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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-05-09

That letter of reprimand to Capt.
Coghlan has not been made public, but
the Pittsburg Dispatch may not be far
out of the way when it guesses that it
runs something like this:
Office Secretary of the Navy,
Washington, d. c., April 26, 1899
Steamship Raleigh:
''Sir-As a stoIy-teller and dialect
singer you sem TO be popular success,
but DON'T DO IT AGAIN. you ras-
cally sea-dOg. Very respectfully, your
obedient servant, John d. Long,
Secretary Of the Navy"
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-02-18
AFTER-EfFEcTs OF GRIP.

Mrs. S. E. Dicker, Of Osyka, Miss,
in recent letter to DIR. Hartman,
saws; II am sure that Peru ma IS
one of the best medicines on the marx
ct have taken it every winter for
the last four years. ! first tried IT
after a long, hard spell OF la grippe,
for cough and catarrh, caused by la
grippe. | am sure that ! would have
been in my grave now had ! not used
it. | have told many others the good
il did me. Everybody said that |
had consumption, and ! knew that l
would have it unless got relief.
Every fall for the last four years /
have taken it as a preventive from
cold. believe that if people knew
what great preventive Pe.ru.na IS
thew would have less trouble from
that dreaded disease. la grippe. 1t
never tails. / am we'll advanced in
life. but | feel that might live through
many winters with the help OF Peru
ma. never forget to recommend II
to young as well as old for all kinds
of colds, coughs, catarrn, etc. feel
it my duty to give praise where it IS
due. | am and ever shall be grateful
to the man who discovered Peru. ma. :
Peru ma meets perfectly the condi-
tons produced by the after-effects OF
la grippe.
Send for free hook written by DR..
Hartman, entitled Winter Catarrh :
Address DR.. Hartman, Columbus, o.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-02-18
"BEFORE BABY is BORN"
A Valuable .-.......c Book of Interest.to
All Women Sent Free.

Every woman looks forward with
feelings OF ndescribable joy to the
one momentous event 10 her life, COM
pared with which all others pale into
insignihcance. How proud and happy
she will be when her precious babe
nestles on her breast.-how sweet the
name of "Motherp And yet her
happy anticipation of this event is
clouded with misgivings of the pain
and danger of the ordeal, SO that it is
impossible to avoid the feeling of
constant dread which creeps over her
The danger and suffering attendant
upon being a mother can be entirely
prevented, so that the coming OF the
little stranger need not be looked for.
ward to with fear and trembling, as
is so often the case. Every woman
who reads this paper can obtain abso
lutely free a valuable and attractive
little book entitled Before Babe is
Born" by sending her name and adj
dress to the Bradfeld Regulator Co.,
Atlanta, Ga. This book contains
priceless information to all women,
and no one should fail TO send for it.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-02-18

gotiation, and that America would be.
come the heir of the rest of Spain s
colonial empire. From that event,
then. have come all the marvels of the
past year:
The destruction of Montojo's fleet
by Dewey at Manila
The humiliation OF Cevera's ships
by Schley and Sampson at Santiago.
The capture of Santiago by the
soldiers of Wheeler, Lawton, Chaffee
and Kent. without artillery, cavalry
medical supplies, provisions or COM
handing general.
The scientific occupation of Porto
Rico by Miles.
The capture OF Manila by Merritt
and Dewey.
The rout of Aguinaldo by Otis and
Dewey.
The innumerable deeds of heroism
by officers and men of the army and
navy.
The final disappearance of Spain S
colonial empire.
The recognition of the United States
by astonished Europe as what it has
always been since its birth-a "world
power.
The martyrs of the Maine have
been splendidly avenged. From their
blood have sprung order civilization
and liberty for ten million people, an
advance OF four centuries in the life oil
regions more extensive than Great
Britain, and an imposing increase in
the visible power and majesty of the
American Republic.
The United States of February, 1899
is different country from the United
States of February, 1893. We have
passed from youth to maturity in a
year. We stand upon the threshold
of new century. buoyantly confident
of dazzling future, But whatever
heights we may reach, there will al.
ways be a place in our hearts for the
men who gave us the first impulse
toward our new destiny-the devoted
two hundred and sixty. six that per.
ished in the darkness of Havana har
bor.-New York Journal.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-02-18
Foul Snle1ling
Catarrh.

