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, 1888-05-24

The appearance of Bismarck, who Is
not only a famous man, a prince, and n
general, but who Is chancellor of the en-
pire MS well, makes the populace gasp.
l venture to assert that nowhere in the
world can a man of 10 years be found
who compares with this magnificent
looking leader. The perfect command
that he exercises over himself in addition
to pulling the noses and patting the backs
Of the nations was shown last winter
whcn the Iron Chancellor reduced his
weight thirty-five pounds by q course Of
training that would have staggered a
c~ollegian.
1.-THE full significance of this feat"
n of the princes physicians said to me
theo other day, twill not strike you till
you call all the conditions into view. 1t
shows after all that three score years and
ten is by no means a goal to be dreaded.
A mans age is what he makes it, accord
ing to Prince Bismarck. Still when q
man Is in his 73d year it looks like fool
hardidess to suddenly reverse all old and
methodical habits, take ice cold baths al
daybreak, have cold meat and cold tea
for breakfast, let wines and beer drop
out of existence, and do an amount OF
violent exercise that would wear out a
80-year-old laborer."
The hard physical work which the
chancellor has passed through In order
to get his weight down has left him a
picture of erect and sturdy manhood.
lie gives the lie aver to the most com
plimentary of his portraits. All his life
he has been an athlete, and o he reaps
the reward. -Blakely Halls Berlin Let
tor
, 1888-05-24

A rather severe writer in The Saturday
Review condemns the modern English
girl in the following terms: Neither
the moral nor physical training of modern
English girl is such as to justify the
hope that she will be invariably above
reproach. The lives they lead, the aim
set before them, all lead to degeneracy
and deterioration. They are permitted,
as they grow up, to develop all the vainer
elements, to study to show off to traffic
on their charms for charity, for p
larity, for notoriety, and their ambition
Is to become professional beauties or III
thing equally poor and Objectionable,
ultra fast and fashionable women"
This is as sever as anything that
Bishop Coke or Rev. Morgan Dix could
say. 1t all shows hat if morals are not
bad, manner certainly are.-Mrs. NJ. L.
w. Sherwood In Philadelphia Times.
, 1888-05-24

The layman Is often surprised to note
how slight are the external manifesto
tons of serious diseases which sometimes
call for radical surgical treatment. DR..
Warren brought in before the medical
class at the Massachusetts, general hos
pital not long & an old man upon whose
right hand there appeared to be a small
sore spot, not at all malignant or painful
in its appearance. 1t was situated di-
rectly upon the back Of the hand, and
seemed to be no more than n trihing
local sore that could be easily healed.
The patient was a man of more that SO
years. DIR. Warren explained that the
trouble was of a cancerous natures; that
it had manifested itself in no other part
of the body, and that amputation seemed
to be the only safe course to resort to.
he accordingly proposed to take off the
hand just above the wrist before the
malignant disease had n chance to
spread.
The usual application of rubber band
age and tight rubber cord above the
point Of amputation was made, and the
surgeon made rapid work of the case. A
single sweep of the knife just over the
wrist severed the skin and n little deeper.
The tissues were then dissected upward
for nearly IN inch toward the elbow to
the point where the bone was to be cut
in order to make a flap. The flesh was
quickly cut to the bones, and a few
strokes of the saw severed them. The
wound was antiseptically treated and
sewed up, and in ten or fifteen minutes
from the time he was brought in the old
man was picked up by a strong attend
ant and carried back to his cot in the
surgical ward.-New York Sun.
, 1888-05-24

Tho schemes whereby the knowing
e nowadays beat the 'drop-a-nickel"
machine are so numerous that the bust
ness is threatened with ruin. The man
ner in which the weighing machine is
swindled is thus told by one who has
tried it on: Just place tho sole of your
boot against the edge of the upper plat
form, push hard and sudden and then
jump quickly on the platform; that big
hand Of fate will tell you your weight
just as surely and correctly ms IL you had
acted straight on the machine and paid
your lonely nickel. Some fellows have
been dropping lead slugs, just the weight
OF n nickel, into the slit; 80, from all APP
~pearances, | think the day of the drop
a-nickel' schemes is in the past. Chi.
cago Tribune.
, 1888-05-24

1t is proposed to use the famous SEN
tence of Prince Bismarck, 1--WE Germans
fear God, but nothing %else," as the ma
tional German motto. A number OF stu
dents have been hunting for tho origin
of that expression ever since, to prove
that there is nothing new under the sun.
One finds it in Racine's '.Athalie," as the
saying of the high priest Joash, and an
other has discovered a passage almost
identical In Carlyle's eloquent description
OF Abbot Samson (.'Past and Present.
book IL, chapter ~. These scholars
would destroy all the patriotism in Ger.
many II they had their way.-Chicagc
Herald
, 1888-05-24

