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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-01-25
A BRIRED VOTER.

In the case OF E. J. Kinscy, charged
with voting at Mill Creek, witness
Young says he is white man, middle
age, has family at Mill Greek; said to
be Republican. One man says he
heard him say he had not been here a
year. The pay roll shows he commenced
work in January and worked through to
the month oi November, 1885, Mind
you it is said that he had not been there
year.. You can undermine any elec.
tion in this country if you are to take
this kind Of evidence and the state.
ments Of men taken after the election.
Men and parties are'interested to change
results. You don't bribe a man to vote,
but il you pay him to say he voted a Ger.
tain way and do enough OF 1t you can
defeat any body, therefore the law books
, say you cannot rely on any such evi.
dence, ! do not suppose this man was
corrupted, but you must stand by your
rule OF law. 5,.- a 4 ~
John Locke Is charged with voting a,
Mill Creek. Witness Young says he is
a negro, young man, voted at Mill Creek
Another says his name is on the regis
tration list at Pocohontas, Virginia. Doet
that show that John Lock was not I
good voter in West Virginia. Loci
may have lived there, but ii was not hi
business TO go back and see whether tn,
register had yet stricken him from til,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-01-25
A INDUSTRIOUS PROPOSITION

Its monstrous proposition, but here
is is. This man is shown to have lived
and worked thirteen months in Mercer
county. Hc did not take Arrest; did not
80 to Virginia, but he is gone in this
crucitixion OF the suiFragists OF West
Virginia necessary to keep me from the
Governorship Of West Virginia. II /
am wrong ! beg you will correct me, and
| beg in vain. ss ,-. -
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-01-25

THEY CANNOT ANSWER HIN. n ~.
There stands Gol awaiting the accept
ance Of tho challenge. He utters 1t again
and again. viii counsel take up the
gauntlet? viii any Of the majority
committee? Never. VIII anybody give
him bAttle now.while he Is in the lists
with the right to strike bacE2 Not one.
The silence is profound, omin Gus; a
dtopping Off pin could be heard: Men
and women look at each other. still no
answer. What are they going TO- 10
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-01-25
WHICH voTEp2

They were there and are known.
Which voted? You must be able to tel
that before you strike it off,. Where is
the \ evidence2 1.-The did vote, for whom
did he yote7 It is not said he was a
Republican that he went to a Republi-
can meeting, that be applauded n Re.
publican speaker, as it is said Of others.
You remember that in the Congress Of
the United States when case comes up
IN which a colored vote is involved, and
it is stated d colored men voted the Re.
publican ticket, my Democratic friends
spring to their feet and say the colored
man does not vote the Republican ticket
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-01-25
he DIDN'T VOTE.

But there is something more, he
didn't vote. Ii he did, it was not shown
on the lists OF those who did vote. II
is all right. Take him or OF Gof.
Senator Flournov-Where is hestrick.
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-12-11
Observations on ClOudS.

Prof. Moller, of Carlsruhe, has made
some interesting observations on clouds.
The highest clouds, cirrus and GIRO.
stratus, rise on an average to height
of nearly 80, 900 feet. The middle
clouds keep at from about 10000 feet to
%, 900 feet in height; while the lower
clouds reach to between 5000 feet and
1000 feet. The cumulus clouds float
with their lower surface at height of
from 1000 feet to 5000 feet, while their
submits rise to 10000 feet The tops OF
the Alps are often hidden by clouds OF
the third class, but the bottom of tho
clouds OF the second class, and especial,
ly of the thunder-clouds, often enfold
them. The vertical dimensions of a
cloud observed by Prof. Moller on the
Netleberg was over 1,2O0 feet; he
stepped out of it at height of about
3,7OO feet, and high above the mountain
floated clouds of the middle class, while
walls of mist lay in the ravines and
c]efts. The upper clouds were growing
thicker while the lower ones were dis
solving, and soon it began to rain and
snow.---N. Y. Ledger.
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-12-11
Mushroom Growing,

