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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-14
The Shnnliher,s Work

The amount Of goods stolen from q
large dry gods store during the year is in
significant, when you consider how appar-
emily negligent merchants are in pilinS
articles upon the counters. When a shop
litter is caught and her deeds are written
up in a paper the readers at once conclude
that stores are constantly preyed upon
by the professionals. But professionals
are scarce and they do not last long. for
their very actions while making a raid
confess them to the clerks. Oh, there Is
no necessity for detectives, ! assure you,
for it is an easy thing TO detect thieves,
and detectives are liable 70 enter IA col
fusion with them. Understand that these
shoplifters are always women, for men
are so out of place in a dry goods store
that pkhey always feel as if everybody's
eyes were upon them when they enter.
/ do not believe women become skillful
thieves, and if they do their greed gener-
ally leads them TO try TO carry away too
many things. 1t is only during q rush
that the shoplifters dare try TO ply their ne
farious trade. For instance, when a sac
rifce sale is advertised, d clerks look
out for them, and if you have noticed
you will see that when shoplifters are ar
rested it was during a rush at q store.
Holiday times are occasions for their
~depredations, but they escape with only
triling spoils. Probably a large store
only loses a few hundred dollars worth
of goods in q year, and that amount Is not
missed from q big stock.-Globe-Demo-
crat Interview,
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-14
A Morbid Medical School Girl.

"What morbid creatures some women
are" ~soliloquized n young sawbones the
other day, as he wheeled himself around
in his yellow cane bottom chair. "Therc
is q pretty faced girl attending one of our
medical colleges who is scarcely Is
years old, yet she enjoys the distinction
of having superintendent the job of skin
ming n dead man whom she had purchased
for a few dollars. Skinned Il man. That
is just what she has accomplished; but
she didn't stop there. No, no. She
tanned the hide by some sort of process,
and, this done, she cut and sewed the
leather into a retiCule with her own dainty
little fingers and then painted violets
and forget-me-nots on either side Of the
bag. She is very proud Of her achieve
ment, is this little girl, but Lord deliver
me from her like. She comes from Il
small town in one Of the middle states, and
will complete her course Of study in two
or three years. | saw her tripping along
Michigan avenue one day last week. The
reticule of human skin was da ngling on
her arm as pretty as you please, and her
face, the personification of innocence and
maidenly mOdesty, was as pretty as a
dolls. We see strange things some
times, ehy'-Chicago Herald.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-14
New Way to Sell Goods.

A new method Of selling goods on com.
mission has been discovered. Recently a
sale was announced in a private residence
in an ltra-fashiOnable part Of the city.
The announcement was Of small interest,
for IL was well known that the house,
though ~pretentious in appearance, was
furnished most scantily. What was the
surprise Of the first strOllers-in - find the
parlors most eXquisitely furnished and
fairly a-glitter with costly bric-a-bric
and bronzes. The same spiendOr was
repeated in the drawing and dining rooms
and bed chambers. Costly rugs lay on
the floors; expensive curtains hung at
the windows; one and all brought exOr-
bitant prices and reaped a whiriwind Of
questions. The secret has leaked out.
The house was arranged" for the sale;
the goods were loaned by e%nterprising
merchants, and the far seeing head Of the
house pecketed q neat little sum on
the commission principle. philadelphia
Times.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-14
THE CARRYING OF PISTOLS.
People Who Take Out Legal Permits.
Sale of Firearms to Minors.

