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Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1907-10-04
e.r,na ror ,he stranger q. our Go ties.

cr,o For the Stranger at Our Go tes-
There is recei we'd at Ellis Island sucn
n vast quantity of bagg age that IL Id
necessary to handle it bot Ia Gay anu
night. Now, the baggage-room Is
right under the sleeping quarters, anu
there during the night the baggage
was loaded upon ordinary iron-wheei-
ed railroad trucks and cared ont 10
the barges, making great roar which
compared favorably in volume Oh
sound with Niagara Falls. obvious
Iy it was necessary to have more tnan
an easy conscience to sleep IN such
so-called sleeping quarters. In spi'e
of the lusty protests of the interested
companies, the Commissioner insisted
that they replace the old trucks with
rubber-tired vehicles, with the result
that the noise of moving the baggage
ia now barely audible on the hoor
above. And to make these same sleep
ing-quarters what they should be IN
other respects the Commissioners Is nav
ing them entirely remodeled. lie sald
in speaking of the present quarters III
was ordered to sleep in place Ike
that [ wouldn't do it!o These quar-
tiers consist of two immense rectahgu-
lar rooms on eitherside Of the great ia
spection hall. Covering the entire
area of these rooms is a network OF
wire-woven beds supported by steel
uprights. The ventilation consists OF
series Of small windows near the
ceiling and some negative overh ead
ventilators to draw off the bad air In
these myriad beds, separated the one
from the other not at all, are lndis-
criminately packed away Italians,
Irish, Germans, Hungarians, English,
Poles, Swedes, Russians, Bulgarians
and Dutch. These rooms are now be-
ing remodeled so that there Will be for
each nation, with any considerable re-
presentation, separate room. These
rooms Will be supplied with canvas
covered beds so arranged that when
not in use they CAN be pulled up flush
with the ceiling, thus leaving series
Of large airy sittingrocms for the use
Of the immigrants during the day.
The rooms will be ventilated by
powerful ventilators, which will auto
matically change the air every few
minutes. Floors and walls will be OF
polished thing, and there are to be
pipes and faucets through which boil
ing water can beturn ed when the rooms
are vacant, thus keeping them abso
Iutely clean and free from filth u con-
tagion. -From "The silver Lining Of
the I'm migration Cloud,h by Lyman
Beecher Stowe, in The Circle for Oct.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1907-10-04
syhat Cotton Trusf is Doing 10 she Poor
Eenn7e.


CaIicoes, the most widely used of
dress materials and the cheapest, went
up to civil war prices yesterday when
the manufacturers advanced the retail
quotation for "prints,' as they are
called in the trade, practically to ten
cents. | was the highest figure since
1865. Not much more than year ago
these same calicoe cost as low as four
or five cent. yard.
Owing 10 the high cost of all cotton
and dress fabrics there is an enormous
demand for the lei lively cheap cali
Goes. Tue manufacturers have bee
quick TO take advantage Of this pneno
menal demand and today they hava
made these goods practically a luxury
to the poorer classes in this country.
This come about, too, in the face Of
dec ming market on raw material.
The fact that The retail trade through
out the country is in strong position
and can afford to pay an advance of
from to 8 per cent over the prices pre-
viously in force has been appreciated
by The wholesaler as well rs the man
ufacturer. The question now to be sci
tled is whether the consumer can af
ford to pay the advance.
While there had been talk recently
OF an advance in prints, it was not
| thought by he trade generally that in
the face OF q declining raw material
! market the manufacturers would take
such & step. However, The American
Printing Com pany, which is controlled
by Nj. G. D. Barden of this city and
Fall i2iver, Mass, and is the largest
manufacturer of prints in this country,
just before The close of the MAJ ket, Of
ficall.J announced yesterday that the
wnolusa!e price OF prints had been adj
! vancea TOT cents yard, the advance
to take effect at once. Other manufac-
turers viii follow the lead Of the Boi-
den coucern.
0 July A11merican prints were
a lvanced IL cents from cents. Cot
ton was then selling at 1875 cents.
Yesterday while prints were jumped
t, cents yard, cotton was selling at
10 cents, and cotton yarns were weak.
Prints ;>re the only dry goods features
of Importance that have advanced ft1
,verai weeks.
AS there were large stocks still in the
hands of the jobbers throughout the
country, the advance was accompa-
Fled by further announcement On
the psrt of The manufacturers that nc
goods held by jobbers could be sold af
ter September "A at less than Tho ad-
vanced price. Should this price be
broken no further goods can be obtain
ed from the manufacturers, while all
contracts will be considered void -
Philadelphia Press.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1907-10-04
Norwey's Master Of Music.

