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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1898-03-19
A REPUBLICAN YEAR.
The Press of the Country on President
McklnIey's First Twelve Months
in the White House.

th viz " Htt~ thOASNs
The first year has been finished Of
President McKinley's administration,
and the condition in which it finds
the country affords happy contrast
to that which preceded -Pittsburg
Commercial. Gazette.
AS the year ends. we may say,
well done, good and faithful servant.
You have restored the properties
and cherished the honor OF the rcpub-
lie. Go on in the way you have be-
gun. and the people will be with you
to the end - Rochester Post Express.
AT the end of one years service,
President Mckinley can look back up
on phenomenal revival OF business,
a restoration OF domestic content, and,
barring the possibilities of war. the
brightest prospect upon which the
country has looked for years. Kan
sas City Journal.
He and his associates are confront
ed with international problems Of the
gravest character That he will act
wisely and for the best interests ofthe
whole people can DC Judged from his
past record. Have faith in the Presi-
dent of the United States. Be assured
that he can be trusted to act with
prudence aud discretion, and at the
same time to uphold the honor of this,
the greatest nation Of the world. -
Baltimore American.
President Mckinley has completed
the first year OF his office. He has
executed his trust as the nations
chief executive with conspicuous abil-
ity and has the moral support of the
great mass of patriotic American citi-
zens, without regard to party. Under
his administration, the country has
enjoyed its most prosperous year since
1892, and enters upon the second with
every prospect of an increase in pros
perity in all the great lines Of human
activity Toledo Blade.
When President Mckinley assumed
the reins of Office he was pledged to
four thiugs-souud money, protec-
ton, the annexation OF Hawaii and
the liberation Of Cuba. The first he
maintained. the second was given to
the country in little less than four
months after his Inauguration, the
third he has bent his every epdeavor
to accomplish and except for the fact
it takes two-thirds majority OF Con-
gress to pass resolution of anuexa-
ton, Hawaii would have been annex
ed before the holidays. The fourth is
now a matter Of keenest interest and
ere another year will have been num-
pered with the past, Cuba will have
gained her liberty and the stirring in
dents Of to-day will be history. In no
thing has the President been recreant
to his trust Grand Rapids Herald
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1898-03-19
THE FLAG GOES BY.

Hats off
Along the street there comes
A blare of bugles, ruffle of drums,
A fash of color beneath the sky;
Hats off
The flag is passing by.
Blue and crimson and white it shines,
Over the steel-tipped ordered lines.
Hats off
The colors before us flv;
But more than the flag is passing by.
Sea fights and land fights. grim and great
Fought to make and to save the State;
Weary marches and sinking ships;
Cheers of victory on dying lips.
Days of plenty and days of peace;
March OF a strong lands swift increase;
Equal justice, right and Jaw,
Stately honor and reverent awe.
Sign of a Nation. great and strong
To ward her people from foreign wrongs
Pride and glory and honor, all
Live In colors to stand or fall.
Hats Off
Along the street there comes
A blare of bugles, ruffle of drums;
And loyal hearts are beating high;
Hats Off
The flag is passing byl
H. II. Bennett.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1898-03-19

The Secretary Of the Mexican
Treasury Department, Mr.. Limantour,
in his recent report. states frankly
that one of the principal factors re-
stricting foreign trade and conse-
quently the receipts from import
duties is the fall and fuctuation in
the price of silver. Trade, he says,
could be adapted to permanent high
rate of exchange, but the constant
fiuctuation in the price of silver is
more injurious than any actual depre.
citation. Mr. Bryan seems to have
overlooked this somewhat important
fact in his lengthy and elaborate in
vestiSation of Mexican finance-from
the rear of an observation car.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1898-03-19

Latest reports from the South put
the estimate of the cotton crop now
being marketed at about 1900, 900
bales, which is by far the largest ever
produced, and four times as large as
that of the year 1872. May it not be
over production rather than the fall
of silver which has caused the de.
cline in the prices of cotton since the
amount now produced is four times
as much as in the year preceding the
"crime" and since the cost Of pro luc'
ton has also been greatly reduced?
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1898-03-19
POLITICAL PARAGRAPHS.

