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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-08-12
fortiing information sud asslstsuc. :.
the average Westsrn traveller.
AbOot Trade.

foriing information sud asslstap..
the aversge Westsrn traveller. =
AAsss Trade.
-6sest thou Q man dilieent In hIs bu.,,
He shall stand before ktAu "-FroeeySs sNs
.Ofcourse there b considerable alIe,,-
abost this quotation, 80 to sn%g
Everybody In this peek ofthe voaS.
diligent, and II he was otherviss
would simply sneak o0 Of the co,ns!s
ton and start . new graveyard on -,
inexpensive bat adjacent properly ne
condition Of the trade, therefore /. e
hard to gues at This IL the dnlUI
season OF the year, and yet no ons
complaining. You might takes Gen..
Of this city and not find . sinzie IN,
vidual In business who would ye,bSr
declare that trade was bat anytbjns ~
dull. Still, II an enumeration n ~ ~
liars In this village were to be mai
have an idea THAI the paper mills oi,h.
would be kept pretty busy sse
time, and that the compounders Of M
would realize most substantial boz.
The Lat Chapter
! have written now twenty.three n,,..
aud in glancing over the product hsr,
the impression that outside OF the lo,,I
personal reference / have said notbir.
Of much interest or information 20 Won.
thousands OF readers. Yet such As M.
matter lie, II has occupied two hours Of
my time, and II 1t passes away as mus
of yours shall consider that we ~.
about even.
With much respect, C.C.I
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-08-12
WOMEN AND LIFE INSURANCE.

DIR. WILLIAM A. HAMMOND has con-
tributed to the current number Of the
North American Review an article on
Woman in Politics" which contains
some remarkable statements and ex-
Pressions of opinion Among other
things the doctor says that ION account
Of woman's inability to be exact in re-
gard TO her age, the diseases which she
may have had, her mode of life, and
other matters in which eXactness is re-
quired, life insurance companies de-
cline to issue policies to her" Every
body familiar with the subject knows
that this statement is unfOunded. 1t
is not true that life insurance companies
generally refuse TO insure the lives Of
women, and the reasons why some
companies are reluctant to assume such
risks aud Others charge higher premi-
ums for women than for men are not
those stated by DIR. HAMMOND. To
ascertain the truth the New York Trib-
une had two gentlemen connected with
leading companies, the New York Life
Insurance Company and the Equitable
Life Insurance Society, interviewed.
Both companies issued policies on the
lives of women, but they do not con.
slider them good risks. An officer of
the New York Life Insurance company
explained that the reason for this con.
sisted in the difficulty Of making as
thorough q personal examination in the
case of a woman as is made in the case
of a male applicant for life insurance.
But he did not think that women were
less accurate in their statements. He
remarked: my observation and ex-
perienee are that men are just as mex
act as women. 4 few days ago we 81 W
in the papers the names Of two western
men who had signed certificates to the
effect that certain quaek medicine
had cured them entirely OF kidney dis
ease. As these men had only recently
declared to US, in their applications for
life insurance, that they had nothing
the matter with their kidneys and
never had had, We were enough inter.
ested in the matter to cause some iu-
quiries to be made. We found that
they had signed the quack medicine
certificates without much thought OF
what they were doing, and that really
their kidneys had not given them any
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-08-12
ELEsSON OF TIE WEST.