Catarrh is one of the most obstinate
diseases, and hence the most difficult
TO get rid of.
There is but one way to cure it.
The disease is in the blood, and all the
sprays, washes and inhaling mixtures
in the world can have no permanent
effect whatever upon it. Swift's Spe-
cific cures Catarrh permanently, for it is
the only remedy which can reach the
disease ard force it from the blood.
Mr.. B. p. McAllister, OF Harrodsburg.
KY, had Catarrh for years. He writes:
II could see no Improvement whatever
though MAa constantly frnnfAd WI III ezra 70
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-02-18

Ask tor Drew Selby Co. ladies' fine
shoes, at Fiery's Shoe Store.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-02-18
throughout the State.

Throughout the State.
The West Virginia Central exten
sion from Beverly to Huttonsville was
opened for business last week.
| Some days ago Jake Cross, an idiot
inmate OF the Harrison county iniir-
mary, wandered away and was frozen
to death.
A resolution has been introduced IN
the State Senate for the suppression
of football land other nuisances OF like
nature"
Linn Washington, colored, on trial
for killing his wife at Point Pleasant
because she went bicycling with an
other negro, was convicted of second
degree murder.
Two young men named Crockett
and Trent were convicted in Mellow
ell county, of the murder of Jacob
Schuwald and sentenced to the peii-
tertiary for life.
Chas. Paris, OF Keyser, young
machiuist employed at Cumberland,
in attempting to board train to go
home, fell under the wheels and had
his arm cut oil.
1t is said that lots in Salem. Harri-
son county. are selling for 500 foot.
Proximity to the oil territory, natural
as advantages and the colleges there
are said to be the cause of advance IN
prices OF realty.
In Wheeling. last week, Judge
Hupus, of the criminal court, SEN
fenced Clarence johnson and Hugh
Devinney to he hanged for the killing
of Charles Mclaughlin in that place
last September.
The State Senate has passed House
bill providing that hereafter all exc
cutions of the death sentence shall be
at the State penitentiary. There is
no doubt the Governor will sign the
bill making it law. Hanging IS the
method prescribed.
Rev. Henry CASTOR, aged 6S years,
of Glenville, who was arrested charg-
ed with 1aping the little 5-year-old
II
Smith child at that place, was tried
and acquitted CASTOR is one of the
oldest ministers of the Baptist church.
A double murder has been commit
ted near Hamlin. Black Skeans, an
old man of Wayne county, was killed,
bullet passing through his heart.
Jim Skeaus, his nephew, whom he
had been visiting, was severely
wounded, and Ambrose Sherlock was
shot twice in the breast. How the
row started is not known.
A mass meeting of the citizens of
Parkersburg was held and commit
tee appointed to offer the State Legis-
lature the sum of 5000, 900 and site
for a capitol building, if they will
move it to that place. They are given
full power to act The meeting was
held Saturday night, and on account
of bill now before the Legislature to
appropriate $6o,ooo to build fire.
proof annex to the present capitol.
James Flanagan, Of Wolmsdorf,
Randolph county, who has been firing
on the Parkersburg branch of the B.
& O., fell from his engine while on
the bridge at Bridgeport and was in
stantly killed. The creek was frozen
! over solid and Flanagan struck with
such force that his skull was crushed
and his body was driven through the
ice, and when his fellow trainmen
went to his rescue he was found head
foremost in the water with his feet
and legs only out of the water.
Ask tor Drew SelbY Co. ladies' fine
| IT..~xvbc Chna Store
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-02-18
A nIsToRY-rIAKING EVENT.
The Anniversary of the Loss OF the
BattIeship Elaine.


