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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-08-18
DIR. Fenner's blood and Liyer
Remedy as Z Nerve Tonic.

A famous remedy by a famous
oh 1sician guaranteed to cure liver
complaints and nervousness. People
run down by sickness and overworked
should try it. If something else has
failed you that is no argument against
this great medicine. Stop to reflect
This preparation is the prescription of
one of Americas most eminent physi-
clans and the first bottle is guaranteed
by Scheldrup & Fiesler to give satis-
faction or money refunded,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-08-18
relief In SIX Hours.

! .stressing Kidney and Bladder, diseases
relieved in six hours by the "New Great
South America Kidney Cure Itis.agreat
surprise on account or its exceeding prompt
ness in relieving pain in bladder. kidneys
and back, in male or female. Relieves re-
.sntion ofwater almost Immediately. Ifyor
want quick relief and cure this is the Rem
edy. SOLD BY Sche!drup s. Fiesler,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-08-18

-Beggs Little Giant Pills are the
only reliable pill for Constipation,
Indigestion and all Liver Ills. Rev.
s. Fl. Jones, Tacoma, Wash, writes:
81 have suffered for years with Con-
stipation and Indigestion. One box
of Beggs' Little Giant Pills relived me
enirely." We keep them. J. B. Per-
kins.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-08-18
A Fearful Runaway.

That Chan. Marshall and Joseph
Theirs, one or both, was not killed on
Tuesday afternoon is due rather to
providential projection than any other
power Or influence. while driving in a
buggy the team of young horses be-
came frightened, dashed off frantically
from Main-st., and turned on Fourth
They succeeded in getting7 partial con-
troll OF them going up the hill by DR..
McMasters, bat 81 the Kells-Hillsdale
corner there is narrow ditch across
the street where the crossing has been
removed, and just beyond a pile of
surface dir to be used orsurfacing the
street, which is in progress of grad
ing. There the forward wheels went
into the ditch. Mr.. Theirs was thrown
over the dashbord upon the crossbar
OF the tongue and the evene"s, and
| took one of the roins with hiGl. The
horses became still more frantic, and
Mr.. Marshall was powerless, and with
out means Of rescuing Mr.. Theirs from
his perilous position at the very heels
OF the horses. lie tugged upon the
| one line he had with one hand while
attempting to get Mr.. Theirs back into
the buggy with the other. He succeed
ed in swinging the horses to one side,
the buggy striking a wood pile at the
Minneapolis and Northwestern Eleva-
tor and the buggy tilted up throwing
both men to the ground violently.
Mr.. Marshall was stunned, bruised
and sens6less for time Mr.. Theirs
was terribly bruised, but thorough
examination by q physician developed
the gratifying fact that no serious in
juries were sustained by either.
The buggy righted itself, and the
horses started again, running back to
Main-st., then down Third, and were
stopped near DR.. Lewis residence,
someone engaged in playing croquet at
the Simonton place starting out and
knocked one horse down with mall
let. The buggy was not greatly iniur-
ed. The two victims are very sore
but rejoice that they escaped without
very serious results. Mr.. Marshall
was the receiver on Wednesday of the
following card bearing date Osakis.
"Strayed: A span of dark bay hor-
SEES medidm size-somewhat inclined
to run away. When last seen they
were on Main-st. Of Sank Centre going
north at a very rapid gait.
Finder will please communicates with
Chan Marshall Of the firm Townsend &
Marshall and will be given option in a.
good trade" ~
Mr.. Theirs mas lostconfidence not in
the team only, but in Chan Marshall
as driver. He had rather walk than
take any more chances.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-08-18

81 think Dewitt 5 Witch Hazel Salve is
the finest preparation on the market for
piles.' So writes John c. Dunn, of Wheel
ing W. Va. Try it and you will think the.
same. 1t also cures eczema and all skin
diseases, For sale by Hanson & Emerson7
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1898-08-18

