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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-02-08
Nov York Olrar alaEer., slrite.

New York, Feb. IA meeting Of the
Progressive Union Cigar Makers was held
tonight to hear the report Of the COM
mittee, which was in conference with the
manufactured on Friday last. The PROPOSE.
ton OF the manufacturers was accepted and
A committee will wait upon them and
visit the various shops and endeavor TO
arrange scale Of wages based upon an
average Of all the shops. II Is believed
the progressives will return 10 work when
this committee has reported,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-02-08

WASHINGTON, D. O., Feb. 0.-solicitor
General Goode, who has been specially
designated TO conduct the suit against the
Bell Telephone Company, to test the
validity OF their patsnt, has secured the
services ofthe following named gentle.
mon as special counsel to assist in the
prosecution oil the suit: Hon. A. G. Thur.
man, Of Ohio; Grosveuor Lowry, OF New
York, who Ia a specialist Ia electrical mat.
ters; MCssrs. Eppa lIunLon and JEFF
Chandler, Of Washington, D. G., and Mr..
O. s. Whitman, q patent attorney ol
WsshlDgton' The quit viii be filed as
soon as the Solicitor General shall have
an opportunity TO consult with the AS.
sistant in regard-ta the bill which Is now
IN course oil preparation at the Depart.
ment Of Justice. Tho place where the
suit shall bs instituted will not be decided
upon till oil the papers in ths case are
ready.
The Attorney General has positively
declined to have anything 10 do with the
case. Judge Goode says the case will be
promptly and vigorously prosecuted, aud
with fairness 10 oil parties concerned.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-02-08

Mn. SpELY's Young Democrats are very
,,,,o on such Democrats as A. j. swee-
Da, Bernard Shanley, John WaterhOuse
,rj Jobn Il, Hoffman, Jr, Perhaps they
xillthipk better OF it.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-02-08

Ptr1snvRon, Feb. 7.-Furnacss Nos. /
and 2, OF the Cambria Iron Company, sit
mated at Hollidaysburg, were banked down
yesterday on account Of a scarcity of coke,
caused by the prolonged strike in the Con.
nellSville region. The suspension throws
800 men out OF employment.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-02-08
uor,lbla HnniInr Analhnnt.

1SpiAsApoLls, Feb. frank Bowler
while hunting rabbits south OF the city
this afternoon was horribly and fatally In
jured by the accidental discharge oil his gun,
A full load OF shot entered his stomach,
tearing his intestlnes in shocking man
ner. He lived but ashort time.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-02-08

r seem, necessary to inform some OF
an, esteemed contemporaries that Mr..
T.Ilo Central Bell is not = member Of
p,s,iJ.nt Clevsland'S Cabinet
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-02-08

.yDpoy com.sthereport that the peach
,,,,,,ct, in the Delaware and Maryland
p,Din,pl. have been ruined by the cold
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-02-08
no pAlkotlbntr PpllofIles.

bDltldI DlIp0lcN % ne INltIIlgeNot7'
WAnlSuroN, b. o., Feb. 1.-THE tardl.
ness Of the President in appointing Post.
master SCOTS successor, OF PAtketsburg,
has been The cause oi much wonder on
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-02-08

,..,,nIyo 10 tho New York AaiI and
y'a,,stbs tone among spectators in the
',,n hi Marietta bullish'
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-02-08

c.sy,r1yp & PITTSBURGH RAILROAD
.,,,r sold up to $50 last Wsek-ths
%,,bsst6gurqs in its history,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-02-08

u,pr,TrGp, druggists in New York will
~, ,on,vIled by law to put q red label, a
'',,s, t,naI, on morphine bottles.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-02-08

be carried out, A sinking fund could be
created, and Q sufficient sum deposited
from the earnings to pay the actual value
OF the plant at the time OF transfer"
From another source 1t was given out
that the gentleman in question had posi-
tive knowledge on the subject, but was
under obligations not to say anything at
present II may be stated that during the
last four weeks, number Of very strong
limitations have been made that this ru'
1nnR Vuoa NnRHank
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-02-08

NOMINAL, Feb. 6.-1L is learned that
Canadian buyers have taken heavy deals
iu the Glasgow pig iron markets attracted
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-02-08
CONGRESSMAN'S LOT
NOT BY ANY MEANS AHAPPY ONE.
How thsIr Time Is OceupIsd, and the Many
Queer R'QuOSts and ARDOyAnSss thoy
are Subjected to-Ths PaTksraburE
POStOtllCS = Washington News.