There was a time not so very long ago,
when the carrying of pistols was unre.
stricted by law in New York. Then a
permit, for which nothing was required,
was demanded, and many persons took
out permits, but only q small part, it was
believed, of those who carried pistols.
The next fee was the imposition OF a Ii
cense fee of 81, and then there was q
large diminution in the number of per-
mits applied for. About three years ago
the fee was raised to $3.50 and there was
still fewer permits isued. But it is not
believed that fewer pistols are carried.
AT the present tim there are only about
5000 permits ont, but nobody imagines
that there are only 5000 hip-pockets
bullying out with reyolvers in this city.
Very many more than that number Of
pistols are sold here at retail every year.
The men who take out permits are, as
O rule, those whose business requires
them to be out late at night in preSuma-
bly, dangerous sections of the city, or
causes them to carry considerable sums
of money. Collectors, agents, merchants,
liquor dealers, laundrymen, spectators,
theatrical managers, contractors, report
ers, butchers and grocerS, appear on the
list. There are many more on the west
and east sides than in the center of the
city, who seem to deem pistols indiS-
pensable to their safety. Where applica-
+ tions have been made from the central up
town, or residence Sc Ition, the applicants
are in the most cases extra conscientious
persons, who fancy that permits are
necessary to enable them lawfully TO
I---- .-AAl Co. al, m s~, --a ~ h,,~
glars.
1t is illegal to sell pistols to boys. In
practice, the leading stores will sell pis-
tolls to minors only when the minors are
accompanied by adults, but there are hun
dreds of shops where the only two re-
quirements in such transactions are that
the boy shall have the money TO pay for
the pistol and be big enough TO lug it
away. Boys, particularly those of the
hoOdlum class, are the principal buyers Of
the cheap, 'pot metal" revolvers, Of the
sort that sell at wholesale for from GO cents
to 81 each and retail from 81 so TO 81
collectively known in the trade as trash"
and truck" 1t is n significant fact
that in almost every murder perpetrated
by shooting here, n Of these cheap PTS
tolls, and generally the big bored thing
known as a "British bulldog" has been
the weapon employed.
Cinnamon buy a great many pistols
and invariably purchase the best they can
find, paying for them from Sl2 to SlS.
When asked what they buy them for the
response, in nineteen cases ont Of twenty,
is either ''send home, China" or take
home, China" Chinese laundrymen,
in localities where the tough element
abounds, generally keep pistols in their
establishments for self protection and oc-
c~asionally take out licenses for carrying
them. The Italians are great buyers of
cheap pistols. On course they prefer
knives and stilettos, but anything that
will kill has charms for them, excepting a
club, they are more afraid of a club than
of q scythe or q gun.-New York Sun.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-14
,nook Hands with RoyaIty.rr

] came from San Francisco with the
French prince now In Cltcago; and a.
we stopped at a station this side Of Den
yer the door Of the drawing room cal
opened and an old man, well dressed and
resembling In his slouch hat n Grand
Army Of the Republic man, came
into the car and asked for the prince,
who responded by rising The stranger
then put out his hand, and saying, $50
you are q reel live prince" shook hand:
heartily and bowed himself out just a.
the car moved out ~ the station. ]
looked out OF the windows and saw the
old gentleman surrounded by an admir-,
ing group, detailing his impressions
from q brief view Of royalty. The prince
took the whole matter pleasantly and
seemed TO enjoy the sit.-Railroad Man
In Chicago News.
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Alike to him was time or tide,
DEFENDERS now or July's pride;
Alike TO him was tide or time,
AI,rrlrsa nilnirhf or mafin nrima

A correspondent says: Those who have
only seen Rome in winter have little idea Of
the real charm of the city as it reveals itself
on a summer day. The whole working pop
ulation is astir at early dawn, and n little
later YOU hear the cool splash Of the water rs
YOUR next door neighbor Sprinkles the pave
ment and washes the sidewalks with his hose.
BY 6 o'clock tho street vendors with their
wares pass under your window with musical
cries that have nothing but their business
nurDort in common with the blrbaric yawp
az the New York milkman and strawberry
seller. At S O'Clock the shops are all
open, and il you haye any shop
ping to do you do it then in the
cool Of the day. At midday, and for On
hour or two later, Rome takes a nap, and the
streets are silent, except for the FLASHING Of
the fountains and the rumble Of the Occa-
GiOnal omnibus.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-14
Not Quite Yet. Thank You.

A bargain sign stopped a procession of
vehicles in fremont street the other day,
in an amusing way, opposite a noted dry
goods establishment. A woman whose
weight ceuld not have been less than
800, generous measure, rose slowly and
majestically in her place in the street car
and looked eagerly out {" the window.
The conductor marked the attitude and
pulled the strap. The car came TO a
standtsill, and the stout woman descended
with much force on a feeble looking pas
senger next her.
Don't you wish to get out" cried the
conductor in a rather irritated way.
"Of course not. l only wanted to see
what that bargain in socks wasri-Bos-
ton Record.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-14
Medidnat.
Sneezing CataTrh.

