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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-07
Saving Seed Corn.

Ouite an item during autumn IS saving
seed corn for the next year. Some careful
farmers walk through their corn fields and
break off the finest looking ears, and, turn
ing back the husks, braid them together
closely, and hang them up over head or
AGAINST the wall in the warm kitchen to dry
out When little corn is planted and not
much seed required, this is very good way;
but where thirty or forty acres are planted
it would not be practicable. Some who husk
their corn select the finest ears as they go,
and throw them in a pile by themselves, and
as the pile accumulates it is spread cut In
some convenient place, like the floor Of a
chamber, where n stovepipe goes through
into a chimney. When spread thinly in such
aplace, about the right amount OF heat IS
secured to dry it out well. It is a theory that
il the pith, that is, the center Of the cob,
freezes, the corn will not terminate.
The experiment was tried once Of braiding
I'D O quantity Of corn and hanging it over
head in a stone smoke house, and building a
fire in the smoke house every day for a time.
The experiment was never tried but once.
The corn did not grow well It IS said that
the Indians prepare their corn in this way,
and that mice never touch it after it has been
smoked. Anything that gives heat enough
to eyaporate the moisture and dry out the
corn answers the purpose. Corn has been
taken from the crib and used for seed, and
has grown, but it is not safe to trust to that
easy way Of doing business, as It often makes
the trouble OF ~replanting neeessary.-A. b.
In New York World.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-07
An AwfuI Story.

There was once a little girl who had a way
of saying lawful" to everything. She lived
in an awful house, in an awful street, in an
awful village which was an awful distance
from any other place. She e to an awful
school, where she had an awful teacher, who
gave awful lessons out of awful books. Every
day she was so awful hungry that she ate an
awful amount of food, so that she looked aw-
full healthy. Her hat was awful small and her
feet were awful large. She went to an
awful church, and her minister was
an awful preacher. When she took an
awful walk she climbed awful hills, and
when she got awful tired she sat down under
an awful tree to rest herself. In summer she
found the weather awful hot, and in winter
awful cold. When it didn't rain there was
awful drought, and when the awful drought
was over there was al awful rain. So that
this awful girl was all the time in an awful
state, and if she don't get over saying lawful"
about everything l am afraid she will by and
by become an awful bore.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-07
The Air is Full of 1t.

You find yourself thinking of a person
unpleasantly form whom you have re
ceived a slight or insult, an injury or in
Justice. Such thought remains with you
hour after hour, perhaps day after day.
You become at last tired of it, yet you
cannot throw it off. 1t annOys, worries,
frets, sickens you. You cannot prevent
yourself from going round and round on
this same tiresomc, troublesome track OF
thought. 1t wears on your spirit; and
whatever wears on the spirit, wears on
the body.
This is because you have drawn on
yourself the other PERSONS opposing and
hostile thought. He is thinking of you
as you are Of him. He is sending yOu n
wave of hostile thought. You are both
giving and receiving blows of unseen clc-
ments. You may keep up this silent war
of unseen force for weeks, and if so, both
are injured. This contest Of opposing
wills and forces is going IN all about us.
The mir is full of it.-Prcntice Milford
In White Cross Library
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-07

have a good heartl You surprise me-
Why didn't y0u mention chat hefOrcs
Yet, II true, You ought to get your house
back. III convince myself Of the fact.s
Then, clapping his hands, the executioner
entered "Cut this mans head of, - he
said. do it tenderiy, so he won't suffer
any pain, and then bring me the heart on
a salyer." The mollah, screaming, was
dragged out OF the room, and the order
literally carried out. When the plate
with the steaming heart on it was
brought to the FL, he looked at it and
said: $50 that's the way a good heart
looksl H'ml Give that man his house
back. What, he's dead2 Oh, then, / sup
pose I'll have to keep it. Put him in a
house where he'll DC at rest and won't
trouble my father with his idle tales any
more
a soldier had been stealing a melon of
a peasant. The peasant ran complaining
to the Fill, telling him the soldier had re-
fused TO pay for the melons shahs-(3H
centsl. The FIJI ordered the soldier to be
brought before him. "Now I'll test this
matter, {" he said to the peasant. II this
man has melon in his belly You'll get
your five shahs. II not, off goes your
head" The soldiers belly was cut open,
the melon found, the peasant got his 5
ShahS and went on his way rejoicing.
Turning to the remains of the soldier he
said: Throw this thing out" This
prince is very fond of practical jokes, and
this is the kind he likes TO play.-WOlf
Won Schierbrand, in San Francisco Chron-
icla
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-07
A Plaster.