The wondrOus growth of the State Of
Illinois and the city of Chicago has SO
long been the standing theme of West
ern bOastfulness and Of Eastern admira-
ton, that it may seem perhaps rather
late in the day now for us to enlarge
upon the particular lesson to be derived
from the general progress of the West
as representative of the new forms Of
our civilization and American develop
ment. Aud yet we are satisfied that
while the West itself is constantly
learning from Eastern experience in
banking, agriculture, mining, manu-
features and railroading, the Fast itself
might advantageOusly apply to its own
experience lessons derived from West
ern agriculture and general business
enterprise.
Let us begin with agriculture. 1t wa,
in that great interest that the West first
found the Inexhaustible elements OF i'm
Ierial greatness. The cities of Cincin-
natl, Louisville, st. Louis, and Chicago
became great and wonderful centres of
railroads, navigation and commerce
upon that basis before manufacturers or
mining had made any Roadway in those
regions. Aud so marvellous was the
prosperity of those cities and States
upon that basis that the free-trade in
fluences in Europe formed high antici.
pations of making use of Western agri-
culture to antagOnize the protective
tariff policy, precisely as they had so
long used the Southern States for that
purpose. Fortunately, however, the
farmers of the West very soon under
stood the situation far better than their
foreign instructors, and thus they soon
applied themselves to the raising OF
lives and the production of wool
and hides to an extent that now COM
mands the domestic markets for those
raw materials for home manufacturers.
so far,therefore, the West has managed
to keep up well-abreast Of the progress
Of advanced civilization in the
Northern scaboard States. But
we think it is now time
for the railroad managers in these East
tern States to endeavOr to do more for
the local agriculture than they have
hitherto, more especially in the States
of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Della
ware, Maryland, Virginia and West
Virginia, which have hitherto been so
much neglected that their farmers have
supplied very large portion of that
vast tide Of domestic emigration upon
which the new states and Territories
of the West have grown and prospered
so amazingly. We admit that power
full reaction of this kind has already
made considerable progress in West
Virginia. But there is room for very
much more energy and enterprise,
especially in view of the fact that the
way traffic in these Middle States has
to sustain the whole burthen Ofexpenses
for the main line of railroads.
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trouble. They probably supposed that
the qusek medicine had done them
some good, but were inexact enough to
say that 1t was their kidneys that re-
ceived benefit. / think men are just
IS liable to such inexactness as are
women. There are few men whose
statements you can take without quail
flcations.n With these statements the
representative of the Equitable sub
stantially agreed. He said that the
declarations Of women in the applioa-
tons are taken and treated just as the
statements of men. Both gentlemen
declared that one Of the principal res-
sons why women are not regarded rs
good risks related to the perils incident
to maternity. An additional premium
Of one-half of one per cent. is charged,
bat il is believed that this amount does
not cover the extra liability. 1t is stated
ii at statistics show a greater percentage
of deaths in collaborating in the United
States than in any other country, what
ever the cause may be. The rule OF
the Equitable is not to insure an IN
married woman, nor a married woman
until she has had one child, unless she
is more than forty years of age. If q
woman is more than forty-eight years
OF age the premium she has to pay on
a policy of life insurance is precisely
that which q man Of the same age has
to pay. The statement of DR.. HAM
MoND is all the more preposterous as no
Insurance company wholly relies on the
declarations made by person whose
life is to be insured. One of the largest
life policy holders in the world, If not
the largest, is the ex-Empress EUGENE
ofFrance. During the reign OF her
husband she insured her life in 8 num-
Der of leading European companies for
the benefit of her son, the prince i'm
perial-a fact which at the time indi-
Gated that the emperor and his wife had
misgivings as to their boy's future and
for this reason it created sensation
throughout Europe.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-08-12

II the yearly immigration statistics
can be supposed to be in any measure
an index of the relative condition of the
European peasantry, the statistics for
The year just closed would indicate de-
cided Improvement in the bread win
ming chances of those people. For the
year ending JOne 80, 1887, the total i'm
migration to this country amounted to
599, ia persons, or 1885 less than for
the year 1852 and 1887 less than the
number that came over in 1881. 1t Is
quite probably that the anti Chinese act
reduced the total $4,000 or 10000, but for
he balance of the decrease the cause
must be sought in some other direc-
ton.
While it could not be expected that
the enormous immigration Of the per
iod extending from 1850 to 1882 could
be maintained unless the causes which
brought 1t about were permanent, the
very marked decrease during the past
year was hardly to have been expected.
Bad crops, high taxes, rigid conscrip-
ton laws, political disturbances, to-
gether with the cheap lands and higher
wages Of this country, are pointed to as
the moving causes Of the great hegirs
which has been going on for the past
three years. But all these causes, ex-
cept possibly the first, still exist in full
Iorce, and it would hardly seem posi-
BILE that moderately fair crops would
alone be sufficient to cause q reduction
of twenty. five per cent. in the emigra.
ton in 3 single year.
The real cause Of the decline is proba-
bly, to be found In the fact that the
German and English authorities are
be, oming alarmed at the immense
outflow of population from their shores
and are taking measures to prevent it
both by doing something to smeliorate
the condition oftheir peasantry at home
and by throwing obstacles in the way
Of an unrestricted immigration. If such
is the case the decline may be expected
to continue until some public calamity
in the form Of a crop failure or business
panic shall occur to start the tide in our
direction once more.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-08-12

