
Montague.
A poet is world inclosed in man.
Victor Hugo.
War is not as onerous as servitude.
-Vanvenargues.
To despise money is to dethrone
king -Chamfort.
Irony is the purculence Of our moral
wounds. DE Finod.
or all serious things marriage is the
most ludicrous. --Beaumarchais.
He who is devoted to everybody is
devoted to nobody. &C. Delavinge.
Love never dies of starvation, but
often Of indigestion. = Ninon de Len
clos.
Hope is lure. There is no hand
that can retain wave OF shadow. -
Victor Hugo.
Shun idleness: it is the rust that at
taches itself to the most brilliant met
ais -Voltaire.
Q woman it is thou that causeth
the tempests that agitate mankind -
f. f. Rousseau.
The ,nan who enters his wife's
dressing room is either philosopher
or fool. Balzac.
Let youth dance; tempests Of the
heart arise after the repose Of the
limbs. Lemontry.
Glory, ambition, armies, fleets,
thrones, crowns: playthings Of grown
children. Victor Hugo.
Great men are like meteors: they
glitter and are consumed to enlignten
the world Napoleon /,
oh, poor hearts of poets, eager for
the inhuite in love, will you never be
understood'--Mme. Louise colet.
If all hearts were frank just, and
honest the major part Of the virtues
would be useless to us. Molicre.
How many languish in obscurity.
who would become great if emulation
and encouragement melted them to
exertion.
Many benefit by the caresses they
have not inspired; many vulgar re-
ality servesAas pedestal to an ideal
idol.-T. Gontier.
The sowing Of wild oats is necessary
III the life Of every man. Libertinism
is leaven that ferments sooner or
later IF Il. Rousseau.
We instinctively abhor calumny
as we do snake, for fear Of its VEN
ON; but, is our aversion to it so great
when it attacks others?---De Finod.
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POLITICAL
MISCELLANY.

Silver bullion fell to the lowest
price ever known last week.
Business in Mexico is in bad shape,
owing to the continued tall in the
price of silver. and there is talk
of going to the gold standard.
Wheat goes up and silver goes
down despite the assertions of silver
orators Of last fall that these two
commodities kept pace in the markets
of the world.
1.-The new tariff cuts very severely
into protection granted the sugar re-
finers under the Wilson bin. From
Sugar Trade Journal, Official organ
of the American sugar interests.
i "If the promise of the harvest fields
is fulfilled it will be hard for theorists
to persuade thriving people that
they need monetary panaceas to keep
them out of the poor house. New
York World.
The last week in July, 1897, will
long be remembered as the first one
under the new tariff law. Reports
from every direction show that the
effect has been instantly effective,
both III manufacturing and business
circles.
The solid business men of the
country lying west of the Mississippi
are greatly depressed over the failure
of the Trans Mississippi Congress,
which was intended to be useful in a
business way, but failed because Of its
capture by the silver politicians.
Sugar refineries and factories will
soon be scattered over the prairies OF
the Mississippi Valley in a way which
promises to make the sugar trust ex-
treniely weary, especially in the view
of the fact that it has already lost the
advantages which it enjoyed under
the Wilson law.
The hold up" of the Dingley bill
in the Senate by the Democrats and
Populists is the cause of the light
receipts which may be expected I'M
der that measure in its first few
months by reason of the enormous
importations that the "hold up per-
United the importers to make.
"Tae case OF the farmers has GER
tainly been hard for several years
past. 1t has been principal cause
of discomfort, and the fruitful mother
of wild financial schemes. With that
betterment which is now so surely
approaching, the occupation Of the
demagogue and the Utopian dreamer
will be gone. New York World.
An interesting feature of this falls
campaign is the development of
strength among the Gold Democrats.
1t is quite apparent that in every
State where there are to be campaigns
their organization will be much
stronger than it was last fall, while
the national organization is pushing
work from its national Headquarters
J in New York and will aid with
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speakers and by other means wher-
ever there are State campaigns.
The recent increased gold develop
ments, not alone in Alaska, bat in
the increased production of mines
everywhere, is hard blow TO the T6-
toll theorists, and, when coupled with
the fact that the prices of farm pro-
ducts have advanced and that crops
are plentiful and that farmers are
paying of their mortgages, must
prove very depressing to those who
have insisted that prosperity could
alone come through the adoption of
free silver.
When Mr. Mckinley sent com
mission to Europe to plead again for
international bimetallism, two classes
Of men confidently prophesied igno-
minious failure Both must be some
what discouraged by the results at
tanned aud promised. The
hope of himetallism is not dead. The
time has not come when we must
choose between making silver a base
metal on the one hand, or making il
in its deprecated state our only
money metal on the other. New
York World.
Now that the country has had time
to examine the charges OF the Demo.
Gratis who were saying that the Ding
ley bill was advantageous to the sugar
trust, it is quite apparent that the
charges were entirely without FONDA
ton. 1t is generally conceded that
the bill deprives the trust of the adj
vantages which it had under the Will
son law, and is less advantageous to
trusts generally than its predecessor
which was framed by the very men
who were foremost in the charge
against the Dingley bill.
Hundreds of millions of dollars of
the profits OF farmers through the in-
creased prices which are now being
received for their productions are
being devoted to the payment of
mortgages upon their farms. A re-
cent canvass made by the Chicago
Times. Herald fully comedies with the
developments of the Democratic New
York Sun referred to last week, these
and other canvasses of this kind
showing that farmers in every part
of the country are reducing their
mortgaged Indebtedness with these
first fruits Of the Mckinley prosper
ity.
The following shows a comparison
of leading farm products and prices
on July 7, 1896, and July 7, 1897;
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Soft Head. Abundant Hair.