EHave YOU n sisterF' asked the settling clerk
on the board Of trade "Nol Then you don't
know how dangerous it II to incur her dis
pleasure. IpromiSed to take my sister and a
friend Of hers t. the theatre one evening and
then forgot all about it Well, she and her
friend put up a job on me TO get even. They
made a great strong mustard plaster and put
it in the pocket of my night robe / reHem-
Der / had q terrible dream that night. l
dreamed l was dead Then / woke up and /
was sure / was dead. / could feel the fire
burning my heart right out, and every now
and then I would get a Whit Of that mustard
and il made & first class substitute for brim-
stone and sulphur. / tell you ] suffered
~agonies.n
@WeI, it mast have been a strong plaster"
/ said.
aStrongI5 no calculated. ELook herel Now,
1 don't expect you to believe me; but, with
out ex-aggeration, that plaster was so strong
that it drew my spinal column right plumb
up against my breast bone, and when the
plaster was removed the spine few back into
position with u snap that Jared the whole
house"
1 give this story to the reader for what it Is
worth. | viii not give it as q who'e my un-
qualified Endorsement, for there are portions
Of it that / find extremely difficult to believe.
The Rambler.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-07
The Kings Valet de Chambre.

The Daily News of Munich tells a story
illustrative of the queer freaks of the late
mad king Of Bavaria. He had an excel
lent valet de chambre, whose services he
praised greatly, but who one day COM
mitted some petty fault that threw the
quick-tempered monarch into such a
tempest of fury that he beat him with his
fists aud said: 'Get out l do not want
ever TO see your face again" The maj
went as rapidly as he could. Then the
king had a succession of Wallets, each II
of whom seemed worse, more stupid, and
incompetent than his predecessor, until
the king was frantic all the time. The
Balon Schneider, chief of the palace,
urged him to take his old valet back
again, but he refused on the ground that
his dignity would not permit him to do
SO, when he had said he wished never to
see the mans face again. Then the baron
had a happy idea. Every well, your
majesty" he said, 'you need not see his
face again. We will make a blackamooT
of him" To that the king assented
cheerfully, and thereafter until his
death, he was faithfully served by an ap-
parent negro, who was, however, in real
ity a native of Munich, his old white
vslet-New York Sun.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-07
Railroading In Mexico.

The expenses Of railroading in this hot
climate are great. Wooden ties have
but a short life, cracking in the dry sea-
son, and rotting during the rainy months;
bridge timbers and piles also wear out
rapidly. Freight cars must be painted
frequently to prevent drying and crack
ing, and even the substantial Pullman
cars shrivcl under this exposure. Fuel
constitutes a large item of outlay. Mes
quit roots are burned on the Central road;
pine cut along its route is used on the In
%teroceanic; and the Vera Cruz company
feed their engines coal blocks that are
brought from Wales as ballast. The de-
cay of ties will III time neceSsitate n Sc
rious outlay on the Central road, for
wooden sleepcrs cost here 81 each. 1t is
evident that iron ties are a necessity in
Mexico, and they are just coming into
ues.
The climate tends to preserve tho rails
and iron bridgcs-prOvided the latter eS-
cape the torrents of the rainy season.
Engineers command better wages here
than they do in the United States, for
only that inducemcnt brings them here.
The general stats of the roads are also
we'll paid, but the section hands, who arc
poems, work for small wages. The natur-
al and proper tendency on all the roads
is to employ MeXicans when the right
men can be obtained. This policy helps
to protect the property of outside cor
porations doing business here .-Spring-
field Mass.) Republican.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-07
Nearly as Good a. Mark Twain. Frog.

