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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-02-17
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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-02-17

The Baltimore Gd.ettc, which has
'een posing as a journalistic elephant
TOT some time past, is about to go under
second time. Mr.. Cotton will, it is
understood, withhold further pap and
the paper will go into permanent re-
'Eement, to be succeeded BY a more
youthful publication, whose name has
not Yet been determined. 1t will be
under the control Of W. T. Croasdale,
tOr long time editOr-in-chief of the
wilmington Dell EreTy EreRing. The
projectors Of the new paper are nor def
ni'ely known, but il will aspire to fill
'le vacancy caused by the sudden
'eSth ofthe late phenomenal Times.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-02-17

BY carefully reading the full text or
what is called the Monroe Doctrine"
/, will be found that the distinguished
American statesman made no reference
to guano or Saltpetre. In this regard
the Monroe doctrine differs from the
Blaine doctrine, and ii is an immense
jiff1rpnpa
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-02-17

The Pacific Railway Company Is
fitting UP ear shops at Omaha which
will be the largest under one roof upon
n. continent
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-02-17

LANCASTER, KY, February l6.-The trial
of VIM. Austin for the brutal murder of his
aunt, Miss Bland, is drawing to close.
The evidence is all against the young man.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-02-17

las, year the United States sold to
countries under the British flag, goods to
the value Of S547, ,225l ,9S4; and took from
them in return S249, l4l ,S23 worth.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-02-17
ANTLPOlYGAMY.
Edmund's Bill Passes the Senate
what Is Thought of ID In Washington
"A New scheme to Pay on the Debt.

Speclal DtSpdlch 20 NE RegtsteT.
WASHINGTON, February 16.-Judge Ed
mund's anti-Polygamy bill was passed by
the Senate late this afternoon, the Senate
sitting until after dark to complete It. 1t
evoked more than the expected discussion,
Senator Vest denoucing some of its pro-
visions as unconstitutional, in that it in
fiicted punishment without trial. Senator
Pendleton also opposed the bill, on the
ground that it Disseminated against man
faithful several wives in favor of one holding
adulterouS relations. Sherman doubted
the effectiveness of the measure, but it was
finally passed Some
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-02-17
Mrs scoviIle,s A,peaI.

CHICAGO, February l6.-Mrs. Scoville has
written to Mrs. Garfield, praying forgive
ness for the assassin of the President.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-02-17

Nlrs. Jane Grey Swisshelm has been
proposed us member Of the Chicago
Board of Health. Ifthe smallpox hears
Of this it will at once flee bowling away
In Hnrrnr
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-02-17

The colored Jubilee Singers were de-
MED admission to every hotel in
Washington, and until after midnight
did not find place to sleep.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-02-17

The values of exports of domestic
breadstufis for the seven months ended
January Slst, 1852, is Sl24072, ,9O7; same
pariod in lSSI, Sl6S, 500, 800.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-02-17

Anna Dickinson has encountered adj
verse criticism wherever she has acted
during her Western tour, but she draws
large audiences, and is making hand
some profit. She will go to London in
May to appear for six weeks in the
Crystal Palace, and expects neXtlseasOn
n this country to add Macbeth and
Richard III. 10 her characters.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-02-17
How It Feels to be Hanged.

Yesterday several gentlemen were
speaking of capital punishment, when
Mr.. j. L. McNeely, one of the most pros
porous farmers in Pulaski County, re-
marked: Gentlemen, so far as the pun
ishment is concerned, hanging does not
amount to anything. Twas hung once
till was insensible, and the feeling could
scarcely be called pain" The bystand-
ers thought that he was joking. 81 am
in earnest" he continued. ''1n 1865,
Just at the close of the war, robbers came
to my house in search of money. As q
precaution against such visitors l had
given two watches and $500 in gold to a
trusty colored woman to keep for me
until times improved. 1 was lying in
bed, crippled. Several men entered the
room, and, without saying anything. put
a rope around my neck aud began to
pull. told them that if they were going
to hang me, to wait until could get my
crutch, SO that could walk to the hang
ing place. They took me out on the
gallery, and. throwing the rope over q
cross-beam, asked me for my money. 1
told them that had none. They drew
me up. For q moment 1 experienced q
slight choking sensation, and then 1 be-
came insensible. When became con-
scious, after being taken down, 1 was sit
ting on the steps. The sensations while
rsgaining consciousness were very much
like those experienced during . night
mare.-LiNe R0ck Gazette.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-02-17
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

