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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-03-10
Stone & Thomas-orand Carpet Opening ls
Stone & IHoMAs.
CIR A MD
Carpet Opening!
Stone T. Thomas-orand Carpet Opening.

ON MONDAY MARCH 49, $780, will open New spnXo
OF CARPETS expect this will be the greatest Carpet have
ever had prepared for SUCH We tho claim Tor those who
desire good goods tho lowest prices there
country who will supply wants lower prices To make
opening interesting and attractive will offer Monday Tuesday and
Wednesday tho following special Bargains: E sGG
80 pIcccs Tapestry Brussels i5c worth OOc.
100 pieces Tapestry Brussels csc. worth TOO
$50 pieces oxbury SOC
rs pieces BODY Brussels OOc worth 81 49, SIS" t1
pcccs BODY brussels at 81 IL l.. worth 81 25.
Bigcow BODY Brussels 81 .: L. 81 10
Styles Nioqucttc Carpets at 81 10, worth 81 TO-
90 picccs All Wool Carpets worth WA
The above comprises all the latest patterns made We will show you
more Carpets grade than you will find three stocks
bned the city, Buy Carpets and avoid the rush and
them ready to lay just when you want them.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-03-10
WHAT rs
SCROFULA

1t Is that impurlty in tho blood. which, ac-
cumulatlng In tho glands Of the neck. pro-
duccs unsghtly Jumps or swclllngs; which
causes painful running sores on tho arms,
legs, or feet; which dcyclopes ulcers In tho
eyes, ears, or nose, often causing blindness or
deafness; which Is tho origin Of plmplcs, can.
cerous growths, or tho many other manifesto
lions usually ascrlbcd 10 "humors;" which,
fastening upon the lungs, causes consumption
and death. Being tho most ancient, 1t Is tho
most general Of all diseases or affections, for
very few persons arc entirely FREQ from 1t.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-03-10

ANY grocer in this city can sell you
Electric Light Flour. W. Il :
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-03-10

srolzENpAcu's White Satin Soda Bis.
cults are fine. Try them. 35
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-03-10

USE Electric Light Flour and you " i'll
buy no other. MwIr Z
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-03-10
Thermometer Record.

The thermometer at schnepps drug
store, Opera House corner, Saturday,
Registered as follows: =
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-03-10

VAN HourEN's CocoA-The original,
most soluble. Il :
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-03-10
st. Patrick's nay nj Plttsburrh.

7, ELECTRIC L1anr Flour SURPRISES any
tang IN the flour line you, can buy,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-03-10
81 tbs Finest, ~
Stolzenbach's Lunch Biscuit

owlSo 70 the fact that, we expect to
move on April !, we will close out a
large assortment Of new and shop worn
sewing machines, Bicycles and : type.
writer's. Intending to devote our aften.
ton exclusively to the Standard and
White geying Machines, Calagrapb
World and Merritt Typewriters and q
few makes Of bicycles. GONE early sud
secure bargains. III -
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-03-10

EACH barrel or sack Of Electric Light
Flour is guaranteed to please. ~
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-03-10
How y C. Ca" CURED


by taking Hoods Sarsaparllla, which, by
tho remarkable cures 1t has accomplished.
often when other medicines have failed, has
proven itself to DO potent and peculiar
medicine for this disease. Some Of these
cures arc really wonderful. II you suffer from
scrotula, DO sure to try Hoods sarsaparllla.
"My daughter Mary was afflicted with scrof-
ulous sore neck from the time she was 22months
old till she became SIX years Of age. Lumps
formed in her neck, and one OF them after
growing to the size OF a pigeons egg, became
running soro for over three years. We gave
her Hoods Sarsaparilla, when tho lump and
all indications Of scrofula entirely dis
appeared, and now she seems to DO healthy
child" US. CARL1LE, Naurlght, NJ.
NIB. Be sure to get only
Hoods Sarsaparilla
soldby all druggists. 81; slxforss rzopazedonly
by c. I. HOOD & CO.. Aposhscaries. Lowell. Mans.
100 Doses One Dollar
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-03-10

On, how can fair maiden smi)c md bc INV.
lie lovely and loving and dear, 20 90 =
AS sweet as a rose and as brjpht AZ thu Mnv, ].
When her liver Il all ont of rcor2 -
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-03-10

: Admission IS and 0ccnts. Reserved seats 81 %.
sale OF seats commences on Wednesday, March
". al Q. A. HOUSES Music store. M,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-03-10
No trouble 70 get good bread from
Electric LIGHT Flour. = s}f,7ll!l s5,TlG' :

2. = =
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-03-10

EDw. L. Rose & Co.,
b Twelfth street,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-09-03
A Story of Joseph Jefferson.

