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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1908-09-05

Miss Moliie Woleslagle, Of Councils
vile, Pa, has returned home after
visiting in this city.
Misses Elsie and Edith Byers, OF
Boyd avenue, have returned from a
visit to Waynesboro.
Master Paul Gruver. of Nortn
Queen street has returned from visit
ing in Mt. Jackson, Va.
Mrs. Clifford L. Gibbs, West King
street, is spending the week in Balti-
more and Philadelphia.
Miss Genevieye Walters and Miss
Ebay Monkey, of Cumberland, spent
Monday here with friends.
Miss Louise Shelby OF Newport
News, Va, has returned home after
visiting friends in this city.
Mr.. Sailer Martin and family, of
Lancaster. Pa. are visiting his par
ents on Winchester avenue.
Mr.. Harry Russler and children
have returned to Cumberland after
visiting relatives in this city.
Mr.. Charles r. Smith, West Stephen
street, is spending a few days at War
fordsburg. Pa, near Hancock.
Miss Louise Delphy, of Pittsburg,
was tie guest OF Mrs. j. T. McQuil-
kin, West Race street, for a few days.
Rev. d. n. Dittman, of Jefferson,
Md, spent several hours here Mon
day between trains on his way west.
Mr.. Bert Tabler and family, of
Roanoke, Va, have returned home at
ter spending a few days in this city.
Mrs. Madge Mason, of Pittsburg,
spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs.
Lindsay Van Horn, North Queen
street.
Miss Daisy Berger, of Hagerstown,
spent Sunday here as the guest OF
Miss Eva Weilinger, East Burke
street.
Miss Sallie Beard, Water street,
flhas returned from visiting at the
home of Mr.. Harmon Couchman, near
this city.
Mr.. William A. Johnson, clerk in
Fiery's shoe store, is spending a
weeks vacation in Washington and
Baltimore.
Mrs. o. v. McQuilkin has returned
to Cumberland after a visit to her
mother. Mrs. 5. J.. Dixon accompanied
her for a visit.
Miss Lille Joe, of Lancaster, Pa,
and Mrs. Rex Simlns, of Hagerstown,
are the guests OF Miss Katie Fversole,
near this city.
DIR. Frederick Braumbaugh of New
York city, who has been a gnest at
the home of Mr.. Charles Roush has
returned home.
Mr.. Arthur Jones, of Frederick who
has been spending the past week at
the home of MI. john Bartgis return
ed home Tuesday.
Mr.. e. w. Van Metre, an official of
the p~oGtoffice department, Washing
ton, is home on West King street for
a ten days vacation
Mr.. Charles Trump, who was EN-
ployed in Pittsburg this summer. is
home, ready for the opening of the
high school next week.
Miss Bess Houseworth, of Chicago,
left for home last evening after
spening two months with Mrs. Louisa
Curtis, East Race street.
Messrs. John Sullivan, George Rod
er and Jefferson Hanson, of Balti-
more, are the guests of Mr.. Frederick
Becker, North High street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Imbach have
returned home after a visit of several
days with the family of Mr.. T. j.
Lampas, in Harrisburg, Pa.
Mr.. Robert Young, of Roanoke, Va,
spent Friday and Saturday with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. John M.
Young, South Raleigh street.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1908-09-05
Thousands Have Kidney
Trouble and Never Suspect il.

Prevalency OF Kidney Disease-
Most people do not realize the alarm
ing increase and remarkable %prevalency
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1908-03-15