Chicago is nothing If not original. She
is credited with inaugurating Turkish
bath parties" as n diversion to young
ladies, II now comes another innova-
ton. According to The Inter Ocean,
the new entertainments are "bird talk
matinees." These consist of-a lecture
''replete with pretty steaies and unheard
of facts, coupled with bits of verse and
snatches of biography. On a stand near
to lecturer are birds in variety-wrens,
jays, ravens, bobolinks, robins and larks
illustrative of the lecture" The
ladies attend in pretty carriage and
street dresses. Frank Leslie's.
, 1888-05-24
Initiating Paris millinery.

When, copied in vile stuffs and IN
artistic colors by clumsy fingers, the crea-
lions of Partisan milliners reappear all
over the world. they are often eccentric
enough. l admit-another form of French
as she Is ''traduced"-and it is no wonder
that reverend doctors are found to frown
on them; they shockmore han the French
themselves.-Max o'Rell in The Cosmo.
politan.
, 1888-05-24

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup should
always be used for children teething. It
soothes the child, softens the gums. allays
the pain, cures wind collie and is the best
remedy for diarrhea. Twenty five cents
a bottle
, 1888-05-24

Customer-WSiter, 1 find a hair in the
soup
Waiter-Yes, sahf 1 specs it belongs
to Vanderbilt's $10,0 900 chef.
Customer-Is that sol Bring me a bit
of paper. it's worth preserving.-The
Epoch.
, 1888-05-24

Some of the horses thus secured were
very tough and feet animals, but few
were OF any practical use. Nearly all
were stations, as a wild mare hat was
good for anything was seldom seen, and
the captured horses were nearly, without
exception, irreclaimably vicious, even
when judged from the Texas standpoint.
Even when broken to the saddle they
could only be ridden by the very best
horsemen, and were always on the look
out to do their riders an injury. Strange
to say, they seldom tried to kick, but a
man had to be continually IN the lookout
for their fore feet and teeth They only
used their hind feet when a man was
about to mount, but nearly every one of
them had n trick of kicking forward as
soon as the rider put his foot in the STIR
rup, and unless he was wary he would re-
ceive a terrible blow on the leg.
II used to own a horse that, / believe,
could scratch himself between the ears
with his hind foot, histhind leg being ap-
p~arently made of India rubber. The in
slant he felt a foot in the stirrup his hind
hoof would com forward with the speed
of lighting. in the attempt to infict a
most vicious kick. Igave up mounting
him in the usual way, and always used to
vault into the saddle without touching
the stirrups, a feat easily enough per-
formed in my younger days, although I
would have some difficulty in doing 1t
now. ! used,to like to ride wild horses,
but after onetor two narrow escapes from
their deadlyifore feet, which they would
use II a man carelessly stood In front of
them. l gave it up and stuck to the tame
stock. st. Louis POST DISPATCH.
, 1888-05-24

GEO. T. BECK is about to introduce
the new Holly system OF water works into
Buffalo. The town itself will probably
pay IS 600 for the use Of five hydrants
for five years.
, 1888-05-24
What the Other Booms Are.

The Gresham boom is about all there is
of real, active movements in the Republic
car party Just now. The other booms are
made up of buncombe, Doodle, blather
and deviation. This is official.
, 1888-05-24
Ecerything in season,
and sCyced ina the best style
at the Hon Ton Rest AIR.
ant, $40 Secent zenith street

NONN triHe with any Throat or
~ Lung Disease. If you have
a Cough or Cold, or the children are
threatened with Group or Whooping Cough,
use Acker's English Remedy and prevent
further trouble. 1t is n positive cure
and we guarantee it. Price 10 and 50c
DIR. w. N. Hunt.
, 1888-05-24
Where the Fun Comes In.


Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt has twenty
seven carriages for her own use, and yet
it is dollars to %doughnuts that she doesn't
have half as much fun in all or any of
them as the small boy has in hanging
on -
, 1888-05-24

Cant eat a thing" Hoods Sarsa-
parilla is a wonderful medicine for Great
ing an appetite, regulating digestion. and
inving strength.
, 1888-05-24
Nc veosov.
why Acker's

5 warranted, is because it is the best
Blood Preparation known. 1t will posi-
lively cure all Blood Diseases, purifes the
whole system, and thoroughly builds up the
constitution. Remember, we guarantee it.
DIR. W. N. Hunt
, 1888-05-24

Boils, pimples, hives, ringworm, tet-
ter, and all other manifestations of i'm
pure blood are cured by Hoods Sarsa-
parilla.
, 1888-05-24
WHERE DOES THE PROFIT cor

N9lne congressional Record which has
Just come to hand contains a full report
of the speech recently made by Senator
Vest on the subject of the beef trust.
Some extracts from the same cannot fail
to interest the people of Wyoming:
This question of the meat product of
the United States" said Senator Vest,
is by no means local or sectional. 1t af-
fects every portion of the country and al
most every individual. 1t is not a ques-
ton Of the sustenance of human or physi-
cal life only; 1t is n question of vitality,
of enterprise. of civilization, of empire.
The history OF the whole world shows that
the beef eating peoples of the world are
foremost in peace and war, in art and
science. That has been the history of our
race. and will be to the end of recorded
time.
ut is a singular fact, sir, how striking
ly this truth is illustrated in statistics as
well as in general and national results.
In Great Britain the consumption annu-
ally was l05 pounds, and IN the United
States l40 pounds, 50 that the two great
English speaking peoples of the world,
the foremost to-day in empire and civil
zation' ureat Britain and the United
States, are the largest beef consumer of
tue nations upon the lace oil the earth.
I'm Great Britain there has been by
decades the following increase IN the con
II -. = NnrA
sumption oil meat: In 1850 the average
consumption TO the person per annum was
seventy SIX pounds; in 1860, eighty six
pounds; in 1870, ninety -four pounds; in
1880 lol pounds, and In 1884, lO5
POUNDS Ana yet, SIR with this increased
consumption abroad amongst the people
with whom we ave the closest CONNER
clal intercourse, and with the additional
TACT that during the last terrible winter
5Oo,ooo head oil cattle pcrlshei in the ter
rltory oil montana alone, the price OF beef
paid the producer Is steadily declining in
the market. 1t Is the Tact hat whilst the
price has decreased to the producer Of
beef 1t has increased to the consume and
this wonderful state OF affairs exists and
has existed ever since 1872. The pur-
pose oil my resolution is to ind why this
Is &c. why beef and cattle constitute an
exception to the general rule OF supply
and demand and all commercial rules. My
object In Offering the resolution was to
make 1t as comprehensive as possible. |
am anxious and honestly so, to ascertain
what Is the cause OF the anomalous condi
, 1888-05-24
The Three I's.

Intelligence, Independence and integ-
rity are the three qualifications in a presi-
dental candidate. These three Is would
be considerably more magnetic than the
three RS.
, 1888-05-24

Making 54S pounds of the beef avail
able for what are the usual purposes of
the butcher; that is to say, sale to his
customers at retail.
''Fhe tongue, liver and heart bring 81.
What is known as the fifth quarter ~
being the head, tallow. horns, hoof and
otfal, brings So. so, making the amount
received for the whole beeve $63.ll. If
we are correct in our idea that the aver
age cost of the beeve in the Chicago mar.
ket is S25, it leaves a profit to someone
or to all who intervene between the cattle
producer and the consumer of SSH for
each steer bought and sold. Deducting
for freight allowance to the retailer of
$S.li, leaves a net profit on each head of
cattle of $50"
The inquiry as to where the $50 profit
on each head of stock goes is quite as in
teresting to hundreds of other people as
it is TO Senator Vest. 1t of course goes
into the pockets of the middlemen but
any congressional or other inquiry that
will throw light on the subject cannot fail
to be Of much interest to a very large
section of the entire country. A step
which would mitigate the evil would he
hailed with Joy.
, 1888-05-24
PITH IN PARAGRAPHS,
And Yet at Home Plate.


Wants to See Some Triumphant Democ-
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-05-08
RIVER AND HlRBOR BILL PASSED
BY the House of Representatives Yester'
day Under Suspension of the Rules.

BY the House of Representatives Yestor'
day Under Suspension of the Rules.
WASHINGTON, D. c., May I'm the
House to-day Mr.. Blanchard, OF LOuisi-
ana, moved to suspend the rules and
pass the River and Harbor bill. Several
amendments have been incorporated in
the bill since it was last before the
House. The appropriation for the
Cleveland, Ohio, harbor is increased
from 5000 to $4,000. The appropria-
ton for Humboldt harbor, California,
is reduced from Sl50,OO0 to SIPS, 600,
while that for the Oakland harbor is in
creased from $4,000 to 100000.
The motion to dispense with the
reading OF the bill was lost.
The reading OF the bill consumed an
hour and half. Mr.. Snowden, OF
Pennsylvania, demanded second, and
the motion to suspend the rules was
seconded l52 to !, the majority OF the
opponents OF the measure refraining
from voting. Mr.. Blanchard, OF Louisi-
ana briefly explained the changes in the
bill, stating that the aggregate appro-
priation OF the bill was only $4,000
more than it was when the bill was last
considered in Committee OF the Whole.
Mr.. Seymour, of Michigan, favored the
speedy passage OF the bill.
Mr.. Chandler, OF Georgia, said he
would never vote for such river and
harbOr bill as this. The motion to sus-
pend the rules and pass the bill was
agreed to-yeas l6l, nays 50.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-05-08

