Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1901-07-04

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HI. SNYDER, Editor and Publisher,
SHEPHERDsTowN. W, VA.
THURSDAY, July 4, 1901.
WE never had such hot weather
before we annexed the Philippines.
THE strike of $4,000 iron workers
is another side of the prosperity pic
ture.
SENATOR SCOTT is in sort OF
hole and Senator Elkins doesn't seem
to care.
THE war tax has been taken of OF
some articles, but the people are still
paying dear enough for expansion.
FROM the way Mark Hanna is cod
ding the dear people in Ohio 1t looks
as if he has his eye on the presidency
in 1904.
THIS is the time OF year when
the preachers take their vacation, bat
Satan keeps on doing business at the
old stand.
THE editor of the Hagerstown Globe
and the editor of the Williamsport
Leader have made up and there will
be no duel.
THE Baltimore Sun is saving good
deal of money by not printing its
usual amount of Virginia news-sav-
ing at the spigot, anyhow.
AT the close of the fiscal year there
was surplus f$75,OOO, OOOin the gov
eminent treasury. Ifprosperity keeps
up the United States will soon be as
rich as trust
GENERAL SICKLEs threatens to
make music in the air" unless the
President fires Pension Commissioner
Evans. He will use the G. A. R.
organization for this purpose.
GENERAL SHAFTER has been placed
on the retired list. He never fully
got over the Santiago campaign Of two
years ago, when he was forced to do
without ice for his champagne for two
hours and seventeen minutes.
J. P. MORGAN is now seeking to or
ganize a coal trust that shall control
the entire output Of bituminous coal
east of the Mississippi river. What
will Morgan be after next? We will
tell him right now he needn't come
fooling around after the REGISTER.
MATTERS are getting on a peace
basis in the Philippines-our army is
to be reduced to 10000 men. This
is only $4,000 more soldiers than was
required by the whole United States
government at home and abroad before
our policy Of expansion was set afoat.
The newspaper liar in West Vir-
ginia is busy these days. A shower
of rain develops into deluge, an ex-
ploding frecracker is made the text
for dynamite explosion killing scores,
and petty quarrel is magnifed into
feud involving hundreds The ir-
responsible newspaper liar ought to be
squelched.
THE Seventh National Bank of New
York closed its doors last Thursday,
and Saturday the big financial firm
of Henry Marquand & Co. went under.
These failures are the result of wild
speculation on the part Of the officers
of the firms, and it is not improbable
that they will be followed by others.
If the truth should be known it would
be seen that a good many banks in
New York are shaky.
IT is with a good deal of pleasure
that we place on our exchange list the
Lincoln Citizen, which has been re-
vived by our hustling friend j. Jerome
Haddox. We shall be able hereafter
to keep posted upon the events occur
ing on Mud river. Hooppole creek,
Tug and other celebrated spots, while
the doings of the Bases and Siases
will be read with interest. Good luck
to the Citizen and to Haddox.
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THE billion-dollar steel trust is get
ting in good working order, and its
present business is that Of wiping out
the smaller concerns it has absorbed
and throwing on the world hundreds
of officials whose services are not now
needed. Hundreds of thousands of
dollars are to be saved annually, but