Butchered to make a Roman holiday.
Put opinions without the shedding of blood
The history contains sublime character
than that Gordano Bruno who burnt alive the Campo de
City leOO by edict of the Inquisiton
his alleged hca teachings To such heroes to such
Freethought debt of gratitude their martyrdom
necessary establish the living eternal truths of the
physical His funeral pyre built within plain view of the
Vatican and on that sacred spot there stands marble mOn
his memory, by the Fhnkers of Europe and
a Popery Superstition, threat of what
will probably should conduct be attempted again
Giordano Brunei What contained in that name! The
pages history enriched by his heroism at
No Naples the l54s and he became advocate
of the Coperncan system which brought him into conflict with
the ecclesiastical authorities Copencu had been dead ten
when Bruno born but the later promulgated the teachings of
that great scholar years age
novice in the monastery of San Domenco Maggo later taking
His a
up against him although years age. Still
another followed and third when he compelled
to seek safety flight After experience continental Europe
he finally London where he reader at the Oxford
University and drawn into discussion the Cpecan
astronomy with the orthodox professors
ton lie went back Paris and later Wttenburg
Germany for two years. when protesting noeman ed him into
Venice when he betrayed the lnqution He
feed by his to Rome and anghed for
being
compel reantation and acceptance the
remained his right February 10TH year
1900 he led forth to the Holy Maria
received sentence to be burned alive the Inqutoa Judge
about to sentence him Bruno interrupted him. saying
you afraid to pronounce my
it, Another Robert Emmett and forerunner of that sterling
Irish patriot.
Pror TO his execution Bruno allowed which
reflect his obtaining recanta
ton He Indignantly refused sentence or
accurately speaking the 18th February 1900 Bruno
led from his dungeon and publicly
butcheed make holiday flames began to lick
his life the assembled priests presented him
martyr conemptuosy pushed it aside and
died without the slightest resolve forbid him
to even utter groan in his great agony
Contrast this Jesus The latter
cried in when cross INV nod nv god
why hast thou foaken me- Bruno word but met his
doom with the leone courage stamped him hero in
history.
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1908-03-15
GIORDANO BRUNO


being of stature, agile in frame OF
body, paid thoughtful expression,
both piercing melancholy brown hair and beard manner
courteous and gentle The reproduction the first page OF TINS
the Blade best available picture could get OF
him and given showing that he still young man when
the horrible lnquison him death such cruel
Knowing what his fate would be should he venture to
his native land he carefully kept out of harms On
Friday May o. 1892 Mocenigo former pupil and patron
became his The latter forcby entered the bed room
at Padua where Bruno asleep and peext of wishing to
talk with him. led him where the unsupectng hero
willingly and there his friend locked him in and
held him until the officers of the Inqon arrived and took him
did destiny furnish end fearful and
herendng that which befel Giorano Bruno He died for
the rights of of His warfare
theological he pierce the gloom
with the light of science Although he disappeared from earth in
flame of fire he birth, and from the
smodeng ashes of his human frame there Bruno
Bruno of history Bruno of immortal and fame Bruno
who Believing
destined knowledge freedom
doctrines beliefs really the foundations of
mental freedom, afterwards realized degree
among other things he Taught
opinions depend upon ourselves evidence
of circumstance, mpel upon man,
thinks what he wishes he wishes has the right of
compelling another to think he does Every ought tolerate
with patience with indulgence the beliefs his neghbor
Ioton that natural faith all webon hearts, the
fruit enlightened indispensable requirement
logic, well as precept of morality"
From the foregoing quotation well
be judged and this the whom the Christian
demned to such death Freenkes urged Shelley
had in mind the death Queen NAB and
Incorporated these words-
Il was infant when mother
TO Atheist burned. there.
The dark -robed priests the pile
The multitude gazing silently;
And as the cupr passed with dautess MEN,
Tempered dsdain in his unaltering
Mixed with quiet smile, shone calmly FORTH
The thirsty fire crept round his manly limbs;
His resolute scorched o blindness
His death pang rent my hearth The insensate mob
Uttered of Triumph, and l wept
Weep not, child said my Mother that
Man hath said there s god
There is god!
Why Nature, herself, procams faith his death
seae
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-23
BYGONE VULGARITY