Joseph Jefferson relates in the Cen
tat7,y the following concerning a Lon
don experience of his: My approach
ing appearance was the important
dramatic event of my life. had been
five years from America and was on
my way home, and felt satisfied that
if this new version of Rip Van Winkle'
succeeded in London my way was quite
clear when / returned to the United
States.
ION Sunday evening, being alone in
my lodging, got out for my own adj
miration my new wig and beard, the
pride of my heart, and which was to
use in the last act. l could not resist
trying them on for the twentieth time,
think; so 1 got in front of the glass
and adjusted them to my perfect salts
faction. I soon became enthused, and
began acting and posing in front of
the mirror. In about twenty minutes
there came knock at the door.
s'Who's thereP' said 1.
"1t's me, if you please said the
gentle but agitated voice of the cham
bernaid. May l come imp
"Certainly not 1 replied; for had
no desire to be seen in my present
makeup.
els there anything wrong in the
room, sir?' said she.
Nothing at all. Go away re-
piled.
''Well, SIR she continued, there's
policeman at the door, and he says as
'ow there's a crazy old man in your
room, a-fingin' of his 'arnds about and
a-goin' on lawful, and there's crowd
of people across the street a-blockin'
up the way
81 turned toward the window, and
to my horror found that I had for
gotten to put down the curtain, and,
as it seemed to me, the entire popula-
ton of London was taking in my first
night. had been unconsciously act
ing with the lights full up, to an as
tonished audience who had not paid
for their admission. As I tore off my
wig and beard shout went up. Quick
ly pulling down the curtain, I threw
myself in chair, overcome with morti-
fication at the occurrence. In a few
minutes the comical side of the picture
presented itself, and l must have
laughed for an hour. / had been suf-
fering from an attack of nervous dys-
pepsia, consequent upon the excite
ment of the past week, and l firmly be-
lieve that this continuous fit of laughter
cured me.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-09-03
A Taste of Kentucky Blue-Grass.

In the course of the ten days that
followed the last ten days of May, I
had an opportunity to taste it pretty
we'll, and my mind has had a grassy
flavor ever since. / had an opportuni-
ty to see this restless and fitful Amer
can nature of ours in a more equable
and benefcent mood than had ever
before seen it in; all its savageness
and acridness gone, no thought now
but submission to the hand and wants
of man. l afterward saw the prairie
of Illinois, and the vast level stretches
of farming country of northern Ohio
and Indiana, but these lands were no
where quite so human, quite SO beau
tiful, or quite so productive as the
blue-gra region. One likes to see
the earth's surface lifted up and un-
dulating a little. as if it heaved and
swelled with emotion; it suggests more
life, and at the same time that the
sense of repose is greater. There is
no repose in a prairie; it is stagnation,
it is dead level. Those immense
stretches of flat land pain the eye, as
if all life and expression had gone
from the face of earth. There is just un-
evenness enough in the bluegrass re-
gion to give nobility and variety to the
landscape. From almost any given
point one commands broad and ex-
tensive views-immense fields of wheat
or barley, or corn or hemp or grass or
clover, or of woodland pastures.
| BIIrrouQhS an Century.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-09-03
MONOPOLY OF GRIEF.
Pointed and Impressive Instructions Laid
Down by the Chief MourneF.