-"Ah me-" sighed a pawnbroker's
wife, "what a loan-sum life we lead"
81 don't like that cat; it's got spin.
tiers in its feetr' was the excuse of four.
year-old for throwing the kitten away
Yonkers Gazette.
Silver dollars with holes in them are
painfully numerous, but they are not hall
so painfully numerous as holes without
any silver dollars around them.
1t may be notifying young man,
but that moss agate slab you are wear.
ing for a sleeve button is not the proper
thing. Have it made over into center
table, and then buy a small, fashionable
cuff button.-NorTistos0n Herald.
Here is a popular eastern actress.
She has $75.OOOin diamonds and $50. ZOO
in dresses. Her salary is forty dollars q
week. She boards at home and makes
her mother do the work. Economy is
the road to wealth.-SaH Lake Tribune.
"A surgeon has removed patients
leg above the knee. The subject laments
the loss of his limb. ''Come, come,"
says the man of science cheerily, s'you
mustn't take on so. It's all for the best
see, you were going to have corn on
your little toe"
Gus Singsadly is deaf as q post.
During one Of the cold days recently q
friend told him he would freeze his ears
if he did not protect them in some way.
"Suppose they do Freeze" said Sing
sadly, /" what harm will that do, they'r re
NO good" dorchester Express.
-'.Friends," once said a clergyman
to a number of people who had entered
his church for the purpose of getting out
of the rain, II have often heard Of the
church being used as cloak for ones
sins, but this is the first time I ever
heard of its being used as an umbrella"
Recently at Los Angeles married
woman eloped with her coachman, in
consequence of which her husband shot
himself. The next day his daughter,
who was also in love with the coachman,
went insane, while the servant-girl, who
was in turn gone on the defunct hus-
band, tried to drown herself three times.
We shall get out an extra as soon as we
learn of the course taken by the house,
dog in the matter.-DerricE Dodd.
Here we have q poet. He writes
for the country newspaper. The paper
does not pay him anything for writing:
He writes for glory. See how pale and
thin he is. Perhaps glory does not agree
with him. At night be walks without .
hat to let the starlight soak into his brain.
He never gets full. Nobody ever asks
to. He was not born genius. At .
very early age he fell out Of the garnet
window, and when they picked him up
he was q poet. Poets are therefore
made, not born. This IS why mats are
built eight and ten stories high. BROOK
In Eagle.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-02-17
The Advantages Of Utterism.

The notion that grew up about six
years ago that every one ought to be
aesthetic, and that every one who fol-
lowed certain recipes could be so, and
gain healthy enjoyment of art by merely
living in certain atmosphere, was one
that would scarcely have needed refuta-
ton had it not been the genuine express
sion, though in an exaggerated form, of
the reaction from the Philistinism of the
earlier part of the century. At the bot
tom of the sham sentiment and fashion
able fOolishness, which, as it were,
armor-plated the aesthetic movement,
there was a real desire for little more
beauty in the surroundings of life, and
perhaps even q wish for a less material
view of life itself. Possibly the weakest
STRIPPING who poured over lily in a
glass of water was as estimable a spec
tacle as ''the First Gentleman in Europe
being hoisted into his inexpressibles by
half a dozen Wallets, and the ladies who
waved peacock fans slowly in the dim
light of sage green drawing rooms would
have compared favorably in all but COM
plexion with their prototypes of the Re-
gency. At all events, both the male and
female aesthetic had some faint notion
of an ideal-not wholly selfish, nor
wholly base-and though the ideal was
as nebulOus as the atmosphere of the
boudoirs, it was sufficient to prevent their
being wholly contemplate. Unlike
Kingley's maiden, they did no ''noble
things" but dreamed "them all day
long;'' and, though their dreams were
irritating to others at least, when they
issued in action-they in the end worked
a considerable change. 1t would be
difficult now for any one, even buying
furniture or domestic utensils of any sort,
to avoid becoming possessed of con-
siderable number of objects which were
really good in form and color. and the
importation of really beautiful fabrics
and embroideries from the East has in
creased enormously. 1t is almost as COM
mon to see bit of Rhodian embroidery
in a drawing-room now as it was to see
a piece of Berlin woodwork a dozen
years ago, and the houses are few and
far between, in London at least, which
have not bit of japanese art, whether
it be on paper, lacquer, bronze, or silk,
lighting up some odd corner. And good,
too, has been done to painting, indi-
rectly, by making artists feel that the
sympathy of considerable mass of the
public is with them, and so encouraging
them to take heart of grace to work
steadily in their own way.-London Spec
tGt0r.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-02-17
SHY EYES! SLY EYES!