WAsHISaToN, D. c., Feb. G.-"Peopie
who think the life Of a member OF Can.
gress is a happy one, and that seat in
that body is a siueGure are greatly mis-,
taken" said Congressman Wilson to the
INTGLLIGENCRR correspondent.
His lie here ia but sample Of that ex,
perienCed by q maturity Of the members,
Said he: II am a tolerable early riser'
and after psrtake Of my breakfast look
hastily over my mail, which is usually
enormous-stscka ofletters, every one de-
manding an answer, and they are from
every section OF my district, making all
sorts Of requests, lido not have time to
read all before going TO the Capitol, and
lay them over to receive my attention at
my first leisure moment. / have to 90 to
the Capitol at hRlf'past ten TO attend TO
my committee duties, and the intervening
time between my breakfast and that
hour occupy in looking over the Record,
to see what was going on in the Senate
the day previous. From l0:3O until IL
o'clock | Rm In COMMITTEES meetings,
where my work is very arduous, being q
member OF two subcommittee OF the APP
preparation Committee.
UNFORTUNATE VISITORS.
Then the House is in session usually
from twelve to four or Ave o'clock, during
which time am in constant attendance.
After adjournment go to dinner, and no
sooner Is the meal completed than the
door bell begiusto ring, and have con.
atant flow Of visitors from that time until
ten o'clock at night, and sometimes later.
People from every section Of the country,
wanting all sorts Of favors, and applicants
for every class OF positions. OF course |
am bored to death, almost, but 1t IL u por-
tion Of the lot q member OF Congress and
must stand 1t. When the door bell
ceases to ring is healthy bedtime,
but my work is only begun, for as soon as
Tat last find myself relieved from the
opportunities OF my visitors, l tackle the
days accumulation OF mail. There are
many letters to answer and the midnight
hour nearly always finds me hard at
work. Now, will you please tell me what
time lhaVe to study public questions. II
any one thinks our life Is an easy one let
him try 1t. All these things l must do, In
addition to the fact that l am expected
to give an occasional day to going the
rounds Of the various Government de-
partments In the interests Of the army OF
office seekers from my district, or looking
after the pension and other claims Of my
constituenta,n
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-02-08
Chs GntelLige'leeT;.

5,,e,, So., IS and " Fourteenth street,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-02-08

wa,,T seems to hang around so cents
"bic,eo a,if that were the bottom price,
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-01-22
THINK ON THESE THINGS.

Whatsoever things are true, what
soever things are lovely, think on these
things
Thoughts are the best help in doing
work. Pleasant thoughts are as oil to
machinery. Sour thoughts play the part,
in the day S transactions, of sour bread in
the stomach Life without thoughts is
a mill grinding without grist. But house
wife ought to think about her work. She
has no time to let her thoughts go meander
ing off into fields of fiction. In the little red
sehool-housc on the hill, in the middle of
the forenoon. there comes a recess. that
the children, coming lessons over and
over, may get fresh breath and lease OF
life and do better and harder work. In the
red farm house in the valley, III the sum-
mer morning sometimes comes a recess,
when the farm wife. and the village
housewife if she is the happy possessor
of a garden. takes the sun hat from the
nail by the kitchen door, the pan from
gather the spoils of many lands to make
a soup or salad for dinner. As the gar
den gate swings ON its hinges it opens into
fields of history and romance as well as
into the garden. Many do not care where
what cat comes from, so that, as the birds
portion, it comes in due season. Others
love to know and think about tic things
that are so familiar one can scarce think of
them as ever being foreign, the dainties
served royalty at the kings table. Think
ing, the garden becomes enchanted, as the
dress brushes against the plumes of the
carrot, past the rows of peas, along by the
red currant bushes. But if the smells of
rosemary and thyme, and every well-or-
dercd garden has its bed of herbs,
keys that open no locks in the memory,
going into the garden means nothing but
work
"a primrose by the rivers hrim
yellow primrose was to him,
And ii was nothing more
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-01-22
flOLDING THE EIGHT.