MEMPHrs, Tenn, May IA difficulty
occurred last night at o'clock on board
the Benton, running as an excursion
steamer between Memphis and Jackson
Park, a pleasure retreat, four miles be-
low this city, which resulted in the
death OF Martin Moore, the Captain.
The cause OF the trouble was a disa-
greement between those who had char
tered the steamer. Eph Reeves and w.
]. MCGOWAN are charged with the muir
der OF Capt. Moore. 1t is alleged that
Reeves cut him three times in the head
with q butcher knife and MCGOWAN shot
him in the abdomen. The barkeeper,
Sam Tilly, has also been arrested as ac-
cessory to the killing. Moore kept a sa-
loon on the corner OF Main and Exchange
streets. Reeves and MCGOWAN are sports.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-05-08
TERRIBLE CLOUD BURST.
Which Nearly mandates a Small
Village in Kansas.
MANY HOUSES SWEPT AWAY
And a Number of Lives Lost-stOck
and Property Dcstroyed-An At
mospherical Phenomenon-The
Steamer Eureka Sunk.

CHICAGO, May IA dispatch from
Wichita, Kansas, says: A strange at
mospherical phenomenon was witnessed
at Maize, west Of this city, yesterday. A
storm cloud burst and extended over
space, parallelogram in form, about 500
yards wide and one mile in length. For
half an hour the rain came down in tor
rents. The heavens were black and a
darkness almost equal to that OF night
covered the entire area. People ran
frightened from their homes, many cry
ing that the end OF the world had come.
Maize is situated on the south bank OF
the Arkansas river, and ths. streets were
turned into rivers, which fortunately
found outlets into the Arkansas. An eye
witness describes the rain as coming
down in torrents, washing away num-
Der Of houses, and moving others from
their foundations. A house in which q
family named Rockby lived was picked
up by the flood and carried into the
Arkansas river, where it sank, drowning
Rockby, his wife and two children. A
number OF narrow escapes are reported.
Water from the cloud seemed to come
straight down, and could not have been
thicker had it found its source from u
lake in the air. The bodies ef the Rock
by family have not yet been recovered.
The amount OF damage will be very
large. A great many head of horses and
cattle were drowned.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-05-08
METHODIST MATTERS.
Women Delegates are Finally
Declared from Conference.
THE DEBATE ON THE SUBJECT
Does not occupy Much Time-Thc
Resolution Amended so as to
Leave the Question of Eligible
ity to Annual Conferences.

NEW YoRK, May Bishop Ninde, ol
Kansas, presided at to-day's session oi
the Methodist Episcopal General Con.
ference. Rev. ]. NJ. Johnson, of the
Norway Conference, conducted the
opening religious services.
1t was resolved to suspend the rules
and continue the debate on the admis-
sion of women as lay delegates.
Forty-one delegates at once sprang to
their feet and claimed the floor. Rev.
II. II. Moore, of the Erie Conference,
was recognized. He spoke in favor Of
admitting women. Rev. ]. T. Edwards,
| OF the Detriot c Conference, and editor of
the NOrihpestern Advocate, opposed their
admission at the present time, and
favored the submission OF the question
TO vote OF the church.
Judge S. n. Taylor, lay delegate from
the st, Louis Conference, then got the
floor. He walked down the aisle with q
number OF law books under his arm, and
proceeded to argue the question on con-
stitutional grounds. 1t would dc much
harm, he said, to admit women at the
present time. There were Bishops TO be
elected and other important matters to be
voted on, and il women were admitted
and allowed to vote, and it should sub
sequently be decided that women were
not entitled to seats, the acts OF the pres
ent General Conference would be illegal
and unconstitutional. He. quoted law
to sustain his point, and said that rather
than have the women admitted now un-
constitutionally he would pay all their
expenses and do all that he could to save
the body from error. He is in favor OF
the admission OF women, he said, but he
wanted the question submitted to vote
OF the church and to have their seats
given to them on legal grounds.
Rev. DR.. J. II. Bayliss OF the Cincin-
matt Conference, argued that if the Cen
eral Conference had power TO construe
the constitution in regard to the admis-
sion Of local preachers, it had the right
TO construe the law in regard to the
eligibility ofwomen.
The debate was closed about l o'clock
and vote was taken on the adoption
OF Rev. David Fl. Moore's substitute for
the report OF the committee. 1t pro-
posed that the women elected Us lay
delegates TO the present Conference be
seated and the question OF their eligi-
bility to future General Conferences be
determined by vote OF the church and
Annual Conferences. This substitute
was lost.
Then q vote was taken upon the
amendment to the report offered by
Rev. DR.. Neely, Of Philadelphia. This
amendment excludes the women from
seats in the present Conference and
submits the question OF eligibility to
future General Conferences to the An
nual Conferences. 1t was adopted by q
vote OF 249 ayes to l73 nays.
After the adoption. Of DR.. Neeley's
amendment the report OF the committee
with the amendment was adopted by the
following vote: ayes-ministerial, l59,
lay, IS; nays-ministerial, l22, lay, 76.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-05-08
SENATOR RALR on BLAINE.