An increase of SO per cent in a
single year is very gratifying fea-
ture of the showing made in present
ing the summarization of President
McKinley's first year. February
bank clearings for 1888 were so pei
cent higher than those of February,
1897, and the largest ever recorded in
that month.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1898-03-19


According to a celebrated anatomist
there are upwards of 5000, 900 little
glands in the human stomach. These
glands pour out the digestive juices
which dissolve or digest the food.
Indigestion is want Of juice, weakness
of glands, need of help to restore the
health of these organs. The best and
most natural help is that given by
Shaker Digestive Cordial. Natural.
because it supplies the materials
needed by the glands TO prepare the
digestive juices. Because it strength
ems and invigorates the glands and
the stomach, until they are able to do
their work alone. Shaker Digestive
Cordial cures indigestion certainly
and permanently. 1t does so by nat
ural means, and therein lies the secret
Of its wonderful and UNMARRIED success.
At druggists, price 10 cents to $I.oo
per bottle.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1898-03-19

Treasury receipts, which averaged
over a million dollars day in Febru-
airy, are likely to be even considerably
heavier than that in March. The
first ten days in March produced
ST. 900, 900 Of revenue and it is prob
able that the month will show re-
ceipts higher than that of any March
since the repeal OF the Mckinley law.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1898-03-19

CURRENT HISTORY. 4th Quarter,
1897 $50 PIP. Edited by Alfred S.
Johnson, Phi, d. Price, ST.. year;
single numbers, 40 cents; specimen
pages tree. Boston: The New Eng
land Publishing Co.
Eight years. What has the world
accomplished in that timer What
importantlegislation has been passed.
What diplomatic disputes settled
What wars fought out and ended?
What political and social changes
wrought, and their Significance
What scientific wonders achieved
What great lives have disappeared
from the stagep And what are the
forces now at play in the worlds of
labor, diplomacy, political and social
reform9 etc, etc, The answers to
these and host of other questions
are given clearly and infinitely, with
all requisite facts, figures, and dates
put literally at your fingers end--in
Current History which presents
every three months carefully pre-
pared historical review of the worlds
progress, arranged for permanent
preservation as work of preference.
The current number rounds out the
record for the last quarter Of 1897,
Like all its predecessors, it is a mine
of information, worldwide in its
scope, pertinent in its facts, judicious
in it's treatment, and clear and inter
esting in its style. 1t is elegantly
printed, and illustrated with 81 por-
traits, 9 maps, and two full-page
views.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1898-03-19

1t would be hard to find in the his
tory Of the Presidential administra-
tons one in which the first year s
work was more successful than that
of President McKinley's first year.
The work of carrying out the pledges
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1898-03-19
MARTINSBURG. W. va. SATURDAY. MARCH 49, 1898.

agriculturists stationed in this country
watching and reporting to their Cow
ernments upon American experiments
and methods of farming; and this
Government should take every step
possible to place the country's pro-
ducts in the foreign countries.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1898-03-19

Itchiness of the skin, horrible
plague. Most everybody afflicted in
one way or another. Only one safe,
never failing cure--Doan' Ointment.
At any drug store. so cents.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1898-03-19

