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The Globe-republican., 1890-01-01
BLOWING OUT THE GAS.

Sea Captains Who Can Not Understand tho
Great illumination.
The number Of people who are yet I'M
acquainted with the use of gas as an
illumination is something astonishing"
remarked we'll known downtown boni-
face recently. "You probably imagine"
he continued, ''that most of the ignorant
ones come from the country, and many
of them do, but not all by long chalk.
Among seafaring people the propensity
to blow out the gas, instead of turning
it off, is often found. l was once pro-
prietor of hotel very largely patron
lied by sea captains, and 1 had to watch
them like children or they would suffO-
cate themselves the very first chance
they got.
81 remember on one occasion Nova
Scotian skipper pretty well-to-do came
down to New York with his wife to look
around. They stopped with me, and
the morning after their arrival one of
the chambermaids reported a gas leak.
1t was traced to the room of the Nova
Scotians. We found the shippers wife
just gasping, and she was carried out
barely in time to save her life. Her
husband had gone out When she came
to she remarked: Il declare now! l
thought suthin' in that room smelled
awful queer, and l told John to light
match and see what twas. He said he
couldn't smell nothing, and went off to
thought it was kerosene lie in them
pipes
at is needless to say that was thank
full that John didn't light that match"
continued the landlord.
"On another occasion 1 was just about
to leave the hotel Office when an old sea
captain rushed up to the desk in a very
excited state. Say said he, 'thar's
somethin' dead in that room you gave
me. 1t smells like all possessed, and
can't find it neither. can't sleep there
and l won't
"He had turned off the gas and then
turned it on again.
"Once when going by the room occu-
pied by a couple of Dutch shippers I
heard one of them say: Vel! vel! dots
a funny lamp. She Won't blow oudtr
40eu IOllOWeu UlOW1uS anu puuiHB
and a noise which sounded as though a
scuffle was going on.
''They opened the door when l knock
ed, and there stood one Of the captains
about ready to seek repose, but with an
old felt hat in his hand with which he
was theoretically cutting the gas jet,
hoping to extinguish it. His astonish-
ment at his non-success was comical, but
when 1 told him what might have re-
suited had he been successful his dis
gust was succeeded by the most abiect
terror. do not think ever saw a more
thoroughly scared man-and he had COM
manded q Dutch ship for twenty years
and had been in some of the worst hur-
ricanes on the ocean. Human nature is
nneer isn't it2r-N Y Herald
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lMPENETRABlE FOG.
In It Lies the Greatest Danger to Ocean
Navigators.


The source of the greatest peril to all
ships crossing the Atlantic. and that
most dreaded by all commanders, is fog.
The speed and size of the large steam
ers in the hands of competent and vigil
liant men are conducive in many in
stances to their safety; and were it not
for this bette noire of the sea, ocean trav-
elers would have little to fear.
The Importance of a code of marine
signals, simple in its arrangements for
use in foggy weather, can not be too
strongly advocated. A commander
standing upon the bridge, his ship en-
veloped in dense mass of impenetrable
vapor. has but his sense of hearing to
depend upon, and can be guided only by
that. He stands at his post, every nerve
drawn to its highest tension, listening
for sounds that for hours do not reach
him. At last, from a distance faint
whistle is borne on the ear, and he is
then instantly on the alert.
He strains his ear to locate the sound,
for the fog is so dense that he can not
see twenty yards away. Is she a slower
steamship than his own that he is over
taking, or is it one that he is meeting?
There is nothing in that one blast to
give him any information and he can
only wait and listen. He sounds his
steamers whistle once or twice, accord
ing as he ports or starboards his helm,
and awaits the answering signal. Moth
ing reaches his ear but the one blast at
short intervals. He can only rely on
his Judgment, and, reducing the speed,
keep on the course he has selected.
The sound becomes clearer. The I'M
known ship is approaching, and he real
ICES that she is drawing nearer and near
er; so near that his heart is beating rap
idly, and he almost holds his breath in
the intensity of his anxiety. A dark
shadowy form passes so close by to him
that for a moment his blood runs cold,
and every pulsation ceases; but the dan
ger is over. She has disappeared in the
fog, and he can breathe again, for his
ship and all on board are safe.
This is but one Of the thousands of
hairbreadth escapes that have occurred
on the ocean which have never been re-
corded and which will never be known.
Captain Kennedy, in North American
Review
The Globe-republican., 1890-01-01
ACustom That was Pretty.