1t was Hans Won Bulow who call
Ell Grieg the "Chopin of the North"
and the sobriquet was not insppro-
pirate. 1t cannot be doubted that
Chopin's bold new harmony WAS one
of the sub-csnseious forces that helped
to shape Grieg's musical genius. His
mother appreciated and delig hted in
Chopin's music at time when it was
little understood and much underrat-
ed; and from childhood Chopin was
Grieg's best-lovcd composer. In his
student days he :, as deeply moved by
the "intense minor mood of the Slavic
folk-music in Chopin S harmonies and
the sadness over the unhappy fate of
his native land in his melodies
The musical styles Of the two masters
have many points of similarity. They
are akin i'll refinement, in the kind
and even the degree of Originality with
which each has en- Tiched his art, in
,0any of their aims and methods. After
Chopin, Grieg is perhaps the greatest
nationalist among composers; and like
| the great Pole again he raised his ma
tjonaIism into the worldwide accep-
tat.on,- wrote in no dialect, but in
the universal language. If Grleg never
quite attained to the heights of Chop
in in his pianof rte music, he surpass-
ed his Polish predecessor IN the ability
| to handle other instruments and in his
songs, of which he published no fewer
than one hundred and twenty. five.
1t is these songs that constitute Ed
ward Grieg S highest achievement. and
In all his music he is first of all the
singer, amazingly fertile in easily COM
preaensibie and ailuring melodies. He
patterned these original melodies after
,be foIk-songs of that Northland he
! loved 60 ardently. just as he often eul-
uloved tbs rhythms of its folk-dances;
/ and bv these means he i'm parted TO his
work a fascinating exotic touch AMI
succeeded III eVeking as II BY magic
the moods of the land and the people,
He is an nnpressionist in music, who
cives us intimate glimpses OF the rug
ged grsndeurs of his country and
charming portraits of his lusty,yet Of
ten melancholy, sons and daughters;
ana his tone-pietures are always re-
fined, From Edward Grieg, "The
Chopin of the North, "by 2. w .Har-
ris. in the American Review of Reviews
for October.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1907-10-04
swIndred by Nevy Scheme.

| Last spring a couple of sharks VISITED
the different sections of the state and
proposed to sell a very fine vari-
| etv of oats called "White Plume,
which they represented as a very su-
perior variety. Their proposition was
that they would deliver two bushel OF
seed oats to each farmer they succeed
ed in getting to bite, for which they
were to have 20 bushels in exchange
delivered at the nearest warehouse
when the oats were threshed. This they
expected TO sell to other farmers who
had not bought the seed this year, but
would be sure to buy for next year
when they saw the advantages OF rails
ing the new variety. Another condl-
ton in the contract was that whatever
amount Of eats the farmer bad in e1-
cess of the 70 bushels, he might use
fer his own seed next year, but he
should not sell any of 1t for seed until
after he had raised mis- crop Ut 1898.
About the time the crop of oats was
coming out in the head the same par
ties who had sold the seed oats came
along and reported they had found
the contract they had made for the
payment Of the sbushels of seed oats
was a violation Of the law, but that in
place of delivering the 20 bushels at
the warehouse they would sell it to
the farmer at 40 cents bushel and
that he might sell as much of it for the
next years seed as he desired. The adj
vantages Of the new deal were accepted
by the farmer and the sharks left him
with 81 bushel OF the farmers money
in their pocket for the two bushels Of
seed "While Plume' oats which the
farmer found at harvest was a very
common variety.
After so many people were caught
on the Bohemian cats fraud a few
years ago it is rather surprising that
they were SO easily caught on this new
fraud.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1907-10-04

Ask nearest B. & o. ticket Agent
or full details.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1907-10-04
Grent rsrenhone nIerner

Arrangements have been completed,
it was announced, TO consolidate the
Bel. Telephone Co., the Pennsy hania
Telephone Co., and the Chesapeake &
Potomac Telephone Co., all licensed
companies of the American Bell Tele-
phone Co. and all occupying and OPP
Grating directly contiguous territory in
southern New Jersey, eastern Penusyl-
vania, Delaware, Maryland, District
OF Columbia, Virginia and West Viz
ginia'
The companies named are noA OPP
Grating 100000 telephones bat are not
competitors in any sense
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1907-10-04