twenty. fiYe original fall page etchings by
A. Delierre; I'm Nazareth Town, Q Christ
mas Fantasy" and other poems BY John
W. hadwick; "a Short History of the
City of Philadelphia, from its Foundation
to the Present Tiue,,' by Susan Cool lge;
and new editions of the Rev. William
Wares "Aurelian," Julian" and ~ mo
bia," and of Paul konewka's illustrations
to Goethe's Faust
"Porter & Coates have in preparation for
the fall handsome edition If Mrs. Nor
toms popular poem "Bipgen on the
Rhine" illustrated by twenty-five ensrav-
ings from original drawings By W. 7.
smedley, F. B. Schell, A. Fredencks,
Granville Perkins and Z. P. Garrett 1t
will be printed on the finest plate paper
and bound in variety vf hanfsOme styles.
The title OF Margaret Vandegrift's new
story for girls, to be published by Porter
& Coates, will be The Queens Body
guard"
J.B. Lippincott & Co. have just issued
Leaves OF Spring, Gathered in Autumn
little volume OF readable poems by w.
H. Coyl.
G.P. Putnams Sons have issued "ESo-
luton, a Summary Of Evidence" being a
lecture delivered in Montreal in March
last by Robert C. Adams. This lecture
presents compactly, but clearly, the array
of chieievidences in support OF the theory
of evolution, now almost universally &C
cepttd by scientists, and rapidly becom-
ing the doctrine of the intelligent world.
Sacred Scriptures OF the World" COM
piled, edited and in part translated by
Rev. Martin K. Schermerhorn, has just
been issued from the press OF G. P. Put
MANS Sons. In this book Mr.. Schmer-
horn gives carefully edited selection OF
all the more important sacred books of
the world. The selections Jew
ish and Christian Scriptures make up
almost three -fourths of the volume. The
other selections are taken from the most
revered writings of the Persisns, Egyp-
,isns, Hind4s, Buddhists, Chinese, Greeks,
Romans sudt Arabians. No fault can be
found with these selections as a book of
devotional reAding, though undoubtedly
many people will be shocked at the idea of
putting portions OF the Bible side by side
with writings not professedlv Christian.
1t must be said however that these latter
are thoroughly Christian in spirit. Many
of,them in fac: are almost identically SINH
lar to the teachings of Jesus in the New
Testament. The grouping together of all
that is Of ethical value in the most Cele-
brated writings of the world was a happy
thought on the part OF the author. Many
who hesitate to put the Old Testament as
1t stands in the hands Of young children
will fine in Mr.. SChmerhorn's book all that
is helpful and devotional in the Bible. It
is understood that a smaller and cheaper
edition Of the book is contemplated, more
adapted TO popular use than the present
one.
Under the title One OF Philedelpha's
levels the August "Mauhattan" contains
- paper on Horticultural Hall, Philsdel-
phia, proiusely illustrated from drawings
made expressly for the article.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-08-12
rERsosAL FONTS.

IsxAIL PASTA, ex.Khediys, will live per-
manently in London.
n, d, CONWAY is making q seven months
trip around the world.
SENATOR EDxUsDs says he likes TO talk to
reporters, because he learns 4 great deal
from them.
Ma. PAUL d. CARpKSrEs, of Wisconsin, ID
busily engaged upon the biography OF his
father, the late Senator.
SENATOR WADE HAMrroS. OF South Caro-
lima, is in New York. .-s. q
MILLIONAIRE Floors new house, in San
Fran cisco, will cost about s5,OOo,OOo.
FERNANDO D'ARLIsecouRr, the Commuu.
ist is to become the wife of q Roumanisn
Count, with q separate income, the prinei-
pal Of which is represented by 5000
She is twenty-five years old.
The three eldest living compositors in
Pennsylvania reside in Harrisburg. They
are General Simon Cameron, aged eighty
six years: George W. Scott, aged eighty
FIVE years, and Jacob Babb, aged eighty
three years.
Mr.. De PAW, a wealthy citizen OF Indi
ana, agreed to endow Asbury university
with 81, OOO, 900 if $50 900 should be raised
from other sources by August LIST. The
trustees so far have obtained only $77,l4l,
and Mr.. De PAW extends the time to DC.
tober 4th.
LONDON Truth remarks of Oscar Wilde:
1.-THE was snubbed he did not see it: il he
was laughed at he did not heed it. There
was no guile in the man and little method
in his madness; for though on lap dog
terms with many women, he was never
connected with any scandal, nor can it be
said of him that he was hunter OF
helresses.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-08-12
MODERN MIRACLES.