If intelligently carried on it is profit
able, and mushrooms Can be grown well
in celery cellars. Please remember thai
a prosperous bed should have staying
temperature of about so degrees inside
itself to keep the mycelium in active
growth, and 80 to So degrees outside, {
degrees more in both cases would be bet.
ter rstill. Ar ordinary unheated cellar
would not probably afford so high sur
face temperature, but this is easily over.
come by boxing up the beds, or other
wise covering them sufficiently to raise
the temperature to the required degree.
A low temperature will not necessarily
kill the ,nycelium, it merely renders it
inactive, hence non. productive till the
return of congenial conditions. There
is both steady and growing demand
for mushrooms. Inexperience is the
main drawback to success in mushroom
growing. But perservering and intel
ligent practice will soon eliminate this
drawback. Popular Gardening.
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-12-11
he office, carefully closed the door, and

the office, carefully closed the door, and
said:
81 love her."
$50 do ], Jackson; you and l have
been friends for good many years.
Pll tell you frankly, I've made up my
mind to marry this woman myself. Frl
sorry If you placed your heart -"
II have. She loves me -"
"Wh-what?"
John Warner rose from his chair.
Was he only doomed to see the dawn OF
his sunshine day sink into the gloom Of
despair?
"You-say she-loves you?"
"Yes; surely she has right to give
her hand to whom she pleases -"
but she loves me, too, Jackson -
Mhioh 10 natural in a sister."
'Wh-whatP'
Your sister Kate has promised to be
my wife"
jackson, your hand! Kate is queen.
| thought it was the other."-H. S. Kel,
Ter, in Yankee Blade.
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-12-11
M e MORlES.

nero are strains of sweet music through mem
ory ringing,
subdued in the hush OF the lengthenint
years;
They are voices OF loved ones now hushed frcu
their singing
Died out in the rush Of the gathering tears.
There are perfumes SO rare they yet linge,
around us
And greet us again IN desolate hour;
NO think of the ties OF affection that bound us
At tine breath of yhe rose or the jasmine
flower.
There are voices we hear where the pine trees
are signing,
That whisper the song of day that has fed
And up from our hearts come the echoes re.
plying
From memories once that we fancied were
dnna
We scent the wild flowers and we hear the bees
humming,
And see the loved faces of youth from afar--
Wis only wapderer lazily strumming
Some air Of our childhood upon his guitar.
And we think Of the past and we learn of the
present.
And we dream Of the life in the future to be-
Aswe sit in the calm Of the evening pleasant
And hear the wild breakers sweep in from
the sea.
Their lives linked with ours, as the moments
are fleeing
Like blossoms that grow mid the desert
their bloom
Perfuming the depths of our innermost being,
And fiinging its fragrance round even the
tomb.
George B. Hynson, in Philadelphia Call
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-12-11

Though, politically, General BouIan,
ger is considered dead and buried, he is,
physically, very much alive indeed, and
when, on Thursday morning, he dashed
up in his elegant carriage and jumped
on board the Frederick, just before she
left ST. lIelers for Southampton, he
looked certainly more blooming and
beaming than he did even twelve
month ago in London. Carnations
adorned the heads of his two fine car
riage horses a buttonhole of carnations
frightened the coachman's brown liv-
cry; and the Generals gray-haired
friend, handsome Frenchman, had
also donned his former leaders favorite
flower. Five ladies, all more or less
''of a certain age" were also of the
party, and conspicuous among them the
mysterious lady in black" who is q
typical dark, slender, Frenchwoman,
with flashing eyes, cleaning teeth,
small waist, and small feet encased in
elegant Partisan patent leather boots.
Her face is piquant rather than regu-
larly beautiful, and she is bright and
is to say, she was till the
wild sea waves" put a sudden stop to
all attempts at merriment or converse.
tion.-Pall Mall Gazette
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-12-11
LARGE-SIZED BOWLDERS



Wherever the glaciers melted they
left an immense amount of drift" that
is sand, gravel and stone of all sorts,
which had been frozen in the ice when
the GLACIERS were forming.
The stones of this drift are of all
sizes. Some are as small as pebbles,
others as large as small houses There
is one at Bradford, Mass, which meas
ure3 thirty feet each way, and we CHS
four and half million pounds. There
is another on ledge in Vermont which
is even larger than that, and which
must have been carried by the ice across
valley lying five hundred feet below
where the stone now is, showing that
the ice was five hundred feet thick.
Great powders of trap-rock extend
through Connecticut on a line running
to Long Island Sound, and as some OF
the same kind are found in Long Island
the glacier is believed to have crossed
the Sound, carrying these rocks with
it. IN immense statue of Peter the
Great in St, Petersburg stands on ono
of these glacier powders of solid granite,
which weighs three million pounds.
One of the largest powders in America
is in the Indian village of Mohegan,
near Montville, Conn The In
dians call the rock "Shehegan.' It's
top, which is fiat and as largo as the
floor of good sized room, is reached by
a ladder.
Sometimes these powders are found
perched upon bare lodges of rock 50
nicely balanced that though of great
weight, they may be rocked by the
hand. They are called ''rocking-stones. "
Near the little Connecticut village of
Noauk, on Long Island Sound, there is
an immense bowlder called by the poo.
pie there "Jemimy's Pulpit" It was
formerly rocking-stone. But the rock
has worn away below it and it can no
longer be moved. Teresa c. Crofton, in
st. Nicholas.
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-12-11
Pure Air Unpopular.

