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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-05-02
They Are pIseouraged

To ne Editor OF he Register.
SIR--If you will give us space in your
paper, we will say, in answer to the RIG
lsrER's remarks about our company, the
Wheeling Light Guards, that the boys are
not made out Of the stuff that sOldies are
made ont of. the treatment we receive
from the State Government and the Com
mittee on Markets of City Council,
who have taken cur hall from rs, which
Council gave Us, is enough to make us feel
like send,rg our arms back to the State
House. Yours, respectfully,
II. J. DRUMMOND,
First Sergeant.
o. f. REID. Private.
Wheeling, w. Ia, Nay l, 1889.
BLACK Corkscrew Jackets $3.50, reduced
from S., at EMsHEIMER' s.
Eleventh Street
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-05-02

Buy Marvin's Eagle Butter Crackers
from your grocer.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-05-02

L. 5. Coon sells Dry Goods the cheapest
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-05-02

The teams will play as follows to-day
Hamilton at Wheeling; Canton at Mans
field; Dayton at Springfield.
Wheeling is anxiouely waiting for April
80, to pulverizs Mansfield, its ancient enc
my, but it is Just possible that the ancient
enemy may do the pulverizing act.-Cdnton
Repository. Just possible.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-05-02

you Can SIRE from soe 20 sloo-N.J. NcFaa
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-05-02

For three or four wears had an eating
sore on my tongue that made considera-
bic hole in il. / became alarmed At its
progress. and went TO Atlanta for treat
ment. The result was that ] commenced
the use Of Switt's Specific. and the sore
was soon gone, without trace Of 1t left.
A. LEWIS.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-05-02
BADLY Injured.

Total pieces handled.....................
Increase over April, lsSs.........iO,y 1915
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-09-19
BATTLEFIELD RELICS
A Steady Source of Income to Vlrginii
Farming Population.


a Steady Source of Income to Vlrginta's
Farming Population.
A quarter of century has elapsed
since the war. yet many of the farmers
OF Virginia are still realizing from
Yankee lead and brass quite a revenus>
1t Is the children of these farmers h
ing nearest the great battle-felds tha;
bring to light the most of the buried
relics of the cruel past Their tiny
fingers, sometimes in play, again with
the hope of adding to the family Golfer,
unearth pounds of lead.
In strolling through this historical
town the writer came across a veritable
old curiosity shop down by the wharf.
1t is kept by an old junk dealer. who.
yielding to a desire for a glimpse at the
latest curiosity. brought to light by
big box which had Just arrived from
the country that morning. There. in
reckless confusion, were bullets, musket
balls, old pieces of brass, epaulets,
sword hilts. buckles and buttons, all
battered and bruised. and corroded by
buried for so many years This box,
the dealer said. would weigh about one
hundred and fifty pounds. and was but
one of many that he was constantly re-
ceiving.
From the midst of the debris a but
ton was fished out upon which was in
scribed the arms of Vermont (Freedom
and Unity, showing that they must
have belonged to some member of the
first militia that was mustered into
service, as the troops were afterward
uniformed by the United States. These
war relics come from the battle-felds
of Manassas, Culpepper. Fredericks-
burg, and the valley of Virginia, and
are sold simply for their value in old
lead and brass. Occasionally an in
voice of shells arrives, which throws
the downtown inhabitants into a state
of CONSERVATION. No so long ago quite
a batch OF these wicked looking things
were promptly hustled out of town by
command OF the mayor.
If the farmers were wise they would
preserve the most interesting of these
n.ementos, for there will no doubt come
time when even the most insignifi-
cant will have its value. Alexandria
Special.
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He replied that none had been re-
ceived. 1--WE called you," said the
operator at the fort; ''you answered,
and we sent you two messages, butyou
failed to acknowledge them" The
dispatches were repeated and forward
ed, when on taking up a volume Of
Scott's novels. with which he had pre-
viously endeavored to keep awake, the
writer was astonished to find the miss
ing kilograms scrawled across the
printed page in his own writing. some
sentences omitted, and some repeated
1t was a curious instance of somnam-
bulism.-Dr J. Emmett OBrien, in
Century.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-09-19

