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The herald., 1898-09-09
"OFFsCOURINGs"

Our Republican contemporary, tn
Times, comes at last to the rescue OF 1T
candidate for congress, Mr.. Waters. l
ouotes the celebrated "slop- bucket" gen
from his speech of last Saturday evening
which it comedies as his alleged" utter
ance, and then proceeds to confirm ant
Justify it in cold blood. The gem II
question is as follows:
The fusion party is a national slop-
bucket which catches the riff-raff and
offscourings of the other parties. All
cranks, anarchists, bankrupts ana So
cial outcasts naturally gravitate to this
cesspoo of discomfort.
This the Times proceeds to indorse anc
amplify in the following words:
BY its platforms and its methods, the
fusion aggregation has forfeited all
claim to the ancient and honorable title
of the Democratic party. 1t has opened
the door for all sorts of vagaries and
fallacies. 1t has made itself. In reality.
the political cesspool of discomfort. OF
anarchism, of socialism, of free silver
Ism, and Of disorder. 1t has drawn to
its ranks the thriftless and the shift
less, the chronic faulthnders, the pa
triots for revenue only.
AS constituted today, the fusion ag-
eregation is the disease Of the political
fabric. 1t represents destructive rather
than constructive methods. 1t Is
party of negations. Its triumph In ma
tional affairs would be calamitous to
the material interests of the nation, de-
structive of the national credit, and the
certain forerunner of another era of
depression and bankruptcy.
The herald., 1898-09-09
The Responsibility

II 1t Is proved. and we believe It Will be,
that Secretary Alger is responsible for the
sickness, suffering and death Of hundr ads
of soldiers by reason Of carelessness. neglect
and dishonesty, what is to be done about 1t !
What is President Mckinley going to DO
about 1t?
He is responsible for Alger, and the coun-
try will hold him to the responsibility OF
adequately Furnishing his creation.-Bakers-
field Californian.
The herald., 1898-09-09

That archaeological discovery at Santa
Monica is highly interesting. The
savants of the town will doubtless en-
Tighten us as to the inscription on the
stone as soon as they have time to brush
the cobwebs from some tones of philo-
logical lore. Possibly the stone is a
counterpart Of the one found by Mr..
Pickwick and his confreres, or 1t may be
only guide, in local phraseology, to
Santa Monica canyon.
The herald., 1898-09-09

The Phoenix board Of education had a
surprise in store for the teachers on re-
turning from vacation. They had de-
cided that each teacher must have a
physicians certificate indicating freedom
from tuberculosis. Under this ruling
several teachers were rejected. including
one principal. The dispatch says "many
teachers" showing that the percentage
must have been large.
The herald., 1898-09-09

But while we are talking about
offscourings and so forth, we need
not go so far away to find a bit OF
history that is full Of interest. Two
years ago the Republican party of Call
fornia was united and contained a great
many men who are now listed among
the anarchists and social outcasts. The
Republican state convention held at
Sacramento May 5. 1885, adopted with
out a dissenting voice the following
plank:
We favor the free and unlimited COIN
age of silver at the ratio of is to l. and
the making Of silver as well as gold
legal tender In payment OF oil deots,
both public and private.
Upon the platform containing this
plank a delegation to the national con-
vention was chosen. That delegation
went in train that was placarded with
the legend For Free Silver. 16 to l."
They went away with flourish OF
trumpets. How did they come back?
They came back like whipped ours
sneaking into their kennels. Mark Hanna
and the goldbug ring had dominated the
st. Louis convention. BY majority vote
they had said to our California delegation
"You must give up your principles II
you expect to stay in our party" And
the California delegation passed under
the rod. At least a majority of them
did.
But there were great many men
then in the Republican party of Califor-
MIA who could not sacrifice their princi-
Piles so easily. Like that grand old pat
riot, Senator Teller Of Colorado, they
stood out against Hanna's dogma of the
gold standard. They refused
To crook the pregnant hinges Of the knee,
That thrift might follow fawning.
These men kept the faith. They have
fought the good fight, and they are
still fighting it. Are these the offscour-
ings of the Republican party: Then
God help the Republican party, for it
has lost some Of its best and most manly
elements in the securing process! 1t is
stin losing, and yet it does not shine
with its old luster. 1t must be secured
some more.
The herald., 1898-09-09

