Telegram-herald., 1889-11-03

read, and hSs reEurnea % taks . pronai-
asnE post. a. q salary u &. CO year. o.
ene q the Davis reads.
These faets give you az Insight -
the uleGnos3s u ex-senator DAVIS. lie =
balldLny for the future as ssL - for tie
present Tie same care aEd foresight
are displayed in al ses " his Nork
Is it any Wcnder ttar As Is successful
znd thAL be las acquired property which
needs nothing bat development . make
hlla one u the richest men 0f America
b. ths SIDE of the railway tracks Ia
wheeling l had pointed out % ne sew
era large pottery 2nd glass sorks, about
which good story aud q story with a
moral can be told OF these my entertain
ing friend the banker said: There, cir
are some Of the most prosperous concerns
Ia This city. Each of them was started
years ago BY poor rnen on the cooperative
plan Take ths biz pottery over there,
for example. Eight or ten pottery work
srs Of PilrsbUrg. tired Of working for
wages. loaded their household goods into
freight car. bought a few tools, came
% this city aud found All old shed in
which - 20 % work. Their combined
capital did not exceed a thousand dollars
Bat every man IN the hFm was a worker
and . skilled mechanic. They found
ready sale for their wares, and pros
pered Their pottery. as YOU now see it,
covers an acre or more of ground. and
gives employment u several hundred
persons. To this day = Is owned by the
original pr0prietors. Cr their children Or
grandchildren. IL has made several men
rich. and all interested are Wei 10 do
These pottsrs have kept close together
not only Ia business, but IN church and
society. They have inlermaFried. and
thus We have a coteTle OF potters in our
community. and 10 better citizens have
We. This Is the history OF several Of our
large enterprises. Tie men who started
these shops worked IN them, and taught
their children To work in them, Just as
ex-senator Davis is teaching his sons-in-
law his business. There. in my opinion
Is the keynote OF prosperity, a thing
which we know too little about in this
country"
At Wheeling | also met David r.
Paige, Of New York. q man whose career
points a moral and adOrns a tale. Paige
was a successful business man in Ohio.
and, being extraordinarily and deserved
~ popular. was induced 10 enter politics.
Here also be was successful, winning q
seat in congress. But one term in Wash
ingtOn satisfied him that the national
legislature was not the place for man
Of energy, for man who wants 20 COM
mand success instead OF waiting for it.
So be left politics and went 10 New
York city Is 4 contractor. There he is
rapidly growing rich. The years which
he devoted to politics We're lost years.
Just now Mr.. Paige is engaged in an
enterprise Of general interest and inn
portance. He IS bridging the Ohio
river at Wheeling. tunneling through
the mountain on the West Virginia side.
and constructing several miles Of track.
Odd that a city 50 important as Wheel
ing should have gone all these years
without q railroad bridge over the Ohio.
Now that town, by the expenditure of
two or three millions Of dollars in bridge
and tunnel, is in fair way TO realize
the hopes Of its citizens by becoming
gateway between the east and the west
In these days Of millionaires | was as
tOnished to hear that the city of Wheel
ing. a manufacturing town, full Of mai
mills. steel mills, blast furnaces, glass
works and potteries, contains not one
millionaire. How many cities are there
in this country, Of $4,000 industrial pop
ulation. that can boast of the absence of
miliionaires from their midst? l say
boast, because no millionaires means diff
fusion Of wealth and general prosperity.
\ friend came into the car there and
handed me a small pasteboard box.
Take that home with you" he said
facetiOusly, "but be careful how YOU use
Its contents. IL may make trouble in
your family" 1t was a box of Wheel
ing stogas. "Statisticians have calcu-
lated, added my friend, "that one di-
vorce in ten in this country is caused by
the smoking of Wheeling stogas by hus-
bands. So our town has a good deal to
answer for. What is called the Ken
tucSy stOga, made here of the strongest
Kentucky tobacco, gives the smoker
breath that viii stain furniture. But
the regular Wheeling stoga is not so
bad. Try one. We make millions of
these every year. Machinery is en-
ployed in the rolling of them, and the
labor is pretty cheap, else we could not
make them and pay the same internal
revenue tax that is paid on high priced
cigars, and sell at So a thousand, whole
sale"
Everybody in Wheeling smokes stogas.
There must be some peculiar fascination
IN the long. thin, twists of tobacco, for
they say that after man has smoked
them for time the most delicately per-
fumed cigar has no temptation for him.
He IS thoroughly welded to the stoga.
General Manager Odell, Of the r. and
O., buys four or FIVE thousand Of these
stOCas every month. smokes some Of
them himself. aud gives the others away
20 the railroad men whom he meets out
on the line. Whenever he meets an en-
gineer. brakeman. fireman OF section
boss. he hands out a stoga. One Of the
Division superintendents on the Pennsvl-
vania does the same thing. and SAYS the
cheap cigar materially helps him in
making the acquaintance and gaining
he friendship of his men. So the stoga
Is not such had thing after all.
WALTER WEILMAy.
Dycing Hair.