An old gentleman at Tewkesbury for many
years rode q blind horse. Though sightess,
the steed, which had probably been n good
fencer once, had learned to jump whenever
he received a hint that he was desired TO do
so. One day, after q run with the hounds,
some hunting men were talking in the bar Of
a hotel about big jumps, and the owner OF
the blind horse stoutly maintained hat that
animal would jump over a single obstacle
which none oftheir hun tiers would leap. He
was ready TO back his words with money.
and as the result of the conversation he made
four bets Of s. each on the subject. Very
coon the four sportsmen repented Of riskin2
their money so rashly. The owner OF the
blind horse put down a straw In the street,
and this constituted the aobstacle.' He rode
I'D to it, and the blind steed, responding TO
his call, arose at the rasper," clearing IT with
q bound four feet in the air, and covering
twelve feet of ground at least None OF the
other four horses would rise at a straw, n
the owner of the blind horse was 70 richer.
Court Journal
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-07
BHusH SEINE FISHING.
The Cornplanter Indians. Novel Method
NJ C.trbfuy Ff<h.

AAG wi III
OF Catching Fish.
Fully a thousand people from James
town, Warren and neighboring places
went to Big Bend, on the Allegheny
river to witness the drawing Of a brush
seine by the C~ornplanter Indians. This
was the first time a brush seine had
been drawn in the Allegheny river in
ten years, and, it becoming known that
the fun was to take place, called out
a great crowd of whites, who stood by
and witnessed the capture of about 1900
pounds of bass, pike and pickerel by the
sons of the forest.
This method of fishing is novel, and is
prohibited by the laws of Pennsylvania,
but the noble red man, like necessity,
knows no law except that of supply and
demand, and when he gets ready to fish,
the county jails have no terrors for him.
When a seine is to be drawn a delegation
of Indians select a location where the
water is very deep and ending in a long,
shallow rifle. Here they go into camp
and begin cutting brush, the butts Of
which are deftly woven together, leaving
the busly end loose. When this has
reached u length sufficient to cross the
stream one end is carried over and made
fast to a tree. The loosely constructed
drag is then interviewer with other
branches, among which are fastened
large stones, pieces of iron and junk,
until he lower side Of the drag rests on
the bottom of the stream.
The seine is now completed, and on the
first bright day the main body of Indians
arrives N the fun opens. They are di-
vided into three squads. One of these,
armed with spears or harpoons, is sta
toned on the rifle, and the other two are
delegated to draw the seine. Soon after
the drag begins moving the fish start
down stream, and the scene becomes ami
mated in the extreme. Swarthy braves,
dressed a la Newport, dash here and
there in the shallow water, driving a
spear through a ten-pound pickerel or a
half-pound bass with the same energy
and skill, and all the time keeping up an
unearthly yelling that respunds for miles
through the forests. AS the seine moves
slowly down stream the excitement in
creases, and the Indians seem wild with
delight rs fish after fish, in endless vari-
ETY., is thrown Hopping and twisting upon
the banks, to be taken care of by the old
men. The sport at Big Bend lasted
nearly two hours, and when the work was
done they had captured n wagon box
full, the catch being estimated at two
thousand pounds. IN. "
Cor. New York Sun.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-07
A Narrow Escape.

Harrison Smiler had been up before a com-
mittee of members of the African Methodist
church to which he belonged, on the charge
Of appropriating hams from smoke houses.
As there was not evidence enough to convict,
he was acquitted, principally On his own tes-
timony. After the investigation was over,
Harrison met the preacher who had presided,
and remarked: 81 say, pahson, it's mighty
lucky fob me dat l got Quilted dis mawnin'."
at am, suah. I hope you wuz quilted hon.
es1y, Harrisonl"
"'Deed l wuz, suah; but it's a powful good
thing dar wasn't anything said erbout bacon,
though. Merchant Traveller.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-07
Opium Eating in the West.

/ was talking with an old druggist the
other day, as VIC were walking along
Firth street, and the conversation turned
on The subject Of opium eating. The
druggist remarked: NOW all this talk
about opium eaters is very largely bosh.
Why, there arc not more than five hun
dred confirmed opium eaters in st. Paul.
The fact Is it's a business that don't pay,
this selling Of opium-therc's no money
in it. The men who use opium or NOR
phine to excess are all broken down in
body and estate, and they don't, as a rule,
buy more than q very small quantity
five or ten cents worth ut = time. Every
once in a while ONE newspaper reporter
in the east will write up an interview
with some alleged opium eater, and then
it will come out here and be changed and
used as coming from some opium eater in
this part of the country. It's all bosh."
Press,
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-07