TT is easy and safe to criticise our
ancestors. They cannot talk back.
Il We say with impunity that they
were vulger wretches, that their ideas
of humor were rude and crude. For in
stance. in the middle ages it was Il
fashionable amusement TO watch an Of
fetal Jester jump into huge bowl
of custard. Sometimes there would be
a mighty splash and a hespattered
dame would turn loose a torrent of
English that would make modern
Bowery boy faint and sick. If you
wish to get an inkling of the range and
vocabulary of fashionable inVective,
consult Shakespeare, to whom more
than to any other writer we owe an
accurate acquaintance with the people
of the spacious times of Elizabeth and
the sovereigns who preceded her. And
what is said about the most majestic
figure of the spacious times by contem-
porary chroniclers? Alas, it is only too
we'll proved that Elizabeth swore like
a trooper when her dander was up
which was frequently-that she heaVed
sticks and pots and pans at the de-
voted heads of the base born who in
Cured her displeasure, and, worst of
all. that she not only relished but told
stories utterly unfit for publication.
To Puritanism the conversation Of
English-speakng peoples owes its
modern cleansing. The derided round
head" who (said his enemies) "snuffed
through his nose" in a fashion that has
tainted Yankee speech even unto this
day, was the first man who talked Eng
glish of the kind we call reportable.
Before that, to speak without strange
oaths and monstrous blasphemies was
considered a sign of weakness. Under
the Georges the habit of promiscuous
cussing still prevailed in polite society.
but the war of the American teVolu-
tion and the long series of wars that
followed had a SOLDERING effect on the
English language and on the people
that used it. In the nineteenth century
appeared the first novel in the language
that could be read aloud from preface
TO finis in the parlor of d nunnery. It's
name was Waverlcy. it's author Walter
Scott The Wizard of the North did
far more than invent the modern novel
in all it's branches. romantic, historic,
social and "kailyaird," He cleaned up
literature. His mighty example still
predominates English letters and even
fiippant and coclsy young modern story
writer's, who would hoot at the sug-
gestion that Walter Scott is their mas
ter, even as Shakespeare is the master
of all who write modern English verse,
unconsciously owe their style. their
language and to a great extent their
inspiration and the mold of their
thought, as well as the method of it's
expression, to the pioneer who made
two huge fortunes and lost them, and
three regulations, one as poet, one as
novelist, one as antiquarian, each of
the three unassailable and imperishable
and therefore good" even unto this
daV
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-23

MARRIAGE REFORM

THE new Catholic marriage law
which will be enforced on and
\ after Easter will be welcomed by
on-Catholics as we'll as Catholics, be-
cause it is a sign that the most i'm
portant social institution of modern
civilization is about to be restored to
it's dignity The Catholic church will
make the attempt to eliminate that fea-
ture of modern life known as marrying
in haste, which proverbially and actu-
ally is often followed by repentance
at leisure, Civil marriages are pro-
hibited by the church. No one but the
parish priest or some one delegated by
him may perform the ceremony This
rule has been laid down in order to
prevent elopements and clandestine
marriages. No Catholic marriage will
be valid unless it is performed by a
priest duly authorized, and before at
least two witnesses. A marriage cere-
mony between two Catholics, or a
Catholic and a baptized non-Catholic,
performed by civil magistrate, alder
man, notary public or Protestant min
lister will be null and void. Hitherto
such marriages were valid. No mar
riage will be "licit' unless it is per-
formed by the pastor of the bride, or
by priest delegated by him or the
bishop OF the diocese.
While some may resent the new law
as an infringement upon the rights OF
the individual, there are many others
of all denominations who will be slow
to cavil at an attempt by one of the
greatest churches in Christendom to
attack the divorce evil where it should
be alta cked, that is. at the cause OF
source of divorce troubles. Most di-
vorces are the results Of mismarriages.
Dreadful to many good people is the
thought of invoking the secular courts
to unloose the sacred marriage tie.
Much more dreadful should be the
thought that many marriage ties are
evidently not sacred at all, for it is
reasonable to believe that whom God
hath Joined no man CAN put asunder.
Marriages, according to the old saying,
are made in heaven, but We may be
pardoned if we entertain the opinion
that marriages that result in divorces
are made in the other place.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-23
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

