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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-06-29

The tinplate mills of the country
will shut down on Friday on account
of disagreement as to the wages to
be paid the operatives. Fifty thous-
and employees will be thrown out OF
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-06-29

THE President of the Commercial
Travellers National League says that
the formation Of the numerous trusts
has thrown out of employment $4,000
commercial travellers and caused re-
auctions in salary to $4,000 others 1;
this, he says, means loss of $26, 000,-
600 yearly to the railroads and as
much to the hotels. These are items
directly traceable to the trusts, but it
is insignificant in comparison to the
enormous sums taken from the people
by the increase of from 10 to 100 per
cent in the prices of the trust pro-
ducts.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-06-29

Joseph Funk, leading citizen of
Shenandoah county, Va, was driving
near Strasburg on Monday when his
horse became frightened and ran off.
Mr.. Funk was thrown from the vehi-
Gle and killed.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-06-29

WE agree with the Martinsburg
Haalds opinion of the civil service
laws, YET we should prefer that their
repeal be deferred until Democrat
is elected President.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-06-29

GOVERNOR ATKINSON says he can
get the two West Virginia Regiments
that were organized last year togeth-
er in two weeks ready for duty in the
Philippines. Maybe he can, but we
doubt it.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-06-29

We are of the opinion that Mr.. Ell
kins will find it great deal easier to
elect A. B. White Governor of West
Virginia next year than to re-elect
Senator Elkins to the Senate.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-06-29
Excursions to Atlantic City and Seashore
at Very Low Rates.
Thursdays, July 10 & 27, Aug. 10 & "a.

The Baltimore Il Ohio Railroad have
arranged series Of popular seashore
excursions, to be run Thursdays, July
l3 and q, August 10 and 2l toAtlantic
City, Cape May, Sea Isle City, Ocean
City, n. J.. and Ocean City, Md. Tick
cts will be good fifteen days, including
day Of sale.
Stopovers will be allow on return trip
at Philadelphia, Baltimore and Wash
ington on tickets sold to Ocean City,
Md Tickets will be sold on above dates.
From Shenandoah Junction for $3.50
round trip for trains leaving at 1906 a.
m.
Call on or address nearest TicketAgent
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad for tickets
and full information.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-06-29

A MILLION dollars a day to fight
the Filipinos And what do we get
for our money?
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-06-29

MISTAKES are usually costly, but
the most expensive one this country
ever made was to embark in a war in
the Philippines that is costing us a
million dollars a day.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-06-29

SINCE wireless telegraphy, horseless
carriages and chainless bicycles have
proven such a success, a great many
persons think that a siIverless plat
form would be a good thing for the
Democratic party.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-06-29

IT must be rather unpleasant for
our government officials to remember
that they are responsible for Aguinal-
dos undesirable presence in the Phil
ippines. The Filipino leader was a
fugitive in Hong Kong, when Admiral
Dewey took him over to Manila on
one of our vessels to help fight the
Spanish. Now Aguinaldo is repaying
this favor by leading a war against
the United States that is costing us a
million dollars day.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-06-29


ginning July lst we will give you
the following reductions on our
already very short profits:
Mems Suits that sold for 1926 and
$2.75, now 60 at $3.50 and 1929.
Mems Suits that sold for s.. so, now
go at 1927.
Mems Suits that sold for S., 1926
and $3.50, your choice of any Of the
lot for SAT-.
Mems Suits that sold for $3.50,
Sc and 1925, your choice of any of
the lot for $5.I9.
Mems Suits that sold for $500, s.
and $7.75, now go at $5.97, Sc and
$3.50.
Mems Suits that sold for S., 1915,
1926 and $40, now 60 at $3.50, $169,
$7.97 and $3.50.
Boys Knee Pants Suits, ages 4 to 9
years, that sold for 80 cents, $1.2O,
$l.45, $1.75, 81, 1926 and s.. so, now
go at Is cents, 81, $l25, $149, $1.73,
31.97 and $2.19.
Boys Knee Pants Suits, ages 10 to
l6 years, that sold for 81. $L45, $1.75,
$l.95, 1926, So IS, 1915 and 1926,
now go at so cents, $l.l9, $l39, $3.50,
$l.89, $l.95, $2.35 and $2.85.
Come in TO see us. We can
save you from IS TO 40 per
cent on anything in Mems, Boys
and Children's Clothing. We
defy competition in our line.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-06-29
J. G. GIBSON.
Mattings,
Carpets,
Oxford Ties.