See what T. w. Patton, of Lane;
Tex. says of Beggs' German Salve.
have been troubled for, the past four
years with Blind, Itching and Bleeding
Piles, and tried everything I could
hear of without success until I began
using Beggs' German Salve. The eff
feet was wonderful; I was relieved a
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-24
MORGAN COUNTY BILL.
How the Legislative Power Was Used for
Partisan Purposes,

How the Legislative Power Was Used for
Partisan Purposes,
In order to get an additional Repuh-
lican member of the House of Dele
gates, and probably to reward and en-
courage the party workers in Morgan
county, the present Legislature ameni-
ed and re-enacted the law prescribing
the representation of each county in
the Legislature so as to take Morgan
county out of the delegate district Of
Berkeley, Morgan and Jefferson, and
give it a delegate by itself. In doing
this it also, if the printed Acts are to
be relied on, omitted to provide for any
representative at all On the part of Lo-
gan or Mingo counties. The courts
would probably hold this to be mere
that a Legislature that has attempted
to arrogate to itself the right
to provide the State with a
new constitution, should not be
able to pass a simple act without
possibly putting the people to the ex-
pense OF going to court to secure the
representation to which they are I'm
Questionably entitled.
The State Constitution provides ex-
plicitly that counties shall be assigned
representation by the Legislature that
meets regularly after each United
States census, and that having been SO
assigned, it shall net be changed until
after the next census. In open defiance
of this provision, the Republican ma
jority forced the above Act through,
and when the Governor refused to lerd
the sanction of his approval, passed the
bill over his veto, probably knowing
the law to be unconstitutional, but
thinking that it would not be carried to
the courts. In this, however, they
were mistaken, and the unanimous de-
cision OF the Supreme Court Of Appeals
that the law is of no effect is a strong
comment on the incompetency of the
members of the legislature if any were
needed. In the meantime, on account
of this incompetency, the people of the
Eastern Panhandle have been compell-
ed to undergo the vexation and expense
Of appeal to the courts to secure
rights Of which they should never have
been deprived. If similar troublA and
expense is avoided in Logan and Mingo
counties, it will be due to the good
sense of the ballot commissioner, not
CT the Legislature.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-24
LEGISLATORS HOLDING
OTHER OFFICES.
How tho Republicans Have Consistently
Worked both binds and the Middle.

How tho Republicans Have Consistently
Worked Both ENDS and the Middle.
If there be anything that State con-
situations of late years have endeavored
to prevent, it is the holding of other
offices or employments by those con-
nected with the legislative branch CT
the government. The object being, Of
course, to keep those charged with all
appropriation of public moneys from
being subject to the temptation of
voting the peoples money into their
own pockets, and also TO prevent the
bestowal of lavish appropriations upon
the executive departments as a kind OF
return or payment of appointments of
this kind. 1t is quite evident that II
member of the Legislature is an officer
or employee OF an institution under the
control OF the executive branch OF the
government, to which his appointment
is more or less due. he will be very
naturally biased in voting. since the
duration and salary of his office or en-
ployment may very much depend upon
the size of appropriations and the re-
lations between himself and the Chief
Executive.
How we'll the spirit OF the Constitu-
ton has been followed in this respect
since the advent of the present State
administration to power may be per-
ceived by looking at the following list
of appointments:
Getzendanner, S.,......U. s. A. Captain
Pierson, S., ........ u. S. A. Lieutenant
Hanen, H.. Nv. Va. Col. Institute
Fast, s., 49,. Professor State University
Cole, s., ...Treasurer Asylum Board
Henshaw, H.. ....U. S. A. Lieutenant
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-24
CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENTS.
A Contrast and Parallel Which Should BE
Carefully Read.