New York Tribune.
Senator Tillmau refers to Speaker
Reed as bald-headed despot. The
expression recalls the rejoinder OF an
Indiana candidate to his adversary,
who had playfully referred to him as
being "barefooted on the top Of bis
head. (" Young man." he said,
when my head is as soft as yours
can raise hair to sell. Z"
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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-08-07

Martin Rank. native of Germany,
aud successful carpet weaver, died
in Cumberland Tuesday, aged seventy
nine years. He leaves seven children,
thirty -four grandchildren and seven
great grandchildren.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-08-07
plain English il Diplomacy.

Chicago InterOeean.
The diplomacy Of Dom Paul and
Secretary Sherman is in plain En-
glish and it astonishes English dip
lomats. They have never been used
to it. A diplomat il Europe is fell
low who says something that may
mean something else.
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A BimetaIIic Query.

Boston Herald.
Does any one suppose that if silver
had been discovered in the Klondike
region it would have caused the eager
excitement to go there aud get it that
gold has occasioned?
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-08-07

A minister once told story like
this: ION one occasion | preached to
congregation of 81 women and 4
men; this was at prayermeeting. On
another occasion | preached to 827
men and ) women; this was in the
state penitentiary!"
The Red Cloud chief., 1897-02-26
FOR RURAL DELIVERY
EXPERIMENT is ENDORSED
FROM EVERY PLACE.,
Reports OF the sections In which the
Mail System Has Bccn Tried Uniform
The Service. However. Likely to Cost
Double What Was Figured on.

WASHINGTON, Feb. eS.-The post
masters and the patrons at every one
OF the forty.four postoficcs where
rural free delivery has been in opera.
tion declare in favor of the plan. The
test has been gong on only for a linn
tied period, bat the offices were SO dis.
as to make the experiment
complete and il was developed at
points in thirty.thre, or thirty.four
states. The reports are all in and the
data gathered will be transmitted by
postmaster General Wilson in a special
report to congress. The sentiment
favorable to the adoption Of the COM
prehensive scheme Is unanimous. rep
~resenting opinions given both by the
head OF each postotiicc and the patrons.
When the experiment was first con-
templated it was estimated that rural
free delivery t. cover the whole coun-
try would involve an annual expendi-
ture of over SEQ DOC, 900. but the expe-
rience already had shows hat $40, OO0,-
600 Is n conservative figure. The cost
OF the service is found. of course, to
have varied with the character of the
country where it was perfurmed,
sparsely settled regions heavily in
creasing the expense. Thus in one
county in Massachusetts the difference
OF conditions necessitated the estab-
lishment of the experiment at three
points and the postrnasters report u va
Rance Of several cents between them
as to the cost of delivery per letter.
The maximum cost of delivering each
piece of mail matter was between 9
and 7 cents at Huntsville, Ind. and
less than Z mills at Greenfield. in
Franklin county, Mass. The average
cost per letter Is fixed at little over
3 cents in thesearural deli ries. There
are many places, however, where de-
livery of mail is impossible. and these
aggregate a large portion of the coun
try. The least difficulty in the way of
the general adoption of the scheme is
In the eastern states, though mum
Der OF western states, like the country
adjacent to Denver, Colo, show com
paratively small cost.
Officials believe that the service can
be advantageously established in a
number of well settled regions. Post
master General Wilson has not we,
drafted his report. but II Is believed he
will demonstrate the value Of the con
tinuance of the experiment for one
year.
The Red Cloud chief., 1897-02-26
MUSIC A IA GOLF.
Givcs . Freshness and variety to
Criticism,