There was $50 600 acres OF groun q
planted in corn IN West Virginia IN
1906. The yield was %, ,O09 bushels
of shelled corn. Its value was Sl2,49o,-
$50. OF the fetal yield S,l2l 600 bushels
were in the farmers hands on March
/, 1907. Only LIPS, $50 bushels of the
total production were shipped out OF
the county in hieh grown. The aver
age yield per acre was 1913 bushels,
and the,money value of The per acre
yield was s16.66. The money value OF
the yield:per acre of 1905 was $3.50.
In 1897 the money value Of the per
acre yield was $3.50. Corn sold at forty
cents b, shell in West Virginia ia
1897, and at tifty-nve cents in 1906.
High water mark in the price of corn
was rssched in 1901, WI hen il sold at 60
cents per hushel.
There were 3o4 PAL acres Of wheat
harvested in West Virginiain 1906, the
total yield being $3.50, S9l bushels, val
ued at S. $780, S7. There were 1910, 345
bushels still in the hands Of the farm
ers growing ii on March l, 1907. The
yield per acre in 1906 was12.7. b shells.
The banner wheat crop grown IL West
Virginia III the last ten years was in
1898 " hen the average yle!d per acre
was 1873 buslels. Low water mark
was reached in 1902 when the average
yield per acre was ~ bushels. The
money value of the average yield per
acre in 1906 was 5000. High water
mark in this respect was in 1897 when
the monsy value of the per acre yield
WAS Sill. 93. Low water mark as in 1902
when the value of the per acre yield
was 1851.
The oats crop of West Virginia in
1906 amounted to 2, 101, 200 bushels,
grown on 100000 acres. Its money
value is placed at $780, S0 Practically
all OF it was fed in the counties where
grown. The 1904 crop was the largest
per acre in ten years, being PA bush
els 10 the acre against POS bushels in
1905, and 1871 in 1901.
The barley yield in West Virginia
was too small to be scheduled by the
Department Of a agriculture.
There were Il ,131 acres of puckwheat
harv ested in West Virginia in 1905, an
average yield of Is bushels per acre
being gathered, O. total yield of $780,
35S bushels. The money value of the
crop is placed by the Department Of
agriculture at $247,243.
There "a $40 acres of potatoes grown
in West Virginia in 1906, the total
yield being 1884, 472 bushels, or an
average of 81 bushels to the acre. The
otal value Of the crop is placed at 81
054, OPS. At prevailing prices the value
Of the per acre yield Of potatoes in
West Virginia ia 1906 was So9.17. In
other words the potato crop shows
higher per acre value than any otter
crop grown n West Virginia.
Hay was gathered off 517,3S4 acres
of ground in West Virginia in 1906. The
total yield was 724 ,88S tons, oran avel-
age of lao tons>per acre. The crop was
worth at prevailing prices $40, 140, goo.
The value CT The per acre yield was
$3.50, which is high water mark for
ten years. Low water mark was reach
ed in 1897 when the value Of the per
asr acre yield was $11,95.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1907-10-04

One of the Senator'S rem Georgia
tells Of darAy in that state who
sought work at the hands OF white
man. The latter inquired whether the
negro had Il boat. upon being answered
ia II affirmative he said:
''Iou see that driftwood floating
d WIN the stream"
"Yessah."
"Tnen,p continued the other, "row
out into the river and catch it. Ill giN e
you halt of W hat you frlng in"
The darkey imne tiately proceeded
t. do as Instructed, and for a while
worked hard Then Of sudden he
ceased to labor and pulled for the
shore.
"Nhat's the trouble?" asked the
EN- ployer.
"Look hyar, boss" said the dsrky
indignantly, ''dat wood Is jest az much
mine as yours. l amt gwine to give
yo' any. So rs outer WORK again"
B lls-Sn,ith's vacation is over
Wills-l didn't know that ne had
beet away.
b ils-iie hasn't; his wife IS. re-
tunl~d lro.lA thc ssashore.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1907-10-04
ADMINISTER

The undersigns u - -
administrator Of
Il. Light deceased ..es9oy gives notice
that those indebted to said estate must
come forward at once to settle same
and those having cla;nf against said
estate must present sane at once with
due authorization Ter cott ement.
w H Kline, sc MIR.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-04-25
Tributes to LonafeIIow.