If our cash account doan' tally up to a cent
cherry day in de year you kin look out fur
lower barometer an high winds in de lake
region.
Sir Isaac Walpole secured the floor to Sug-
gest that, in view Of the increased length of
the evenings and the large attendance at the
library it might be a good thing to form n
debating society. He had belonged to sew
eral during the last twenty years, and be-
lieved himself to have been greatly benefit
ted.
I'VE will take de matter under advise
ment," replied the president. II has had
some leetle experience wild debatin' societies,
an dis yere scar on de back Of my head was
de result of once helm on de negative side
when de quesshun at issue was, "What Could
We Do Widout WinmIn" We will decide
de case later on. "-Detroit Free Press.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-07
What tho Typewriter Has Done.

The typewriter has proved most injur-
ious to our profession, and men who were
earning $40 n week while the courts were
sitting are thankful if they can average
S25. In the good old times n man charged
for taking the notes and for making the
transcript, and he was paid mans wages
for doing both. Now. 1t is usual 10 die
tate from notes TO q female stenographer
who transribes with n typewriter.
From Sc to SO a week is what these Ia
dies mostly are paid, and the reduction
in rates makes even this more than they
earn The worst of it is lawyers insist
on q typewriter transcript as it is both
clearer and cheaper, and it is practically
impossible to earn anything by transcrib-
ing. -Stenographer i'll Globe-D Democrat.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-07
THE POETS Wall.

o, the autumn days ere coming,
When the bees have stopped their humming,
And the partridge Iona is drumming
In the copSe upon the hill;
when the leaves are slowly falling,
And The sable crow is calling
To his mate to stop her squalling
With a Wild and mournful trill;
Autumn winds the boughs are rustling,
And the towns again are buStling,
While the countryman is hustling
With his apples and his corn;
Days OF J~ohnny-cake and bacon,
When the woods are oil torsaken,
And the m~eadow-larks have taken
Flight across the fields forlorn.
Tis the season melancholy,
DAYS when Nature Is not jolly;
Soon the welcome Christmas holly
Win be hung DER banquet hall;
Shows Of winter viii be DER US,
And the season soon win bore Us
When in name quite decorous
We must seek the evening ball;
For the summer days are over,
withered are the fields Of clover,
And each merry woodland rover
On bis hauuts no more does dote;
And the question now, my dearie,
That doth make me feel so weary,
Is the old one, dark and dreary,
Can l wear last winters coatf
Henry Tholens In lid Bits
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-07
ne SHAFTS PROMISING SON.

s'ering Justice to an Unfortunate
"0lah-Punishing IA Thief.
SoleSt Of the elder trio, who alone
81 az Yet, is MaSSOud Mira, whose
|SNt Sue Is Fil-es-Sultan, a man of
IL he is the ableSt and, / think,
The three. Yet what things
Ia June Talk about Nero, Caligula
s~a rlane-this man, in his UMPIRE
|ss%, SIialI way, has outdOne them.
Jew months ago that he, within
GBii.o OuI hours committed the follow
h \" pleaSaRtries: A mOIlah (priest)
Pa o"her Of a house in Ispahan,
~ sva. recount Of its site and location,
sGs me- by the Fill who is governor
h LO'e northern portion of Persia).
TolS e being his patrimony, the
N h,,ostG not sell the house to the FIJI.
ods then simply seized it and the
S nado eIOlglng to it. The poor mol
gSt ~, q oeggar, went to Teheran,
10 ma u obtained a hearing with the
SceiTed from the latter a few
ehloT Alng's son. The letter was TO
al son: This poor and pious
s SfAS mercy from You. BE indul-
Sn lor he has a good, upright
s.ms letter the moIlah returned
R - and obtained an audience of
aen, "nOm he delivered the royal
Inc prince read it frowning.
" To the mollah. $50 Won
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-07

"Now, 1 was a boy Of IL, not fond Of work,
and was just out of tho bayfield, where l had
been at work since daybreak. was tired,
dusty and hungry. 1t was two miles into
town. wanted to get my supper, and to
wash and dress for singing school.
"My first impulse wa to refuse, and to do
it harshly; for / was vexed that he should
ask after my long days work. If l did re-
fuse he would go himself. He was a gentle,
patient old man. But something stopped me
one of Gods good angels, l think.
"Of course, father, I'll take it," I said,
heartily, giving my scythe to one of the men.
He gave me the package.
g,'Thank you, Jim,' he said, 4 was going
myself, but somehow l don't feel very strong
to-day
GHe walked with me to the road that turned
off to the town, as he left he put his hand on
my arm, saying again, Thank you, my son.
You've always been a good boy to me, Jim.
Il hurried into town and back again.
"When | came near the house, | saw a
crowd of farm hands at the door. One of
them came to me, the tears rolling down bis
face
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-07
IL IL Cnnll Re Thus.