The colored people in small town
in Georgia had gathered at their church
to hold funeral services over the re-
mains of a woman who had died a
couple of days before, says the Chatta-
nooga Times, and the ceremonies were
about to begin when the bereaved hus-
band, who was large, corpulent man,
beckoned to one of the men standing
in the vestibule to follow him to the
horse shed in the rear of the chrch.
When they arrived there the bereaVed
turned on him with:
See heah, Moses. vents an under
standing wild yo' befo' dis funeral goes
any furder."
stWhat is it, Julius?" asked the other.
Las week, when we buried Henry
Carter's wife. yo' was right at hand.
Yo' crowded yo'self up to de front.
When de weepin' begun yo' set yo'seli
to work an moaned an took on until
Henry hadn't no show tall. Some Of
de white folks reckoned yo' was de be-
reaved yo'self.
81 dun couldn't help it, Julius"
"Yo' couldn't? Well. now let me
give yo' pinter. Lucinda was my
wife an nobody else's. She libed wild
me an died wild me, an Use got to foo
all de 'spenses. Now. den, when dt
sadness begins rze No. l from star
to finish. rze de bereaved, while yo
is only an outsider who feels sad
cause rze left all alone in dis colo
world If yo' go to takin' on like 20
did last week, 1'ze gwine ter forgit m,
great loss jist long 'nuff to turn arounC
an gin yo' such lift under the ear da
| you'll reckon yo' is the subject of th'
funeral Do yo' ha'r me, Moses?"
| Il does"
'Den cum along, an recommends
what rze been saying. Better take
seat in de back row an hole yo'sel
down, for at the VERY fust whoop o
sorrow rze gwine to light on yo' wild
fo'ce offo'teen hoss power"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-09-03
How Nero Disposed of Rivals.

Britannicus, his brother by adoption,
& boy of Ia, is in the way; he is poison
ed, thanks to Locusta's art, at dinner
given by Nero. Suetonius records the
popular belief that the motive to the
crime was no less a professional jeal-
ousy of his voice than a political fear
of his ambition. The first dose only
made the boy very sick, whereupon
Nero sent for Locusta and chastised
her with his own hand. She excused
herself; stronger dose would have
been quicker method certainly, but a
more public. LAS if" replied Nero,
'the Julian law had terrors for me-"
and compelled her there and then to
concoct the strongest and most effect
ual mixture she knew. This was
offered to goat; the goat lived five
hours to their great disappointment.
But when draught was produced by
their joint efforts which proved the in
slant destruction of pig, then an in
vitation was sent to Britannicus. He
fell dead at the first monthful. THAT
epilepsy has carried him off at last"
said Nero, and no one contradicted
him.
These were strange doings for a
model young Emperor: but of course
Seneca, the Stole, knew of them; there
was no cause for alarm. His young
pupil does not poison only; he dances,
he sings (and that execrable) he pro-
duces elaborate euphunistic verse, he
drives chariots. Strange and new as
1t was, what did it matter to the popu-
lace? No more than the murders of
Agrippina and Octavia, mother and
half-sister, since they eoincided with
schemes for remitting the public taxes.
There is no sudden frenzy to account
for the growth of crime within Nero;
all is orderly, progressive. a conscious
rake's progress, from the good young
emperor to the crowned victor Of
Olympia among his claqueurs. Itmay
seem strangely perverse that Nero
should have been loved, lamented,
adored. He killed his mother, he
killed men by companies; he even.
writes Juvenal, composed an epic
poem-yet he was not loathed nor an
object of repulsion.
Great criminals are mainly admired
as great, aspiring, possessed, Nero, who
was none of these, was not admired,
but loved. Even now," says Dion
ChrYsostom.- writing in the time of
Trajan, "even now the people long for
him to be alive" And women, who
could not have given themselves up to
the vulgar brutalities of Tiberius,
clung with real love to Nero. Poppaa,
whom Josephus calls a devotee, a re-
fined nature, with delicate inclina-
ton toward Jewish piety; Acte, whom
some have thought Christian, Nero's
first love, and loving him past death;
the two nurses who prepared his body
for burial; the unknown hands that for
years threw flowers on his tomb-all
these loved him with varying but with
evident tlove.-Maenailia1s, Mdqazine.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-09-03
The Modern Need for Sleep.

There is not one man or woman in
ten thousand who can afford to do
without seven or eight hours sleep.
All those stories written about great
men and women who slept only three
or four hours night make very inter-
esting reading; but l tell you, my read
ers, no man or woman ever yet kept
healthy in body and mind for num-
Der of years with less than seven hours
sleep. Americans need more sleep
than they are getting. This lack makes
them so nervous and the insane asy-
lums so populous. If you can get to
bed early, then rise early. If you can
not get to bed till late, then rise late.
1t may be as Christian for one man to
rise at eight as it is for another to rise
at five. counsel my readers to get
up when they are rested. But let the
rousing-bell be rung at least thirty
minutes before your public appear
ance. Physicians say that a sudden
Jump out of bed gives irregular mo-
ton to the pulse. 1t takes hours to
get over a too sudden rising. Give
us time, after you call us, to roll over,
gaze at the world full in the face, and
look before we leap.-T De Wit Tai
mage, in LADIES' Home Journal
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-09-03