element, and made fortune in hurry,
after which they removed to New York and
Dolly Monteith set up for a fashionable
lady"
IAN unendurable snobr' exclaimed Mrs.
Hervey, Indignantly; $50 that is the founda-
ton of her extreme gentiitylr
depend upon it my snobb.sh friend,
Your family thread you can't ascend
Without good reason to appreheEd
You may find it Eaxed Tor oiLsd) at the farther
end
By some pleoeian vocation"
quoted Aunt Katy, smiling. "Saxe could
not have described our American aristoc-
racy better and it looks TO me extremely
silly, in a country where fortunes are
being made and lost every day, to in
dulge in such feelings Of ultra gen.
tility. I always read it as a positive
symptom that at some time the person who
has such a horror of work or working
people has been one of the class himself"
"What dreadful thing it is to be born
without common sense" sighed Mrs.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-09-19
RANDOM SHOTS.

The highest membership Of the G.
A r is in Pennsylvania, which report
ed for 1888 43,O35. Ohio is next and
reported Al, 486; New York reported
81. 2S6; Illinois. 3O.293; Indiana, 3d.
$50; Michigan, 21, 420, and Massachu-
sets, 20,687
WISCONSIN had four war Gov
ernors''-Alexander w. Randall, Louis
P. Harvey, Edward Solomon and James
T. Lewis. Lewis served in 1864 and
1865, and the others each one year.
Governor Salomon was the brother oil
Frederic. the Western General
CoLONELT. w. HIGGNsoN, Of colored
volunteers fame, has been appointed Dy
Governor Ames Of Massachusetts 70
write the history of the Bay State SOL
diers and sailors in the civil war, as
ordered by the Legislature Inc MS
torian will be allowed five years In
which to complete the work.
WuCoNsIN sent to the war four regi'
ments of cavalry, one of artillery, L
batteries and 50 regiments of infantry.
Her ouoto furnished was over O,OOO,
and her roll of honor, died in service,
was over 1900. Her Grand Army
roster shows a strength about equal t
her death list in the war.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-09-19
NEW PENSION RULING.
1t Makes an Important Change In the
Existing Laws.

1t Makes an Important Change In the
Existing Laws.
Assistant Secretary Bussey has rem
dered an important decision on the
pension claim of Daniel b Kaufman.
late of Company A, Forty-eighth Regi-
ment Pennsylvania Volunteers, which
was brought before him on motion
for reconsideration. In his decision
the Assistant Secretary rescinds Rule
No. 1S5 made by Commissioner Black
September 4. 1885, and Overrules the
opinion of ex-Assistant Secretary Haw-
kins in the same case that a ''dishonOr-
able discharge from the service op-
crates as ''bar to pension" He holds
that a "dishonorable discharge" is
penalty for a specific offense against
the service for which the soldier may
be punished, but that the penalty can
not include nor relate to a claim for
pension based upon disability. The two
things are held to be wholly distinct
from each other, and are not governed
by the same legal consideration. The
Assistant Secretary holds that for the
Department to impose upon the soldier
the forfeiture OF the right to even claim
pension because of dishonorable dis
charge, which may have been inflicted
by court-martial for an offense of which
the court had jurisdiction, would be
equivalent to furnishing the soldier
twice tor the same offense. Washing.
ton Special.
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inside clearing away the breakfast table,
but her sad and tear-stained face showed
that she had passed sleepless night
Finally, having finished up her work, she
went out and sat down beside her husband
Snow, pap" she began, as she took up
her knitting, ''you kin look for Jet and
Mary to come erlong most emmy minute: !
know. jes' as well as I'm a ivfn', that
they've gone an got married, an, what's
more, don't blame 'em. Now, when they
do come" she continued, 81 want you to be-
have yourself; if you don't I'll g1t get 70
trounce you, an you know he'n do 1t In
mighty short order, specially II ask MN
TO-"
Old Abe grunted and smoked IN silence.
He knew he was beaten, and like true
philosopher he took the matter coouy.
''Henoa, papw
Both Of the old people started as though
they had been shocked, and turned their
ewes toward the road. At the gate stood
horse and buggy Jet was helping Mary to
alight; then he hitched his horse, and TAX
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-09-19