BattIesliip Elaine.
One year ago Wednesday the Maine
was treacheronsly destroyed in the
harbor OF Havana, and two hundred
and sixty six American sailors were
sent without warning to their deaths
Seldom in the worlds history have
such vast results followed any event
in the short space of single year
An empire has fallen and another has
come into existence. Three peoples
have been released from slavery and
the balance of the world has been
shifted. Deeds Of arms Of imperishable
glory have been performed. The
American people have become con
scious of new destiny and are pre-
pairing to fulfil it. Surely it was not
for nothing that the men ofthe Maine
laid down their lives.
In the gradual development of the
worlds progress it often happens that
great forces slowly gather themselves
together. seemingly accomplishing
no thing, until some sudden jar sets
them loose and they go roaring on,
carrying the wrecks OF empires on
their backs like chips upon food.
One of these critical, world changing
events was the destruction of the
Maine. The forces it set in motion
had been preparing for that moment
for two thousand years. They began to
gather back in the Peninsula where
Carthaginian, Iberian. Roman, Goth
and Moor mingled to form the cruel,
romantic, nigh-spirited, sensuous, in
dolent, enigmatic Spanish character.
They rose through the centuries while
Moor and Christian were struggling
for supremacy in Spain, while Cortez
and Pizarro were destroying the an
Gent civilizations of Mexico and Peru,
while the successors of Columbus
were DISCRIMINATING the natives of
Cuba, while ambition, greed and re
ligious enthusiasm were building up
continental empire and grinding
misrule was destroying it, and while
the Spanish rulers, learning nothing
aud forgetting nothing, were pitilessly
applying in the island remnants of
their dominions the same insupport.
able methods of government that had
cost them the bulk of two continents.
And other forces had been accum-
ulating in those northern forests
where the ancestors of the Americans
learned the lessons of freedom and
ind pendence, in the long history of
conflict in which the rights of English
men were forged, in the develop.
ment of the hardy, self-governing
colonies that brought those rights to
America, in the successful fight for
independence, in the expansion that
began with the birth of the new nation
and that found Spain always an OBJ
stacle and an enemy, and in the sym
pathy which men who had achieved
their own liberty felt for those who
were trying to follow their example
Sooner or later these conflicting
energies were bound to clash, aud the
stronger was sure to prevail But il
the malignant fool that blew up the
Maine had let things take their course
the clash might have ended peaceful
ly Cuba might have been freed by
diplomacy, with compensation to
Spain, and the arms of the United
States might never have been stretch
ed across the Pacific.
The assassination of the Maine
made it certain that Cuba's liberation
would come by war instead of by ne
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-02-18

The blood of every American soldier
killed or wounded at Manila Saturday
night and Sunday is on the hands OF
those few un American Senators and
their followers who opposed the ratifi-
cation of the peace treaty for political
reasons. The Filipino junta admits
the fight was started as bluff to help
the sentiment against the treaty
Had that almost t-aitorous opposition
not been pushed so far the insurgents
would never have dared to precipitate
the battle which caused American
blood to be shed They took courage
from the Senators who are opposing
the treaty. Those Senators and the
politicians like Bryan and his ilk who
are with them are responsible.-Graf-
ton Sentinel
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-02-18
For La Grippe.

Thomas Whitfield & Co, $40
Wabash avenue, corner Jackson
street, one of Chicago's Oldest and
most prominent druggists, recon-
mend Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
for la grippe, as it not only gives a
prompt and complete relief, but also
counteracts any tendency of la grippe
to result in pneumonia. For sale at
Matthaei's Pharmacy.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-02-18

A United States marshal relates
that he was once ordered to go after
an Indian who was selling whiskey to
his dusky friends. After he captured
the warrior he gave him long lecture
on the depravity of his conduct.
After listening stolidly the halt breed
said:
"Ain't deere no way can get helped
outer this?"
mo one can help you now but
God" his captor answered.
The prisoner shook his head sadly
in hopeless manner, as he muttered;
We'll ne good deal like Uncle Sam,
Injun never see hi m"
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-02-18
At the Set of the sun.

At the setting Of the sun,
When our work is done,
With all its tangled web;
When the CLOUDS drifts low,
And the streams runs slow,
And life is at its ebb.
AS we near the goal,
When the golden bowl
Shall be broken at its fount;
With what sweetest thought
Shall the hour be fraught,
What precious most shall we co untg
80 Il. ..4.4 : The sword,
Nor the wealth we have stored
In Punishable things of earth
Not the way we have trod
With the intellect broad,
Though that were Of precious worth.
Nor the gain we achieved
Through the hearts we have grieyed
And left unhelped by the way;
Nor the laurel Of fame;
When, for worldly acclaim,
We toiled in the heat and the fray
All, mol tbs not these
Will give our hearts ease,
When life sinks low in the west,
But the passing sweet thought
OF the good we have wrought,
The saddened lives we have blest.
And the love we have won,
And the love reckoning on
From his island far and dim;
Love out of the light,
Shining into the night,
The night which leadeth to Him.
Boston Transcri pit.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-02-18