Now, how could you have seen and
talked with Jack Long, when he has
been dead for over year?"
1t was my turn to look astonished,
and l could not do much else for some
time.
''On what day of the month did you
say you saw him?" he asked.
"On the tenth of August. replied.
Just year from the day he was
killed." he remarked.
What does it mean?" asked. THE
man who awoke me and led me over
the mountain was as much flesh, bone,
and blood as either you or l, and he
said his name was Jack Long. He
was short, square-shouldered man,
and when speaking his voice was not
much stronger than woman's."
THAT was Jack, all over; but how
could it be?n he added, in the same
breath, and l thought he looked at me
suspiciously.
my friend" said I, you can an
swer that question as well as 1; but
there is this about it, / never saw
Jack Long nor heard of him until the
tenth of this month. I have been work
ing with the same engineer for the last
two years. and last summer we were
working in Missouri. and only came
out here in June. Now all you have
to do to learn if / am telling the truth
is to go and question him. What OBJ
ject could l have in showing you sill
yer mine, when there are boys in our
own company who would have been
too glad to have bought an interest in
such prospect If you are afraid to
go alone with me, take some one with
you. No, should not have come to
Laguna to give you half interest in
the find if l had not promised Jack
Long I would do so. Now, if you
want to 90 and see whether l can
prove my part of the story, well and
good; if not say so, and l will take
some of my friends and 90, for know
where it is and am going to claim that
mine"
1--WE will start tomorrow morning, :"
he replied, you and /. I have horses,
and everything we need. Come over
to my cabin and we will get ready for
the trip"
We arrived at the foot of the noun
tain about noon, and after eating our
dinner we started to make the ascent.
4c1G ucINOuS duu e4Clu6u, DuG was
confident could go to the place. I
soon found the trail and went to the
top, and down the other side to the
canon, then to the right, and there was
the bowlder. Beyond this. few feet,
must be the ledge.
A cold sweat bathed every part of
my body. Suppose there should be no
mineral? | never halted until reach
ed the same spot on which stood with
Long, and where he had bid me good
night. l looked on the ground at my
feet; there was the mineral. I looked
to my right, there was the ledge, with
the wire silver in sight. I turned to
my companion, saying:
"Now, what do you think?"
He was as white as chalk, and his
voice trembled as he uttered the one
worn:
"GhOSt"
We sold the property to a company
for enough to make us both indepen-
dent. Now who, or what was it that
took me to the ledge?"-W W Cart
aer, IN n. Y. Weekly.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-09-03
RAvENNA, O., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER g. 1890
A HIBERNlAN LOVE SONG.
"That Little Irish CailIn in Her Ould
Plaid Shawl"

Not far from ould Kinvara, in the merry
month of May,
When the birds were singing cheerily, there
came across my way,
As if from out the sky above an angel CHANGED
A little Irish Cailin in an ould plaid shawl.
I courteously saluted her-"God save you,
miss" says l;
shyly passed me by.
Off went my heart along with her, captive in
her thrall,
Imprisoned In the corner of her ould plaid
shawl.
I've heard of highway robbers that with
pistols and with knives
Made trembling travellers yield them up their
money or their lives,
But think of me that handed out my heart
and head and all
To simple little Cailin in an ould plaid
shawl.
Oh, some men sigh for riches, and some men
live for fame,
And some on history's pages hope to win
glorious name;
My aims are not ambitious, and my wishes
are but small
You might wrap them all together in an ould
plaid shawl.
I'll seek her all through Galway, and I'll seek
her all through Clare,
I'll search for tale or tidings of my traveller
everywhere;
For peace of mind I'll never find until my
That little Irish Caflin in her ould plaid
shawl,
Frank A, Faby.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-09-03

PROGRAMME

TUESDAY-Makng entries and arranging articles
for exhibition. The members of the Board will the Secre-
ary's office o'clock a. each day of the Fair.
WEDNESDAY-Ge exhibition of Horses,
Cattle Sheep Hogs and Poultry. Committees will begin the
animation Stock All school children the Coun-
under of will be admitted the grounds fee if
accompanied by Teachers Directors Trong o'clock
THURSDAY-Exami of all Stock compile
ted before o'clock p. Troing p.
FR1DAY-Band Parade of all Premium Stock at
O'clock sharp. Exhibitors prompt having all Stock
ready for parade. Trottng a I p m.
LAFAY ETTE SMITH, Secretary.
G. GARDNER, President.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-09-03
Murat on the Watermelon.