How much pleaSanter it would be if a
ship could sail always on IL tack! No
sooner are we comfortably established
with deck chair and cushions, Il protect
ing ''vashmak" against the sun, and the
sad story of the cruise of the Jeanette, as
q protection against ennui, than the eter-
nal order comes: "Hard-a-lee;" the
sailors echo it and fly to change all the
sails, jibs, and giblets, and we must shift,
too, or sit in the hot sunlight. Boston
Traveller.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-07
RIDDLE.

I'm black or white, I'm brown or gray,
I'm tall or fiat, I'm grave or gay,
As soft as wool or stiff as tin,
A nest for wits to nestle in.
] hold great intellects, yet oft
Am bothered with the weak and soft,
And sometimes crusty, hard and thick,
They fill me with well burned brick.
Fashion controls me, yet wear
Some aspects to make fashion stare.
Though always for one place designed,
] change rs often us the wind.
I'm dumb, and yet in spite Of that
Make more than half of every chat"
I'm midget none can ~hate-(dont doubt mel
Nor raise q fighting cock without me-"
The answer is something to be worn upon
the head
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All Taken Ont of Him.

Mr.. Irving, who is back at his theatre
in London, made this speech when called
out the other evening: 'You want me to
say something. 1 have nothing to say.
Everything / have had to say since We
parted here has been taken out of me by
the American interviewers, but l might
add that | have never been better treated
than when l was across the seas. "--Ex-
change.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-07
Writing the Christmas Stories.

Magazine Editor-It is time to arrange
for our Christmas stories.
Assistant have engaged them.
care the authors mt work."
eyes, they have dubbed together, hired
n room I'm an ice house, and | send the
Office boy around twice n day to Jingle
sleigh bells under the window. Omaha
Herald.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-07
The Man with a Harp.

II was in tho infant class Of a Sunday
school. The teacher was trying to bring out
the fact that David was a man OF varied oc-
equations. There had boeu smooth sailing
until the Question was asked: 1What do you
AL a man who plays on the harpF After a
brief pause a youngSter raised his hand and
answerss San ItclLsn.a The teachers and
nhclars bad o good laugh and a new topic
FminErodpced-Omaha Wosl1
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-07
Where somebodr L. Always Asleep.

% you ever Slccps' questioned I Of
@oAout oue night as he tramped &c
IGo upon his watchful beat.
vR' YES, madam; | sleep Of course.
Li watch this trip is from midnight
otlS, 50 my of time falls in the
here always somebody asleep
although people don't stop to re-
= Oef and the noise overhead Just here
1s forward deck often keeps q pool
~ awake upon whose steady lookout
lne night depends the safety OF
'o0I on board. Let a steamer
uaSl a mile away and the watch for
Iest in a snip Of a snooze, and wht
D.aMe Tor what may follow? No
wants 10 complain: but il passeu
sGOc.a stop to think, there's plenty
70 thump canes and stamp feet
"gAt over these three state rooms
Someb, ly is always asleepr'-
d In Chicago Journal.
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ewing and Cakes" Legacy.

A Clergyman writes to The Boston Adver-
tiser thai he recently preached in one of the
Oldest churches in the SoldT city Of London.
As he entered the porch he was met by a ro-
tund and digniied beadle, who led him to
the vestry room, and, pointing to two de-
canterS, said: aWiIl you take sherry or port,
sirf' The parson smiled at, not with, the
beadIc, who then explained that about three
hundred years ago a good m Of tbs
parish, dying, left a certain sum for the pur-
chase Sof wine and s~weetcakes for the clergy
and since that time wine and cakes have been
regularly supplied at each seryice.-New
York Sun.