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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-07-18
A Strawberry Racket.
Dornit Pref Pcfss

MY dear WIFE" he said, as he came in
and found her crying, while three.quarts of
repOsed in pan on the table,
II need not ask the cause of your sorrow,
know it. About an hour ago huckster
came along here shouting:
Strawberries! Strawberries! Eight
cents quart, or three quarts for twenty
five centsr"
1T was q glorious opportunity, as you
thought, to save a cent, and you rushed
out and took three quarts. You had
scarcely entered the house when you heard
something drop You stood for moment
like one paralized. Then you flung your
self down in that chair and began TO kick
and squall, and the iron still burns yOur
soul. However, my dear, brace up and let
it 90. You have bought dozens Of quarts
of strawberries this year, and on each Oc-
casiou the man has measured his big thumb
with the berries and beaten you out of a
cent and half. He Ia bound to get ahead
of you in some way, and tears are Of no
avail. Rather set TO work and plug up the
hole in q quarter and pass it of on him
some cloudy day."
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-07-18
Five Continental.


The sun was Just setting upon the West
ern horizon, when solitary horse ear
might have been seen vending its way up
town.
It's refulgent beams touched with ruddy
glow the nose of tramp on the further
end of the Iseat, and lent club-dush to
the pale cheek of the youth who sat on the
nearer end, while it kissed the ripe lips OF
the maid who sat between them to deeper
crimson.
The youth, who had been eying the mai
den all the way uptown to the full extent
of his powers, sighed, and for the tittieth
time tried to attract her attention. Fair,
indeed, seemed to him the unconscious
beauty, and his opinion seemed to be con-
firmed by the conductor, who just then
came along and yelled
"Farew
The youth handed him q ten-cent piece
The young lady passed him tiye-cent piece,
which he at once handed to the youth IN
change.
The five-cent piece had hole in it, but
the youth did not refuse it. He saw his
chance.
CHANGING sentimentally at the young
lady, he raised it TO his lips, and then hung
il on his watch chain rs q souvenir.
It was neatly done, but then the young
lady, having eOurteOusly passed along the
tramp's nickel, paid her own fare with
free ticket
The conductor smiled, and the tramp
said, musingiy:
"Ah. there, Arthur. Don't put your
arm around me until we get beyond the
houses"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-07-18
UNDER SIMMER SKIES.
A Hunorist who DwelIs In Tents Takes
Back Water on Wood Lie.
Rr0olIyu E11lc

A Humorist who DwelIs in Tents Takes
Back Water on Il Wood Lie.
Brooklyn Eagle.
1t is pleasant lounging the summer away
i'm idle, thOughtless solitude. There are no
door bells on tents No peddler haunts the
leafy woods. No untimely caller abstracts
your mind from the dazed contemplation
of the eternal, illimitable, restless, innu-
merable, exhaustles, sunless, unbounded;
countless, unreasonable and incalcuable
swarms of outnumbering midges that in mul
titudinous legions TEEN in the air of June
ever fresh, empty and hungry. When you
20 into the wilderness to dwell in tents do
not bring gun. You don't need it. The
guides will do all your shooting for you
Bring something to kill midges. Black flies
YOU don't mind, because they disappear
about the first of July. Mosquitoes OF
the Adirondack tribes you can kill with a
club. But the midges. Pm sure don't
know what to tell you to bring. CamphOr
they like, although they prefer pennyroyal
When they can't get that they gladly sea-
son their victims with Ponds extract. AM
mOnia they dOtc upon. There is mix
ture of sweet oil and tar that is intallible.
1t keeps the midges ten feet away from you.
1t also keeps everybody else in camp still
further away. For yourself while wear
ing this ointment You long to die. so that
you may be buried one side of the noun
tain and have your nose cut of and buried
on the other, with clothes pin on 1t, far,
far away from yourself
find that have got to take water on a
little statement made about cutting wood.
A man came along after the article was III
print, and said he was a forester or game
constable or fuel agent, or something for
the State of New York. He had been in
formed that was clearing the forests at q
reckless rate, and had come over to stop 1t.
/ owned right up, and showed him where
the clearing was. He went into the woods
and hunted about for an hour, and came
ont, saying that he couldn't find where any
body had been cutting any timber, but
added that ought not TO let my little boy
hack around at the saplings 80 much, or he
might cut himself He fingered around a
little while after saying this, with the air
of man who expects to be asked to stay
to dinner. If you have space in your valu-
able paper, however, you might state that
we dined alone that day. There are some
things that do not tend to hospitality. A
man had much rather be fined $50 for fast
driving than be told that his horse couldn't
trot fast enough to break the statute.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-07-18
Throwing shoes mt a Bride.