The distressing sneeze, sneeze, snecSe, the
acrid, watery discharges from the eyes and nose,
the painful Inflammation extending 10 the
throat, the swelling Of the Mucous lining. csus-
ing choking sensations, cough, ringing noises
in the head and splitting headaches-how famil-
lar these symptoms arc to thousands who suffer
periodically from head colds or influenza, and
who live in ignorance Of the fact thafa single
application of SASFoRDs RADICAL CURE FOR
CATARRH will afford INSTANTANEOUS relief.
But this treatment in cases Of simple Cstarrh
gives but a faint idea OF what this remedy will
do in the chronic forms, where the breathing Is
INSTRUCTED By choking. putrid mucous accumu-
lations. the hearing affected. smell and taste
gone. throat liberated and backing cough grad
ually fastening Itself upon the debilitated sys-
tenn. Then ii is that the marvellous curative
power OF Sanford's Radical Cure manifests itself
in instantaneous and grateful reliei. Cure be-
gins from the iint application. IL Is rapid, radi-
cal, permanent, economical, safe.
SASFuRp's RADICAL CURE consists OF one bottle
of the RADICAL CpRE, one box OF CATARRHAL
SoLyEST, and one lXrIovE ED ISHALER, price u.
Potter DRC0 4 CHEMICAL Co., BosroS.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-14
Dining Rooms for the Poor.

The very newest thing in New York is
the Cleveland restaurant on Chatham
street. 1t is on the same block with three
lively rivals. First came tho Boss TwOsd
restaurant, with an offer of beefsteak for
10 cents; then was established the Jim
Fisk, which sells q Hamburger steak for
s cents or coffee and pie for : cents. his
was left in the distance by the Gladstone,
which offered the public corn beef hash
for 3 cents, and now the newest one is the
Cleveland restaurant, with flaming en-
nouncements of -four crullers and q cup
of coffee for ) cents" With such OPP
portunities one must be very poor to be
obliged to go hungry.-New York Times.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-14
English Farm Lahoren.

During the last ten years there has
been a constant decrease In the number
Of men employed In English farming.
Joseph Arch, the English farm laborer
elected to parliament q number Of years
ago, says the decrease has amounted 70
5000 600. Improved farm machinery is
responsible for part of this decrease, but
more Is attributed TO the gradual dis
placement Of products which require most
labor by those which demand less Thus
grain aud root crops are declining IN
acreage, while an increasing area Is kept
for pasturing and meadow. Boston Bud
get.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-14
Tney raid the He==zS.

Only three Indian scalps have thus far
been presented for the rewards offered in
Arizona, and these were all in the hands
Of one When asked to make afi-
davit that they were the scalplocks Of
hostile Indians, he replied:
"Wal two of 'em had sot a cabin after
and killed a settler, and the other was
comm for me with his knife, but I can't
say as they was hostile"
The reward was promptly handed
over.-Wan Street News.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-14
Nr. Blaine's Book.

A Boston publisher says that 10000
copies Of the first volume of Blaine's book
were printed, and but 1900 Of the sec
ond volume. The author gets q royalty
Of 75 cents on each volume sold, which
viii make his receipts, when the edition
is exhausted, s131, $50. II Mr.. Blaine
had known book publishing as well as
he knows politics he could have made
from $50, 600 to $4,000 moro, it is said
New York Sun.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-14
4 Gift to Bernhardt.

Maurice Grau, who is Henry F.. Abbey's
partner in the Sarah Bernhardt engage
meut, writing recently from MOnteyideO,
made h singular statement that at her
benefit at Buenos Ayres the actress among
other things was presented with the title
deeds of ten miles Of land in the Argen-
tine Republic. Mr.. Grau says that there
are optimists in the country who predict
that the land viii he immensely valuable
some day.-New York Tribune
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-14

s2ly known. bat was nevertheless a fact,
la, The fines, and coStleSt church window in
se world was in an Episcopal church in Mil
Fl.lee, 4 village in far away Minnesota, in
E-4 America The writer's information
rs correct, hut his geography was a trife
TIE great brrweriss Of the city ore objects
q interest They make l,OOO,VJO barrels OF
5,srG year. Near the city is tho Northwest,
-l Soldiers Home, with lovely grounds
lTlnlI;, making a great resort for pleasure
s'seS N the hot summer time. The home
tT bGs over 1850 inmates. Alexander
Mitchell, the richest man in the west, lives
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-14
The Ship of the Future.