Prof. w. P. Trent in Forum
ind in nearly all the recent tributes
manly tendency to praise unexrray.
agantly but heartily and sincerely
Longfellow's personal charm and the
beauty and wholesomeness and artis.
tic perfection and wide range of his
poetry. There is frank admission
That his waru is not uniformly excer
tent, That some of his more elaborate
performances are read even now with
difnculty, and that these and probably
not few present favorites will mean
little or nothing to posterity. But,
On the other hand, there is a firm in
sistence upon tie value of his ser.
vices as An interpreter Of old-worfd
romance and culture to the new, up.
on the permanent appeal Of such sim.
pie and true reflective lyrics as The
Bridge Daylight and Moonlight
and score of equally perfect pieces;
upon the power of truth of his sea-
poetry; upon his mastery of the art
OF narrative in verse, and, last but
not least, he unfailing felicity of his
sOnnets.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-04-25
Growth Of the Telephone.

By Henry Harrison Suplee, in For
um.-Few persons realize the rapid
growth which has taken place in The
past few years in the use of the tele-
phone as a means of communication.
Statistics issued at the close of the
year 1906 show that there We're in
use in the United States alone more
than 100000 instruments, and an ag-
gregate of little more than 5000, 900
miles of wire used for telephone ser
vice. The telephone industry gives
employment to 10000 persons in the
United States, an INCREASE of III per
cent in six pears, while during the
same period the number of stations
has increased 239 per cent and the
wire mileage 349 per cent.
There is little doubt that much Of
this increase Is due to the general
adoption of the so-called message.
rate system, in place of the fiat
annual charge formerly in vogue.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-04-25
Splendid April Tonic.

This Is known as BLOOD Cleaning
Time" especially among the older
folks, who always take something dur.
ing this month to clean the blood of
impurities and build II up.
The following is the recipe as given
by well-known authority, and any
one can prepare It at home:
Fluid Extract Dandelion one-half
ounce. Compound Kargon one ounce,
Compound Syrup Sarsaparlla three
ounces
Get these simple ingredients from
any good pharmacy and mix by shak-
Ing well In bottle. The dose is one
teaspoonful after meals and ut bed
time.
Everybody should take something to
help the blood. which becomes Impov-
erished and almost sour after the win
ter season. especially those who are
subject to Rheumatism, Catarrh, Kid
ney and Bladder trouble.
1t Ii said that one weeks use OF this
mixture will clear the skin Of sores,
pimples or boils
This Is sound, healthy advice, which
will be appreciated by many readers
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-04-25
Excessive Prosperity.

Alexander d. Moves. in Forum
The question of prosperity, as shown
by our internal trade, reveals a posi-
ton which is very curious Foreign
critics are pretty unanimous in the
Judgment that reduced trade activity
is essential to escape disastrous
strain on the money markets Wall
Street asserts that Trade reaction is
foreshadowed by the prolonged col
lapse of the Stock Exchange Rail.
way men nave declared that at leasr
contracting activity in steel and iron
must follow the forced retrenchment
of the railways. On top of this comes
the assertion of numerous oracles,
from Secretary Shaw to some bust
ness men themselves, that a slacken.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-04-25
WEIGHT AND HEALTH
THIN, NERVOUS PEOPLE NEED
THE TONIC TREATMENT.
This Woman Took Or. Williams Pink
Pills. Gained Thirty Pounds and
Has Been Well Ever Since.