The custom of throwing an old shoe af-
ter newly married couple comes from the
ancieut Jewish custom of handing shoe
TO a purchaser of land on the completion
OF a contract wide Ruth, w., y. Parents
also gave a shoe to the husband on daugh-
ter's marriage in token of yielding up their
authority. Urquhart in his "Pillars of
Hercules" states: AT u Jewish marriage
| was standing by the bridegroom when
the bride entered. As she crossed the
threshold he stopped and struck her with
the heel of shoe on the nape of the neck.
/ at once saw the Interpretation of the pas
sage of Scripture respecting the transfer Of
the shoe to another in case the brother-in-
law did not exercise his privilege. The
slipper in the East, being taken off indoors,
is at hand to administer correction, and is
here used to signify obedience of the wife
and the supremacy of the husband. The
Highland custom is to strike for good luck,
as they say, with an old shoe. Little do
Thea suspect the meaning implies"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-07-18
Medidnal
A LITTLE SUFFERER
Cleansed, Purified, and Bsautifed
by the Cuticura Remedies.

TT AFFORDS NE PLEASURE TO GIvEyou this
i report ofthe cure ofour little granchild by your
CUTIcURA REMEDIES. When six months old his left
hand began to swell and had every appearance
of a larse boil we pouiticed il, but all to no
purpose About five months after IL became
running core. Soon other sores formed he then
had two of them on each hand, and as his blood
became more and more impure IL took less time
for them to break out A sore came on the chin,
beneath the under lip, which was very offensive.
His head was one solid scab. discharging great
deal This was HIS condition at twenty-five
months old, when undertook the care OF him,
his mother having died when he was little more
than q year old, OF consumption tscrofuIa OF
counsel He could walk little, but could not
get upif he fell down, and could not move when
in bed having no use Of his hands l immedi-
ately commenced with the CUTiCURA RENEnItS,
using the CCTICURA and CUIICURA SOAP freely,
and when he had taken one bottle Of the curl
CCRA REsoLvENr, his head was completely CURED,
aud he was improved in every way We were
very much encouraged, and continued the use Of
the Remedies for a year and half One sore
AFTER another healed. bony matter forming IN
each one Of these five deep ones just before heal
ing which would finally grow loose and were
taken out; then they would heal rapidly. One
Of these ugly bone formations preserved. Affer
taking a dozen and half bottles he was COM
pletey cured. and Is now at the age of SIX years,
strong and healthy child. The scars on his
hands must always remain; hishands are strong,
though we once feared he would never be able IA
use them. All that physicians did for him did
him no good. All who saw the child before using
the CUTICURA REMEDIES and see the child now
consider il a wonderful cure. IL the above Sets
are Of any use 20 you, YOU are at liber'y 10 use
them. MRS. Z. :. briggs,
May 9, ISIS. 6la E. Clay St, Bloomington, Ill
The child was really in a worse condition than
he appeared 10 his grandmother who, being with
him every day, became accustomed 10 the dis
ease MAGGIE HOPPING.
Sold everywhere. CCTICURA, 20 cts: CUTICURA
SOAP, an exquisite Skin Beautifer - cts, CITl'
CURA REsoLvEST the new Blood Purifier, sLOo.
Prepared by the POTTER DEUG AND CHEMICAL
Co., Boston.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-07-18
A Common Case of Palpitation.