The custom Of embracing the great
fundamental principles of government
in written constitutions is practically
an American product. OF late years the
scope of these instruments has been
very much extended, so that most State
constitutions now embrace many more
details than was Originally contemplate
ed; hut their chief characteristics still
are that they deal mainly with prin-
ciples Of domestic polity Of very fun
damental and permanent nature. Moth
ing else that affects the people as
Importance as the State Constitution.
For this reason, as often as the great
body of electors has thought it neces-
sary to revise the foundation Of all their
laws, they have selected their Gblest
and best to meet together in conven-
ton for this purpose. Thus the con-
vention that formed the Constitution
of the United States was probably the
ablest assembly that ever convened on
the American continent. The conven-
lions of Virginia were composed Of
HER VERY BEST MATERIAL.
The convention that framed the first
Constitution Of West Virginia was
made up Of the able men that had
been the leading spirits in the organ
ization of the new State, and the con-
vention that in 1872 drew up the pre-
sent Constitution contained distin guish-
ed ard representative men from every
portion Of the State, selected on ac-
count OF their peculiar fitness for work
CT this kind In fact, any one at all
familiar with the history CT the old or
new State must have noticed that the
names Of the most prominent and dis
tingaished citizens Of the State are to
be found on the rolls OF the constitu-
tional conventions. Nor has any gen
eral revision Of the Constitution ret
been sought to be made without the
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-24
SENATORIAL VACANCIES.
A Remarkable Instance of Contempt for
the Constitution.

the Constitution.
The outbreak OF the parish war made
it necessary to raise two regiments of
volunteers in West Virginia, and the
appointment Of regimental and COM
pany officers naturally fell to the Coy
ernor. II has been a matter OF COM
mon remark that many Of these ap-
pointments were made with reference
to the effect they would have upon the
election of the United States Senator
that is to be chosen at the next session
OF the Legislature, and among the APP
pointees placed in this category are n.
G. Pierson and II. c. Getzendanner.
who represented the Ninth and Thir-
teenth senatorial districts in the pre-
sent Legislature. Whatever may have
been the motives OF these appointments
they have raised question Of the very
gravest importance to all the people of
the State.
The State Constitution declares In
terms that no person holding a lucra-
tive office under the United
states shall be eligible TO a
seat In the Legislature" II thls pro-
vision means anything 1t means broad
ly that State senatorship and a lucra-
tive United States Office are utterly In
compatible. The courts have decided
again and again that whore two Offices
are Incompatible. the acceptance OF the
second ipso facto vacates the first COM
pletely, as much so az II the incumbent
tion been accepted. From this 1t APP
pears so self-eyident that both Mr.
Pierson and a1r. Getzendanner are no
longer State Senators that 1t Ia mat
ter Of wonder TO the ordinary indiyid-
ual that any question should be raised
about the matter. The law, however,
requires the Governor to issue writ
OF election to fill any vacancy in the
Legislature that occurs when 1t is not
in session, and he has thus far declined
TO do so. Some OF the election officials,
taking their cue from the chief execu-
tive, may refuse to put the names q
candidates 10 fill these vacancies on the
ticket, ard the courts may decline to
interfere on the grounds that the mat
ter Is In the discretion Of the Governor.
and that the only remedy for this nag
rant violation Of the law and official
duty is by impeachment. which. Of
course. amounts to nothing. The only
remedy i "a appeal 10 the people. II
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-24

|pions 81 tie bin had some inside infor-
nation on this matter Thay must have:
thought that there would be very con-
siderable number Of claims presented,
or else why 50 many and such lengthy
sessions made imperative by law. and
why compel the commission to sit in
different localities of the State il there
were only small number of supposed
claimants. No rational body of legis-
lators would create an auditing machine
at cost of four or five thousand dol
lars unless the supposed claims aggre-
gated many times this amount, and any
commission would be ashamed to admit
that the cost of its members to the State
was greater than the amount of claims
that it investigated. That practically
all claims presented would have been
allowed, at least until their aggregate
greatly exceed the cost of the commits
sion, may be presumed, since the COM
mission would have been strongly
tempted to find reasons for its own ex-
istence, and it is not at all probable
that any claim that would be presented
could be disproved at this late day. The
Republican members of the Legislature
must be held guilty of having done all
they could to create
COSTLY AND UTTERLY USELESS
commission for the only purpose of
providing a few more sinecures for yet
unrewarded party workers, or of having
wilfully opened up a drain on the pub
lie moneys, the extent and dura-
ton of which it is impossible to fore
tell. AS to the legal or moral respon-
sibility of the State for claims of this
character, it was long since passed upon
and negatived in the case of claims far
stronger than any that would probably
have come before this commission.
The Governor in his message disap-
proving the bill speaks as follows with
reference to some Of its probable eff
fects:
Now, when thirty years have passed,
when vast number of participants in
that war are dead, when nothing but
memory remains, and when, as a natter
Of fact, the commission must depend
upon the statement of the interested
party for proof, there is great danger
of wrong being committed. In every
class OF business in civil life the claims
have been barred four or five times
over. They would not be considered
for one moment in law court, or even
in a court of chancery. There is no ob-
legation, moral or otherwise, why this
class of claims, after such a lapse of
years, should be paid by the State. l
do most earnestly believe that IL this
pension commission is sent around the
State with a drag-net to bring in this
class of claims, that it will mulct the
taxpayers of the State out OF thousands
OF dollars. The policy of the law is bad.
The effect of the law must be worse:
and l repeat, if the claims were due,
why were they not proven thirty years
ago?"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-24