A sound, healthy person takes no
harm from slight chill, and if in the
late summer and in autumn we accus.
tom ourselves to cool rooms and but a
moderate amount of clothing we are SO
much the better prepared for winter.
The matter is, of course, especially i'm
portant to judges, lawyers and others
who spend most of the day in offices.
have seen learned counselors panic
stricken by the raising of window, and
l understand that some judges would
probably fine for contempt of court any
body who should introduce current of
pure air within their jurisdiction. No
wonder that litigation thrives in bad
atmosph ere. Boston Post.
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-12-11

"Yes; she's thirty. tckson, Kate
advises me to marry. Don't be alarmed
That for moment seriously consider
such nonsensical idea. However, now
Tor the business which | detained you
for. Kate's coming to pay me visit;
going to bring along the country parsons
daughter to see the city sights. I'm too
busy to meet her at the train. Jackson,
you must go and bring the pair from the
dep"
I'm not lady's man"
ut is purely matter OF business;
just that and nothing more, jackson.
Go and do it the same as you would to
see about consignment of all-wool
hose. Perhaps you'd better drop line
to the Albany party to the effect that
HIS ofutI IVI DIit;-h Lalr 1.-.v u.
shipped by the first freight in the morn
ing"
Warner turned his revolving chair to
the desk, and Jackson left, only to enter
again.
What train did you say?" he asked.
First freight in the morning"
Il mean what train did you expect
the ladies to come on?" +.
"Be at the Union depot at 4:3O-"
But l might not know"
Kate always wears red, very red and
very bright. Brunette and stylish Oh,
never fear; you'll be sure to know Kate.
The door closed and Warner was once
more alone.
"l'll be hanged if l will marry. Can't
force us into any such trap as that
Kate's fool"
John said other harsh things about his
clever sister Kate, things not necessary
to speak of here; all the while he felt
like poor, lonely man about to be am
bushed and led to the slaughter by
smart women.
lie hurried out for lunch, rushed
himself among his papers, books, re-
ports, and the many things that busy a
man who attends in person to his bust.
ness affairs. The light was struck in
his office, the clerks separated, and the
night-watchman entered, still John
Warner remained, thinking, thinking,
thinking.
1t was queer life he led. Business,
all business; push from dawn till dark,
with but few moments of respite from
labor. Little time for pleasure-only his
first nights" his short stop at the club
for an occasional chat with few chosen
friends
The door opened and jackson entered,
looking ten years younger.
Il never met more charming woman
in all my life. Mr.. Warner, envy you
your visitors. She's the most regal
creature"
"Bosh! Jackson, when man begins
to call woman regal creature he
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-12-11

man of your position and wealth should
surely marry"
John read it again and again; the more
he read 1t, the more queer it appeared
to him. True, he had reached a position
in business that was most satisfactory;
wealth he possessed beyond doubt:
was healthy, belonged to a fashionable
club, was regular "first-nighter" and
enjoyed an occasional toddy with few
chosen friends.
But, marry!
"Bosh, all confouuded bosh! Kate's
brewing sentiment In her old age
steady, Kates only thirty, and quite a
snperb-looking woman at that She's a
brunette, l believe, and they weather
advancing age best, It's said. marry!
Nonsense It's all rubbish! l hate all
things pertaining to women-all but
jollyold Kate She's clever woman. 1
wonder why she isn't married to some
bright fellow? I'm tired of clubs and
such; wish Kate would marry. 0, I'd
like to have lot of little nephews and
nleces climbing all over me and fishing
through my pockets for pennies. But
Aates too old, or at least suppose she
I thinks so. Humph! Pm old, too. Five
years older than she. marry! Non
sense. Can't think of such step at my
time Of life"
John was unconsciously thinking
aloud, and his confidential clerk had
raped three times before he heard him.
rushing the letter underneath news
paper he said: "Come in"
The party up in Albany sends a let
yer inquiring about that last lot of hose.
1T seems"
Sit down, Jackson; sit down and
listen to me for a moment" broke in
John
jackson was puzzled. Business be-
lore all other things had always been
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-12-11
PAYMENT IN KIND.
1t Was No Unusual Thing iu the Planta-
genet Times.