A healthy persons pulse, says the
Lancet, beats seventy times minute, but
there are. however, peculiar constitutions
in which the pulse may be over seventy IN
health" My son, the lancet Is correct.
Your pulse, in perfect healthful tune, may
be placidly humping away at seventy
minute, but suddenly, if you happen to be
lettering on the same side of the garden
cate on a perfect night in June-r-ree-ther
late. and the moon takes q modest dive
behind a convenient cloud, about ten min
utes long by fifteen wide, aud you lind
hand in the dark about half the size OF your
own that futters little while You are
gaspinQ for breath and trying to frame a
simple little question that any girl can an
swer. but which the whole Department OF
State couldn't put into Language for you
under these PECULIAR conditions, my boy,
your pulse will jump up 10 $50 without .
strain 90 to 2l0 on the next rally, and
Close al about $40, with a rising tendency
and no sign of break. YOQ try It, son,
and you'll find that when a scientific,
medical journal, like the Lancet makes q
statement about pulses, the genial and ae-
eomplished editor knows what his iacle
pen IS talking about.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-07-18
Grand Master Workman OF the Kningts
of Labor.

Grand Master Workman OF the Kningts
of Labor.
Terence Vincent Powderly, head of the
Knights of Labor, is a leader of extraordi-
nary sagacity and strength. Speaking Of
himself and his work Mr.. POwderly said in
q recent interview:
Il was born in Carbondale, Penn, in
Janury. 1S49, of Irish parents. My father
was a day laborer. Twas sent to school at
seven years of age, and continued at school
until was about thirteen, when went to
work for the Delaware and Hudson Canal
Company, having the care of a switch on
one of their railroad branches. l worked
at this for several years, when was en-
ployed in the machine shops of the COM
pany.
I'm 1870 | was invited by a friend to
walk with him, and he took me to a meet
ting of the Knights of Labor. joined that
night.
I'm 1876 we organized district assembly
of five or six assemblies in Lackawanna
county, and was elected district secretary,
an office which have held ever since from
choice. In 1877, when the strikes on the
railroads swept over the country, many of
our men, with others not Knights of Labor,
numbering in all about five thousand, were
discharged and went West, settling in the
Western States and Territories Wherever
our Knights went new assemblies sprang
up. Up to that time there had been no
national head to the Knights of Labor.
The first general assembly of the Knights
of Labor was held at Reading, Penn, in
January, 1878.
'Mr. Uriah Stephens, of Philadelphia,
was elected the first Grand Master Work
man, and | was elected to the next Office,
which WAS called Grand Worthy Foreman.
We then changed the date of meeting from
January TO September. We next met in
st. Louis Mr.. Stephens did not attend
this convention, but he wrote letter, re-
commenting me for Grand Master Work
man. In April, 1878, was elected Mayor
of Scranton. After that l gave my entire
time to the work of my Office, this being
the first time that | had worked at any
business other than my trade.
II was reelected Mayor two or three
times. In 1884, the Knights of Labor had
grown 80 large that the business of the or
der took all my time, so | had to decline
the denomination for Mayor. have never
written book, but have written hundreds
of circulars. have travelled all over this
country and Canada and have spoken on
five hundred platforms
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-07-18


Ii affords me pleasure to assure you that al
ter using DIR. e. Mclane's Celebrated Liver
Pills for more than twenty years IN my family,
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Preparins 1ng system eni i 40 NJ SuM rI anas See
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lamp" Dis'''''' ''''ua o'i'A'''
ur..ns T, vv IESt RndS cahaoa "es'' oh'-
sirs:"Yonr pills came all right, and can say
they are a good bilious pill: ! have nse "a
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-07-18
Advice TO Mothers.

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for chill
dren teething, is the prescription Of one OF
the best female nurses and physicians in
the United States, and has been used for
orty years with never failing success by
millions of mothers for their children.
During the process Of teething its value is
1t relieves the child from
pain. cures dysentery and diarThea, gripping
in the bowels and wind collie By CIV
ing health to the child it rests the mother.
Price 25e. bottle
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-07-18
4 Captains Fortunate Discovery.