Some one has looked into the future
and seen the ''ship Of the next century"
He says that this steamer will apply its
motive power in a more rational method
than the propeller screw represents and
that the crank shaft will be done away
with. The water will be conducted not
on a circuit around the ships body, but
right through it lengthwise on n straight
line, and the water rejected at the stern
will steer the ssel.-ChicagO Tribune.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-14
The Fast Proves Nothing.

The Paris physicians say that Sig.
Succi's fast proves nothing, that his
"AfriCan Elixir" is a sort Of patent medi'
cine fraud, and that n nan does not fast
because he eats nothing, for he is eating,
or, more accurately speaking, living on
the tissue which he stored from his pre-
vious eating. Sig. SucCi they pronounce
a phenomenon in that he has more stored
up tissue from his previous eating than
ordinary men.-BOstOn Transcript.
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,. shade trees. and in the dead OF summer
v-.aa walk for miles in all parts Of the city
r . .eay.ng the shade Of these mighty
grsa..orSt trees.
), Pa1.s Episcopal church is another Of
-ltl structures OF the east side. It Is
s-g-utcent building Of red, Bass island
~s.sJae. and is said TO lie the finest (al'
no. tine CostlieSc church structure in
s---.a In i: Is the finest window IN the
a.. a great memorial picture, Christ
Ls.m- d.. Pru.corlum," after DOrS, and
I'd. 4.r,y uC art jeweled glass, by Tiff
l-. q View YORK. Recently a writer in
o. Lyr!Ja TiIueSSald that 1T Wa not gen
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-14

A pen-worn writer says: "And now, soon
this year, God willing-I shall stop writing,
and, in a small way, take up the law again.
For q man who writes constantly cannot
think much, and q man who docs not think
much ought not to have much to say. There
is q disposition TO selfshneSs and egotiSm in
writing that is ruinous to all men. a man
who makes q profession of writing poetry
ought to die early; for if he lives long he will
surely suffer deeply. Besides all that, the field
OF legitimate poetry is so smah that no man
ought to try TO mako his bread, much less
maintain others, on it. = " " Other i'm
mortal gods of song have selected war and
celebrated q lot of cruel butchers through all
the cIeS. "~~ ' taef" IN every
sOunumssy Snrrov steamer Blake made !
And then, with the Dlor ~-o4ionS i'm the
tho BrowningS, the world is Nc" I"
need Of more poetry; but it is greatly IN nGt.
of more fruit, more flowers and more beauti-
full gardens"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-14
LAYTON ART GALLERY.

sN There are said to be forty or fifty mil
41a.nS in the city. . largo number for a
IAe Of only 10000 Inhabitants.
.l1re are uuum"raLGe parks and gardens
Aislturbau resorts near the city. Prospect
A''Iar, Grand avenue, National avenue and
"h;etSh Bay road arc perfectly elegant
-'& Chicago is only eighty five miles
-'-y 10 the south, and Is Milwaukce's most
~-fNtng suburb. Waukesha and OcoaO-
~.''5, tie he~alth-giyinS resorts, arc re
'7-'eiy twenty and thirty miles from the
I' It Is necessary to pass through Mil
'--2e 70 p0ch Ashland and the other Lake
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-14
Washington Irving's Grave.

Washington Irving's grave in Sleepy
Hollow cemetery has suffered a great
deal from visiting admirers this summer
1t is trampled down fiat, a regular foot,
path cutting through it. II looks as If II
might have been a playground for romp-
ing school children all the summer
through. The plain white slab that
marks the grave is hacked and Clipped
all around, the work Of relic hunters
Chicago Tribune.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-14
Australia. Scientific Societies.

The colonies Of Australia and the neigh
boring islands have some twenty scientific
societies, with n membership Of between
$500 and 1900. These organizations are
Il meet in 1883 for the purpose Of form
ing an Australian association for the adj
yancement Of science, similar TO the i'm.
portant associations now existing In Eng
land, France and the United States
Arkansaw Traveller.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-14
Cen. Grant,s Portrait.