And, by the way, what happens to a
political party when 1t begins to furnish
offscourings of this character-off-
scourings Of men who refuse to sacrifice
principle to expediency at the dictates
of a party boss? Hasn't that party
entered upon it's period of disintegration?
Isn't it going to pieces? How long can
that process be continued until the better
part of the mass Is rubbed away, and
there remains only enough still unbur-
nished, to go down with dull and sick
ening thud?
The herald., 1898-09-09

We now get plausible statement to the
effect that in about two weeks the mus
tering out process will be completed in the
Seventh regiment. Then the regiment
will be sent to Los Angeles, where it will
be furloughed for thirty days. At the ex-
piration of that time it will be DISCHARGED
from the service. This is the latest and
most reliable news from the front.
The herald., 1898-09-09
ton, The Herald ts enabled to publish in

ton, The Herald 10 enabled 20 publish i
advance:
Whereas, The Republican party Of
the state Of California has been placed
in our keeping, and
whereas, We are the only simon pure
patriots and conservators of the coun-
try's honor. and
whereas, Any protest against our
management is destructive Of party
discipline and anarchistic and social
istic in tendency, now, therefore, be 1t
Resolved, That the Los Angeles Times
is an offscouring.
The herald., 1898-09-09

Canadian newspapers are earnestly
discussing the movement for closer re-
entirely too grasping in our demands.
One OF them declares that Americans
want the EARTH" Yes, and the fullness
thereof.
The herald., 1898-09-09

AS to the additional charges supplied
by the Times, we defy 1t to show how the
fusion party by its platform or its meth
ods has forfeited all claim to the ancient
and honorable title of the Democratic
party. It's platform speaks for itself.
The anarchsm and socialism therein
contained consists in denunciation of the
encroachments of corporate wealth upon
the rights of citizens. The free silver
ism therein is but relteration of plank
in the Republican platform Of this state
and of many other states two years ago.
1t demands simply return to the coin
age system which obtained in the United
States for eighty years. Is this an
interests of the nation?
The methods of the Democratic and
the fusion parties have been distin-
guished largely by eliminating Mr.. Cleve-
land and his Wall street influences
therefrom and by kicking out the railroad
gang from its management. Does this
forfeit any ancient and honorable title
We should rather say that the Demo-
cratic party is getting back to its an
cient and honorable principles-the
principles that originally made it great
and powerful.
And finally, as to the Times, we want
to ask if, with one foot on the step out
side and in the very act of jumping
from the wagons it in good grace for
the Times to shout "offscouring" and
riff -raff' at the fellow who landed
safely on the ground some time ago?
The herald., 1898-09-09

"Usages Of civilized warfare" Is a
phrase that was much used during the
late unpleasantness with Spain, Won
der II that is the kind that the British
army applied to the dervishes. Killing
the wounded, as alleged, for fear they
might shoot!
The herald., 1898-09-09
A Balm in Gilead

II Secretary Alger would really like to
forget his woes for week, we would recs
omInend tequila as quiet sort Of 1af-
maker and sure guide to the temple Is
eblivion.-Hsrald, City Of Nsxiess
The herald., 1898-09-09

There are more pretentious railways
than our little Redondo line, but there
tive balance sheet for the last fiscal
year. A net income of more than ten
per cent in an exceptionally bad year
indicates good management,
The herald., 1898-09-09

A great deal of sympathy will go out to
General Joseph Wheeler because of the
drowning Of his son at Montauk Point.
The young man was popular "chip Of
the old block. --.,..-. :
The herald., 1898-09-09

1t is whispered that Walter F. X.
Parker, H. z. Osborne and Frank Flint,
who constitute the Los Angeles contin-
gent of Mr.. Cages campaign commit
tee, alarmed at certain developme n Is
that have recently occurred within party
lines, have called consultation. They
have sent an invitation to Dan Burns
and Boss Herrin to be present, and they
have also invited Coroner Campbell and
Squire Rivers of Downey. They have
formulated the following preamble and
resolution which. by special DISPENSE
The herald., 1898-09-09

