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Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-15
Day Observed In Nebraska.

OMAHA, Neb., Sept. 15.-McKinley memorial day was generally observed by the churches, religious and other organizations in this city and through out the state. Proclamations had been issued by the governor and by Mayor Moores requesting the people to com- memorate the day with suitable ,ob- servances, and the request was gener- ally adhered to.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-15
The Dear Innocent

Wasn't it funny, mamma ?'' said the debutante, 1'at the Smarts' dinner the other night all tie electric lights went out. and the women didn't want the butler to put them up againl" ssHow do you know the women didn't, my child?' Because they were all crying Don't and Stop And the men didn's say wordi"--pearson's Weekly.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-15
The Day In Minnesota,

ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 15--At all the churches special memorial services for the late President Mckinley were held. At the Clinton Avenue Methodist church In the evening United States Senator Moses E. Clapp delivered an oration eulogizing the late chief mag istrate Special musical programmes were feature of many of the services. The observance was general through out the state.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-15
Demand stil1 Continues.

In spite of the fact that the type writer has displaced the pen in many business offices, the demand for pens and pencils still continues. Du2ing the year covered by the census re- port, one gold pen, ten steel pens and Is lead pencils were made in the United States for each family of five persons.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-15
services In Maryland.

BALTIMORE, Sept. 15.-In nearly all of Baltimore's churches some fitting reference to the memory of President Mckinley was made during the serv- ices. By direction of Cardinal Gibbons a special prayer was said in all the Catholic churches of the archdiocese.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-15

CT. From all parts of the state come reports of largely attended memorial services in churches of all denomina- tions in response to the proclamation of Governor Odell.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-15
Ann,paranrx Kent rn Kentno1.x

Anniversnry Kept In Kentucky.
 LOUISVILLE, Ky, Sept. 15.-Spe- cial memorial services were held in Louisville and throughout the state in observance of the first anniversary of the death of President Mckinley, and the pastors of the various churches made reference in their sermons to the occa sion.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-15
FitfingIy Remembered In NIisse

FitfingIy Remembered In Missouri.
 ST. JOSEPH, Mo, Sept. 15.-McKin- icy memorial services were held! in all the churches of this city. ,Decorations of carnatipps.i the faYorite flower, of the late president, were elaborate. Most of the male worshipers wore bouton- nieres of the flower.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-04-18

As was anticipated Major Waller
goes free. He had eleven Fillipinos
shot at one time, he did great many
other things which were calculated to
harrow the feelings of people who had
been taught that cruelty and barbarity
were of savage origin, and should be
avoided by civilized nations, but they
were not thought wrong by those who
tried him. We are in most unneces-
sary and inexcusable war, it is a hotter
and harder war than we expected, it is
a war which makes us ashamed, but
we are in it and the only way out seems
to be by killing all of our enemies and
destroying their country. The British,
from whom we learn everything these
days, have similar war on their hands,
and they are ending it that way. 1t
would be reflection on us if our an
cestors, the English, should excel us in
everything, especially cruelty.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-04-18

country. That wisdom has, as we say,
asserted itself in general advance OF
rates. There was just beginning to be
chance for the farmer and manufac-
turer to live, but that chance is now
departing. He has been seen to have
a bank account, small and insignificant
it is to be sure, but it was bank &C.
count. This was dangerous, as dan
gerous to the preconceived ideas of
trade and business on the part of rail.
ways, as the giving of ballot to per-
sons living in monarchial country
would be to the rulers of such coun-
tries. Treason, strategism and spoils
would result, the anomalous condition
| of workman with lace curtains to bis
windows which so startled and horri.
fed leading capitalist recently, might
result if things remained thus. so the
philanthropic and country loving rail.
way systems discovering danger lurk'
ing, determined to avoid it. They are
doing so. and the result will be felt by
every broom maker, saw mill man
mill man and manufacturer in the
State. We hear that this policy Will
drive the Bodily Wagon Works from
Staunton, and if this be SO, small fish
will have no chance at all.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-04-18
A SPLENDID VICTORY.