Gen. Grant was not so busy just after
the rush to the crest of Mission Ridge,
and so he stood with his hat OF while a
portrait painter took his likeness down in
oil John Autrobus was the painter OF
this first portrait of Gen. Grant, and the
original picture has been presented to
him by a friend into whose handsit came
by fortunate purchase. -Philadelphia
Times
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-14
THE STORY OF TWO OLD PEOPLE

Once be was twenty and she only ten,
She vas a child, he scarcely in hts prime;
Youth seemed 80 long and age so distant then,
And noon came not, as now, ere morning time.
But later on they CHANGED again to meet,
And he vas thirty and she twenty now.
WHY. he is old, " exclaimed the maiden sweet,
And passed, with CARELESS heart and cloudleSs
brow.
Ten years q weary round roll on again.
Who's days and weeks, SO like each other, pass
That. when they meet, It's be, with sudden PAIN
Who cries, in turn, why, she is old, alas
But often on those tender April eyes
When hearts beat time to tender melodies,
why was l never loyedE" he aSkS-and grleves
why did 1 never love-" she aSGS-and signs
And now. oppreSt with vain regret, they say,
As years wear ON in ever deepening gloom;
"Childpn, enjoy the sunshine while you may,
And pluck the flower in It's morning bloom.
Alexander Hayes in ArgoSy.
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LII r~nrcsnnnlcnccl
o -Milwnnkec j.

,v Nov. milwaukee, Is sit
NL"A,H .r.ipl rolling ground anu over
SD 81 $, hav, one Of the finest har-
A4" ~'~,l The blue waters of Lake
ia u, the entire eastern limits Of the
~, milwaukee, Menomonee and Kin
a 81" ,;ygrs divide the city into many
slliS ,ts. rs the east side, south
ts'''' q, etc. The east side is largely
ST. "s'' ,,s r,iJenceso Of thericher classes
n,srv splendid business editiceS in
' u, civ. One OF the very finest
- a. ,,rrfy complcted is the building
s.. ,-bvsStern Mutual Life Insurance
&.-. waS,.ve structure of granite AMI
store. 1t Is said to be one OF
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-14

sr., ami most costly structures OF
srl in the country. The Mitchell
sander Il commerce, Wisconsin
.~,r railway and the Milwaukee club
,ra- >D'rniiI structures on the
The south side is largely a
.-,, rrar,er. The west side and two or
..rr,s on the east side are the great
r,.-- The west side is also becOm,
r>s!gu.e quarter. The Plankinton
,s, Exposition building and the Plank
.ri Mitchell residences arc on the west
r.-..l avenue a long, wide, finely
...7,c. i>u famous drive. Nearly al
LaGia. streets are lined with magnif.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-14
A Vacation on Your Feet.

stop work the moment you feel that II
is telling on you, and take your vacation
on your feet-not on your back" Such
is the sound sense expressed by The
Critic Younger" in a bit Of q paragraph
telling of the discontinue of some brain
workers who overdid the thing.-Chicagc
Herald.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-14
Concerning Indecent Language.

opinion. They defile the mouth that ut
ters them and the mind that Is not closed
against them. Unfortunately, the latter
half of Pope's couplet-
Immodest words admit Of no defense,
For want Of decency Is want OF sense
Is not VIII Jlly true. Too many men who
cannot be accused of a plentiful lack OF
WITT beguile their leisure hours in the
interchange Of low, immodest, n OBJ
scene stories. To such an extent Is this
carried by some eagerly sought compan-
ions that their trail through society can
be traced by the suppressed merriment
over Mr.. So and Sos latest story.
If man once enters on the role OF a
narrator OF indecent stories he soon loses
all distinction between what is bright
though offensive and what is offensive
without being bright. The mind OF q
retailer Of questionable tales becomes so
befouled with its filthy store that his
whole mental and moral tOns become
tainted and impure. Indecent language
and coarse jests are habits acquired IN
hours of idleness, in school days, and in
the early associations OF manhood Even
among circles Of educated men-men
studying law, medicine or even theology
he is often considered the best fellow
who tells the broadcast story or cracks the
eoarsest joke.-Chicago News.