We desire TO call attention this
week to three articles Of Merchan-
disc TO be found in our store. The
first is our
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-06-29

The American army was going to
clean out the Filipinos before the
rainy season set in; later it was 60
ing to fight right on through the rainy
season. 1t now looks as if our SOL
diers will be very thankful if the Fill
ipinos do not whip them.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-06-29

AMONG the gentlemen named for
the Democratic nomination for Cover
nor of Maryland is Col. Buchanan
schley, of Hagerstown. Col. Schley
has numerous friends this side Of the
river who would like to see the honor
bestowed upon him.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-06-29

A fire destroyed nearly the entire
town Of Laurel, Del, early last Satur-
day morning. The loss is 100000.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-06-29

THE controversy about the respect
i've parts taken by Sampson and Schley
in the naval battle at Santiago has
broken out afresh and is raging worse
than ever. We see nothing left but
to fight the battle over again.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-06-29

Educate Your Bowels With Cascarets.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever.
l0c, 25c. II c. c. c. fail, druggists refund money.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-06-29

Hoods PHI, cure liver lis, the nonlrrl,atng and
only eathHTtie % tako with Hoods ssIssPariLlA:
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-06-29

THE Democratic State convention
of Kentucky has been in session the
past week at Louisville, and after the
most ridiculous wrangling and the
bitterest sort of fighting finally got
down to business and nominated Will
liam Goebel for Governor on Tuesday.
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ACCORDING to General Otis, Il per
cent of the American soldiers in the
Philippines are on the sick list. A
private dispatch from Manila, how
ever, says that of the 1900 men Of
the Twentieth Kansas Regiment only
$50 are fit for duty. There's dis
crepancy somewhere.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-06-29

EDITOR PITzER of the Martinsburg
Herald is still calling editor Morrow
of the Charlestown Adrocate awfully
harsh names. 1t is none Of our quar-
rel, but we feel like warning Mr.. Pit
yer to stand from under. When Mr..
Morrow turns himself loose he'll make
mincemeat of his adversary. Beware
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-06-29
KIDNEY
TROUBLE

KIDNEY Is deceptive disease,
rHnIrnIr thousands have it and
KOUDLE don't know it. If you
want quick results you can make no mis-
take by using DR.. Kilmer's swamp
Root, the great kidney remedy. At
druggists in fifty cent and dollar sizes.
Sample bottle by mail free, also pamph-
let telling you how to find out if you
have kidney trouble.
Address. DR.. Kilmer d Co., Bingham
ton. y. y.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-06-29

IT is asserted that the coal opera
tors in the southern part of the State,
especially those along the line of the
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, will use
their influence to defeat the re-elec-
ton Of Senator Elkins. They say that
be has used his political pull to adj
vance his own interests and to the det-
riment of their coal contracts. They
will support General Curtin.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-06-29
Carpets.

We sell these by sample, which
we have found by experience to
be satisfactory in every respect.
We handle Brussels. Ingram, I'm
ion. Rag and Hemp Carpets. Rag
and Hemp sold from the pieces.
Prices less than you will have to
pay at most stores.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-06-29

Our stock Of General Merchandise is
complete and full in every depart
ment-Dry Goods, Notions, Groceries,
etc.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-06-29
Prices
Reduced

to clear out our Spring Stock to
make room for Fall Clothing. Be
ginning July lst we will give you
the following reductions on our
already very short profits:
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1899-02-04
January 81, 1899