hitherto The Herald, while giving full
publicity to the extraordinary utterance
Of Mr.. Waters, has contented itself with
deprecating such sweeping and unwar-
ranted denunciation Of the great mass
OF voters who constitute the Democratic,
Silver Republican and Populist parties.
We were charitable enough to think that
Mr.. Waters, while under the stress of
extemporaneous oratory, before large
meeting, might have let slip an ex-
preston which his calmer judgment
would not sanction. We have since
learned, however, that Mr.. Waters had
expressed the game sentiments in prac-
tically the same words on one or more
previous occasions while addressing Re-
publican gatherings. So 1t must be
taken as his deliberate utterance.
Now comes the Times, after taking
several days in which to cogitate over
the matter, and repeats the sweeping
insult with ornamental additions and
combinations.
Very well. We accept the Issue. The
Republican keynote has been sounded.
The campaign music from that quarter
is to be a strain of vituperation, not
only against the candidates of the united
parties, but against the members of
those parties, who constitute good half
and perhaps more than half Of the voters
of the country. These people are de-
nounced at the outset of the campaign
as the riff-raff and offscourings of other
parties-cranks, anarchists, bankrupts
and social outcasts. This foul aggrega-
ton Is supposed to be elected from a
national slop-bucket into cesspool of
discomfort.
This is Nonr La nquape Mr. Matters de .
The herald., 1898-09-09

This is your language. Mr.. Waters, de.
liberately uttered and now adopted and
confirmed by leading Republican
newspaper. You have chosen to offer an
objectionable insult to large proper
tion of the voters of this congressional
You must abide by the consequences.
The herald., 1898-09-09

While we are talking of "offscourings. "
the query naturally arises, Did Mr..
Waters ever stop to consider how the
present Republican party was originally
formed? Was it not composed of the
offscourings of the old Whig party. of
the Democratic party, of the Free Sellers
of the Abolitionists? And while it was
In process Of formation was not every
epithet known to the English tongue
hurled at its members collectively and
individually? Did it not represent the
discontented elements Of the country:
The herald., 1898-09-09

The Herald does not propose to retort
in kind, and we sincerely hope that none
of the Democratic papers Of the state
will indulge in anything so silly. To
cast aspersions upon the rank and file
of the Republican party because they
happen to differ with us in matters of
public policy-to call them thieves, out
laws and scalawags, or even to hurl
back the slop-bucket that is thrown at
us by one of their unworthy representa-
tives--would be the rankest kind of
idiocy. No body of American citizens can
be blackguarded into voting a certain
way, or blackguarded out Of voting as
they choose. They may be coaxed
somewhat by argument, perhaps, but
driven? Never an inch!
The courier., 1898-12-03
FOR CHRISTMAS
BUYING

The dainty things which go to
make mans wardrobe complete.
15O feet Of show cases filed with
the very newest creations iu neck
wear, our regular price 81 90. Toe,
SOC. 25c, and l5c, figure 20 psr cent
discount from these prices.
500 dozen mems fancy shirts regu-
lar price 600, 81. so. 81. ., s1.OO, 75c,
and SOC, figure 20 per cent discount
from these prices.
Mems dress gloves made by "Dent',
also Dempster & Place. besides many
other standard makes. regular price
% so. 600. 81 so. BLOC and 75c. All
are subject to a discount Of 20 Der
cent.
Mems Smoking Coats. The finest
lines We have ever carried, prices
low enough to begin with but low az
prices are all are subject to a dis
count Of 20 per cent.
The courier., 1898-12-03
BOYS AND CH|LDREHS
CLOTHING
Everything has caught the
craze. hence we give
40 per cent

discount on all boys and
children's suits, all boys
and children's overcoats,
all boys and childr, ms
REFERS, all boys and CHI
dren's odd pats, all boys
waists and shirts. You
positively cannot afford to
pass our door even on your
smallest purchase. We
save YOU a snug sum even on
small purchases.
The courier., 1898-12-03

From the Braf.
man Wholesale
stock.
Mems suits worth S. go
at S1.5O.
Mems suits worth Sc 60
at S2.25.
Mems suits worth 81 go
at $2.75.
Mems suits worth $50
go at 1895.
Mems suits worth 50 go
at $4.89'
Mems suits worth $3.50
go at S6.98.
In this stock alone at a
fair valuation there is ap-
proximately $40, 900 worth
of merchandise. Seeing is
believing. our store IS open
tor inspection. Gu sales
men are to show goods.
The courier., 1898-12-03
MEMS SUITS AND
OvERCOATS

Made and tailored by Stein, Bloch
Co; Hart, Schaffler & Marx, and L.
Lippman & Sons, Americas best
clothing manufacturers.
Mems Suits and overcoa.s that
We sold a $40. go at. .........sl6 90
Mems Suits and over oats that
we sod at slS. 60 at.-...... IA 40
Mems Suit and overcOats that
we sold at SIS, 60 at ....... IL 10
Mems Suits and overcoats that
we sold at sl2 80, go At. 10 90
Mems Suits and overcoats that
We cold at $40. 60 at...... 8 90
Mems Suits and overcOats that
we sold at 81 so go at -. -. 6 90
We want you to sse these bargains
before you spend one cent for cloth
ing. No better goods made in the
world. no such prices ever heard OF.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-05-26
TREATMENT OF GROUP.
Some Things That Arc Good fol-
Young Mothers to Know in
the Absence of n Doctor.