How many wonderland men too
are suffering from a general decline in
health which the ordinary remedies
seem unable to check How many hus-
bands see their wives wasting away,
steadily losing health and beauty, and
are powerless to help! Consumption
and other germ diseases find in these
debilitated systems easy prey, for the
lowered vitality is unequal to the task of
fighting of the infection of these diseases
to which most of US are almost daily ex-
posed.
The symptoms indicating the decline
which may have results so fatal could
scarcely be better described than in the
statement of Mrs William Manley, of
20 Court street, Utica, N. Y. Her case
is typical one. She says:
'sFOr six months after the birth of my
baby, l suffered from sick, dizzy head
aches, which seemed like q rush of
blood to my forehead. just back of my
eyes. Some days they twitched so
could hardly see and black spots fioated
before them. The least exertion brought
on this sickness. My appetite was poor
and was often sick to my stomach.
''If / triedtp work my feet soon be.
came swollen, paining me terribly. ]
had sinking spells and grew pale and
nervous. Ix-es so thin that weighed
only 90 pounds.
Zone day wher at the drug store to
get headache powders decided to try
DR.. Williams Pink Pills instead.
soon noticed that my headache was dis
appearing and my nerves gradually
grew stronger. The pills gave me q
hearty appetite and I now weigh over
1870 pounds. believe the pills to be the
best tonic and builder woman can take,
as they certainly helped me when my
condition was critical and have never
been seriously ill since"
The great value of DIR. Williams Pink
Pills lies in the fact that they actually
make new blood and this carries health
and strength to every portion of the
body. The stomach is toned up, the
nerves are strengthened, every organ is
stimulated to do its work.
If you are i'll and the treatment You
are taking does not cure you, write for
proof Of what DIR. Williams Pink Pills
have done in similar cases.
Your druggist sells them or they will
be sent by mail, postpaid, ON receipt OF
price, 80 cents per box, six boxes for
$3.50, by the DR.. Williams Medicine Co.,
Schenectady, N. Y.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-04-25
SINCE MOLLY WENT AWAY.


Don't seem jest like it used to seen
Since Molly went away;
The dark has lost the rosy dream,
The sunshine left the day.
The birds don't sing as sweet as when
They saw the roses stir
An look, an listen in the glen
To hear the step of her.
1t jest seems like for bird an brook
There's never no more May;
An that when Molly went she took
The world an all away!
I jest set here when days begun
An feel the lonely place,
The sunflowers foller in the sun !.
An dreamin' of her face.
An wonder why in shrub an tree
The sweetest birds are dumb,
While all the roses look at me,
An whisper: will she Gomez"
didn't think it would seem so strange
That any heart would break;
But how this world o. God can change
For jest one womans sake.
One little woman-'Wili she Gomez"
The roses, day by day;
| answer not, my heart is dumb,
Since Molly went away
Frank l.. Stanton, Atlanta
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-04-25
CHRONOLOGY OF INVENTIONS.

Steel needles were first made In
England in 1545.
Shorthand writing was the inven
ton of Pitnan in 1887.
Billiards We're invented in France
in 1411.
The first pipe organ was made by
Archimedes in 220 B. C.
The first dictionary was made by
the Chinese scholars in Hoe B. C.
The first pair of spectacles was
made by an Italian in 1zz9.
The dinner fork was introduced In
to Italy in 14s1 and into England in
1908.
Glass mirrors were known in A. ID.
20. but the art of making them was
lost and not discovered until 1900 in
Venice.-New York Herald.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-04-25
SKIN SORE EIGHT YEARS.
spent saOO On Doctors and Remedies
hut Got No Relief-Cuticura Cures
I'm = Week.

Upon the limbs and between the
toes my skin was rough and sore. and
also sore under the arms. and had to
stay at home several times because Of
this affection. Up to a week or 50 ago
l had tried many other remedies and
several doctors, and spent about three
hundred dollars. without any success,
but this is to-day the seventh day that
have been using the Cutlcura Rene
dies Costing dollar and a halO
which have cured me completely, so
that | can again attend to my bust
ness. went to work again tonight.
had been suffering for eight years
and have now been cured by the Cut
icura Remedies within week. Fritz
Hirschlaff, "a Columbus avenue, New
York, N. Z. March 20 and April 8.
1906"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-04-25
MRS HENRY LEE

Owing to modern methods of living
not one woman in a thousand APP
proaches this perfectly natural change
without experiencing train of very
annoying and sometimes painful
symptoms.
This is the most critical period of
her whole existence and every woman
who neglects the care of her health
at this time invites disease and pain.
When her system is in deranged
condition or she is predisposed to
apoplexy or congestion of any organ,
the tendency is at this e r d
likely to become active and with a
host of nervous irritations make life a
burden. At this time also cancers
and tumors are more liable to form
and begin their destructive work.
Such warning symptoms as sense
of suffocation, hot flashes, headaches,
backaches, melancholia, dread of im,
pending evil, palpitation Of the heart
Irregularities. constipation and dizzi
ness are promptly needed by intel
ligent women who are approaching
the period of life when this great
change may be expected.
Mrs. Fred Certia, 1O14 So. Lafayette
Street, So. Bend, Ind, writes:
Dear Mrs Pinkham -
Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Com
pound is the ideal medicine for women who
When medicine has been
actually thousands of women, Y,
it, 81 do not believe it will hell
and family to try Lydia E. Pink