pray you, for a moments space,
Walden, uplift your downcast face,
Hhat may mark the morning rise,
Now curtained by those Orient eyes,
100 long 80 coldly. coyly hid
Shy eyes! sly eyes!
Over your golden ritual bent,
Are you on piOus dreams intent?
Yet something like sidewise hint.
A transient CLEAN, fleeting CLINT,
As of blue lightning, seems to flash
From out each long and languid lash:
- Shy eyes! sly eyes!
Rolled down the solemn minister calm,
Peal the deep notes of prayer and psalm
The people kneel, the people rise,
And still you will not lift your eyes,
Nor let me-naughty maiden!-see
The brightness of their witchery:
Shy eyes! sly eyesl
The Dean within the pulpit stands,
With reverent mien and stainless bands;
All through his sermon, grave and wise,
can not move to meet your eyes,
though by your bonnet's tilted brim
] know they're coyly raised to him:
Shy eyesl sly eyes!
Well, now! the goal Of quiet's won
The prayers are DER, the sermon done;
At last unveiled, and glorious, rise
The splendors of your Eastern eyes;
And yet SO tender is their shine,
One moment lifted up to mine,
vow their light is half divine:
Fond eyes! sweet eyesl
-PdM II. Hdyne, In Hdrper's Bdzdr.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-02-17

Temperance people frequently place
. shot bottle to their feet when in bed.
Is this right?-N. Y. Com. ADD. Oh
course it is right. If more people were
to place hot bottles to their feet instead
of placing them to their lips they would
experience much less difficulty in stand
ing on their feet.-Norristow Herald,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-02-17

Three men called at the house of a
Norwegian in Wisconsin and demanded
money. The man was away, and thus
the wife felt called upon to pitch one
over the stove, break one arm for the
second and scalp the third with stick
of wood.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-02-17

Olu 1IlcuuS, DlCA UclHS Iuc Ouly Ouc 1OT-
gotten. At last came the news of a
grand triumph. Milly had sung in pub
lie, and her success was assured. Vari-
Gus extracts from foreign journals were
copied by the papers lauding the beauty
and talent Of the young American
singer. Then Milly pleaded for two or
three years more, and accompanied the
letter with check to pay off portion of
the mortgage; and with this came a
photograph of herself in grande toilette
Meantime the years went by. Seven
had passed. During that time gentle
Aunt Rhoda had been carried to her last
rest and slept in the village cemetery
Milly's money, however, procured ca
pable housekeeper for Uncle Seth in the
person of one of his nieces.
Dick, too, had been fighting his way
in the world, and climbing step by step.
The Rev. Richard Ashley was beginning
to be widely known as the able, earnest
young pastor of the large and flourish
ing church in the city of -.
Uncle Seth finally placed himself in
the hands of skillful occulist for an OPP
Grafton on his eyes. 1t proved unsuc-
cessful, and the good old man was
doomed to total blindness. Dick heard
of the result, and hurried to the farm to
offer what comfort he could.
It was . beautiful day in June
when he stepped upon the plat
form of the station at Mount
-. In front of him stood lady. who
had Just left the forward car. Something
familiar in the quick step and carriage
of the slender figure caused Dick to
start, Violently. The lady was dressed
in deep mourning and wore . heavy
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-12-29
King Ludwig and the Actress.