There are two species of Group. Mem
branous or true croupis one of the most
dreaded of diseases, but one that is of
comparatively rare occurrence. 1t is
seldom that child survives the first at
tack. False Group is a very common
and q mild disease, and one that very
seldom proves fatal, though the symp-
toms are always alarming at the time.
When g. child awakens in the night
with n flushed face and that peculiar
growing noise in the breathing which
once heard it is impossible ever to for
get it is best to send for the doctor.
There is no home remedy for mem
branous Group, and the doctor only can
tell that it is not the more dangerous
disease. Until the doctor comes, keep
the child warm and give 1t, if it is a
year old, half a teaspoonful of strip of
ipecac; if year older, one teaspoonful.
This should produce vomiting in Is
minutes. If vomiting is not produced
the dose must be repeated, for the dis
ease may be more serious than or
binary false Group. In false Group the
worst symptoms vanish as soon as
vomiting is produced. A croupy child
should be carefully protected and kept
within doors for several days after an
attack.
When the cold of a child is accus-
toned to develop into false Group" he
should be carefully guarded against
changes of weather by putting hannels
On him. Rub his chest as soon as he
has a croupy cough with hot camphor-
nted oil, keeping the heat in with lay
ers of warm flannel or cotton batting ut
the back and front of the chest. Give
him also mild doses of ipecac to loosen
his cold a teaspoonful of mixture of
n teaspoonful of ipecac dissolved in a
tumbler of water and administered
every hour will not produce vomiting,
but will serve as mild means to loosen
the phlegm and thus prevent an attack
of Group at night. Some doctors adj
wise hardening a child who is accus-
toned to having false Group by bathing
the little one daily in cold water and
rubbing him vigorously afterward with
the hand until the flesh is warm from
the friction. Such child should GER
tainly go out in the open air as much
as possible. 1t is not safe to weaken
their vitality by combining them within
doors any more than is necessary.-N.
\. Ledger
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-05-26
TRUSTEES SALES.

TRUSTEE'S SALE-I, the undersigned,
Il Joseph S. Clark, trustee in a deed OF
trust dated the 10th day of April, A: p,
1880, and recorded in the office of the clerk
of the county court of Tagewel county,
Virginia, in deed book 20, pages 300, etc,
whereby j. B. Greever and Emma 5. I'm;
correctly written S. Emma in the said deed
of trust) his wife, conveyed to NE as trus-
tee, inter ALA, the premises hereinafter de;
scribed, in trust to secure unto the Graham
Land and Improvement Company, it's sue
eessors and assigns, the payment Of the
s,m of $685.. SO, lawful money Of the
United States of America, in two equal an
nual instruments of $I416.69 each, in one
and two years respectively from the date
of the said deed Of trust, with interest
thereon payable annually at the rate OF =
per cent. per annum, due by the said J, p:
Greever and Emma S.. his wife, unto the
said company as part Of the purchase
money for the said premises, and cyl
denced by twenty promissory notes made
by the said J. 3. Greever for the aggregate
amounts of the said respective instruments
and interest bearing even date with the
said deed of trust and payable as aforesaid
! to the said company Or order, do hereby
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-05-26
AN UNcANNY STORY.
From Murderous Club Buried In
the Victims Grave sprang
Great Tree.

