Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-06-01

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H. L. SNYDER, Editor and Publisher,
SHEPuERDsTowN. W. VA.
THURSDAY, JUNE l, 1899.
WE shouldn't wonder if the expan-
sion bubble will be bursted by this
time next year.
THE Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Is
now covered so deeply with mortgages
that if it ever gets out it will be a
wonder.
THE city of Cumberland and the
Piedmont pulp mill company are try
ing to arbitrate their differences.
That's sensible.
IT is said that it will cost $25O,0OO
to repair tie Spanish ship, Reina Mer-
cedes, raised at Santiago and towed to
Norfolk. Better keep her as a relic,
SOME people are never satisfied es-
peciaIly Ohio politicians. They are
already bullying the President to
AGAIN LET down the civil-servlce bars.
THE news that comes from the Phil
ippines is not highly encouraging,
There is reason to believe, though, that
the news that doesn't comes Is far less
so.
THE cyclones are getting in their
work in the West. What with the tor
nadoes and the Populists, some of our
countrymen are having hard time
of it.
IT Is said that ex-senator German
of Maryland is candidate for the
Democratic presidential nomination
next year, and has established a press
bureau in New York.
The Cubans are not coming forward
very rapidly to get their SIS and sur
render their guns 1t Is apparent to
the most unobservant that the Cubans
are making ready to give US trouble.
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IT is announced that Secretary Al
ger will devote most of his time now
TO his canvass for election to the Uni
ted States Senate. How can the gov
eminent get along with Alger absent
from the War Department
THE President is meditating an ex-
tended trip to the West, the main
purpose of which is to strengthen his
fences for next year 1t must be said
of Mr.. Mckinley that he knows how
to work himself into the good graces
of the people he meets.
ANOTHER New Yorker has acquired
fame by jumping from the Brooklyn
bridge and escaping with his life.
The latest rival of Steve Brodie Is
Howard Kretz, who took the plunge
last Sunday. He SAID he did 1t to
show that the will has power over the
body.
WHENEVER anyone assumes to crit
icise the expansion policy Of the adj
ministration, the partisans Of Mr., Nc
Kinley raise the cry of treason.
And yet Mr.. Mckinley own remarks
on this subject about year ago are
about as reasonable as any Of the
comments we see now.
vi X. ZEN udS DGCI4 u4lll4lI- wv
Martinsburg Herald but few weeks,
yet already the President has been 50
moved by its arguments and threats
that he has issued his anti-civil-service
order. We await with anxiety to see
how much good it will do our Repub-
lean friends in Berkeley county.
IT is announced from Manila that
the American army will keep up the
fighting during the wet season in the
Philippines. They will surprise the
natives by continuing an aggressive
campaign, regardless Of the weather.
The Filipinos, it may also be observed,
are becoming holder and more annoy
ing and intend to keep our soldiers as
busy as possible.
IF some Of these bigoted, prejudiced
ignoramuses from the North who are
50 busily engaged in defaming the peo-
pie of the South Will come down this