A Randolph street undertaken: don't
know whether you remember it or not.
but there used to be a custom in vogue
which was pretty one, and wonder
why it hasn't been revived. When
a child died plate, bear
ing its name and age, was
prepared and placed upon the coffin, just
as is the custom now. After the service
was over, the plate was removed and
siven to the mother, who kept 1t - ,
sacred keepsake. know > lady Who
has one which was taken from the cot
An Of her child She has had Il mounted
psst*il1 .nd 49, = - . Ie2c<uoiGh4-
- gfno1oL IA 3. =: z s. &
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1udI udU Uccu IL luS Udy IOE JAMIE.
She had helped her mother with the
baking and her father with the barn
decoration. She had ridden twice into
the village for some forgotten ingredient
needed for the mysterious processes GO
ing on in the big, sweet pantry, and.
worse than all the rest, Adolphus Com
stock had proposed to her in the little
parlor, where she sat polishing the scar
let apples for the supper. 1t was all so
sudden, and every thing was in such
fiutter that she didn't know what she
had told him, but was dimly conscious
of turning away her face when he would
have kissed her, and faltering out some
thing about her giving him the kiss
some time when she was sure she could
be all to him that he asked her to be.
jamie was horribly afraid that night
as she thought it all over. while she
braided her long, glossy hair into cor
onent for her graceful little head, that
she had half promised to marry two
men, and the worst of it was she didn't
quite know which one she did care most
for. 1t was too bad of Harrison to say
what he did when she had SO much to do
and no time to think it out at all, and
after she had had one proposal.
But already the people were coming,
and there was no time to think then, 90
she few into dark blue gingham dress,
with broad collar turned back from
her soft, white throat, and knotted with
scarlet ribbons, tied red apron about
her trim waist. and tripped lightly
down the stairs and through tho noon
light to the barn, wheee Ghe xlet H
le1es>s nil ) 1lefsys I'll o. NJ -
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-08-28

Congressman Henry Cabot Lodge, OF
Massachusetts, in his speech ut Port.
land, Me-, took up the cry OF troops at
the polls under the proposed Federal
election law. There are $1,000 polling
places in the country and $1,000 United
States soldiers, five.sevenths OF a soldier
and as much Of n bGyonet to each poll.
Added to this horrible state Of things
Gve.eevenths Of a bayonet and all, the
law is to be operative only where it is
asked for. Major Mckinley, his speech
before the convention which honored
itself by rominatingbim by reclamation,
declared the bill to be an anti-force bill,
intended to prevent force at elections,
The fact is that not e single honest AMI
valid objection can be urged against the
object Of the bill. There may be an OBJ
lection on the ground hat Southern
Democrats will not permit the law 10 be
enforced where they are in control, al.
though nobody would doubt that il
could DO enforced in West Virginia,
Pennsylvania or New York.
l. will DO time enough to meet this
argument when it presents itself in the
practical form so boldly threatened.
Andrew Jackson met with something Of
that sort in his day.
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contemporary -IicttcT. If. Eap.i t"f'
The physician should be n strong and
healthy man, n master OF his profession,
OF course, aud agentlemar'; the last word
implying gentle manners and fine sense
OF honor. His approach TO the sick chan i.
Der should be like Footsteps upon wool"
and his presence therein a beuediction.
Strong in his knowledge, firm but gentle
even TO- womanliness in his touch, mag.
netic in his sympathies, discreet OF
speech, sincere in'counsel, he would al.
ways inspire not only the relatives but
the patient with confidence and graft
tude. I'll the case was not serious the
loss OF prospective fees&would not pre.
vent his mingling his. sincere pleasure
with that OF the relatives; if twere past
hope hissympathy would make the terri.
bic ailliction easier to bear. Would it be
impertinent 10 ask how many American
members Of 3 noble profession satisfy
these requirements The medical pro.
fession in America abouuds with com.
pelent and honorable men satisfying
some Of them. Some have the knowl.
edge and experience without the more
graceful qualities. Others have the
social accomplishments without the sci.
entiiic requirements. 1t is better to
have honesty and ability united, even
with q degree Of rudences, than to have
all the social Cruces in the world without
the necessary skill. A,doctor may be a
bear in manners, yet, II he keeps death
from the door, his attentions cannot
only be tolerated, but gratefully &C.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-08-28
TnE AMERICAN yoNAD.
No Inducements Offered II Sian to stay Mt