ing her arm In his they walked boldly along
the path toward the house. Mary and her
mother met half way in each others arms,
but old Abe sat still and smoked. Jet
walked up to him, and slapping him on the
shoulder, said: Pap, me an Mary's married.
What you goin' TO do erbout it!"
The old man smoked on in silence for a
moment, then he answered:
'Nothin', reckon. But the next time
find good bee tree and you git to it afore
l do an steal all the honey, you'll! at least
divide with me, speshully as it'll all be in
the family, ennyhowT'
'Iou bet will, " laughed Jet, in reply,
''an' know of mighty good one rightnow.
Well go an tap it ter-morrer."
And they did.-Ed R. Pritchard, in Ar
kansaw Traveller.
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myself; the folding of a card and such
minutia of etiquette, for instance. Mr.. Fal-
coner's education had also been neglected on
such points, 1 observe"
"Yes, indeed" laughed Mrs Stanford.
Harvey cares no more for such small
etiquettes than as if they did not exist" !"
and then followed condensed compendium
Of fashionable forms.
"Be sure you spend Christmas with u" /"
was Mrs. Stanford's last words before the
carriage drove away. ''Lilly and Ralph
will be home, and we shall rely on you
also.n
"Well, my DEAR" said Mr.. Stanford, as
he came home and found his wife in her
usual place at the dinner table, ''what OF
that terrible creature, your brothers wifea"
Morton" she replied, and she meant
every word fully, 'Mrs. Harvey Falconer is
a remarkable woman"
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tree in the front yard, and the whippoorwin
was singing in the pasture down by the
sreek, Mary, having finished her evening
chores, stole silently out by the front porch
and hurried swiftly away in the fast-gsth
ering darkness. fancy the reader need
scarcely be told where she was bound. On
she went until she reached the corner Of a
large wood lot nearly half mile from her
fathers house. Here she stopped, and, al
most out Of breath, seated herself on an
old log. A moment later she heard the
sound OF wheels approaching, and she
stood up and listened. Presently a man in
a buggy drove up and, springing from his
seat. caught her in his arms.
''Oh Jet" the girl whispered, as soon as
they had exchanged greetings, pap is
awful mad. He almost ordered me out of
the house if ever spoke to you ag'in, an
him an mother are havin' words about il
yet"
Jet, big, tall fellow, straight and broad
shouldered, with brown eyes and an hon
est, sunburnt face, Strengthened himself up
proudly, and, throwing his hat well back on
his head. an act that indicated his frank
and fearless nature, laughed loud and long.
Well he said, as soon as he could speak
again, ''some old people are bound ter be
fools, cause they just can't help it, s'pose.
But Wen show 'em a trick or two, Mary;
Just git in the buggy an come with me.n
he assisted her in snd they drove rapidly
away.
The next morning old Abe sat on the
front pOrch smoking. His good wife was
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-09-19
IT'S STRANGE.

IT'S strange how positions can change
The weight Of an object through pam;
A hornet, for instance, may range
Ger the shining bald roof Of the brain,
And as long as he stands up erect
He's as light as a ray OF the sun,
Yet let him but squat down" and loi
Said hornet weighs fully ton!
IT'S strange. too that moments there ara,
As death stares US straight in the eye,
When tbs safer and wiser by far
To stand perfectly still and not 1y.
And one Of those moments is when,
In turning corner, you meet
A cross-eyed and bow-legged man
Face TO face OF the curb OF the street!
Am. KERR
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-09-19
TELEGRAPHING IN BATTLE
Interesting Incidents Illustrating the Sen.
sibIIIty of the Operator.