January q, 1899.
Editor Courier:
Some time ago noticed your article
on the management OF county and city
government, ss we'll rs the attempted
reply Of the Evening News. 1t is to be
regretted that you could not have at
your disposal all the facts. Because We
hear 90 little about the county govern.
ment is the principal reason why it is
considered better. l shall undertake to
present a few facts and comparisons
and leave your readers to Judge for
themselves as to their relative economy.
Twenty years ago the county commits.
sioners were paid by the day and for.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1899-02-04

what Numbered Mr.. Meekton,s
wife, do you think Of this man who
married three wives, and then wants to
come to congressv'
swell, Henrietta" he answered, as be
gloomily tapped the edge of tn. table.
Il dunnos blame him for wanting to
get away from home and come to Wash.
ington for little while"
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1899-02-04
THE ORATOR..

saw him stand upon the Judgment Day
Who In his life all human wrath
had braved,
The appealing angel In his voice, and sav,
1t but one soul Be lost, how
Is man saveds
George E. Woodbury. In the Century.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1899-02-04

iuSoINcnU Dduks, DuU dU any rate, Tie
directors who had subscribed a half
million dollars, made no attempt to
sell their worthless stock to strangers
or to cOnnive In any way to maintain
the public impression that the inven.
tor had discovered a new, limitless,
and cheap energy. Doubtless II the
president and Mrs. Keeley's attorney
had taken the stock abroad they
would have been able to sell II in the
London Exchange or on the BOurse.
Thus they might have saved their
own property and escaped the oblOquy
Of betraying life long friends and
business associates. But with an
unanimity, which encourages an Opti.
mistic view Of Philadelphia human
nature, they decided, just as soon as
they were convinced of fraud, to dis.
close 1t to everybody so that no one
else should be gulled as they had been.
Even II We have not reached that
standard here 1t Is encouraging to see
that sleepy, slow Philadelphia has not
allowed admiration for business ac-
tivity to deceive her as to the differ.
ence between honesty and dishonesty.
A new club has been organized In
Chicago called the Non Sentimental
club. 1t Is to be supposed from the
name that 1t Is an organized effort to
IiacDn 70 vo oont ;montoliom xuhioh 10
a long word for gush, and does not in
clude charity or deeds of mercy. The
mistakes which are caused by super.
senJimentalism are mostly the work of
women. Whena depraved murderer
10 To be hanged, we send him cut
flowers and set pieces representing the
gates ajar, or q broken column or a
pillow. When brave man leads q
fOrlorn hope or makes stand In the
last ditch. II he escape, we eurround
him, in public, and make ourselves
and him ridiculous by kissing him
and weeping over him. On the other
hand, II he be killed and his body be
not brought back in state, we do not
retire to private room and grieve for
the hero that Is no more. Our exhi-
billions of sentimentalism are always
in public. Real feeling sometimes
overcOmes one in public but genuine
grief longs for seclusion. Illogical
and unreasonable bursts Of sentiment.
alism discredit real occasions for pity
or public expressions Of appreciation.
The outre scenes In Kansas City,
where over two hundred women got in
line to kiss HObson, were disgrace to
the sex as we'll as to hObsOn, who Is
old enough to have learned better.
The function Of the Non Sentimental
club will be one Of calling the atten.
ton of women to such unreasonable
and silly conduct. And 1t Is not in
Kansas City or Chicago alone that the
women need discipline in restraint.
Not so many years ago, In this city, a
man was arrested for shooting another
who was unarmed and was sitting
down when the murderer shot him.
1t was cowardly, brutal murder, by a
man who claimed to be emotionally
insane at the time. During the trial
the court room was filled with women
whose sympathies were all with the
murderer. The victim was buried and
his family were too reserved to use
any Fictitious means for attracting
the sympathy Of the jury and the pub
lie. The very able council Of the muir
derer secured an acquittal, When
the judge announced the verdict Of
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1899-02-04

