Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-10-14


A little forgiven, the quarrel is cured.
THE price of printing paper has again
been advanced And what strenuous
promises the Republicans were making
wear ago that they would reduce the tarlif
on paper and wood pulpl
1T is sort of eaSy-going way OF run
ming the government to have its head gal
wanting over the country for two or three
months at time, but everything is all right
as long as nothing happens.
THE city OF Charleston, W. Va, is get
ting ready to open wide the saloon doors
after a temporary dry spell. We never
did believe that Charleston, which is IN
Kanawha county, was dry from principle
THEY seem TO be having a good deal
of trouble about the introduction OF nat
ural gas into Baltimore. Natural gas VIII
do the people there great deal more
good than the newspaper and political
gas now on tap.
DURING the past week or two dis
graceful bit of political treachery has come
to light-the deal by which certain DEM
ocratS supported old Cannon for Speaker
in exchange for favors from his party.
Truly, there's wide gulf between party
leaders and party principles.
THE government having put the price
of lemons by an outrageouSly high tariff,
railroads have followed suit by advancing
the freight rates. Lemons are a house
hold necessity and feature OF home life
that ought to be as cheap as apples; yet,
with the government leading in the roC-
berry, the people are compelled to pay two
or three times as much as they are really
worth.
THE partnership between Thos. II.
Dennis and Geo. T. Argabrite, publish
ers of the Greenbrier Independent at Lew
isburg, w. Va, has been dissolved. Mr..
Argabrite has sold his interest to Col.
Dennis who will continue as editor and
publisher. The independent is one OF
the old-fashioned, good sort OF country
newspapers, and we enjoy reading 1t
every week.
1T is now said that the 'wet'' Demo-
Gratis in Roanoke sold out TO the Repuo-
licanS at the local-option election in that
city, and will now as part OF the trade
support the Republican candidate for Gov
ernor.
II is the unutterable treachery OF political
leaders that make respectable voters leave
the party to which they owe allegiance,
for honest men cannot be expected to en-
dorSe dishonest methods.
IN yesterdays papers Commander
Peary makes public his statement attempt
ing to diSprove DR.. Cooks claim to be the
discoverer OF the North Pole. He de-
clareS that the two ESquimoS who were
DR.. Cooks companions say that the latter
did not reach the Pole. This is not very
satisfactory proof, and even the Peary
partisanS must admit that il isn't fair to
settle the matter until Dr. Cook has had
opportunity to get statement from the
EsquimoS.
THE Saloon-keepers of Wheeling have
prepared an ordinance for the regulation
OF liquor selling in old Beertown which
they will endeavor to have incorpora-
ted into a law. There are two striking
reform features in their meaSure-one to
do away with the free lunch, and the
other to prevent the opening of any ad-
ditional saloons and thus perpetuate a
monopoly of those already in this bust
ness.
You can't see any good in this scheme
with teleSCope-which is about the way
with Saloon-endorsed regulations usually.
TO show how unreasonable and foolish
West Virginia's pistol-toting law is, an
incident from Raleigh county may be re-
ferred to. H. H. Pinckney, manager OF
coal company took pistol from his home
and walked a short distance along the
road TO kill crippled mule. He was in
formed on by someone, and under the
law was convicted and sentenced to a
fine Of $25 and six months Imprisonment.
He was put to much trouble for simply
doing humane thing, and would have
suffered considerable disgrace had not the
Governor quickly issued pardon.
amid sensation has been created this
week by the forced resignation of Charles
r. Crane, wealthy Chicago business man
who was recently appointed United States
minister to China by President Taft Mr..
Crane, just before he started for San Fran
cisco, talked of his mission, and though
we cannot see that he gave away any Sc
crets or said anything he should not have
said, officials OF the State Department at
Washington raised hubbub and Secre-
tary Knox recalled Mr.. Crane before he
sailed. He came back TO Washington,
spoke his mind TO Secretary Knox, said
what he thought of other officials and re-
signed.
DURING his present westerntrip Pres
ident Taft has preached three sermons
one in the Mormon Temple in Salt Lake
City, where his friend Reed Smoot, the
sCandalous bigamist, was the big gun /;
another in the Universalist Church in
Portland, where the Savior is repudiated
and where they believe everybody is TO
be saved. good. bad and Indifferent: and