lie Denies Tint Mr.. blaine Has said lie
Was Willing to Accept Nomination.
NEw YoRK, May 7.-Senator Eugene
Hale, OF Maine, was at the Fifth Avenue
hotel. About Gp. m. he went to the
French steamship pier to meet friends
arriving on the steamer La Gascogne,
and there was met by the reporter. The
Senator was asked ii he had seen the
statement in the Philadelphia Times 10
the effect that Mr.. Blaine had agreed
not to decline to run for the Presidency
il nominated, and he said: 81 have,
and all have to say is that there is no
foundation for it."
"Then Mr.. Blaine has not written or
sent word to the effect that in certain
contingencies he would acceptthe nomi-
nation?"
"He has not. He does not expect to
be the Republican candidate. MIR.
Blaine does expect that some other can
didate will receive Mr.. Blaine's hearty,
sincere and active support. When Mr..
Blaine wrote the letter saying that he
would not be candidate before the
convention, he wrote, us believe, in all
sincerity. He meant what he said, and
l have no hesitation in saying that he
has not changed his mind.
"Do YOU mean, then to say, Senator,
that il the convention should insist upon
nominating Mr.. Blaine, he would not
accept?"
Senator Hale paused forsome moments,
| and then answered: "No one, OF course,
can tell what the convention will do.
All l can say, as l have said before, is
that Mr.. Blaine is not candidate for
the nomination, and that he expects
some other candidate to be nominated"
as it true there is movement on foot
to induce Mr.. Blaine to runY
It is undoubtedly true that the ma
iority OF Republicans received with deep
regret his statement that he would not
be candidate, and no doubt efforts
have been made to get him to reconsider
that determination. 1t is not true that
any assurance has been received from
him that he would reconsider it.
"WOuld he, in your opinion, be the
strongest candidate that could be nomi'
nated?"
ale would, in my opinion. But /
have accepted his letter of declination
as sincere refusal to be a candidate for
the nomination"
"And who do you think is the most
likely to be the nominee"
"As to that" replied Mr.. Hale, with
smile, ~ decline to answer. ! do not
care to anticipate the verdict Of the con-
vention further than to say that its ac-
lion will no doubt be such as to com.
mend itself to the united and successful
support OF the party"
aWhat about the expressions OF en-
thusiasm in behalf OF Mr.. Blaine in
Massachusetts, Vermont and Rhode
Island?"
"They arc the spontaneous utterances
OF gratitude to one who, as the leader Of
| the Republican party, has rever waver'
ed in his devotion to its interests, OF
hesitated ut self-sacrifice in its behalf
| The Republican party has every reason
10 anticipate success in the coming elec.
ton. whosoeYer the nominee my be, but
| Mr.. Blaine is not in the field for the
nomination, and no one, am confident
has received his assent to movement
in his favor"
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-05-08

San Francisco, May AFTER voy.
age Of 100 days the schooner Edward E.
Webster arrived here from Gloucester,
Mass, with her crew disabled from a
strange disease, and with no provisions
on board but musty -four. The vessel
was fitted out for seal fishing at Cape
Flattery, but she had rough weather
from the start, and while beating about
Cape Horn all her meat spoiled and soon
after the -four became musty. The crew
were brought down by a disease which
swelled their legs like dropsy and pre-
vented them from working. Only calm
seas saved them from wreck. When
they reached here only two men were
able TO work.