Interesting Incidents Illustrating the Sem
sibIlIty of the Operator.
In Buffers advance on the Peters
burg and Richmond railroad. 9TH OF
MAY, line was carried along with the
column to within sight of that road,
and worked until Beauregard struck US
at Drewry's Bluff. on the 10th, when
General Butler ordered his chief oper-
ator to ''bring the line within the in
trenchments- In these trenches, one
night Maynard Huyck was awakened
from sleep. not by the familiar voice OF
his instrument, but by the shrek OF a
Whitworth bolt, six pound steel shell,
which passed through the few clothes
he had doffed, then ricochetted and ex-
ploded beyond. Congratulating him
self that he was not in his ''duds" at
the moment, the boy turned over and
slept through the internal turmoil Of
an awakening cannonade until aroused
by the gently tick of the telegraph re-
Law. We used no ''sounders" in those
days at the front.
In illustration of the sensibility Of
hearing acquired by the military oper-
ators for this one sound, the writer may
be pardoned another personal incident
At Norfolk, on April, 1868, he happened
to be alone in charge OF the telegraph
when Longstreet with large force
laid siege to Suffolk. In the emer-
gency he remained on duty, without
sleep, for three days and nights. re-
peating orders between Fort Monroe
and the front Towards morning on
the third night he fell asleep, but was
aroused by the strenuous calls OF the
fort and asked why he had not given
20. &" for the messages just sent
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-09-19
HOW | SAW FRED DOUGLASS.
Alex e. Sweet Relates an Amusing REM
iniscence of the Great COlOred Orator.

ONSUL at Hayti is
the Office to which
President Harr is on
has appointed Fred
Douglass. Isuppose
the appointment is a
good thing; forDoug-
lass is undoubtedly
one of the ablest, if
not the ablest, colored
men in the country.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-09-19
CHAPTER VI.
4" OF all the notable things on earth

Inc Queerest one - pIluo Oh OIln
The heated season was over and the
greater portion of the city's people were at
home again; meantime Isabel had made a
few very pleasant acquaintances, and was
on friendly, and even intimate, terms with
Mrs. Colo2el De Long, who had discovered
that which Mr.. Falconer had hoped she
would in his wife, qualities of more value
than mere external graces.
Mrs. Harry Dwight, who lived near, had
also bscome an informal visitor, and was
enthusiastic in her praises of Mrs. Falconer.
Cards were out for very select party to
which the Falconers were invited, and Isabel
and Mrs. Dwight were out shopping. ''n !
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-09-19
JET WAYMIRE.
The Story Of His Courtship and
Marriage.

OW, looky b ere,
Mary, I'm not goln'
ter hev that derned
onery Jet Waymire
roun' here courtin'
you, an that settles
it. Eff ever he sets
foot inside my door
yardTllerbout break
his blamed neck,
that's what III do;
an that's the word
with a bark on it."
Old Abe Pitzen-
berger delivered
himself of the above
quoted remarks as
he sat one summer
avap;pnOn the little
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-09-19
Forever and Ever.

Cnarley, dear" said the rustic young
girl, viii you love me as now and cling to
me alwayslr
fes, darling" replied the matter-of- fact
loVeri 'I'n stickto you as tight as that wart
ca your chin. "-Arcola Record.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-09-19
Grand Army Statistics.

The gains and losses from various
sources in the Grand Army for the
year ending June 80, 1889. are as fol-
lows:
HEernbars In good standing June 9O 1893 33i 194
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-09-19

The next morning old Abe sat on the
front porch smoking. His good wife was
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-04

and bald. He is very friendly and
sociable man, and enjoys holiday like
a jolly school-boy. He will be known
in history as the good-natured
prince" The story goes that once
when the prince called upon Tennyson,
at his home on the Isle of Wight, he
was denied admittance, the poet hav-
ing given strict orders to his servants to
admit no strangers into the house, and
they did not recognize the future king
of England in the portly gentleman
wearing very negligee morning suit.
The prince, however, retired good
humoredly from the door of the churl-
ish poet. Tennyson is tall, but slightly
bent by eighty winters which have
whitened his hair and beard. His eyes
are large, dark and dreamy; his man
ners are shy, reserved and awkward,
the natural result of his long secusion
in the country. He dresses carelessly,
wearing in summer a badly-ftting gray
suit, loose, turned-down collar, and
low, wide shoes, made more for COM
fort than beauty. lie speaks slowly,
and with great deliberation, in dull,
rolling, Saxon accent, almost provincial
in tone, but his words are well-chosen
and his language refined, plainly show
ing that he is a colege-bred man and
a student of many languages. Thomas
Bailey Aldrich is an exquisite in dress;
he wears a daintily-fitting sack coat, an
immaculate white vest, light Derby
hat, and twirls slender, dandy cane.
His moustache is light-brown, and
carefully waxed, and his hair closely
cut. He looks more like a well-to-do
club man or a successful Wall street
broker than a poet and editor of the
atlantic Monthly.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-04
Good Manners.