A dear little boy of five years, who had
an old-fashioned Spartan mother, was
brave enough ordinarily, but was afraid to
be left alone in the dark To cure him of
this fear. his mother decided to send him
to bed alone, and to have the light taken
away, which had usually been left until
the little fellow was asleep.
This was sore trial to the boy and pos
sibly to the mother, but, most of all to the
boys sister, a girl of about ten years OF
age. She could not forget her own times
of trembling and of terror; of looking I'M
der the bed and hiding her head under the
blanket. Her heart ached for the little
fellow undergoing such heroic treatment,
and she used to steal softly up stairs with
her bedroom candle, and stand inst ont
side her brothers door.
care you there, sister ?H
eyes. Willie
''Can have the light -
mo, Willie; mother says no. ="
''Do bring it.
mo: but I'll LET it stand right here
"Will it shine in?'
Eyes. all across the floor; don't you sec?
You must go to sleep or mother will take
it away"
Then pause, and then the sleepy voice
asking
care you there, sister? -
eyes, Willie"
"Win You surely stay p
surely
ssTill I'm all-cvcry bit asleep? You
won't let the light go out till I'm gone p
''No, Willie"
Nor leave me alone?
mo, brother, never. "
And all this in the briefest whisper pos
sible. and if the mother heard she did not
heed, for the children were not forbidden
TO comfort each other in their fashion, I'M
til by-and-by the boy outsrcw his fear.
Years passed, and the lovely boyhood
and brilliant youth were left behind. Will
lie had outgrown his sister in size, and
strength, and knowledge, but not in good
ness or faith. Life parted them early, and
their lives went separate ways Her love
and her letters and her prayers followed
him, but evil temptations crept closer TO
him than these, and little by little he be
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-01-22

so easy, and the sentences so short. And
|? Oh, pity me, missed every word.
did not read one line right. See, here is
my copy now. all blurred and blistered
with tears and heartache, all married and
misspelled and blotted. am ashamed to
show it to the Master. And yet know He
will be patient with me Why, how pa
tiently and lovingly all these years, He
has been teaching me this simple lesson
failed upon to-day. But when my little
pupil stumbled on single word Is my
time, then, SO much more precious than
the Masters that cannot teach the little
lesson more than once?
All, friend, We don waste time when we
plat scourges for ourselves. These hurry
ing days, these busy, anxious, shrewd,
ambitious times of ours are wasted when
they take our hearts away from patient
gentleness, and give us fame for love and
gold for kisses. Some day then, when our
hungry souls will ask for bread our selfish
God will give us stone. Life is not a
deep, profound, perplexing problem. 1t is
simple, easy lesson, such as any child
may read. You cannot find its solution in
the ponderous tones of the old father, the
philosophers, the investigators, the theor-
its. 1t is not on your book-shelyes. But
in the warmest corner Of the most inlet
tered heart it glows letters that the blind
est may read sweet, plain, simple, easy
loving lesson. And when you have learned
it, brother of mine, the world will be bet
ter and happier.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-01-22