~ ~ fhttB WIFI SPRAYS
and washes, and differ
ent fnhaling remedies
in fact. ! could feel that
each winter | was worse
than the year previous.
Fin ally 1t was
brought to my notice
that Catarrh was a blood
disease, and after think
ing over the matter. /
saw IL was unreasonable
70 expect to be cured by
remedies viii ch only
reached the surface. I
then decided tn frv
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-02-18

s. s. s.. and after few bottles were used no
ticed perceptible improvement. Continuing
the remedy, the disease was forced out Of my
system. and complete cure was the result.
advise all who have this dreadful disease to
abandon their local treatment. which has never
done them any good. and take s s. s.. q REM
edy that can reach the disease and cure it,"
To continue the wrong treatment for
Catarrh is to continue to suffer Swift's
Specific is real blood remedy, and
cures obstinate, deep-seated diseases,
which other remedies have no effect
whatever upon. 1t promptly reaches
Catarrh, and never fails to cure even the
most AGGRAVATED oasas
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-02-18

The South Branch lumber company
of Bayard, has been chartered by the
State, with proposed capital OF $780,
600.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-05
The Trifo1Inte ORANGE.

The agricultural department, which has
been experimenting to produce a sweet
orange that will stand the frosts that
have repeatedly swept the orange belt
in Florida, has progressed to the point Of
budding the oranges so secured on grow
ing trees in Florida. says the American
Cultivator. DR.. Weber of the division OF
vegetable pathology has gone to Florida.
taking with him a large number of the
new plants. The hardy orange evolved
by the department is at present termed
1.-THE trifoliate orange" 1t has been pro-
duced by breeding the pollen of the sweet
grange into the buds of the Japanese tri-
foliata, end vice versa. The trifoliata
grows as far north as Philadelphia. bur
bears no fruit worth mentioning though
IL is a vegetable cousin of the sweer
orange. Seedlings from the hybrids so
far produced promise 10 give an exceed
ingly hardy and valuable fruit-nroducinr
tree. DR. Webbers mission in Florida Is
10 bud a quantity of these seedlings on
live orange trees. This, it is hoped will
give definite results several years sooner
than II the department waited for the bv-
Bird seedlings to mature and bear.
The departments experiment will be as
sisted by a number of Florida growers
and the work viii be extended north In
time as far as Washington
Precautions are being taken to keen the
new hybrids thoroughly IN control Of The
department to prevent worthless or infe-
rior varieties being put on the market
When the work has progressed suf1cieptIv
the new varieties viii be distrlbuted
through the regular channels.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-05
Growing more ponnnrn.

We believe that a little popcorn grown
every year and held until the price is
satisfactory will prove one of the most
profitable side crops the farmer can grow.
Popcorn differs from most other things
the farmer produced in proving by keep
ing, instead of having to be marketed
within a few weeks or months 1t is I'M
salable at all until a year old, but corn
three, five and even ten years old, if
kept from mice, Will pop even better than
that a year old Old popcorn that opens
freely always commands paying prices.
There are, however, great fluctuations
in the market, sometimes two or three
years coming together when the price
rules low. AS these years always follow
those of scarcity, when many are led into
the business, beginners are usually dis
couraged. Ii Is only those who perseVere
through the era of low prices who can
reap the harvest says an exchange.
Popcorn is very easily grown. It's cul-
ture is the same as that of ordinary corn
The varieties having sharp-pointed grains.
often called rice corn are, we think
the best. Popcorn is very prolific, as
, each plant will have at least two and
sometimes three or four ears on a stalk
No more than three grains should be
dropped in a hill. The stalk never grows
very large. and when full of ripened ears
in the fail a piece of popcorn presents a
fine sight and one all the more salts
factory because it suggests pleasant even
ings in winter. when the pan of fully
family. Wherever popcorn that will all
turn inside out in balls of creamy white
can be had there is nothing that will
so much add to social enjoyment
Popcorn is always sold on the ear, as
1t Is wasted rapidly when shelled And
1t may be added that an ear of popcorn
enclosed with a close-fitting paper will
many times fill that when the grains are
she'led and popped. 1t is time now to
plant popcorn, as 1t needs to be In the
ground The better ripened the corn is
the better the corn will pop. The grains
that only half open in popping come from
corn that was not as well ripeued as it
but 1t does not have the starch in II
that popcorn has that has ripened on the
stalk
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-05
when to Cut Hay.