No Inducements Offered u Dian 10 stay nj
Home.
Stribnr's Ndoa,ine. |
A curious outgrowth Of tho rivalrieH
OF American cities Is the practice that
obtains go generally Of offering bonuses
and pecuniary inducements TO manu-.
facturcrs to iDovo their plants. Alter a
FIRE that burned down n part Of a sewing
machine factory the other,day the own.
ers received so many proposals from as'
piring cities that wanted to take them In
that they were Obliged 10 publish a no.
ticc to tile effect that only q small part
OF their works had been burned, and
that they were not open 10 proposals for
adoption. Any factory or established
business employing labor can have
its choice nowadays from y long list
o! cities, new and old, any Of which will
give II a site for r factory, pay the ex-
penses Of moving, and perhaps contrib.
uto substantially toward the construc-
lion of a new building. People who
own land or are engaged in business In
cities realize that II pays them to have
their cities grow, md they are willing
to hire desirable Inhabitants to come TO
them. They rely upon getting their
money back In the increased velue OF
land or the general increase in business.
The result is that the migratory dis
position already 30 pronounced in these
days Is intensified, and 1t has become n
familiar thing not merely for indiyid-
uals 10 moyu but for great aggregations
of workingmcn to shift the sceno Of their
activities from one city to another, come.
times thousands OF miles away.
Time was when where the average
man found himself living there he con.
tinued to live, unless circumstances OF
exceptional urgency impellcd him to
change his residence. 1t In different
now. Transportation has become 80
cheap, and travel so easy, that the ties
OF locality cit very light on the average
American, and the fact that you will
find him settled this year in New York
or Pennsylvania affords you a very IN.
certain basis for expecting to find him
next year inthe same place. When you
hear OF him again, II he'hasn't moved to
Texas, or Tacoma, or Southern Caliior.
MIA, or Maine, or North Dakota, you
feel that he must have had some excep-
~tionally good reasons for staying at
home. Men used to wag their h-sds
and croak about the inability Of rolling
stones to gather mess. We have changed
all TINT. Moss 10 at adiscount and there
is q premium upon rolling.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-08-28
Liquors In tho Capitol.

Ner l0fE H0rtd. .h||.s .a "
Senator Plumb's movement against
the Understandable selling Of liquor in
the Capital il commendab!c. There is
altogether too much joviality in that
building. But all the enseemly rioting
which goes on there is not confined 10
restaurants in the Senate and House
wings OF the Capitol. II there is beer
sold over the counter, there is whisky in
the Bideboards OF the committee rooms.
Then there arc the elaborate breakfasts
which have recently grown into fashion
and at which there is altogether more
champagne drunk than is compatible
with the proper transaction CT business.
We are sure that no n wishes to reg.
ulate the morals or habits OF Congress.
men nor to restrain their conduct by
sumptuary rules, but the people have
the right TO ask their Legislators to ON.
duct themselves in a g%entlemanly way.
Gentlemen do not drink whisky in their
business Offices, aud committee rooms
are nothing o no less than business
offices. People with = proper regard for
their dignity do not permit their conf.
dental clerks to keep liquor in the oil.
Gee. Yet committee clerks often keep
liqnor in the Capitol, and sometimes
have g supply for the chairman. Per.
haps the Senate ought not to intrude
into the committee rooms, but it has a
perfect right to insist that the restaurant
shall not be turned into a barroom, and
that there shall be no drinking for the
sake Of drinking in the public places OF
the Capitol.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-08-28
a Female Justice In Wyoming.