There is quiet charm in well-man-
nered children that everybody recog-
nizes. "Such ell-behaved children"
everybody says. They have been
taught to be respectful, polite, court
eous. When you come across an i'll
hammered group, who make them
selves generally disagreeable, you go
away muttering, " What lot of young
savages! What foolish people their
parents are to permit such rowdyism!
These rude young fellows who can't
answer question politely are sure to
turn out i'll, unless they mend their
ways" Yes, be sure of it, they get
their tone under the roof-tree, and it is
a low tone and a rude tone ana an in
solent tone. 1t maintains its harsh
ness after they go out into the world.
Manners and morals are closely allied.
If home and school education have
failed to mould and guide them, then
even though, as the result of six years
drilling, the much-lauded three RS are
at their tongues ends and finger tips,
the result of all this minute training
for life purposes is almost nal. 1t is
culpable folly to send them adrft with
boorish manners. BY unwearied train
ing and tact, give them the right tone.-
ETchdnqe.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-04
An AnecdOte of Stephen Girard.

Seeing story about old Stephen Gil
rard, the other day, reminded me of an
incident that shows one of his peculiar
tiles. Girard mad drayman who was
a decidedly poor man. One day the
drayman, who was an industrious.
bright fellow, with good many mouths
to fill at home, was heard to remark
that he wished he was rich. " What's
that?" sharply said Girard, who heard
the grumble. "Oh," said the man, "I
was only wishing was rich" Well,
why don't you get rich?' said the mill
lionaire, harshly. 81 don't know how
without money" returned the dray-
man. You don't need money" said
Girard. "Well, if you will tell me how
to get rich without money, | won't let
the grass grow before trying it," re-
turned the other. ''There is going to
be shipload of confiscated tea sold at
auction tomorrow at the wharf; 90
down there and buy it in and then
come to me-" The man laughed. 81
have no money to buy shipload of tea
with" he said. "You don't need any
money, l tell you," snapped the old
man. $50 down and bid in the whole
cargo and then come to me-" The next
day the drayman went down to the sale.
A large crowd of retailers were present
and the auctioneer said that those bid
ding would have the privilege of taking
one case or the whole shipload, and
that the bidding would be on the
pound. He then began the sale. A
grocer started the bidding and the
drayman raised him. On seeing this,
the crowd gazed with no small amount
of surprise. When the case was
knocked down to the drayman the auc-
tioneer said he supposed the buyer only
desired the case. "I'll take the ship
load" coolly returned the successful
bidder. The auctioneer was astonished,
but on some one whispering to him that
it was Girard's man who was the
speaker, his manner changed, and he
said he supposed it was all right. The
news soon spread that Girard was buy
ing tea in large quantities, and the next
day the price rose several cents. go
and sell your tea" said Girard to the
drayman, the next day. The drayman
was shrewd, and he went out and made
contracts with several brokers to take
the stock at shade below the market
price, thereby making quick sale. In
few hours he was worth S50,000.-St.
Louis Globe Democrat.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-04
A Remedy for Mosquitoes.

| haven't a mosquito-bar nor II
screen-door about my house, and yet
there are seldom any flies and never
any mosquitoes about it. | learned the
secret of successful warfare against
these pests when living in the swamps
of Louisiana, where, summer or winter,
mosquitoes swarm. For some years
life was uncomfortable, and no meal
could be eaten in peace. But all at
once there was change for the better;
bars and screens were often out of
place, but there was almost an immu-
nifty from insects. | was bathing at
the time, and had just changed my col
ored boy. The newcomer explained
to me how to keep the " critters" away.
He burnt small pieces of gum camphor
on the cook-stove and used secret
preparation he called sudeillo."
When | got married and came to Mis-
souri, | impaired the secret to my wife,
and, as there is no patent on it that |
know of, would advise all fellow suf-
ferers to go and do likewise. The gum
camphor alone is ample for the purpose,
and need only to be used two or three
times day.-St. Louis Globe-Demo-
crnt