Citizens National ana one o. the
Ghaflegton National, each Tor $4,000.
PASSED IN HIS CHECKS.
Having obtained his checks, Mr.. Nc
Whorter lost no time In passing them
in. The two checks drawn on the ka-
nawha Valley bank were cashed the
same day they were drawn, May 2. The
Kanawha National and Charleston Ma
tional paid theirs on May 9Th, and
the others the following day.
A good deal Of curiosity has been ex-
pressed as to why such remarkable
haste should have been INDUCED In.
Was it desire to hquidate these
claims, which had been hanging fire
for a quarter of century, in half
day, which actuated the States agent?
The question has been asked why was
not this money left in the State depos-
itories to draw interest for the State
until it was used? Why draw it all
out at one fell swoop? Why not draw
it out as it was needed, and leave the
rest to bring interest to the State until
it was used?
WHY?
The money thus appropriated belonged
to the people. Even if the Legislature
failed to make provision for any report
On the disbursement of the money, the
people have a perfect right to respect
fully inquire of Mr. McWhorter how
he has fulfilled his duties to them. 1t
is plain, everyday business PROPOSE
ton, and the question may be asked
with propriety and without offense:
Mr.. McWhorter, will you tell the peo-
pie how you have disbursed their
money?
viii you tell why this money was
drawn with such remarkable haste from
the State repositories?
Will you tell why the State was not
permitted to reap the benefit of the in
terest on that money until it was dis
bursed?
Will you tell where that money was
deposited after it was withdrawn from
the State repositories and ceased to
draw interest for the State?
Will you tell how much interest, If
any, il drew after that event, and into
whose pockets this interest went?
Will you tell how much or how little
of this money has been disbursed?
Will you tell how much Of it remains
not disbursed and not claimed, and does
this remainder draw interest, and, if
so, into whose pockets is this interest
going?
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-24

~ woraked tor - earnestly 81 leading
Republican members had materialixed,
the people would have been mulcted
Of many more thousands Of dollars that
are stu in the State Treasury. That
this session was not held is mainly due
to Governor Atkinson, and he is GER
tainly entitled to the thanks Of all the
people OF the State for the firmness with
which, in this instance, he resisted the
pressure OF the chief Republican legis-
lators that were engaged in this nefari-
Gus scheme.
Some indications Of
THE PECULIAR COMPETENCY
of this Legislature to deal with consti-
tutional questions is to be found upon
the surface of the printed daily journals
OF the two houses. Among them are
the following:
1t passed Morgan county delegate
act in the face of the Constitutional
prohibition to the Legislature TO make
any change in the representation Of the
counties except in the year after the
United States census, and in so DOING
dropped Logan and Mingo from the
counties entitled TO representation. 1t
made females eligible to appointment
on State Board (Asylum for Incur
ables) in open violation of the Consti-
tutional provision that only male citi-
zens are eligible to Offices of any kind.
and on at least one occasion, the House
or its Speaker, declared a bill passed
that had been amended by the Senate
and only received thirty-four votes on
its re-passage, in defiance of the Con-
stitutional requirement that such bill
must have majority Of all the men,
bers-elect.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-24
NEW SCHOOL BOOK LAW.
A Growing Instance of Republican In
competency