That was pretty and an able fight
made by Mr.. r. P. Bruce, Senator from
Wise county, to have incorporated the
Gainesville and Southwestern railroad.
This road is intended. if built, to open
up the coal fields of Wise, Russell and
Dickinson counties, territory which
has been practically owned by the
N. & W. Ry. and from which they have
heretofore Kept and driven out compe-
tition. When Senator Bruce began
his fight he had heavy up hill pull.
All of the Committee on Roads in the
Senate were against him, and defeat
seemed certain. But he had some
facts which were bound to win. A
very indiscreet attorney of a leading
railway had openly stated about the
capitol that he had succeeded in throt-
Ting every railroad charter which in
any way affected his road. Mr.. Bland
Massie, of Nelson, who was Chairman
of Roads In the Senate, Is said to have
made bad break and a remarka BILE
but destructive admission, when he
said in colloquy with Mr.. Bruce,
that the bill had not been reported
because Mr.. Glasgow, attorney for
the Norfolk y Western Railway had
not seen it.'' This was terrific, and
gave the bill life and vigor it possibly
would not have had, had the enemies
of it been more discreet. The bill
finally passed to the delight of the PEG
pie of the Southwest, whose valuable
lands have been held as chattel of
the N. & W. There is no such coal
land in the world as lays in those coun-
ties, but under the baneful influence
of the N. & W. lands whose intrinsic
value is incaIculable, have been unen-
HANGED for years. simply because the
persons who were mining coal along
the line of that road we're largely the
favored owners of that road and none
other was allowed to open mines, lest
these favorites be injured in their mo-
nopoly, in other words the policy here.
tofore has been to deny any one but
favorites the right to develop coal
lands, hence these lands had no mar
ket value beyond their agricultural
worth. 1t was to break this that
Senator Bruce made his fight. it is to
break such mOnOpolies that the people
demanded the provision now being
engrafted into the State constitution.
1t was splendid fight and was splen-
didly won.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-04-18
WASHINGTON LETTER,
tFrom our Regular Correspondent

(From our Regular Correspondent
Washington, April 14.-While the
past week in Congress has been produc-
tive OF no important legislation it has
been replete with evidences of the dis
cord in the republican party and. in
their efforts to secure the passage of
the Cuban reciprocity bill in the House.
the republican leaders have committed
themselves to propositions which will
be carefully noted by their constitu-
ents and which they will find decided
ly embarrassing during the next cam
paign. After adopting the most drastic
measures to prevent the revision of the
tariff along the lines proposed by Rep
reseutative Babcock, earlier in the SEES.
sion, and effectually resisting reduce
ton which would have curtaiIed the
profits of the steel trust and other
great corporations, they have com
pletely reversed their arguments, re.
coded from their position that the
Dlngley schedules are ''sacred,'' have
cited Blaine and Mckinley in favor of
the reduction of two tariff schedules.
but-ln both instances, schedules which
benefited only the farmers sugar and
t0bacco,-and have secuted the idea of
making even similar reduction on
refined sugar, the differentialo on which
benetlts.only the Sugar Trust at the
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-04-18

The President has appointed Kan
sas man and poet, who wrote verses
about John Brown-ard some very
poor verses at that-in the place of
Mr.. Fl. Clay Evans as Commissioner
of Pensions. The man 3 name is Eu-
gene Ware. Mr.. Evans was not taste
full to the G.. A. RS, because he did
not throw the treasury wide open to
them, but this will never be said of
Ware. No man haillng from Kansas
sever saw a bigger pile of money than
he would undertake to carry away if
he got the chance, and as Kansas lives
largely on pensions it may be safe to
say that there is rejoicing in the Grass
hopper State as there is now gloom
over the rest of the United States.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-04-18
Gen. Wade Hampton.

