Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1914-07-23

Che ghephsrdstoun ge9istel
n. l.. SNYDER, Editor and Publisher,
Shepherdstown, w. Va.
WIN. B. SNYDER, Local Editor and
Business Manager.
Thursday, juiy -, IslF'
AS the rose tree is composed OF the
sweetest flowers and the Sharpest thorns !;
as the heavens are sometimes overcast,
alternately tempeStuous and serene so
Is fine life of man intermiugled with hopes
and fears, with Joys and SORROWS. WIN
pleasures and with pains. -bETton
PRESIDENT WILSON'S policy OF watch
ful waiting in Mexico has been vindicated.
n lock a clear mind and cool head to
keen out OF the trouble in that unhappy
country.
LAST week the Chesapeake & Ohio
Railway paid back 1906, Ala excess rail-
road fares that it had collected while the
legality of the two-cent fare law was
being tested in the courts. The Norfolk
& Western Railway is still collecting the
excess rate.
THE Democratic convention to noml-
nate a candidate for the State Senate
from this district will be held at Berkeley
Springs next Tuesday, July 18th. Judge
Frank Beckwith, of Charles Town, will
be nominated by reclamation, as there is
no opposition to him.
THE price OF cattle continues to advance
in Chicago. and the prediction IS made
that beeisteak will 90 up to fifty cents a
pound.
II is likely that the cause OF the vege-
tarlans will get big boom.
THE distillerS OF Kentucky and Ohio
and Indiana have agreed to reduce their
output on account OF having unusually
large stocks OF liquor on hand. Prohl-
bition is prohibiting all right, and there
going 10 be bigger slump i'll the manu-
facture OF beer and whSkey in the next
year or two.
THE National Progressive Committee
has deposed Hon. w. M. o. Dawson as
committeeman for West Virginia, and
has elected Hon. William Seymour Ed
wards in his place. Wish the committee
had done this two years ago-West Viz
gina would now be Democratic all over
instead OF in spots.
IT is foreShadowed that the Interstate
Commerce Commission will not allow the
increase in freight rateS so ardently ad-
vocated by The railroads. We cannot
but believe that the commission is right.
We cannot see how prosperity will be
increased by taking money from Tile
pockets of the shippers and placing II IN
lhe Golfers OF the railroads.
The famous, or infamous, old General
Huerta, who last week resigned as pres
lcent OF Mexico, has managed 10 get ouI
OF The country with whole skin, having
sailed from that country on tuesday on
the German ship Dresden. incidentally,
he carries with him some 100000 in
cash in order that he may eat and drink
and gamble to the end OF his days.
PRESIDENT WILSON has directed At
tomey- General McReynoldS 10 bring sun
agdins! the New Haven Railroad as pre-
hminary 10 dlSSolying the system which
has proven such scandal and disgrace,
and at the same time orders that the GRIM
inai aspects OF line case be LAID before a
federal grand jury.
If guilt is personal" the penitentiaV
seems TO be yawning for considerable
number OF gentlemen quite well known as
high finanCiers.
The city OF Clarksburg has dismissed
hall of its police iorce-doeSn't need the
officers since the prohibition law has
been in effect. There has been only one
arrest for drunkenness since the first OF
July, a very remarkable change OF affairs
in that city.
Every section OF the State is already
experiencing the good effects OF prohi-
binon, and there will be a saving in police
and criminal charges that will far out
weigh the loss OF license revenue.
The Democrats and ProgreSsiveS in
Utah have formed combination with the
intention of electing James H. Moyle to
the United State Senate in place OF Reed
Smoot. The defeat OF Smoot would take
thorn from the Democratic flesh in the
Senate and at the same time remove a
representative OF the trusts who has al
ways been bold enough TO do anything
they wanted done. There are not many
standpatterS left in the Senate-letuS hope
that next year there will be still fewer.
DR.. THoS. E. HODGES has resigned as
president OF the West Virginia Univer-
sity, anu the Board OF Regents has named
Prot. Frank B. Trotter as acting presi-
dent in his place. The resignation o.
DR.. Hodges will take effect September
LIST, when he will beginhis campaign as
the Democratic candidate for Congress-
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