SPOKANE Spokesman. a G. -..F-r
The admission OF Wyoming 10 Stale.
hood recalls the pioneeradaYs Of woman
office holding in hat unique civilization.
Eester Morris was the first woman ap.
pointed a justice of the peace in tic
United StateB. In those rough pioneer
Times the bowie-kniie and pistol ufteuer
settled disputes than did a court Of Jus.
tice. Mrs. Morris was a tall, Elizabeth.
ian type OF woman, with as rugged fea.
lures and as brusque n method o fexpres.
sion as has been ascribed to the English
queen. Her frat case in q Wyoming
court concerned u quarrel between two
young men, who we're brought before her
armed with bowie.knives and pistols.
She had known them since boyhood,
aud in spite OF the fact that a scene had
been expected on their first appearance,
4 few words OF. motherly advice to those
who had known her kindness, and a ma.
tive little mother wit carried tho day,
After thut there was no more trouble.
She was n particular ..terrorn' to q, Ger.
tain class Of evil doors. Men who had
been arrested TOR beating their wives or
for general drunken disturbances of the
pence invariably pleaded not TO be
brought up before "Oid Judge Norris
They wanted to be tried by men. r.q
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Democratic dream OF IA white mans
Government can be realized both oil
these instruments will have to be revised
and the equality Of all men before the
law revised out Of them. y
II this can be done 1t will DO better
than 10 revise colored voters out OF the
voting after they have voted, as was late.
iy done By the Legislature Of West Viz
ginia in respect OF colored voters In the
Third Congressional district OF West Vir'
ginia; as Is habitualiy done by tho same
party In the cotton States.
The demand for n white mans Gov
eminent" hath m ancient and u planta'
tion.like nmell.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-08-28
WHEELING, AUGUST %, 1890.
REPUBLICAN, TICKET.

Election, Tuesday. November 4
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As between the Health Officer and the
Council Committee on Health the pub.
lie is obliged to take sides with the
Health Officer. On that side lies tho
public interest, for it is the Health Off.
Ger, not tho Health Committee, that Is
trying to do something in a sanitary
way for the city. His way! or his per.
sonality may be eaensivo 10 tho men,
bers OF the Health Committee. This
concerns the people less than that
their lives shall be protected by all the
means the Health Officer can command.
1t is Il mistake to place aphysician ut
the head OF the Health Committee, for
it is mex. to Impossible to find two
physicians who will let slip SO good an
opportunity to get into a row. The
Chairman OF the Health Committee
should be an intelligent layman, and the
broader the man the better.
What the people want is the exercise
Of all the city's power to preserve the
health and protect tile lives OF tho
people. Id
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-08-28
Must 10 White and Anr,o.s,uon,

The Third District Congressional con,
vention, which re.nomina;ed Mr.. J. D
Anderson, was presided over by Mr.. W,
A. McCorckle, an accomplished lawyer
Of Kanawha. According to the Rtgist,
Mr.. McCorckle,' in addressing the con,
vention, said: LET US fight for the
Anglo.Saxon race and leave a rich herr,
taSe 10 our children. Let us have .
white mans Government"
A political fight in this country 70,
the Anglo.saxon race alone is not worthy
OF a great party. Many tens Of thous.
ands Of Americun citizens Of white skin
are not Of that rece. The Register says
that "Mr. McCorcklew was loudly chcercd.r
The men who did tho cheering did not
realizs that they were giving their ap.
proval tor sentiment directly opposed to
tho spirit and the letter Of tho Constitu.
ton Of their own State and the. Consti.
tuition Of the United States. Before the
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-08-28

"Say, Cashem," said honest old Heze,
kiah Plowehare to the cashier Of the
Jaytown National bank. II want to send
$500 to my boy over in Paris"
"Titian ?" asked CaslIem. "He's get.
ting 10 be u great painter, isn't he? Hs's
been studying art now a long time"
"Gosh, yes" replied lIezekiah. "He's
climbing way up to the top. Wrote me
the other day he had painted the hull
OF Paris an wanted to begin on Rome.
Says he'll make them Romans howl
when he shows 'em what he kin do,
That's why Pm sendin' him the stuff.
Pm mighty proud Of that boy OF mine,
kin tell you"
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-08-28