time actually spent in the service Of the
county and never did we know OF their
drawing over $4,000, and the county was
just as we'll governed then az it is now
when we pay s5.4OO per year. Ne1t,
take the county clerks office. The law
says his salary shsll be $4,000 per year.
he to be allowed deputy and clerk pro.
vided the fees OF tho Office will pay them
all, and yet this year. without authority
OF law. the commissioners levy tax Of
$1,000 to pay the deputy county clerk.
So we have the county clerks Office cost.
ing as follows:
Clerk, $4,000; deputy, 81. 200; a clerk,
500, and making tax duplicate $500
more; total, 5000 az the cost of the
office to the county, or 800 more than
under the former clerk, as against
$500 total cost Of the city for clerk and
deputy, who also make the tax duplicate
without extra coet to the city.
The next Office is that of county at
torney, which cost the county $4,000 in
the Year 1893, az compared to 81, 100 for
the city attorney and his deputy and
extra help in two cases. Aud no one
who keeps track Of affairs will deny
that the city has had far more costly
and important legislation than the
county has had, and it has been con.
Quoted at about half the cost.
l cannot well make a comparison Of
the county treasurer with the city treas.
urer for the reason that the county
treasurer collects part of the city taxes,
and while the present efficient county
treasurer is collecting more delinquent
taxes than his predecessors. yet his Office
Is costing more than at any other time.
So it is in the sheriff's office and the
Office Of county Judge. We do not say
this is wrong. but will ask where Is the
much boasted Of economy practic ed. n
As to the work Of the com issioners
In spending the road and bridge funds
1t 10 about 40 follows: The totcrlevy
for roads raised about Sl9. $50, OF which
the county commissioners control S6.5OOs
in round figures and the clerks 'dRufeS ,
given out chow that the commission ers
spent over $4,000 or nearly double what
they should have spent. :
The natural roads of Nebraska are
better than any made road except in
low places, where the steam grader i'm. :
proved the roads and at somewhat less
expense than by the old way, but it is
doubtful, when all the cost lie figured.
whether it is not dearer. For instance in
one place whore the road was good they
graded about two miles with the steam
grader and 1t took seventeen new cul.
verts. mostly made Of ash lumber. And
when you take the $1,000 Yankee Hill
bridge and the Oak Creek bridge Of tho
same cost, with no public roads, it is
hard to see how the city government
could have done worse. The county 10
getting in better condition financially
and 90 lie the city, aud the reason is be.
cause people are paying their taxes.
What we want more and more az the
years 60 by is to have all public officers
paid just the came as private persons
pay for same service and exact from
them the same faithful performance Of
the duties imposed.
X x x
hrn AZ
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1899-02-04

and not nutritious. 1t is thus fairly
well established that the meat was
unfit for consumption and the packers
shocked cutlery when General Miles
called their beef embalmed, was but
blum, after all There are many who
still say that even II General Miles
knew the beef had been embalmed he
should have kept still on account of
the injury such charge might inflict
on American beef exports. 1t is the
old question of the relative Importance
OF human beings and commerce. 1t
seems to me that no crime Is more
abhorrent than sending bad meat to
the soldiers Of a republic, who serve
their country from motives OF the
purest patriotism, only to be poisoned
and starved by the agents Of the gov.
eminent in collision and contract
with beef contractors. II the eecre.
tary Of war and the cOmmissary gen.
eral were ignorant Of the kind of
canned meat sent to Cuba the fault Is
only slightly modified. The hundreds
Of dead men poisoned by the kind Of
ratiOns issued to them forbid the
wasting Of any sentiment upon the
heads Of departments responsible
for it.
The excuse for General Eagan's in.
efficient conduct Of the commissaay
department is that which is generally
alleged for the purely ornamental
character OF staff officers. They are
without practical experience and they
owe their position to pull rather than
to ability and knowledge. But Gen.
eral Eagan's blackguardism of his ST.
perior officer, while the country is still
in a state Of war, has not even this
excuse. II staff officers are drilled in
anything. 1t is in etiquette and all
forms, symbols and observances of
military convention, and General
Eagan knew how serious his offense
was when he said that he would cay
words that would cause either him.
self or General Miles, to be. driven out
Of the army but he thought it would
be General Miles. .,a.,
20: ..vuy 49, ,a
Representative Joseph Burns has In.
PRODUCED bill in the house providing
an appropriation OF two hundred
thousand dollars to begin the publ.
cation Of school text books by the
state. These books are to be compiled
Ly the state superintendent, the chan.
cellor Of the university and the gov
ernor and printed on a job press owned
by the state. The Fremont Tribune
says, feelingly, that:
When the text books are thus
brought into the politics of the state
1t may be taken for granted they will
create an unprecedented political en-.
thusiasm among the school ma ANS
and school children of the state. Bal.
lots will be printed on the fly leaves
and platforms will be inserted in the
body and prOfusely illustrated. Be-
tween editing these books, appointing
political heelers to public places, ap.
proving bonds, regulating state in.
vestments and making campaign and
other speeches the governor will find
his time well occupied, though he will
probably permit nothing to interfere
with his getting out an interesting
spelling book and good reader set
ting forth the beauties of the initia.
tive and referendum and circulation
OF any old kind Of money up to $50 per
capita.
January 81, 1899.
Editor Courier:
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1899-02-04