Il was Crawford Mills who was hired
next. He knew neither Of the other boys,
and so did his errands in blissful ignorance
of the long box until the second morn
ing of his stay, when in leisure hour he
was sent to put it in order. The morning
passed, dinner time came. and still Craw-
ford had not appeared from the attic At
last Mr.. Peters called to him: Got
through? ''
''No, sir, there is ever so much more to
do
"All right, it is dinner time now, and
you may go back to it after dinner
After dinner back he went All the
short afternoon he was not heard from;
but just as Mr.. Peters was deciding to
call him again, he appeared.
give done my best, sir" he said. ''and
down at the very bottom of the box found
this. =
This" was s. gold piece. That's
queer place for gold, said Mr.. Peters
cts good you found it. Well, sir, I sup
pose You will be on hand tomorrow morn
ing" This he said as he was putting the
gold piece in his pocket-book. After Craw-
ford had said good night and gone Mr..
Peters took the lantern and went slowly
up the attic stairs. There was the long.
deep box in which the rubbish of twenty
five years had gathered Crawford had
evidently been to the bottom of if. He
luA fa1 Mo afc 4, oil
partments, and in these different rooms he
| had placed the articles, with bits of shin
| gle laid on top, and labeled thus: Good
| screws. picture nails, ;" s'Small keys
somewhat bent, . Picture hooks, . pieces
of iron whose use don't know" So on
through the long box. In perfect order it
was at last and very little that could really
be called useful could be found within it.
But Mr.. Peters, as he bent over and read
the labels, laughed gleefully, and murmur-
ed to the mice: s'If we are not both mis-
taken, I have found boy and he has
found fortune"
Sure enough. The sign disappeared
from the window and was seen no more.
boy of the firm of Peters & Co. He had
a little room, neatly fitted up, next to the
attic, where he spent his evenings, and at
the foot OF the bed hing a motto which
Mr.. Peters gave him. 'It tells your for
tune for you, don't forget it, he said,
when he laughed and read it curiously;
''He that is faithful in that which is least is
faithful in much. '1'll try to be, sir,
he said, and he never once thought of the
long box over which he had been faithful.
All this happened years ago Crawford
Mills is errand-boy no more, but the firm
is Peters, Mills & Co. A young man, and
rich one. .'He found his fortune III a
long box of rubbish, Mr.. Peters said once,
laughing. Never was 50 gold piece so
successful in business as that one of his
has been; it is good he found it.
Then, after a moment of silence, he said,
gravely: ''No, he didn't; he found it in his
mothers bible-'He that is faithful in that
which is least is faithful also in much
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-01-22

Where runs the line of dcmarcation be
tween the use of the postal card and OF
sealed letter? Some people put posta
cards to the most absurd uses, writing
ON them of the most private and confidcn-
tial themes; they are even used Tor love
letters in some instances. The real use o.
the nostal cards is for advertisements, an
nouncemcnts, notices ofmeetings, briei and
unimportant matters that are not speclail,
nrivatc. and short business notes. Nherc'
ever friendship, ceremony, strictly per
sonal matters or important business topics
are concerned, sealed envelope is impef'
atively required, not only in the interests
of proper privacy, but as matter OF
common respect. The foolish idea tha'
because they are cheap they should b'
used in preference to any thing else, shouie
be eliminated from peoples minds. 1t is
disrespcct. sometimes evena an Insult, 10 u.s.
a postal card for any personal use what
ever.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-01-22