It's SAiSlGuCS.
Another effort of Secretary Wilson,
of the Department of Agriculture, in
behalf of American trade in foreign
markets may be said to have reached
a successful issue. 1t relates to the
recognition of agriculture as branch
of the diplomatic service of the United
States, and it seems that a precedent
has been established in the appoint
ment Of a special agricultural attache
to the United States Embassy at Ger
many. This official is practical ag-
riculturist, and will be under the d.
rection of the Secretary of Agriculture
rather than under the State Depart
ment. His efforts will be confined to
studying the agricultural conditions
of the country to which he is accredit-
ed, with view to obtaining wider
market in Germany for the farm
products of this county. Sometime
ago Mr.. Wilson, seeing great posi-
bilities in this direction, made vigor-
Gus recommendations claiming that
the United States should have spe-
cially trained agriculturist officially
connected with every important en-
bassy where there was opportunity
for an extension of our foreign trade
and where there was likelihood of in
Producing our surplus farm products.
Heretofore the Department has been
compelled to rely entirely upon our
Consuls and Ministers, many of whom
have no knowledge Of agriculture,
and who have been unable to gather
and transmit such information as was
required to enable the Department to
push forward its work looking to a
widening Of foreign markets for our
farm products. OF course our home
market is the most important to the
American farmer, but it is important
that the foreign market should be en-
larged to an extent that it will alb
sorb all surplus products and thus
keep the home market from being
flooded and prices from breaking. 1t
is difficult for American farmers and
dairymen and fruit growers to under
stand Just what is wanted by custom
ers abroad; what classes OF articles
are desired by different countries, in
what form of package they are pre-
ferred and where to send certain
article or grade of article to secure the
most profit. What suits the people
OF one country to perfection may not
be at all acceptable to those OF another,
and the individual exporter without
the assistance of an agent familiar
with the conditions of locality and
able to communicate and converse in
diligently with its people, may find
it losing game to attempt to intro
duce his products. The agents Of the
Department of Agriculture and the
State Department will stand ready to
lend all possible aid to American ex-
porters DESTROYS of finding a market
abroad for American farm products,
as we'll as to guard jea,ously our
rights in those foreign markets. AS
matter of fact, we are somewhat be-
hind the times in the matter Of agri-
cultural representation abroad. Other
nations have educated and brilliant
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1898-03-19

A writer says that brains will tell.
Sometimes they do, and sometimes 1t
is brains that keeps man from tell
ing.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1898-03-19

OF the party has been pushed forward
with unexampled activity. The tar
if, one of the chief pledges, has been
promptly revised and with its revision
has come improved revenues and inn
proved activity in manufacturing and
employment, and thus improved
prices. The promise OF an appeal TO
other nations to cooperate with the
United States in behalf of silver was
kept, by plan entered upon by the
party, even before Mr.. Mckinley S
inauguration as President. The
pledge with reference to Hawaii has
been kept so far as within the power
of the President, and whatever delay
there is in its fulfillment is due to a
Senate controlled by those opposed to
the Republican party. Cuban pris-
ons have been opened and American
citizens released; Spain has been
forced again to recognize the right of
the United States to dictate in regard
to matters of humanity and order in
Cuba, and now at the beginning OF
the second year President Mckinley
finds every citizen, irrespective OF
party, standing Loyalty behind him in
his firm and vigorous attitude upon
this subject, and the press of the
country, irrespective of party, COM
mending his course in this matter, as
we'll as the general course OF the Ad-
ministration during the first year of
its existence.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1898-03-19
In the...
Rain Storm

the man got very wet. The
wetting gave him cold. The
cold, neglected, developed to
a cough. The cough sent him
to bed of sickness. A dose
OF Ayers Cherry Pectoral.
taken at the start, would
have nipped the cold in the
bud, and saved the sickness.
suffering, and expense. The
household remedy for colds.
coughs, and all lung troubles Is
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-12-13
A>DRIICULpURE
CULTURE OF NUTS.

This class OF trees has been neglected,
writes SAMUEL Miller in Colman's Rural
World. The time will come when men
will regret tbs use of the ak in many
instances. From this time no wal
nut tree or hickory tree that bears a
fair nut will be cut down when clear
ing my land There ia no q hsulty in
growing tn m from the seed. Simply
follow nature to a large tx The
walnut falls to the ground, the hull re
mains soft on the ground, ard if the
least bit of soil covers the nut it will
sprout the following spring. To make
speed in establishing a forest of nut
trees, the seed should be put in the
ground where the tree is to remain .
Over walnuts two inches, hickor y
one, acorn one. The latter usually
sends a root down into the earth in the
fail and in the spring starts up a snoot.
I have o them sprout On the ground
in wet weather. How long a walnut
will remain dry and still grow, 1 can
not say. but l have had hickory nuts
that were put away in a drawer for
three years, when put in the ground in
the fall sprout the next spring. Per
simmon seeds should not become quite
dry, and should be put in the ground
in the fall. I tis gratifying to learn
from SO many to whom l sent seeds of
this fruit that they have them grow.
iug P5cans, hazel nuts and chestnuts,
treat the same as hickory nuts.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-12-13
-EDITED BY
FRANK e. EMERY, NJ. 8.
FLAVOR IN BUTTER.

correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.
It is pretty generally accepted fact
that flavor in butter is due to bacteria,
and it would be better for the butter
maker if the fact was more generally
accepted as truth. There are, of course,
exceptions to this rule, ss for example
garlic in the spring. Unfortunately
that is not due to any sort Of bacteria,
but to the garlic itself, and only itself.
We say unfortunately because any
flavor that is produced by bacteria
may be controlled by the butter maker,
and undesirable favors may be eradi.
Gated while desirable favors may be
cultivated.
To dairyman of forty years ago this
would seem like nonsense, but it is as
of just as much sense as that clover
hay will produce milk. Every one
knows that if the churn is not washed
after churning time, but left to stand
with specks of butter adhering to the
sides until until next churning time,
and then the cream poured into the
churn without washing that the butter
will be eff favored. And why this
takes place is explained by bacteria
It there were no bacteria we might
never wash our churn and no bad re
suits follow. But any bit of organic
matter left to itself under favorable
cOoditions, soon develops a brood OF
bacteria that feed on the matter itself,
and this is what happens when any
utensIl is not washed clean and es a
result these bacteria get into the but
ter, and away goes the desirable favor
to make room for the undesirable,
pretty much as grass will get out of
the way to make oom for a crop of
weeds if the soil is not right
Now there ri two points to be kept
in mind regarding bacteria IN butter
the first of which is that most bacteria
will succumb to a temperature Of two
hundred and twelve degrees, aud the
a. coHd lie that if the undesirable BAG
terra are all g)tttn out of the way that
chs desirable kind will come of heir
own accord when the cream is left to
r.pen.
Try and kill the undesirable kind by
scaldlng with boiling water every uten
sill that ia used IL either the dairy or
milking, and then the desirable kind
wal come o. lbeir own accord,
2. B lROsBY.
CaFOnsviGa ND
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-12-13
TEXAS A LAMBS

Richest soils and finest cliro.&.
Healthful and delightful. snro~"o'
cooler than in Iowa; gardens and n
lures green all winter. Harvest p"S'
crop every month in the year, N Nue.
two growing cities of over so, Ooo ooop
River and gulf transportation. CO.
not consumed by winter FEEDING
freight rates. No fogs, cvclona.
drouths or billiards.. Finest SUD-,
and tobacco lands on earth, and nno1
celled for fruit, truck, cotton, corn
hay, aud live stock. Corn has viaI6s
125 bushels per acre on a $50 acre RoI5
and cotton four bales per acre. N.
fertilizers or irrigation used. Fisk
oysters and game abundant. Larpa =,
small tracts, prairie or timber. in,
proved Or unimproved, at low pric.,
and on easy terms. Three railross,
coming. Priceg will double in twelv,
months No finer investment. Stat
your wants, aud enclose stamp for fnN
particulars TO County Attorney, Box ?
Bay City, Texas. =
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-12-13
HoW's ThfsI

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward fog
any case Of Catarrh that cannot be cured ~
Halls Catarrh Cure.
F. J. CHENEY 4 CO., Props, Toledo, O.
We the undersigned, have known F. J. Che
ney for the last l5 years, and believe him per-
fectly honorable in all business transactions
and financially able to carry out any obliga-
tions made by their firm.
WEST &TRUAx, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, q.
WALDING, KINNAN 8 MARvIN, Wholesale Drug
gists, Toledo, O..
Halls Catarrh Cure ista internally acting
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces OF
the system. Price, 76c. per bottle. Sold by al
DruGRiBtRo Testimonials 6Oes
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-12-13
NEW BOOKS,