| NAPITALI punishment has been abol-
ished i'm five states of the Union,
~ and il is almost certain that ONO
will be added to that number. The
growing sentiment in favor of abolition
that is being exhibited in the United
States is due not only Humanitarian
ism, but to a belief that capital pun
ishment is not deterrent; that 1t is
merely vengeance and an example of
the persistence of the Mosaic law in
Christian communities. AS far as the
humanitarian argument is concerned,
to it may be opposed plea for
capital punishment on humanitarian
grounds. Murder is inhumane and
ought to be impossible and unthink-
able i'm a civilized community. If the
Golden Rule were practiced as we'll as
preached there would be no murder.
1t is not because one community is
more law fearing or law abiding than
another that murder is less common
in it. 1t is because one community is
moro contentcd than another. Discon-
tent breeds crime and stimulates into
activity latent criminal instincts For
tunately for civilization the great ma
jority of people can withstand the in
ward frettings and urgings of discon-
tent. Patience has been cultivated so
carefully that the impatient man is re-
garded as deficient in moral quality.
Impatience may readily become rebel
~ H. 1AA l9nlA N
years. and only after a long period OF
smoldering may the fire burst into
flame This was exemplified in the
United States, where discomfort was
expressed freely twenty years before
the War of the Revolution brought
matters to a climax and where it was
again expressed freely forty years be-
fore the War of the Rebellion brought
matters to climax, and where again it
is being expressed freely. Crimes of
violence are still recorded every day
in every section of the country. Every
morning brings a new tale of blood
shed, now from one part of the country,
now from another. Sometimes the muir
utTGI lS puIllSiiCNi 'piiiNeiiANS ~ - N'A
lowed to go scot free. because justice
is not even handed. 1t is probably in
the unfairness and inequality of the |
administration of Justice that the |
most convincing argument in favor of
the abolition OF capital punishment is
to be found. When condemnation !
means an officially violent death to |
poor and therefore friendless man. and, |
to rich man, a mere series of fantas-
tic legal convolutions-a kind Of judi |
cial looping the loop-from which he |
finally emerges somewhat shaken up |
but alive and free. the Inconsistency |
vitiates both the purpose and the re-
suit of the punishment. No reader of |
this paper or of any other paper but |
can call TO mind a case in which |
wealth freed a man. or one in which |
the want of it sent him to the gal |
lows. The Bible says that the destruc- |
tion of the poor is their poverty. This |
has been shown over and over again |
in the inequalities and vagaries that
have marked trials for capital offenses, |
and i'm case of conviction the admins
tration of capital punishment.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-23
MENTAL TRAINING

Il ORD KELVIN was one of the
greatest thinkers that ever lived.
~ The Atlantic cable is the most
impressive proof of his genius, because
it is practical. mo dreamer could
ever accomplish anything like that"
the wiseacres will tell you. But they
are wrong. William Thomson, Lord
Kelvin, was not practical man in
spite of the practical results he ac-
compIished. He was a dreamer and
all that distinguished him from other
dreamers was that some Of his dreams
came true.
Every thought that he had and that
he put into words was oe value to the
human race. a friend has published
few "reminiscences, among them Kel-
wins views on education.
He said that by the age of II a boy
should have learned to write his own
language with accuracy and some ele-
gance; he should have reading
knowledge of French, should be able
to translate Latin and easy Greek
authors, and should have some ac-
quaintance with German. Having
learned thus the meaning of words"
Lord Kelvin was wont to add. "a boy
should study logic"
What did he mean by logic? The
science or art of reasoning; the science
of the operations of the understanding
in judging of evidence or in detecting
false reasoning.
Critics may not agree with Lord
Kelvin as to the desirability Of the
book or linguistic knowledge which he
recommended. But even when we can
not follow him, believing that life is
shorter than art is long, we think that
his guidance should be accepted as far
as possible, as far as is feasible. He
said that scholastic education is nee
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-23

was your financial distress caused
by the fact that you have six farms
in Maryland?" inquired the interview
er of Attorney General Bonaparte.
"Worse than that. 1 have eight"
replied the attorney general, not to
be outdone in ghoulish glee.
IF the unhappy owners of farms in
the east that don't pay would come
to California and buy one California
ranch with the price of half dozen
eastern farms, they would exchange
a condition of financial distress for
one of financial plethora.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-23

A Scotsman lost a race and his
laurels at Athens "by his action in re-
naming in the rear so long and rely
ing on his sprinting abilities when deal
ing with Americans who were faster on
the home stretch than he was" This
is more than a mere sporting item. 1t
is flashlight picture OF human nature.
The Scots have been praised and petted
and made much of in every department
of human activity for long time. They
are citizens of the world welcome in
every country. However. as soon as
they begin to think that they don't
need to exert themselves they will lose
place and prestige.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-23
BIG FACTS IN LITTLE

High living is frequently the cause
of low spirits.
Polar bears arc the largest of carniv-
orous animals.
Reira, a little town in Africa, is built
almost entirely of galvanized sheet
metal.
Rock temples at Ipsampool on the
Nile are believed to be the worlds
oldest architectural ruins.
The habor of Toxic is undergoing
improvements which will cost ten mil
lion dollars.
There are forty publications in the
world devoted to Esperanto.
Every year there are $4,000 letters
posted in England without addresses.
The eleventh international navlga-
tion congress is to be held at st. Pc
tersburg in May, 1905
Switzerland revels in stone throwing
contests.
In Hungary travelling is as cheap as
three miles for cent.
The first meerschaum pipe is now In
a museum at Pesth. 1t was made in
1923.
The chance OF a mans being over
taken by sudden death is eight times
greater than that of a woman.--Brook-
lyn Eagle.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-23