Murat Halstead concludes a brief
dissertation on the Georgia water
melon in the following words: The
Georgians say, and it is discouraging.
that the best melons grown in the state
are so fragile they can not be trans
ported, and that those who would en-
Joy the top flowers of this wonderful
product of the sun and sand must go
where the exquisite spheres glisten
among the dewy leaves of the gener-
GUS vines whose marvellous distillment
of sweetness is the dainty distinction
of a favored land"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-09-03
Caricatures of Southern Negroes.

1t is not often that there is any dis
pute as to the habits of the southern
negroes. We see them on the minstrel
stage in strange and uncouth garbs,
and we hear them playing on the banjo
and bones. All this is the purest fancy,
and it would be the widest imagina-
ton if it had not been sanctified by the
drunken craziness of circus perform
ers of the old Bob Ridley stripe. Think,
for instance, of a southern negro 60
ing around and proelaiming himself to
be old Bob Ridley or Jim Crow. Did
anybody ever see southern negro,
slave or free, going around the coun-
try with calico coat and buttons as
big as a wash-tub. with banjo on his
back and singing songs written by a
white man?
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-09-03

Cincinnati daily manufactures go, 600
pounds of shot.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-10-11
FRESH ETYMoLoeIcAL FACTS.

THE word honeymoon" is derived
from the German, and has its signif-
canoe from the fact that the Germans
formerly drank mead-a sweet liquid
made of honey-for thirty days after
the wedding.
The namo Johnny cake"i is said to be
derived from tourney cake" because
emigrants journeying from New En-
gland to the West we're obliged to bake
their Indian meal cakes In the ashes OF
their camp fires.
SOME religious journals are printing a
paragraph to the effect that the late
Prof. Hitchcock, Of this city, held that
tobacco was known to the ancients and
that Its name was derived from Bacchus,
the god of wine, says the New York
Tribune. Tho weed was offered to Bac-
chus as 8 votive Offering. and as the
dative case of Bacchus In Greek is ITO
Baccho," the narcotic gradually got
that name. OF course any scholar will
at once see that DIR. Hitchcock was too
good Grecian to have fathered such nm
absurd etymology AS matter OF fact
tho late President Hitchcock, of Am
herst, made the suggestion In question
as bit OF pleasantly in humorous
book which he once published.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-10-11
NEW .NAvAr, vEssnr,s.

Contracts Awarded for Four BIore-The
Vastly Interior Naval Strength of the
Unitcd States.
The award Of contracts for the con.
struction Of three new battle ships and
q cruiser last week gives evidence oil
promptness In carrying out the laws for
increasing the effectiveness of the navy.
Two OF the battle ships and the cruiser
are to be constructed by the Cramps,
of Philadelphia-the lowest bidders
and tho third battle ship is to be
built on the Pacific Coast. The
big vessels are to cost little over
S3, 900 each, and the cruiser about
SO, $50, 900. With these four new ships
the United States will have five battle
ships and ten cruisers we'll armored to-
gether with thirty-one unarmored ves-
sells. The inferior position of the United
States as a naval powor will still be
very marked, notwithstanding the
liberality of Congress. Even China is
ahead of us In this respect, and such
countries as Austria, Norway, Sweden,
Turkey, Holland, Spain and Italy,
have much larger snavies than the
United States. England has 76
armored and 2o1 unarmored ships.
France 81 armored and 203 unarmored,
Russia 40 armored and 119 unarmoured,
and Germany 40 armoured and 119 un-
armoured. When the new American
ships are built there will be a demand
for more sailors to man them. It's esti-
mated that 9, 600 additional seamen will
be required before half the number Of
vessels under way are constructed. The
present strength of the naval establish
mont is 10000 men, which at present
gives only about three-quarter crew
for the ships in commission, and the
Secretary of the Navy will be obliged,
during the next session, to ask Congress
for relief. There is no doubt that an
act will be passed to increase the num-
ber of enlisted men for the new navy.