The Seaboard Air Line has issued
this season three handsome illustrated
booklets, "WinterE Excursions. " South
ern Pines" and "Sportsman's Guide "
These are now ready for distribution
and will ba sent free of cost to n 80
dress. Their "Winter Excursions
gives full information in regard 10
Rates and Routes to the best Winter
Resorts in the country. The Spnrta
mans Guide" is one of the hands0mes6
and most complete books Of its bird
ever seen by US. It's make up is erGis
tic from cover to VI and it contains.
not only information in regard to hure
ing grounds, guides, dogs Hotel rates.
&c. but q digest of the Game Laws =
the States covered by it and some &C
tual experiences Of Hunters along the
line Of the Sesboard Air Line, The
: Southern Pines" booklet is also very
8rtistically gotten up. and the informa-
ton contained cover every point.
Auy or ell Of these will be mailed upon
application to Mr.. 7. J Anderson,
General Passenger Agent, Portsmouth,
Virginia.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-12-13
MILK AND BAG CE

At the Kansas Agricultural College
an experiment was tried with three
cans of milk. The first was left stand
ing IN the milk house without Rerating
or cooling. The second Wa cooled 20
eixty two degrees F~abrenhej5 and left
standing by the eide of the fret. The
third can was treated the same as the
second, except that after clolIDg it was
placed in a tub of cold watzr and GOV
cred with wet gunny sack, The next
morning samples were taken from each
can and submitted to DR.. Fischer, the
college bacteriologist, who determined
the number of bacteria. The result
showed that the first can contained
125 t57, 972 bacteria to the cubic iuch
the eecood "a 678 1C3, and the third,
but s 837 428
That Is, the can which was not only
cooled, but kept cool and properly Gov
cred, had only one.fourteenth as many
germs as the first can, 9nd one third
as many as the second. The third Can
would of course be much the better
keeper.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-12-13
the she'll go the young tree may start

the she'll so the young tree may start
unto growth,
Among all the nut trees none makes
81 quick a return as the chestnut when
planted where conditions are favor
able. The American chestnut is as
good and sweet a. any from any coun
try, but the size of the nuts do not
compare with the Japanese varieties.
The beat way to secure Japanese
chestnut trees is to plant native chest
nuts and terward graft Japanese
scions on them A similar plan was
followed with q chestnut grove In New
Jersey. The native trees we're cut
down and allowed to sprout up and
these sprouts were grated with sciOns
from Japanese chestnut trees. In ten
years each one of these gratis was
yielding a crop which brought from IS
to 81 TO the tree, and this yield will in
crease every year for twenty a thirty
years, when the yield from one tree
will be as much az So
Walnuts, hickory nuts and pecans
are easily grown, the first two in the
North and the LAST in the South. Wal
nut trees come into bearing in a few
years where they are cultivated, and
in course of time produce lumber OF
the most valuable kind. II planted
rather tnickly at first the trees cut OFT
in thinning the grove make fence posts
that last a lifetime. The walnut is
one of the beat trees to plant for ulti
mate profit
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-12-13
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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-12-13
A TALK WITH A COLLEGE BRRp
FARMER.

It is not an uncommon thing in New
England to fad farmers who are grad
yates from colleges. These men are
held to the soil by a strong love for
rural life, end the thorough mental
training they have received in no serse
units them for the work of the farm.
They accept the fact, not admitted by
many young men, that no matter how
much education they have they must
work. The world is not going to give
up it's choice plums to any man with,
out an equivalent in return. TIE day
laborer end the learned professor must
pay the same price for the same kind
of meat and bread. In conversation
with several OF these college bred farm
ers they have told US that they thought
their schooling had been an &C vantage
so them as farmers. 1t enabled them
to all the more easily understand the
science Of agriculture. We would fnd.
as a rule, that their book shelves con
tanned books on agricultural chemis,
Uy' animal industry, soil culture and
/ management, horticulture, gardening.