Here is an incident to show the ups
and downs of life: Last week Wagner
and his children went through Munich.
They rode in the kings saloon car,
they dined in the kings pavilion; in
deed, they travelled as only kings and
queens do in this land. The same day
the Empress Eugene passed through
Munich IN her way to Vienna. She
came in an ordinary car, she dined in
the second-class eating-room of the sta
ton; beyond idle curiosity she had no
recognition. She went to Vienna to
close her negotiations for q schloss in
Austria. in which she will live hereaf-
ter.
OF the king hero there is new story.
To gain his sympathy and break into
his reserve has been the aim of many
women who have been summoned to
his presence, but so far all in vain. A
well-known actress was ordered to sing
for him in the winter garden on the
roof of the palace, while he sailed about
on the little shallow artificial lake in a
swanshape boat, q la Lohengrin. In.
stead of remaining hidden in a grotto,
where she might be heard and not seen,
she caused herself to fall into the water,
where she cried TO be saved. King
Louis calmly rang a bell and said to |;
servant: Take that woman ont Of the
water" and that very day sent her oul
at the Kingdom, Boston aranscriPt.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-12-29
The Schoolmistress and Stocks,

'Guess won't 90 to school to-day"
said Carson urchin with an appeal in
his hand. "Why not?' "Concordia has
fallen of ten cents, and l don't dare
| show up until it picks up again."
"What have the Quotations of Concor.
dia got to do with your studies?' "a
good DEAL" answered the boy. my
teacher has hundred shares of the
stock, and when it falls off few cents
we all catch it heavy. 1 keep my eye
on the list, and when there's break
you bet don't 60 to school, play
sick. Golly! how she basted me that
time Mount Diablo busted down to two
dollars. When it was selling at twenty
dollars she was as good as pie.
81 was the first Teller that got on the
break and told the boys of my class
that il she didn't sell there d be the dev-
il to pay. 1 heard Uncle Fraser say
that it was q good short, and I never
slept q wink for week. Igrabbed the
appeal the first thing every morning;
when saw her keel down to sixteen
dollars / skipped TO the hills. My! how
she did bang Johnny Dobson round
that morning! was in hopes that the
blasted mine would pick up, but the
water got in the lower levels, and
knew we were in for it. She licked
somebody for every dollar it dropped.
After it struck eight dollars it picked
up little, and we had time to git. My
mothers been patchin' my pants now
ever since the big break in Sierra Neva.
da, and IL the market don't take turn
pretty soon I'm going to quit the public
school and 60 to work on q ranch.
Carson City appeal.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-12-29
Too Big q Start.

Col. Percy Yerger, although Q kind
husband, q leading member Of the
church, patriotic citizen. and other
wise heightened Austin gentleman Of
culture and refinement. is, nevertheless.
not in the habit of meeting promptly his
pecuniary obligations. He owes every
body, including Sam Johnsing, his col
ored carriage driver. to which trusty
Jehu he owes years back wages. OF
late Col. Yerger has been exhibiting no
uneasiness, whatever, about the matter.
much to the mental disquietude Of the
faithful African.
''BOss, tenders vacancy In my de-
partment," exclaimed Sam, Yesterday,
having screwed his courage up to the
sticking point.
why. Sam; what is it that perturbs
you SO much?"
'.I'se disturbed. boss. bekase Use q
shortwinded niggah. My lungses Is de-
fected."
Judging from the way you shout at
camp-meetings. should infer your
organs OF respiration and articulation
were in perfectly normal condition. "
II reckon dey is. boss, eff you say so.
but Use short-winded niggah, all de
same. l can't run Wifi cent"
what occasion have you to indulge
in such violent pedestrian exercisep"-
asked Col. Yerger, with his usual suav-
ity.
"Boss, does yer disremember me ask
ing yer when yer was gwine ter pay me
my back wages, an yer tole my wages
was running on nll right7"
"Yes, Sam. your pay Is running on
yet. There is no occasion for npprehen-
SION"
'Jess so. boss. but Use ashort-winded
niggah. an my wages has got such a
big start OBJ me in de race dat feels II
in my bones dat SIGH II shortwinded mig
gah will nebcr he able To ketchup. Dem
dar wages am bound to keep ahead oh
me, so tenders de vacancy in my de-
partment, "-1eras Siftings.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-12-29
A Lincoln Story.