competency
The chief feature Of this Act is the
establishment CT a School Book Board
in every county Of the State, by which
the textbooks to be used in the county
are hereafter to be selected. There are
also some changes as to book deposit
aries calculated to make the cost of
books greater to the public than under
the Act of 1895
No measure yet passed by any Legis-
lature in the State en- the subject of
textbooks is more ill-advised, uncall-
ed for and vicious in principle than this
Act. No reason can be discovered fer
its passage unless it was intended to
give the school book monopoles anoth-
er opportunity to mulct the people by
compelling frequent changes Of text
books.
AS the board in each county must
consist of nine members, the first effect
Of the Act is to add some four hundred
to the roll of ofice-holders, and some
thing over fifteen hundred dollars each
year to the charges that are to be borne
by tine taxpayers. This amount is
not large, but as the same duties could
be performed for the whole State by
board of three persons, with infinitely
more ability and judgment, and with
vastly better results for the people, it
is another instance of the wanton waste
of public funds.
The board is to be appointed by the
County Court every four years, and
must be composed of the County Super
iDtendent of Schools, three teachers and
four freeholders, the ninth member it
seems may be freebooter, a teacher,
or neither. just why more than half
of the people of the State are shut out
by the freebooter qualification is diff
ficult to say.
1t is made the duty of the board to at
once select textbooks for the schools
in its county for a term of five years,
except in cases where existing contracts
with the State are still in force, the
selection is to be deferred until they
expire. 1t may be seen at glance that
this method of selecting textbooks is
about as Objectionable as any that
could be devised. To say nothing Of
the fact that the average capacity and
fitness OF these fifty-five boards for
handling the subject and dealing with
THE SHARP AND TRAINED
book agents that will infest every
county, will naturally fall far below that
OF a board OF three or five selected for
the entire State, it is quite evident that
we shall soon have in the State as
many different textbooks as there are,
not counties, but solid book agencies.
It is scarcely necessary 10 call atten-
ton to the extreme Inconvenience and
expense this system will cause to the
average family. Hitherto there has
been a constant effort not only to Sc
cure uniformity Of textbooks though
out the State, but to so classify the
couse of study in all the schools that
pupil going into q rev educational iur-
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-24
HOME GUARD CLAIMS.

4 Brief Sketch of the Legislation Thereon.
The Bill of .. Framed and Passed in the
Interest OF the ATTORNEY in the Case.
OF all the remarkable, peculiar and
asinine legislation of which the Repub-
lican Legislature of 1897 was guilty,
Senate Bill No. 81 will stand forth un-
tuue, a monument to the carelessness
and don't Observation-Disclosures
of that luxuriously incompetent major
ity which so notably distinguished it.
self during that freakful and fatal ses-
sion.
Away hack in '69 bill was passed
creating 4 commission to examine into
and report on certain claims OF alleged
members of an alleged home
guard Tor alleged services alleged
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-24

isdIction could stsp right into ~ srsae
he bad left without addftionsl trouble
to the teacher Or cost to the parents.
He1ceforth. under this system. as often
as a family goes from one county to an
other. the cost and trouble Of changing
the entire set of textbooks for each
school child in the family may have to
be added to the ordinary expenses CT
moving. This amount may not be
large, but when the wages are extreme
ly small and each dollar has been set
apart in advance, unexpected calls of
this sort are extremely inconvenient, to
say the least.
1t has been stated in the public press
that this Act was drafted by the chair
man of the Republican State Committee
in the interest of the school book mon
opolies. Whoever may have gotten it
up, it is as clearly in the interest of the
book agencies as it is opposed to the
interest of the people generally, and Of
the parents or guardians Of school
children particularly. At the time it
was introduced, it was heralded as a
measure to cut down the expense of
procuring school books; but it will not
be forgotten by those who were able
to get acquainted with the underground
workings of the last Legislature that
the American Book Company, the
greatest Of monopolies, strained every
nerve to secure it passage.