7, ,hoso dave ubo, GOLF "a crowd,,o
IN nonular,,v oyory o,her form NJ our,
door amor, 1, 10 a,so-in rpy,apd n,
leas,-giy,ny , ,reshnss, and ,arie,v
IN m,sjcai c,,,,o,sm Witch wi, no an
pre, lated Inv Tho law mind that ia no,
educated nm 70 a l,ow,edye nj the
techn,ca, terms usually cmploved in
describing musical events savs an OK.
change Here ,s n repor, taken from
a regent I,ondon paper. OF n classica,
,oncer, nj g, James' hail. "An enor-
nous crowd assembled last Monday
r,yb, an w,,re.s tho fours,me comne-
The Red Cloud chief., 1897-02-26
Mr.. M'Kiniey viii Rest.

CANTON, Ohio, Feb. 22.-"Presidcnt-
elect Mckinley has fully recovered his
accustomed good health" said DIR. T.
ii. Phillips this morning, and be-
lieve is stronger than e. That does
not mean, however, that he will re-
sumo his receiving visitors promiscu-
ously, as have advised emphatically
against that custom. What busi-
ness the President.elect will give
his attention to previous to
his departure for Washington will
be what has been partially arranged
beforehand. Special visitors, or those
who come by invitation from the
major, will be given audience, but not
n great deal of this will be transacted.
The rest and freedom from official
cares obtained the past week have
been most beneficial to him"
The Red Cloud chief., 1897-02-26
UNCLE SAM SLOW PAY.
Government In No Hurry to settle Its
Just Obligations


WAsuuNGroy. Feb. ga very spir-
tied debate on the general subject OF
the payment Of claims found to be due
by the United States was INDUCED in
by the House yesterday during the
consideration Of the general deficiency
appropriation bill. Mr.. Richardson OF
Tennessee had called attention to the
apparent inconsistency Of an item TO
pay the costs OF defending suits, and
the fact that tho bill contained no item
to pay the Judgment.
This furnished Mr.. Walker of Massa-
chusetts a text for a lively speech
against the ''niggardly" and ''dishon.
est policy OF the government. and a
severe arraignment of the committee
on rules for the tyranny IL vas said to
exercise over the proceedings Of the
House.
MIR. Grosvenor of Ohio came to the
defense Of the committee, warmly de-
claring that the House had made the
rules and should abide by them. No
one, he said. would resent the exercise
of power not conferred on the commit
tee more bitterly than he.
Mr.. Mahon Of Pennsylvania, chair
man Of the wal claims committee.
made the statement that the House
had beer frightened by u ''bogie man.
and the just claims against the govern
ment, instead of aggregating hum
dreds Of millions, as was frequently
stated, could be discharged with
$40, 900, COS. The consideration Of the
bill was not completed. The bill car.
ries S5,i4l,091.
The Red Cloud chief., 1897-02-26