Steve Pollock deserves a Carnegie
hero medal. Perhaps he will get one.
He risked his life in dragging to the
open air the victims of the Belle YER
non plant explosion, and he applied to
one of the men first aid to the in
jured, constructing a tourniquet from
piece of rope and an iron bar and
stopping the flow of blood from Brain
ards left leg. Steve has been arrested
for vagrancy several times. 1t is not
wise to judge men either by appear
ances or by record. Circumstances
often create unexpected heroes out of
most unpromising materials.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-23
CLEAR. CRISP AND CLEAN
THE PAPER TRUST

H1 HE American Publishers associa-
tion has sent to the attorney gem
eral, letter which is practically
on indictment of the paper trust. con-
tanning scores of counts and hundreds
OF allegations. 1t summarizes the pub
fishers statement of the efforts made
ly the reven groups of the American
Paper and Pulp association to stifle
competition, to increase prices and to
put an additional burden of 500 100000
per annum upon the printing and pub
fishing interests of the country with
out other justification than the power
of combination. The trust was formed
under the Craftsmanship of ''one John
Ii. Parks" 1t proceeded to create a
ways and meano committee and to form
agreements on schedules of prices and
discounts. with uniform trade customs
respecting terms and charges for fin
ishing. preparation and packing.
Then came the division of the pro-
duct into preamble and non-preamble
goods; allotments of output by each of
twenty-four combined mills; restric-
ticn Of production; regulation of the
basis of weights o. paper; agreement TO
fix prices, agreement to advance prices
and actual advances"
The next step in the ascertained his
tory Of this typical trust was to make
Determinations upon shipments west of
Minneapolis and north of Omaha. This
was followed in historical sequence by
payments into pool of part of the pro-
ceeds of all sales Casually the pool tax
was So per ton sold), divisions of 70
per cent of proceeds of the pool allow
ances to mills that shut down ii. e.,
that were bought off. so that output
might be restricted), imposition of d
penalty for shipments in excess of al
lotments, denial of quotations to va
rious brokers; restrictions of jobbing
t. a certain class and fixing the COM
mission therefor; restriction of contract
periods to three months subject to
permission of the ways and means
committee for a longer period; pay
1nents of money for expenses of pool
and of those who had organized the as
sCciation; creation of an exemption list
with corresponding reductions in the
participation of profits; participation
in the organization by members of the
General Paper company, who had been
prohibited by federal court from
participating in such combinations; ne
sotiations with western trustee" mills
and cooperation by them in the pro-
gIam of the association and subse-
0uent withdrawal of the western trus-
tee mills; curtailment of profits of mills
of one company to so per cent; instruc-
tons TO counsel to find a plan for con-
ducting the affairs of the association
in such a manner as would defeat any
attack made upon it by the federal or
state government.
Trust builders are artfu dodgers.
They have learned by experience that
10 trust is complete or secure without
legal assistance in evasion of the law.
We have beard d great deal recently
about shortage Of white paper. The
statement has been made that we
might be prepared for a paper famine
that the day of cheap literature IN
the United States was almost at an
end. Fortunately, the work Of Herman
Ridder and his assistants establishes
the fact that this is all poppycock.
There is no paper shortage" There
is only q. trust.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-23

There are nearly 100000 signatures to
the petition to President Roosevelt to
pardon Capt. Van Schaick, sentenced
to ten years Imprisonment as a result
of the Slocum disaster. We believe
the sentiment of the United States is
overwhelmingly in favor of the release
of the poor skipper The people who
kept man at work after he was over
20 years old and should have been re-
tired on a pension don't deserve a
pardon. Yet they have not been mo-
Tested.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-23

A naval expert with the fleet says
that the harbor of San Pedro is one of
the best in the world, He states that
owing to the breakwater twelve ships
can take aboard supplies for approxi-
mately the expenses of four in any out
side port in Southern California. The
selection of San Pedro by the fleet,
from the first advocated vigorously by
the Los Angeles Herald, has already
been abundantly justified. 1t is one of
the finest, one of the safest and one of
the most economical harbors in the
United States or in the world.