If we are to believe all that We read
and hear, upon the strength Of teSti-
mony that We would except without
question with reference to ordinary Oc-
currences, we must admit that the age
of miracles is by no means past. Just
at the present time, we are learning
considerable about them. y man in
Hudson, y. v, recently told Sun re-
porter how he was cured Of q four years
blindness through prayer, after Il doc
tors, Including eminent Ocullsts, had
given his case up as hopeless. lie had
believed that ne would recover, but was
shocked to Overhear his wife say to
some friends that she did not expect
him to get well, and falling upon his
knees, he prayed rs he had never pray
ed before. Suddenly he heard voice
say: "Get some clay" The clay was
brought, at his request, but his wife OBJ
jected to his making any use of it, and
il was kept under the stove for five days
he not knowing how best to apply it.
He prayed earnestly for guidance, and
on the fifth day the voice commanded
him again to 'get the clay" He took
the pieces from under the stove and
found that they had been baked hard,
and applying them to Ais eyelids they
chung like leeches. The removal of the
clay was followed by complete restor-
alton of his sight. We have no COM
ment to make upon this story except
that it is wonderful, If true. But mira
eles are apparently being performed in
many places, and upon mary people.
The blind see, the deaf hear, the sick
are restored to health, the
lame recover strength and com
plete command of muscle and
limb and all rejoice in their sud-
den release from various infirmities.
That Boston worker Of miracles, DR..
CTIIIs, has been holding faith con-
yention at Old Orchard, at which many
wonderful stories were told, one being
that woman who had been affiilted
with total deafness for ~ years was
cured. She first felt an itching sensa-
ton, then a cracking sound in her ears,
aid suddenly the voice of the speaker
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-08-12
THE MIMIC STAGE.

impossible eyes and i'm possible hair.
And impossible play OF expression,
And st least An improbAbie gesture apc a.,
And eNuavsGnnt boots Ia Hesaian:
Long feathers and b ats OF the Corsican TN.
And brtf andish boards and moustaches
Young ladies with eyes that they fre9uenuy
wipe,
And exceedingly dsrk-colored lashes-
Theee are essentials, and It's on this plan
Melodrama is viewed b. the property mia.
A sudden temptation and falling from vr.s.
OF the heir 10 very large fortune;
rakcally uncle who seizes the place
And cuts the youth out OF his portion:
A beauteous young lady who falls In q poas
Aud in love with the youth who lust :u-a
herr,
A trueuIent VILLAIN, who also is fond
OF the maiden. and therefore abducs b,r.
Pursuit by the youth and escape by ID,
maid:
A dus l-result long uncertain;
The villain II killed, love- puts up his bIad.
Gets married, ousts uncle. and -cartAlp
II In is all that IN neeiful. A. authors confss.
To make melodrama perfect success.
Parts long and heavy and tediously dun:
Star tax ing ali situations
Manager worried snd mad as bull:
supes that would try Jobs own pailsnn,
Lady like temper and tesrs every day:
Gentlemen sulks universal:
Every evening the devil 10 pay,
Every morning. rehearsal
This l. the aspect- for I've heAr ri them SAW
MelodramR ass umes To the actors that playu
-Ihr JYiy,
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Farmers'Denartm|l'

ii
Tho Wheeling RSouYIR VA foun4
.s.s, At the time of the inauguration la
i iE ~. on as Wa si. x..s eo:sly idsnss.d
. .nIs % t. sd awe the Rso%Tss
IN the lust exultRtion with which our ~
regard Iu bright career. The popuia1
he State has increased In grestsf fhies
most Of the old states. her schools bsvs %
piled and improved in sfi,cisncy. her Z
Ist.red. her resources are being devaoP4i u
snergy, and her people growing In enIl
ment and Thrift. with the growth ~
-tsts the RE6IsTrR has grown. WIZ
velopment the Rn0fsrEE has develops "
IL prosperity the hGDtsTnh hns wT.
And a. Allowing ths esii ., ~ ~. ~ - y
whose interests u has stesdfastiy osu
can lay with truth that no other pap
by M many West virgtnians, nor ~
diner penefrAts every part OF the sA
gcss y-,u .on,,nus a. h.r,(pr
The sdvSSs,. 20 q a1 15Hsn . asn the
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5nahan Rs9istfr
SUNDAY, AUGUsT Is, 1858.