1t Was No Unusual Thing iu the Planta-
genet Times.
Richard de Betonye was the repre-
sentative of the citJ of London in the
Parliament held at York by King Ed.
ward III. in 1928. Taking tarcy to a
| certain coverlet furred with man1ver,
valued at eight marks, which had ccme
somewhat mysteriously into the pos
session of the city fathers, he was
allowed to take it in part payment OF
the expenses he had been put to in his
parliamentary capacity. Payment in
KIND was no unusual thing in Planta.
genet times. Engaging Nichol to be
his gardener of his "manoire de L.
Sauyoye," John O Gaunt undertook to
find such rails and fences as were neces,
sary, but Nichol was to manure and
work the ground at his own cost, and tt
receive two dollars a day, and all the
fruits and "herbages" he raised, aftet
supplying the requirements of time
nonored Lancaster's household. When
boat brought porpoise to the
landing-place at London bridge, the
bridge bailitf claimed the tails, fins,
and entrails for his fee. Offenders
even were mulcted in kind instead of
coin. For threatening that if he
caught the mayor outside the CITY
bounds he would insure his never get.
ting within them again, Roger Thorold
was condemned to present the insuIted
dignitary with hundred tons of wine,
and in 1879 Robert lie Bert, goldsmith,
who had been sent with others with
messages from the city to the King at
Windsor having taken upon himself to
privily retire from the fellowship of his
companions, was adjudged to pay one
ton of wine to the Cham berlain for the
use of the commonalty, and he and
John de Castelacre were bound over to
keep the peace toward each other on
pain of paying two tons of wine to the
same official for the like purpose.
When Sir Henry Pierrepont took up
his appointment to the Recordership of
Nottingham in 1908, the town pre-
sented him with gallon of white wine,
a gallon of claret, bottle of muska-
dyne, bottle of sack, sugar-loaf,
with nine shillings, and twenty penny
worth of lemons. In the same year the
Nottingham burgesses gave the Earl of
Shrewsbury veal, a mutton, lamb
Il dozen chickens, two dozen rabbits,
two dozen pigeons and four capons As
the record says nothing of any services
rendered by Recorder or Earl we sup
pose they were paid in advance, or in
lively expectation on the part of the
of favors to come.-Chambers'
j Journal
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-12-11
THE FARMING WORLD.
SEED CORN.
Select 1t In the Field, from the Stalk as
Soon as the Ear Has Matured.

soon as the Ear Has Matured.
One right way exists for corn selec-
ton, and only one right way; and that
way is to select the com in the field
and from the plant at date early
enough to determine the character of
| the whole plant, says Prof. j. W. San
born in Breeders Gazette. The Western
practice, though wrong, measures the
value Of the corn crop almost wholly by
the ears produced. This demands a
plant that gives the maximum amount
of oas @nd tho minimum amount Of
stalk BY selecting the ear from the
stalk, and by no other method, can the
best results be secured.
The ratio of seed to stem is as varia-
BILE for corn as it is for other plants.
The seed is but fractional part of the
whole life-and the ratio of the parts
vary in the plant as in the animal, and
are as susceptible of being fixed as are
the parts of an animal l have carried
out trials in selection of seed corn for
several years. | will not in all these
cases prolong articles with tables of re-
suits, and in accordance with this de-
sign state that by weight I find the
ratio of ear to stalk is very variable;
that the largest ear is not necessarily
found on the largest stalk, and is not
usually 50 found Il am considering
plants within given Variety; that an
ear from tall stalk reproduCes a tall
stalk and from short stalk is repro
duced short stalk, and that ears sell
ected from short stalks produce more
corn per acre than do ears selected from
tall stalks.
The yield of stalks is on the reverse
order. The total crop is quite as large
from the seed of the tall stalks as it is
from the seed of the short stalks
really larger When corn is grown for
ensilage different policy in seed Sc
lection should be pursued from that
advisable when selection is made for
corn grown for its grain alone. The use
that l have endeavOred to make of the
above facts has been to select corn from
short stalks for the reasons given, and
in addition to secure shorter plants, in
order to crowd them closer together The
shorter the plant the greater the num-
Der that can be planted within a given
space, and therefore the greater the
number of ears that can be harvested
per acre. A study of the distance at
which corn is planted in the various
sections of the country will prove the
truth of the remark. The corn crop of
New England exceeds the yield per
acre of that of the West although each
ear of corn will probably not weigh
much over One-half as much as a West
ern ear of corn will. The smaller flint
corn plant is there planted much thicker
than it would answer to plant dent
corn in the West By selection / be-
leVe We can shorten the corn stalk of the
West grow more plants per acre, and
secure moro corn and a stalk easier to
dry and to handle as dry fodder.
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-12-11