The Chicago Tribune cleyerly sums up
the Congressional situation SO far ns It
touches the Democratic party:
Tho prompt acQulesccncc OF the Democrats ~
q proposition to eIpsdi'o Tho passage OF q tariiI
bill which they have bccn dcnouncing rs hope
lcssly bad was dine Of course TO tho fact that u
mcRns the shelving Of the National Election hill
for the present. session. Had the Republicans
insisted, rs they should, oil taking up the Elec.
| ton bill before adjournment and not having II
exposed to tie chances Of tho short session the
| uemac,atS would have talked terlG to the Gay OF
doom. As II Ia, they will probably have little
more to ray on tho subject. Their course shows
that the tariff Il II matter Of little consequences
with them as compared With the political nd
yant~et Of holding . numset OF seats III the
House now secured by fraud and which they
hope N retain by the same methods. SO insln'
c-fu me they IN their economic creed that they
would probably vote for the Mckinley bill II II
wete tue only way In which the passage Of .he
National Election bill and the prevention Of
tho frauds they rrnilt by could he hlndcrcd. y
inurc unprincipled party never existed.
This Ii tart but altogether true. And
why isthe Democratic party willing to
sacrifice anything and everything II
only it can defeat the election bill2 The
answer Is easy. The abuses agains,
which that bill is directed are the life o.
tho Democratic party.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-08-28

A METHODIST minister in New York
State has been locked out by his congle-
CATION because he is a base ball enthusi-
ast and smokes cigarettes. 1t is a fair
suspicion that base boil had not much:o
do with the affair. The cigarette YVES
the key that locked the door. The
cigarette has n ine capacity for getting
people into trouble. Some times it kills.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-08-28
Count that day lost trhose Aop descending sun
likIrs frnm thu hrun m IrnrlLu nctEou .Luuc u

'TtU0 lTOW NY UNH no UVItHY dc1I0N UoUe.T
For r%enovatipg the system, eliminat,
ing all poisons IRON the blood, whether
OF Scrofulous or Malarial origin, S. S. S.
has won the name OF "Goiten Liquid
10 woman it imparts freshness Of com
plexion, beauty OF form, and elasticity o.
step. This is the long record OF a purely
vegetable remedy whosc fame is wide
spread over two continents, which has
retained its popularity forever bali aeon.
fury, ils demand increasing at home, and
orders coming for it where the English
tongue, is never spoken. .L 4Sa
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-08-28

on September 0 the Directors will be-
gin to try to find out, and keep on try
ing until they DO find out, whether they
can find in or near Chicago d site for
Worlds Fair. II all these proceedings
could have been ioreseen Chicago would
not now be disturbed by this question.
New York would have been allowed the
honor Of the worry.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-08-28

SECOND DISTRICT DEMOCRATS have re-
nominated Il clean man, a scholar and Q
rank Free Trader. 1.-THE people OF thal
district like Mr.. Wilson's views enc
votes they cannot DO better than to keeT
him in Congress indefinitely.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-08-28

WELL, what are Fint District Repub.
licans waiting for?' They should have
their convention and nominate thcit
man. II the Democrats think it un.
necessary 10 nominate this year that
need not bother the other side. Wheel.
ing would be glad 10 have the conyen.
ton. Moundsville is understood 10 be
erger for it. Wheeling would not be
knocked ont Of couateuance if the con.
vention were called for Mounlsville or
any other accessible place.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-08-28

TIE crooked financial operations o!
Baron Laugerfelt, long a resident oil
Pittsburgh, will occaaion nc more sur.
prise anywhere than in the city where
he was go well known. He has been re.
garded ms a business man OF capacity
and character. A stock certificate otfer'
cd by him wss naturally accepted with
out question, for his integrity was un-
questioned. Why be has done this
thing remains to be explained. ~
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-08-28

Z. WILLIS WILSON was a figure in the
Legislature when J. D. Anderson wa
mail and banking page. He was Gov
ernor when Anderson was Clerk .ci
the State Senate. Ile seemed to be
n power when Anderson VIVA lucky
10 get some Of the crumbs. Now Alder
son can get o nomination for Congress
and Wilson can't. Shades Of the mighty
How they vanish!
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-08-28

CALVIN 5. BRlCE's State convention
was as smooth rs machine politics could
makeit. Brice has n wonderful hold on
the Democracy OF Ohio, seeing that he is
not a resident Of that State. He crap
plea the faithful 10 him with hooks OF
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-08-28

TulEp District Democrats speak o.
zone Reed" by that came token mean
ing the capable and nervy Speaker Of
the House Of Representatives. So he If
too. and a good One with n large o.