THE REGISTER has, by sew
eral thousand copies, a larger
circulation than any newspaper
published In the two Yirginias
or Eastern Ohio. Its adTanta-
ges as an advertising medium
are therefore apparent.
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A Costume with Many Loose Folds.

". 7. TNtHfWV TON.
An Oriental robe bordered with superb
cashmere designs is worthy Of note. The
skirt, wholly white, is shifred here and
there without any apparent intention.
while the tunic, which is in reality large
half shawl. falls quite low on the
right side, displaying in full
the large crimson palm Of the
corner. the remainder being drawn up
high on the left side and punched careless,
y in the back. The bodice opens like q
Jspsnese dressing-gown over q rightly
down and tied IN front over the shawl tn.
mic. The whole bears a certain negligence
acceptable 20 ladies Who dislike anything
formal ard suggestive Of steels sad whale.
bones,
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-08-12
KANsAsc CITY:
Latter from an Old Wheeling Boy,
which Contains
SOME INTERESTING PERSONALITIES
And Peculiar Gsneralities Night ReVeIries
thoughts on Tsmperance-Ihe
Sunday Law and How it
Works.
ADVICE TO WHEELING YOUNG MEN.

Who Want to Go West-Meagre Salaries
Paid-A Compliment to Our Girls
Wheeling People in Kansas
City-what They are
Doing.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-08-12

"obu ~ AuNbCNs
Shall quips, and sentence and
These pater bullets OF the brain
Ave q man from the career OF his humourf
BHAkEsPEAKE.
westward the course Of empire takes
its way" and notwithstanding any
woIds addressed to Wheeling boys ad-
visIDg their remaining in their
present location they will come out to
The "boundless aud the beautiful" they
hunger TO become "insuspecting travel
ers" and candidates for battle In the
arena with the Western champion who
IL known by the name OF Malaria. Well,
so long as destiny calls you this way let
me recommend means OF making your
journey pleasant. After you arrive In
Chicago buy ticket over the Chicago
Rock Island and Pacific railway TO
Kansas City. No matter what train
you take you will find 1t In charge OF
perfect gentlemen from the porter up TO
he conductor or the official In charge
OF the fine drawing cars.
This rather fstteripg notice may
,avor somewhat Of puffery. And yet
nothing OF the kind is further from my
thought. Ihaye theory about rail-
wsy management which will tit the
well known phrase, "like master like
man." About five weeks ago had q
little business talk with Col. + st.
Jehn Of this road. His Office. at the
time was filed with people awaiting
all sorts Of favors. His courteous treat.
nent of all, whether the applicants
were worthy or unworthy, was 50 mark
I'd that thought ii deserving Of com.
ment. And I think the opinion VII
hold good that this Ia the general sp.riI
apimatiDg the official conduct OF thL
road. I know that among railroad
agents in Kansas City none have more
| friends and admirers than John Sebas
tian and his worthy assjstant, Mr.. ]. +
Totten. ofthe c., X. ]. h p. road They
are most honorable men, and ere ap
psrently never 90 content A. when Of
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-09
NeoSho Valley Notes.

The rough change in the weather
has been quite effective in producing
bad colds. .......Through the arduous
labors of Bro. w. Ketchum the church
in this place has been greatly revived,
and sinners have been caused to re.
feet seriously on their condition. The
meeting now in progress will contin-
Ne through this week.........James
Nebergall, who is now making his
home with the family of William
Hankins, will farm the place that Mr..
H. recently bought of Frank Stoddard
......... Frank Stoddard went to Kansas
City last week in quest of more lu-
crative and pleasant employment than
farming, but'returned fully Satisfied to
remain with the farmers of Allen
county ......... Mr.. Mckee and Rev. Mr..
Rose q I'D wife were in this neighbor-
hood the past week.........A. J. Servey
has bought the 40 acre farm that be-
longed to his mother laying near the
place on which he uves.........Mr. J.
Williams died on Tuesday morning,
after "a Hines of little more than q
week. His family have the sympathy
Of the entire community.
VALLEYITE.