A Lincoln revival in the October Gen.
fury. political and pictorial. reminds
me of n little story. have never seen
it published anywhere, and the present
Is as good time rs there ever will be
to embalm it in the Republic. 1t was
in the days when the .'rail-splitter" and
the "little giant" We're running against
each other for the United States Senate
from Illinois. The contest, which had
been hot one, was ut last brought to
the final test of a vote in the legislature.
Each side was confident of victory for
its candidate.
Pending the result of the vote, Mr..
Lincoln and party of friends were
quietly waiting in the library. The
time was whiled away as pleasantly as
possible. Suddenly in the midst of a
story he was telling, the subsequent
hero and martyr of the Emancipation
Proclamation was interrupted by the
sounds of great tumult in the cham
Der where the two houses were in joint
session. This tumult soon developed it.
self into storm of applause, which
showed that the end had been reached
that the final and successful ballot
had been taken. And presently through
the din was discernible the name of
Douglas. echoed by score Of triumph
ant voices.
That settled it.
Mr.. Lincoln did not finish his story,
although his friends were far more ex-
cited than he.
Some others came dropping in and
confirmed the news of defeat. 1t was q
dispirited and forlorn group. Finally
one Of the gentlemen present plucked
up courage to inquire:
"Well, Lincoln, how do you feel
nowp"
"Feelp" said the beaten candidate,
with lugubrious smile; ''why, I feel
like big boy that has been awfully
licked-rm too big to cry and too darn
ed mad to laughr Washington Repub-
kc
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-12-29
How 20 Pronounce Clerk,

Freeman, the historian, in a readable
paper on American speech and pro-
nunciation, published since his return
to England. well says: 1.-The words
metropolis and provinces used in
this way. venture to call slang, wheth-
er the city which is set up above its
fellows is London or New York. Any
how this use of them is in no way dis
tinctly American; indeed the misuse of
the word provinces is, fancy, excess
lively rare in America, and it is cer-
tainly borrowed from England. Each
side of the ocean unluckily finds il
easier to copy the abuses of the other
side than to stick to the noble heritage
which is common to BOTH" What lie
has to say about the pronunciation Of
the word ''clerk" is worth reproduction
at length:
The word ''clerk" is in England usu.
ally sounded "clark," while in America
it is usually sounded ''clurk." 1 say
usually" because | did once hear
''clurk" in England-from II London
shopman-and because | was told at
Philadelphia that some old people there
still said CLARK" and-a most impor-
tant fact-that those who said ''clark'
also said "marchant." Now it is quite
certain that "clark" is the older pro-
nunciation-the pronunciation which
the first settlers must have taken with
them. This is proved by the fact that
the word Is surname-and it il in one
of the commOnest of surnames-is al
ways sounded and commonly written
"Clark" or Clarke" ! suspect that
"Clerk" as surname, SO spelled.is dis.
tinctively Scotch" in the modern
sense of that word. Also in writers OF
the sixteenth and early seventeenth cen.
tury, the word itself is commonly writ
ten ''clark' or clarke" But of course
''clerk" was at all times the most clerk
ly spelling, as showing the French and
Latin origin Of the word. It is plain
therefore that the pronunciation" clurk'
Is not traditional, but has been brought
In artificially out Of notion Of making
the sound conform to the spelling. But
''clurk" is no more the true sound than
CLARK; the true sound is ''clairk, -
like French "clerc," and Scotsman
would surely sound it to. ''Clark" and
''clurk" are both mere approximations
to the French sound, and ''clark" is the
older and surely the most natural ap-
Proclamation. The truth is that we can
not sound .clerk" as it is spelled; that
is, we cannot give the before the the
same sound that we give it when it is
followed by any other consonant. We
cannot sound in ''clerk" exactly as
we sound in '.tent." This applies to
a tcrowd Of words, some of Teutonic.
some Of Latin origin, in which the
spelling is e, but in which the sound
has, just as in 'clerk." fuctuated be-
tween and u. The old people at Phil
adelphia who said "clark" also said
'.marchant." And quite rightly, for
they had on their side both older Eng
lish usage and, in this case. the French
spelling itself. The sound merchant
has come in. both in England and in
America, by exactly the same process
as that by which the sound ''clurk' has
come in in America, but not in Eng
land,