One of the noticeable things to those
who enter the Angelica cemetery
grounds is an old marble headstone on
which is the following inscription:
Era Stephens, who died September ",
1903, aged 40 years"
Exactly in the center of the grave is
huge elm tree 50 feet high and three
feet through the trunk, as fine a speci-
men of it's kind as can be found. The
roots spread all over the grave and
nearly tip the marble slab, green and
moldy with age. over on its face. The
peculiar position of the tree, right In
the center of a grave, causes strangers
to wonder how it came there.
Those in charge of the last Allegany
county history, before offering it to the
publishers, decided to trace if possible
from old residents the cause of the tree
being in so peculiar a place. They
found out and published in their his
tory the following information: THE
first death in Angelica was Ira Ste
phens, who, on the authority OF Mr..
Gibson, a resident of Angelica, was
killed in a quarrel over cards at Joseph
Wilson's inn (present sight of Light
foot blocl), and he was the first one
buried in Angelica cemetery. He was
killed by some one unknown with
huge elm club, which was buried with
him. Directly over the grave has
grown a large elm tree, which super
stitious and credulous people say grew
from the club with which he was
killed"
The reporter talked with an old gen
tleman 90 years of age, who has been
resident of this place for ovei' GO years,
and asked him his opinion on the sub
iect> He said that the tree had been
there ever since he had lived there. He
claimed the only popularity in the APP
pearance of the tree was the strange
blood color of the bark, there being at
certain times in the year large blotches
of colored bark bearing the appearance
of being stained by blood. He is not
able to account for the strangeness or
the peculiar location of the tree.-Buf-
falo Times
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-05-26
Strength of n lightning Flash.

To measure the current of strength
bf q lightning flash seems almost i'm
possible, yet it has been determined by
noting the amount of permanent mag
netism In certain rocks on the surface Of
the earth. The amount of magnetism
In these rocks seemed out of proportion
with the ordinary magnetism of the
rarth, SO the proposition was advanced
that it was caused by an electric cur
rent either passing through them or in
the immediate neighborhood. Herr Z.
Pockets has recently made an investi-
cation of sections of the basaltic rock
Df the Winterberg in Saxony, which
5how very irregular magnetism, that
must have been caused by current OF
ut least 1900 amperes passing over the
furface Of the rock, or else in the immc-
liate neighborhood. Some basalt cut
near tree struck by lightning afford
ed him better opportunity for estimat-
ing the distance to the current, which
he has computed to be nearly $500 am
peres.-St. Louis Republic.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-05-26
A YOUNG W0MAN'S RUSE.
How n Too Ardent Sutton Made Pre-
cipitate Exit, and Not
by the Door.

Col. 1. n. Walker is the authority for
story which, as he says, is livery prop
or one for the parlor and one which con-
tains several suggestions of value TO
young ladies who may occasionally
ind themselves in a position requiring
the use of diplomacy and tact, This
story AYERS that in certain place not
very far away, and at time not very
long ago, there was a young man who
came from distant city on visitto one
of his friends, another young man who
stood high in the esteem OF the COM
munity. The visiting youth was seri-
ously afflicted with the ambition OF
meeting some nice young lady of cul-
ture and refinement who might be mat
rimonially inclined, and when his ac-
commodating friend told him of very
handsome maiden of his Squaintance'
his soul was fired with CLERGY. The
laudable purpose was strengthenedper-
ceptibly by an incidental recital On the
part of his friend of the oldman's world
" possessions, and the young man was
on tenter hooks until he obtained an in
PRODUCTION. The introduction obtained,
he lost no time, but called the neXteven-
ING. The events of that memorable
evening abide with him to the present
day.
1t seems the pair were alone in the
parlor for something like half an hour
when the ardent youth threw discretion
to the wind and essayed feat OF oscu-
lation that was Indignantly resented
Whether he received blow Of the hand
upon his features is a mere matter OF
speculation, but it was quite evident
there was some stamping of a dainty
foot and a darting of fire from indig-
nant eyes, for the young man was given
thoroughly to understand that If he did
1t again the paternal parent would be
informed. But the thrust fell on heed
less ears, for no sooner was it made
than The bold sutton once more at
tempted his trick. Then war ensued in
stanter. Out of the room swept the
young lady and the young man was left
10 cogitate, but only for brief space
In the next room was the paternal
parent, man who loved sporting above
almost everything else, and when his
daughter entered he was examining a
double-barreled shotgun in fond and
doting manner. Said his daughter to
him: "Pa, there is young man in the
parlor who, like yourself, is much in
terested in hunting. wish you would
meet him. You might take your new
gun in with you, for know he would
greatly admire the pattern" Nothing
could suit the old man better than this,
so he marched into the parlor expecting
to receive the enthusiastic praise of
true sport, But in this expectation he
was doomed to sad disappointment.
The young man saw him coming and
saw tho gun also. Exit by the door was
impossible and the window offered the
only hope for escape; so out he jumped
with all his might and down the street
went flying as fast as his aroused fears
for life could make him. The old man
gazed on this strange scene with Devil
derment, but his daughter had OBJ
tanned point of vantage where she
gloried reclllessly in the success of her
ingenious contriving. - Indianapolis
Journal.