As a general proposition it is best to cut
hay Just as it Is blooming; but this RUE
may be subject to notifications, according
as we want the hay for feeding dairy
cows, horses or other stock. For horses
it is probably better 10 have the hay wei
along toward maturity. Storer, in one OF
his books, says that "6ne strong objection
that works against the early cutting Of
hay is the tendency of hay mace from
immature grasses TO loosen the bowels Of
animals that feed upon It. This fact alone
precludes the use of such hay for working
horses. All newly made hay has a laxative
and loosening effect upon animals. Such
hay cannot be sold 10 the keeper OF
livery stable, because, as he would say,
he has no wish 10 soften down his horses.
Horse keepers are Of the opinion that ms
laxative quality of new hay endures untl
the hay has passed through process Of
sweating, which occurs in the NOW NO
matter how dry the hay is at the time II IS
put in The barn, il is held that it VIII al
ways sweat somewhat in the NOW. BY
October the process is completed, so that
the hay is I'll for use, provided il was ripe
enough when moWn. But in the case of
hay made from young grass, as rowen, for
example, the medicinal quality persists.
and such hay is thought TO be always UNI
fit for horses that are kept at work, since
1t is apt to weaken them, 10 make them
sweat easily, and to render them liable TO
stumble"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-05

A grower in Utah. who has been expert
mentlng for some time along the line OF
winter muskmelons, has at last been sue
cessful and found a melon that arrives at
ripe ana edible stage in dead winter
says an exchange. Prof. Hansen, the spe-
cial agent sent TO Russia last year by the
department of agriculture, procured
number of varieties of melon seed which
the department sent TO growers for trial
IL was among these that the Utah, grower
found what he had been looking fora
winter muskmeion. Ii grows very much
like other melons, but when frost comes il
is gathered and put in a cellar 10 ripen
In appearance il resembles very much a
small rattlesnake watermelon. The meat Is
very solid, thick and edible almost to the
rind, and the flavor very spicy and delici-
Gus. a specimen of this neon weighing
seventeen pounds was sent to Secretary
Wilson in February last, having just ar
rived at a ripe and edible Stage. The de-
partment has some seed of this variety
left over, which viii be distributed for
further trial this year, among the semi
arid states and where irrigation methods
are pracuced. Lucious cantaoupes in mid
w.nter are something Of an ovation, but it
seems probable that they will soon become
a feature of the market.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-05
To Hasten the Ripening of TOma-

The ripening of tomatoes may be has
tened considerably by tying the plant 10
stakes aud pruning of the sprouts which
come up around the base of the plants.
the object being to get fruit from the
first blooms and not allow the lower
branches, or sprouts, which come up la
ter, to produce fruit, says an exchange
BY keeping off these sprouts the entire
strength OF the plant is thrown into the
upper part.
In order TO carry out this plan success
fully the seed should be sOwn in a hOtbed
some time in March and the plants set
Ia the field as early as it is safe, select
ing a piece of ground that is not 100 rich.
\ sandy soil is ali right bat the highest
portions or knobs are better than lower,
richer lands. The plants should be tied
to stakes at once, and as they grow the
tying should be repea ed. 1t will be no
ticed that the first blooms appear at the
tops of The plants, and the aim should be
to give the fruit which sets from these
the fun strength of the plant Sprouts
VIII soon appear near the ground, and
these must be broken off promptly and
kept off during the entire season. II is
not necessary to pinch the tops of the
plants In any way, but rs they grow uD
keep them tied to the stake, which needs
70 be about five feet high.
Ordinary tomatoes can be grown in
this manner from two to three weeks ear
Her than if the plants were allowed to
fall over on the ground In giving the
foregoing advice the Ohio Farmer adds
that early varieties should of course be
selected, and one OF the best for this pur-
vance, Ruby and several others are suit
able also.