'ANho is that lady, papa?" Florry
asked, looking at the picture as II she
saw 1t for the first time.
why, Florry, that was my first
wife," he answered, surprised that she
had not known 1t before.
WAS she my mamma, too?"
Mono" he replied, hastily. "She
was Sarah Deering."
Wasn't she any relation to met" the
child persisted. She was but eight
years old and the qualifications OF
kinship were yet a mystery to her.
"Of course not" her mother said .rath-
er sharply. Your papa was married
to her when he was very young-long
before he lived here or knew me. !
thought you had heard this before"
She turned to her husband. "Mtd's'n,
shall l lay this picture away"
Mr.. Janeway looked at her attenslw'
Twas 1t zeal for an artistic ensemble
or was there a lurking jealousy Of the
woman who had come before? "Pack
It away II you like" he said, turning
away. 1T Is shabby"
Long after his wife and children were
sleeping Mr. Janeway sat smoking and
thinking complacently of his success.
He, Madison Jsneway, had begun with
nothing and ct 80 he had won the
Thugs ne had longed for at 20. The
Cpsning and closing Of the door at
The Red Cloud chief., 1897-02-26
For the Fellows Family.

New YORK, Feb. e2.-It was while
stumping the South for the Palmer
and Buckner ticket that Colonel ]. r.
Fellows caught the cold that probably
caused his death, and Republicans, in
Gliding Messrs. Mckinley, Hanna and
Carnegie, have promised to contribute
for his family $4,000, which sum it is
proposed to raise to 500, 900. Colonel
Fellows gave away nearly oil his
money and there is a $50, 900 mortgage
on the home. Edward Lauterbach Is
the father of the relief movement. and
he and Senator Plat are pushing II.
The Red Cloud chief., 1897-02-26
Important Land Decision.

SALINA, Kan, Feb. 22.-The suit
pending in the several courts for sew
eral years, brought by the United
States against the Union Pacific rail
way company and William Hoard Of
this county. to cancel the patent to the
latter's land, has been decided by the
United States supreme court in Hoard's
favor. This was a test case, and Judge
Carver, who won the case for Mr..
Hoard, states that 1t virtually settles
any further question as to the title to
a large amount of land in Saline, Dick,
inson and other counties.
The Red Cloud chief., 1897-02-26
SOME LATE NEW THINGS.

An adjustable handle for carrying
travelling bags Is arranged so that II
a be fastened to either side OF the
bag by riveting a pair Of bracelets In
to which the ends of the handle lock
to each side of the bag, thus allowing
the bag to be carried either fiat or
edgewise, as desired.
Pneumatic car-fenders have recent
ly been patented, consisting OF a num-
Der Of elastic tubes set in metal frames
shaped like ordinary tenders. A.
A new folding table has O drawer
set in the under portion Of the table
top In such a tanner that 1t cannot
be removed when the legs are folded
up. the legs covering the front OF the
drawer.
A recent improvement In monkey
wrenches consists OF q lever lying par
allel with the handle to tighten the
grip OF the Jaws. To operate It the
lever is raised and the jaws screwed
as tight as possible by means Of the
usual thumbscrew, when the lever Is
forced downward, thus closing the
Jaws mare tightly together.
To remove coats and hats out OF the
way and yet place them where they
can be reached easily when wanted q
new device consists OF a bracket or rack
to hold q number Of coats and hats at
tached to a rod running up to the
ceiling OF the room In such a name
that 1t can be raised or lowered to the
desired height and fastened either by
a thumbscrew or spring catch.
A recently patented coin separator
and distributor has a long, fiat metal
, feed chute into which the coins are
dropped at one end. the other end be-
ing lower, so that the coins will roll
down to the coin-holders, each holder
having an opening into the chute
through which the coin drops. the size
OF the coin determining which tube IL
belongs in.
The heating of fiat and sad irons by
electricity has just been patented. the
device having the inside next to the
bottom followed out and several coils
Of wire placed therein, connected with
an electric circuit by means Of wires
running to an electric lamp socket. the
passage Of the current through the
coils heating the bottom Of the iron.
A handy little coin package is made
Of metal and Is fitted with a sliding
section around the barrel portion.
which can be closed and fastened with
a loop when the package is full.
The Red Cloud chief., 1897-02-26
Russia Against Greece,

ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 22.-The OBJ
stinacy Of Greece is causing irritation
here. The Novoe Vremya expresses
the general feeling and policy of the
government in saying that the powers
have no idea of altering the policy they
have taken. II needs be, the Greek
battalions will be disarmed by them
and Greece placed in a painful situa.
ton by being blockaded. The Mirova
Geotzoloski says politics is not senti'
mental and good sense orders the
Greeks to retire.