Capt. Coleman, schr. Weymouth, plying
bteween Atlantic City and y. Y, has been
troubled with a cough 50 that he was un-
able to sleep, and was induced to Try Dr..
Kings New Discovery for Consumption
II not only gave him instant RELIEF, but
aIlayed the extreme soreness in his breast
His children were similarly affected and a
single dose had the same happy effect
DIR. Kings New Discovery is now the
standard remedy In the Coleman house,
hold and on board the schooner.
Free Trial Bottles Of this Standard
Eemedy at Logan & CO. Drug Store.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-07-18

him ander water Wen, his own hired
men ara 70 blaine for that. They shouted,
Let him up let him up He's the pro-
prietor.n Up 70 the moment knew he
was the proprietor honestly tried to save
HIN
It is Just as well to have the truth about
these little matters, and confidently
leave my case in the hands Of an unpreju-
diced people.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-07-18
No. 2O0.-NO HOu Know?

| am potent in the land,
Passing Oh from hand 10 hand;
Few the gifts without me made;
Few the debts without me paid;
Best of earthly friends TO back,
Few the men that would me lack.
Often passed in senate halls,
Omen met outside the walls.
Fen at altar or at grave;
From the wild Pacific wave
To the deep Atlantic foam
I'm in almost every home.
OftCn call by father, mother,
Master, COmrade, sister, brother;
Sometimes light, and sometimes dark,
Sometimes in the city park,
Or the country forest green,
Up lofty tree I'm seen.
] can purchase, houses, lands,
Yes. and souls, and hearts, and hands.
Sometimes single, sometimes double,
Still to keep or lose il trouble.
Fruitful source of joy and woe,
What can this be- Do you know?
CLARE.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-07-18
A MOST LIBERAL OFFER.

THE YoLTAIc BELT Co., Marshal, Mich,
offer to send their Celebrated yoltaic Belts
and Electric Appliances on thirty days
trial to any man afflicted with Nervous De
bility, Loss of Vitality, Manhood, etc.
Illustrated pamphlet in sealed-envelope
with fun particulars, mailed free Write
thOm at once.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-07-18
Answers Mn be- pnblished In go wee
A Good Dakota Story.

HGpd0R (DdtD Mercury.
Eccentric as these storms are, we MAIN
tain that when it comes down to genuine
accommodating hurricane Dakota again
take the lead A good example of this oc-
CURED in this county John Eckers had
presumption and homestead claims adjoin-
ing, and about the time of the following
occurrence he had Just proved
up on the former. A day after his proof
had been made he was eating his evening
meal in his log shanty with a neighbor
Say, pard," he remarked, now I've got
to move this house onto the homestead
claim, as it will be cheaper than putting
up another" Hardly were the words out
of his mouth when one of those sudden,
small cyclones struck the shanty, and,
strange as it may seem, lifted the house off
the presumption and set it down on the
homestead without breaking anything ex-
cept shaving cup.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-07-18
LUCKY AND UNLUCKY DAYS.
Odd superstitions Handed Down to this
Observation-Disclosures I'm May.
RekO6Oh Sunday Herald.

Observation-Disclosures in May.
Reho6Oh Sunday Herald
The selection by the President of the
fourth day of the week for his marriage
(by MALL Occasioned considerable talk
among those who believe interpretations.
The following doggerel is an old Scotch
rhyme that is not often quoted nowadays
The idea of Wednesday being the best day
for wedding is all that now remains, but
it will be seen each day has its own pecu-
liar trait. The first three days OF the week
being of good omen and the last three ill
omened. The lines run thus:
Monday for wealth,
Tuesday for health,
Wednesday the best day of all;
Thursday for crosses
Friday for losses,
Saturday no day NJ all.
In Judea a rainy day has always been
considered unlucky for u wedding. 1t will
be remembered how many weddings were
this year crowded into the last week in
April in consequence of the latenesS of the
close of Lent. The reason assigned at that
time was that May was the unlucky month
of weddings, and rather than wait unit!
y
were thus crowded into one week. This
idea of May is likewise of very ancient or
igin. Sir Walter Scott, in writing of the
custom, says: The Scottish people, even
of the better rank, avoid marriage i'll the
month of May, which general season of
flowers and breezes bright, in other re-
spects, appear so peculiarly favorable for
that purpose" 1t was especially objected
to the marriage of Mary with the protligate
Earl of Boutwell, that it was formed with
in the interdicted month. This prejudice
was so rooted among the Scots that in l6Sl
a sect of enthusiasts, called GibbiteS, pro-
posed to ridicule it and embraced. it among
a long list of stated festivals, fast days,
Popish relics and other pcCuliarltles which
they denounced. The objection TO solemn
ize marriage in the merry month of May,
however fit q season for courtship, is Dor
rowed from the Roman pagans The anci-
ents have given us the maxim, MalG nu-
bent Maia, that it is only bad women who
marry in May. The parties to a marriage
may select the month and day of its cele-
bratiOn, but it is rather difficult task to
choose the day of ones birth. Yet these,
too have meaning:
Born on a Monday,
Fair in face;
Born of a Tuesday,
Full of Gods grace
Born of "Wednesday,
Merry and glad;
Born OF Thursday,
Sour and sad?
Born of a Friday,
Cody given;
Born OF a Saturday,
Work for your living;
Born of a Sunday,
Never shall want:
90 therei the week,
And the end ont.
The idea of Friday being an unlucky day
is almost universal, and in many civilized
countries it is known as hangman's day,
from the prevailing custom of setting 1t
apart rs a day for executions. Yet in Scan
dinayia Thursday, or the day of Thor, or
Thunder, is considered the day Of bad omen.
Saint Elroy, in sermon, warns his flock
from keeping Thursday as holy day. Dean
Swift, in aletter to Sheridan, rhymes Thurs
day with curse day. 1t is well-known
fact that Thursday was an unlucky day for
+ba En0liSb houSe Of Tudnr
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-07-18
Stringent Measures.