shows evident signs of mania. They're
all alike, Jackson, every one of them
They all want to trap, trap, trap. AND
what? Men, nothing but men. &c
home, Jackson, and sleep it off. YOU
poor old fossil you. You envy me my
visitors? l look upon it as something
fearful to have woman fussing about.
"But this woman"
81 tell you, Jackson, they're all alike.
Well, I'm going home. Suppose I'll be
in torments until Kate goes back. Go,
ing, too? l tell you, jackson, it'll never
do, never, sir. Never let rattle
Drained woman break into ones business
affairs is my motto Here's your car.
You go down while l 60 up. Good
night"
Fifteen minutes later John Warner
was warmly greeted by beautiful
woman-his sister Kate.
Kate, for heavens sake don't choke
me to death. I'm glad to see you, and"
Then he stopped as his eyes fell upon
the other occupant of the room. She
was petite, blonde, and had dimpling
checks, lovely eyes, and shy, reticent
air that was innocence and simplicity
itself.
Sometimes love takes years to spring
into existence, but John Warner, the
plain man of business, was enmeshed in
its tantalizing and fascinating folds at
first sight. When his sister introduced
him to this dainty girl his heart
bobbed, and he felt a peculiar sensation
in his throat, and his hand trembled
like school-boy's as he felt the soft
little palm touch his.
A pleasantdinner, few bright glances
from the most bewitching pair of eyes
he had ever seen; and then, John War
ner went to bed to dream dreams utterly
out of place to man so wholly absorbed
in business as he was.
The days that followed were filled
with brightness John found it very
easv to tear himself away from his Office
now. There was one thing, however,
that worried him--Jackson's frequent
visits to his house. He mentioned it
carefully to him once or twice, but Jack
son only blushed.
The point was reached one morning,
when the confidential clerk entered
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-12-11
WILL A CORPSE BlEEOq
Popular Superstition Which Once Pre-
vailed In Great Britain.

A Popular Superstition Which Once Pre-
vailed In Great Britain.
Formerly there was a popular belief
in widespread superstition that the
corpse of murdered person would
bleed afresh from the wounds that had
caused death did the murderer touch 1t
or even allow his eyes to rest upon it.
Shakespeare, who seems to have been ac-
quainted with every superstition, as we'll
as with eyery branch of the human
knowledge, alludes TO the belief in
''Richard Ill" .:
Dead Hcnry's Is
open their congealed mouths and bleed
afresh.
Drayton says:
II the vile actors Of the heinous deod
49, tis--A~au Uoay happily be brought,
OFT 1t has been proved the corpse will bleed.
The belief is shown to have been uni
versally established in Scotland as lato
as 1868 In thatyear one Philip Stands
field was arrested for the murder of a
person who had been buried several
days. Although the man had laid in the
grave almost fortnight, Sir George
Mackinzio, the Crown counsel, caused
the body to be exhumed and brought into
open court to apply what people thought
would be the test of Standsfield's guilt
or innocence. The sworn deposition of
several witnesses is as follows:
God Almighty himself was pleased
to bear a share in the testimonies which
we produced. That Divine power which
makes the blood circulate during lifo
has oftt,mes, in all countries, opened a
passage for it after death upon such oc-
casions After the wounds had been
scwed up and the body designedly
shaken up and down-and which is most
wonderful, after the body had been
buried several days, which naturally
causes tho blood to congcal-upon
StandstieId's touching it tho blood
darted and sprang out to the great
astonishment of the surgeons who were
there to watch the event, Standsfeld,
astonished more than they, threw down
the body crying, oh, God! Oh, Godr
and cleaning his hands, grew so faint
that the doctors had to give him a cor
dial. st Louis Republic.