came the victim of drink. 1t did not con-
tervals he yielded, and slowly and surely
went down. Then it was that she failed
him. She had been so proud Of his tai
ents, of his power to win all the world
pitifully ashamed When he repented,
she found it hard to relent She hated the
sin So bitterly that she almost included the
sinner. She hardened under the shame oil
it, and lost faith in his efforts and prom
Uses: and while she did not give him up,
she made him feel ashamed to come with
his bemoanings to her, when she knew that
before the next temptation his resolves
would go down like dead leaves in the
wind. And so the distance widened and
she suffered much, and he went down and
down. At last his health broke, and life
drew near its close. Then she found him,
and drew nearer to him, nearer and nearer,
till the day he died. Lying with his hands
in hers, he looked up at her as a child
might to his mother, and said finally:
'Do you remember, sister?'
Remember what Willie?'
''The light, the light; how was afraid
and you used to stand by the door and
hold the liglt?''
eyes, yes, l remember it; it was sc
long ago" and she turned her face away
to hide the tears
Never mind, sister, it's all right now
| feel like little child again, and I'm moi
afraid
Not afraid of the dark. No. you know
who goes with us, Willie, when we come
to the dark" she could not go on.
''The dark valley" he finished for her
eyes | know, see him, sister and you
are the light, but, but
''But what, brother? -
''But you didn't keep on holding it al
ways; you left me so many times in the
dark. | would have been good sister. il
you had-held it---every tme-but-''
suddenly seeming to realize that he was
troubling her. he drew her face down as
she bent over him, and whispered: "But
now I'll be still. I'm tircd-you will stag
till go to sleep -
eyes, Willie, yes; | will never leave
yon again
"And-and-you will hold the light
for
''As long as you need it, dear "
mo, no, not for me, not for me--for all
the other-the other" and the old smile
lit up his face, 'thc other little boys in the
| dark
There was no answer to the words. He
would not have heard it if there had been,
for with bis pleading for the boys in the
dark his life went out, and he was asleep
| Such lessons need not be repeated to any
| heart on which such bitter seourging has
| fallen once. But the boys in the dark are
many, and many the sisters and mothers
and wives who ought to be holding tlit
| light.-Amerieaa RJorBer.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-01-22
WHEN THE DAY Is GONE.


How quiet the house is at midnight
The people who talk and laugh and sing
in it every day are asleep, and the people
who fell asleep in it long ago come silently
back into it. Every house has these two
classes Of tenants. Do we love best those
with whom We can laugh and talk and
sing, or the dear silent ones who come SO
noiseessly to our side and whisper to lis in
faint. sweet, far away whispers that have
no sound, so that we only hear their very
stiffness.
| am not tired, but my pen is weary. 1t
falls from my fingers and | raise my head.
| start to leave the table, and my eyes fall
upon little book lying on the floor. 1t is
a little First Reader" He left it there
this afternoon. | remember now. | re-
member just how I was impatient because
he could not read the simple little lesson
such an easy lesson-I told him il was a
waste of time trying to teach him, and
pushed him away from me. | remember
now. see the flush come into his little
tired face, the brave, cheerful look in his
eyes-his mothers brave, patient checri-
ness-struggling with his disappointment
and pain. see him lie down on the floor
and the little face bend over the trouble
some little lesson such a simple, easy les
son. any baby might read it, Then, after
a struggle alone. it has been given up, and
the baiflcd little soldier, with one more APP
peaing look toward me for reinforccments,
signs and gets away from the lesson he
cannot read to the play that comforts him.
And there lies the little book, just as he
left it. All me, | could kneel down and
kiss it now, as though it were alive and
loving.
Why, what was my time worth me to-
day? What was there in the book |
wanted to read one-half so precious TO me
as one cooling word from the prattling lips
that quiyered when turned away? hate
that book read, and viii never look at
it again; were it the last book in the world
I think | would burn it. All its gracious
words are lies. | say to You, though all
men DItiSt Niit Up1h. anu tttA iiVnA "r,P
thought it excellent, | say TO you that
there is poison in its hateful pages. Why,
what can | learn from books that baby
lips cannot teach me? Do you know |
want to go to the door of his room and
listen: the house is SO still; maybe he is
not breathing. Why. if between my books
and my boy choose my book why should
not God leave me with my books, My
hateful books.
But | was not harsh. ! Was only little
impatient Because, you see, his lesson
was so easy, SO simple. All me, there
were TWO of us trying to read this after
noon. There were two easy, simple les
sons. Mine was such a very simple, easy
pleasant, loving one to learn. Just a line,
Just little throb of patience, of gentle
ness, Of love that would have made my
own heart glow and laugh and sing. The
letters were SO large and plain, the words