RdmNeT.
1T is abominable; that piano in the
next fat is going all day, and annoys me
dreadfully."
Have you shut your door?'
- Certainly.
''Well, why don't you lock it? You've
got to keep the noise out somehow"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-07-18
No Difference.

'swen, Herr Wager, how do you like the
new posmaster?"
'Ugh. l dun know OUT he was pecter
As dot Odder teller der yOmans postmaster.
I don'd any ledders got now as benfore,
und der brice vas schoost the same
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-07-18
Young America

This is the time that the small boy who
cannot swim likes his hair cut close to his
head in order that he may go into the mill
pond without being detected by his parents
on his return.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-07-18
on THE BEACH.

Life
lam feeling rather nettled,
For thought IL all was settled,
And that happiness was quite within my reach,
As SAT wit Arabella,
O, such a happy fellerl
Under her umbrella
On the beach.
As said, I'm feeling nettled,
For fear il isn't settled,
And + longing now 10 tear my hair and scTeech,
For there sits my Arabella,
And she's got smother feller
Under her umbrella
Out Of reachi
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-07-18
No. aO1.-Numerical Enigma.

No. 2UI,-NumeriCnI EnIgnA'
The to doth loudly roar,
This day in 5 tOS,
The mellow pears the orchard bears,
Are dropping by their weight.
Quuth Farmer Moore, This TOD
Will spoil our choicest fruit"
mo" answers dame, "fOr Just the same
Totals for butter suit" TRASZA.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-07-18
A SERIOUS INQUIRY.

Philadelphia N7rs
That she has pretty face,
Well know;
She moves with equal grace,
Voice Il low:
She has eyes Of sOltest blue,
Teeth like pearls;
Wealth Of hair Of golden hue,
WantOn curiA
But her heart, Is Il. kind,
Tender, true
Is she modes; and refined,
Gentle, too?
Fairer vision may never meet,
As roam;
She is surely veTy charming on the street,
How AZ home?
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-07-18
A Land Lubber.
Ga

1t was negro who acknowledged after
q tempestuo1s voyage at sea that he was a
land lubber. He said he dubbed it so well
that he never wanted to 20 to sea again.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-07-18

Raw recruit-"whO goes thcre?'
Old veteran 'Friendp
r. R-''Adyanee friend, with the eoun-
tersignP'
o. Y.-"Yorktown
r. R-s.Thanks, old man. I'd forgotten
itmyselfr
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-07-18
TUITION FREE
MORGANTOWN,

on the banks of the MonongAhela river ccle-
bratc,l for its picturesque surroundings aud tho
moral intellectual and sspcisl character of the
community. IL IL the head OF slackwatcr navi.
CATION, and can b. reached either by steamboat
or by the F. VI. & T. railrpad. Good boarting az
from s. j0to s. - pcrwcck. including room. Club
boarding nj less than thai sum. The scholastic
year opens int "Wednesday In September, but
students are received at any time, send cor cata-
lnguc. =. NJ. TURNER, President
iIlglgtoOCtl