The Baltimore News of the 18th in
closing an account OF Gen. Hampton s
life says: I'm 1858 he became a major
general, and in 1864 be checked Phi
Sheridan at Trevilian's Station. In
August of that year be was made com
mander of Lees cavalry, with the rank
of lieutenant general, the brave and
gallant Stuart having failed. Later be
was detached to command Gen. Joseph
E. Johnston IS cavalry. Gen. Hampton
was wounded several times. After the
war he returned to his plantation and
settled down as cotton planter. He
remained on his plantation until after
the days of the reconstruction; then be
was called from his home to the pOliti
of his State in 1877, and two years later
was elected to the United States Sen
ate. AS was only natural, Gen. Hamp-
ton was a Democrat, BUT IN 1896 AND
AGAIN IN 1900, HE CAME OUT FOR THE
GOLD STANDARD AGAINST FREE
SILVER"
The following comment has been
sent us by a friend in Baltimore for
publication:
To the Editor of the News.
The statement in todays News that
LII. Gen. Wade Hampton was traitor
to the South and the Democratic par
ty, is maliciously or ignorantly false
in every particular Instead of Gen.
Wade Hampton ''comiag out for the
gold standard and against free silver
in 1896 and 1900," he spurned with con-
tempt McLaurin g aGSf to make him
postmaster of Columbia. 8. g.. and
said The had believed that no man in
South Carolina imagined that he was
for sale, and he accepted no favors
from any such source" Gen. Wade
Hampton was magnificent during the
war and sublime since, and had the
same use for a renegade, whether
styled Independent, Reformer or for
Gold DemOcrat-that the devil has for
holy water, and to class Gen. Wade
Hampton dead with things that he
thoroughly despised when living, Is an
outrage, and is calculated to make the
men who loved and admired Gen. Wade
Hampton, cuss the bark off of the first
convenient tree. The only just course
for the News is to retract that false
hood and state that the man who wrote
that article is too ignorant to run
push cart. Yours truly.
FRANK DORSEY.
Baltimore, April IL.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-04-18

expense of the consumer. During his
opening speech on the Cuban bill,
Chairman Payne was forced to admit
that the consumer paid the duty on
sugar and the frankness of the admis-
sion startled those younger republican
members who have been trained to be-
lieve that all duties are paid by the
foreigners. The arguments of Messrs.
Payne, GrOsvenOr and Long will all
make excellent campaign literature for
the democrats. who favor a general
revision of the tariff.
While the House has been quarreling
oyer the Cuban bill the Senate has de-
monstrated serious lack of harmony
on the question of Chinese exclusion
and the result, which will be made
known by the vote next Wednesday, is
now a matter of doubt. A number of
Eastern republicans, whose conStitu-
ents have nothing to fear from Chinese
competition, have opposed the bill AMI
the confidence with which Senator
Penrose called up his measure is now
sadly waning, To exclude the Chinese
from our foreign possessions will be
injuring those friends of the admins
tration who hope to exploit the Philip
pines for their own benefit and who
see magnificent profits to be gained
from the use of almost free land and
the cheapest class OF labor in the world
and the influence of those friends" is
making itself felt in the Ser ate.
Recent disclosures in the Philippines
Committee of the Senate have been
grave source OF apprehension to the
administration. Reports of tyrannical
and brutal methods of dealing with the
natives are multiplying and, as a
logical sequence of republican imperial
ism, there comes by cable the news of
the arrest of two Manila editors for
lese majese. According to the report
of Major Gardiner, civil governor of
Tabayas, those Filipinos who were
once friendly to this country have
grown to hate it because of the de-
spotic treatment afforded them by the
American soldiers, and in the view of
the governor, continued military occu-
patton will result in leaving this coun-
try without a friend in the islands,
with the exception of those who have
been appointed to government offices
at munifcent salaries.
The determination of the republican
steering committee of the Senate to
ignore the wishes of the President and
take up the Philippine civil bill before
the Cuban reciprocity measure is an
other evidence of the disruption which
is taking place in the party and the &C
tion Of the committee is heartily re
sented by the President. The an.
nouncement, under oath, by Genera
Schofeld, that the President and the
Secretary of War are not on speaking
terms with the General Commanding
the Army, Miles, is typical of the
methods adopted by Mr.. Roosevelt and
the members of bis cabinet in theil
dealings with their subordinates il
Executive Departments.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-04-18
A NEW STEEL TRUST.