members conduct regulated by the
code of good sense might have ten.
dency to reduce hysteria in Lincoln,
which only awaits an occasion to be as
strongly in evidence as in Kansas
City. A sustained effort to be reason.
able, sOher.and temperate in all things
Is enjOined by the tenets of the Non.
Sentimental club and IL q successful
one could be carried on here it might
result In a saving Of energy which
could be expended in constant effort
to make homes happier, this city
cleaner, and the condition of the poor
more tOlerable and hopeful.
The costume of the soldiers I'm the
present war conducted in the tropics
on two sides OF the world, Is pictur.
esque as we'll as comfortable. The can.
vas Norfolk jackets, with pockets and
belt and the tight leggings about the
calf, make an ensemble which should
be perpetuated In sculpture. II the
legislature should conclude to erect
some memorial to the soldiers who
died In the war, the form 1t shall take
would be one Of the first considera-
tions. Harvard university erected a
memorial hall and in the central nave
or court which divides the two parts,
placed the tablets containing the
names Of the undergraduates who en-
listed and died in the war. Nebraska
might build state library and su.
preme court memorial building and in
the rOtunda place statue of the vol.
unteer Of '9S and inscribe their names
on the walls. The subject is one
worthy of favorable consideration and
should, at least, be presented to the
Legislature.
A large number Of the papers of the
state and almost without exception
the leaders Of the republican party,
are opposed to the candidacy OF MI.
d. E. Thompson. The Legislature can
ignore this righteous sentiment which
grows stronger every day, but only at
the expense OF republfcanism. The
only hope OF Mr.. Thompson and bis
men is in a caucus with a secret bal.
lot. A vote is not Of much value to
the man who casts it for some one
else but IL the man who needs It TO
become United States senator Is will.
ing to pay a thousand dollars for 1t,
1t is not for canny and prudent
member Of caucus to assume q stage
hero attitude and to pretend to reject
with scOrn, what he really needs in his
business, especially considering the
valuelessness of his vote unless he sells
1t when there Is strong demand for
it,, And of course q caucus is q pri.
vate arrangement among the legisla.
tors themselves and IL their trade was
discovered. there would be nothing lille.
gal in selling caucus vote. But re.
publican sentiment is even more Op.
posed to a secret caucus than to Mr.
Thompson himself, and If Mr.. Thomp.
son Is elected by such means the re-
sentiment will be increased rather
than softened, because Of the indirec-
tiOn and cOncealment of individual
responsibility which characterize this
method Of electing United States
senator. .... $780,,
A secret vote for a candidate by a
voter who represents only himself has
admirable features. But the vote. of
representative is different and the
people for whom he casts his vote