A new steel combine is being put in
shape under the guidance of Mr.. Henry
G. Prick who was. until recently, a
partner of Mr.. Carnegie. 1t has always
seemed that there was iron enough in
these United States to satisfy two Or
binary corporations or trusts at least,
just as we have always thought there
was territory enough for some other
people to continue in the railroad bus
mess beside the Pennsylvania. MI.
Prick proposes to combine very
large number of furnaces into a steel
combine, with capital of 5000, 900 900.
We notice that this does not include
any furnaces, mills or coal and coke
companies in Virginia. 1t is remark
able that the eyes of the Steel Trusts
are not yet turned on Virginia. The
county of Allegheny alone has iron
enough in it to supply hundreds of
furnaces for hundreds of years, to say
nothing of the iron in Augusta, Bath,
44lSlAChuu du0 OUACl l. NC COd1
of Southwest Virginia is also very at
tractive and there is no doubt that
pig iron can be manufactured in Vir-
ginia far cheaper than in Pennsylva-
mia. The time is surely fast approach
ing when some Of these aggregations
will take up the iron about us. It is
useless for our people to attempt any
thing of the kind. The competition
is too great and the influences too
broad for any local persons or any
company of small means to enter the
field, 80 development must come main
ly from large syndicates. The Potts
Greek section has possibly no equal, in
area, and is near coal. The Pendleton
and Highland ores will soon be deyel- |
oped by the G. W. BY. The Anthony g |
Creek ore beds will be in position to
work as soon as the Greenbrier & Iron
Mountain Ry. is completed, and DO
country offers such inducements for |
furnaces as Virginia. We hope to see
them In great numbers.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-04-18
500 Reward 500.

The readers of this paper will be pleas
ed to learn that there is at least one
dreaded diseasethat sciencehas been able
to cure in all it's stages, and that is Ca
tarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure is the only
positive cure known to the medical fra.
ternity. Catarrh being constitutional
disease, requires constitutional treat
ment. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken In
ternafly, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system,
thereby destroyingthe foundation of the
disease, and giving the patient strength
by building up the constitution and as
sisting nature in doing it's work. The
propr1etOrs have so muchfaith in it's Gu
rative powers, that they offer One Hun
dred Dollars for any case that it fails to
cure. Send for list of testimonials.
Address F. J. CHENEY &Co.,
ToledO,O.
Sold by druggists, price 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-04-18
RAILROAD RATES GOING UP,

We learn with regret that railroad
rates are being raised throughout the
country and that the result will be
very disasterous to many manufacture
ing plants. Small plants scattered
about at convenient points have grown
in strength and Influence because they
have had freight rates Oh which they
could rely. But the policy has changed
for some reason unknown, for who can
fathom the depth of wisdom which
now, and in fact for years past, have
controlled the railway systems of the
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-04-18

We have received the Farmville
Herald's trades edition which is one OF
the best things of the kind we have
seen. Editor Hart justly takes pride
in the fine showing made for a town
of that size; and he and the town are
to be congratulated On the attractive
ness with which its interests are pre-
sented. The mechanical feature is a
fine specimen. 1t is printed on the
best paper, and is filled with pictures
of prominent citizens, business houses.
residences and street scenes.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-04-18
COMMISSIONER SALE OF VALUA.
" BILE REAL ESTATE.

By virtue of decree of theclrcuit court
of Augusta county entered on the Goth day
of June, 1901, in the cause of Jas. A. Miller
and others, VS.. JnO. L.. Miller and others,
the undersigned will. as commissioner ap-
pointed for the purpose, proceed on
SATURDAY,, MARCH 90, 1902,
at or about 10 O'Clock M, in front of the
court house of Augusta county, in the city
Of StauntOn, to sell at public auction to
the highest bidder, two tracts or parcels
of land in the proceedings in said cause
i mentioned, belonging to Dedrick Miller
in his life time, situated near Stribling
Springs, in Augusta county. First of said
| tracts contains 40 acres, more or less, adj
joining the lands of Fl. G. Hanna. Snyder,
Burton and others; and the other said
tract contains POI acres more or less, ad-
joining the lands of M. O'Conner, Snyder,
Rimel and others.
purchase money in cash, and the residue
of said purchase money upon credit of
six, twelve and eighteen months, the de
ferred instruments of said purchase money
to be evidenced by the bonds of the pur-
chaser in equal instalments, and bearing
interest from day of sale, with good secu-
rity, waving the homestead exemption,
security.
HARRY H BLEASE,
Commissioner.
l hereby certify that the bond required
of the commissioner by decree of date June
Goth, 1901, in the cause of Jas. A. Miller,
ct ais, VS.. Jno. L. Miller, ct ais. pending
in this court has been executed by Harry
H. Blease the commissioner above named.
Given under my hand this 26th day of
February, 1902.
feb % st JOS. B. WOODWARD, Clerk.
The above sale is postponded until
MONDAY, APRIL %, 1902,
County Court day., at the same hour
and place.
III. H. BLEASE,
apr AT Commissioner.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-04-18

That the English have been having
stations in the United States where
horses and all manor of supplies they
wanted for the Boer war were obtained
has been known for nearly three years.
The authorities are just waking up to
it we hear. Had any Secretary OF State
other than John Hay or some Angll-
cised American been in office, this out
rage on those poor South Africans
would never have been tolerated for
a moment.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-04-18

Mrs. Mckinley was granted a pen
sion of S., 600. One Congressman from
way out in Colorado objected. where
upon a Congressman named Grosve-
nor, from Ohio, jumped on him with
both feet, he brow beat, and bullied
the poor member from Colorado until
we are sure he is sorry he was ever
born. The bill then passed without
q dissenting vote,
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-04-18

Exclude the Chinese and admit An
archists, is the trend of American
ideas. Save California to the Repub-
Iican party and lose millions to the
cotton trade of t he South, is what ex-
cIusion means.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-04-18

The President visited for the first
time last week the Sunny,South. When
many Northern people go South they
expect to find the public eating soap
stone and asking if the wars over.
We suppose the President found them
inst as he had pictured them, and as
be wished to find them. We are not
appraised as to whether they burnt any
negroes just to show him how it is done
there and in Kansas, but they ought to
have done so to have made his trip
complete.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-04-18

Gen. Grosvenor informed the public
when discussing Mrs. McKinley's pen
sion, that pensions are not granted
persons through charity. They are
granted because the country is gener-
Gus and the. recipient has earned the
pension. The question of financial
conditions cuts no figure. Mr.. John
P. Morgan would be granted a pension
if he had ever exposed his person to
rebel bullets. He and Grover Cleve-
land possibly will never ornament the
pension rolls. Mrs. Cleveland may.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-04-18
Swell New Creations

PUBLIC SALE OF REAL ESTATE IN
II PASTURES DISTRICT, AUGUSTA
lCO.:-By virtue of the authority vested in
me, by decree of date May 24tI, 1901 in
| the chancery cause of Watson and wife
VS.: Sheets, ct ais, now pending in the CIR
cult Court of Augusta county, l will offer
for sale at public auction in front of the
courthouse in the city of Staunton, on
MONDAY, APRIL 18th, 1902.
at IL o'clock, NJ, that certain tract or mar.
Gel of land lying in Pastures District An.
gusta county, adjoining Desler and others
and containing % acres, roods, and 20
poles, and lately belonging to- and in the
possession of, the said George P. Sheets.
TERMS OF SALE:-One- fourth of the
purchase money cash on day of sale, and
residue in three equal annual installments.
to be evidenced by the bonds of the pur.
chaser, bearing date on day of sale. with
interest from date, waving the Homestead
exemption, and falling due respectively
in one, two and three years from date
with good personal security thereon. and
the titleretained as ultimate security.
F. B. KENNEDY,
Commissioner.
Clerk sOffice of the Circuit Court of An.
gusta County, to-wit:
I,JOs. B. Woodward, Clerk Ofthe Cont
aforesaid do certify that F. B, Kennedy
commissioner above named, has executad
the bond required by decree of date Ma
oath, 1901, in the cause of Watson and
wife VS.. Sheets, ct ais, now pending in
this court.
Given under my hand this 31st day of
JOS. B. WOODWARD,
apr4-4t Clerk.