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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-10-05

1t is very seldom | cannot sleep, but
/ | could not that night. There was some
thing i'm the intense quiet and repose of
the great house. after all the excitement
/ Of the last few hours that depressed me.
| Everything seemed, as | lay awake, 50
unnaturally silent. There was not a
sound in the wide CRATE where the last
ashes of the fire were silently giving up
/ the ghost. not a rumble of wind in the
/ old chimney which had had so much to
say the night before. tossed and turn
ed and vainly sought for sleep, now on
this side, now on that.
At last | gave up trying, half in the
hope that it might steel upon me una
wares. | thought Of the play and the
ball, of poor Charles and his debtS-of
anything and everything, but it was no
good. In the midst of tumble of dis
connected ideas | suddenly found myself
| listening again to the Silence-liStening
as if it had been broken by sound
which | had not heard. My watch
licked loud and louder on the dressing
table. and presently gave quite start
as the distant stable clock tolled out the
| Observation-Disclosures. had
gone to bed before 3. Had | only been
awake an hour? 1t seemed incredible.
Getting up on tip toe, vaguely afraid
myself of breaking the silence, ! nois-
leSsly pushed aside the heavy curtains
and looked out.
The moon had set. but by the frosty
starlight the outline of the great snow
laden trees and the wide sweep of white
drive were still dimly visible. All was
silent without as within. Not branch
moved or let fall its freight OF snow.
| There was not a breath of wind stirring.
/ | was on the point of getting back INTO
/ bed when | thought in the distance !
heard a sound. | listened intently. No.
must have been mistaken. All. again,
and nearer! held my breath. lcould
distinctly hear a Stealthy step coming
up the stairs. My room was the nearest
TO the staircase end of the corridor, and
anv one coming up the stairs must pass
my door. With a presence OF nina
which | am glad to say rarely deserts me
| blew out my candle, slipped to the
door and noislesSly opened it chink.
Some one was coming down the CORR
dor with the lightneSS OF Il cat cdhuIe
in hand, as FAINT light showed me.
Another moment and saw Charles. pale
and haggard, still in evening dress, com
ing toward me. He was without his
shoes. He passed my door and went
noisleSsly into his own room. little
further down the passage. There was
the faintest suspicion of a sound, as OF
a KEY being gently turned in the lock,
and then all was still again, Stiller than
ever.
What could Charles have been after, !
wondered. He could not have been re-
turning from seeing Denis who was not
only much better. but was in the room
beyond his own. And why had he still
got on his evening clothes at4 o'clock in
the morning? ! determined to ask him
about it next day as got back into bed
again. and then. while wondering about
it and trying to get warm, | fell fast
asleep. was only reused, after being
twice called, to find that it was broad
daylight. and to hear the boxes being
carried down of many OF the guests who
were leaving by an early train.
TO BE CONTINUED.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-10-05
Dramatic Art i'm the West.
Chicn0O TTmls


John Kernel, the Irish comedian and
one of the principal fun-makers with
THE Hustler" was sitting on window
sill in the corridor Of a hotel one morn
ing last winter taking a lungful of fresh
air, when a colored chambermaid with
u heap Of merriment in the white Of her
eye, approached him with Il CHEEKY
Good mimi, sab"
Say, Tidy" John called after her.
wouldn't you like to go to the theater
to-night?"
"What kind o. theatah yo all got
down dah?' asked Tidy, plying her
duster vigorously.
"Oh, any kind you want. Do you
like a minstrel shove"
Minstrel show! Whah dem white
men come out wifi black stuff on da'
faces and make out da's Guild. No in
deed. Denis frauds. don't like
frauds"
"Well, era burlesque shove"
"A what?"
"A burlcSque-a variety show"
"What? Whah dem ordaciouS things
show da selves in tights? Well, ! guess
not, | was brung up dif'ent."
"Well. what kind of theater do you
like?"
Now, l tell you. man." said Tidy,
dropping her buster and walking to-
ward the comedian, with her arms
akimbo, Il tell you. when Mistah Shakes
peah he brings plays TO town. hah pah-
rents got to chain me to de no."
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-10-05

In order to feast ones eye on few
potentateS it hardly seems worth while
to pay several hundred dollars for the
privilege of holding your head over the
Atlantic Ocean, and working your
Adams apple up and down at intervals
for six days and nights at stretch.
BY the way. a wealthy friend of mine
saw some kings on the way over that
caused him to return on the next steam
er and put mortgage as big as
church debt on his house. They were
in the other fellows hand. There IS a
Smoking-room on the ocean steamers
and the tourist who can handle the
poker without getting his fingers bis
tered must be an old hand at the game,
but why do not more Americans stay at.
home and be robbed? What's the mat
ter with our local vampires? What pos
Sible objection can there be to the fash
ionable gambling dives of Gotham?
1t is true that the lovers of antique
find more to interest them in Europe
than in America Over there the hair
less mountain tops are encrusted with
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-10-05

railroad guard, the Pullman-car porter
is almost white; so it cannot be de-
sire to travel cheap that causes the an
nual hemorrhage of our best blue blood.
The more we think of it, the more pro-
found becomes the mystery.
Very likely quite large percentage
OF the tourists are rich but ambitious
American mammaS, who take their
daughters to Europe in the hope OF cap
turing titled husband. These titled
personages that marry American heir
esses are, as a general thing, rather
small potatoes. 1t is very frequently
what you don't know about these dukes
and counts that makes them respecta-
bic. If it is absolutely essential to the
happiness of the American heiress that
she should marry somebody who is NOR
ally, financially and physically on his
last legs, have we not reprobates on this
side Of the Atlantic who can more than
fill the bill?
| suppose the heiresSes themselves
would object, for they are so crazy to
marry Duke that an ourang-outang
with title would not be safe among
them.
Like the peace of mind mentioned in
the Bible, it passes all understanding.
ALIEN f.. SWEET.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-10-05

self and lock them up in your dressing
case" And Ralph held them toward
her.
Il haven't got dressing case" said
Aurelia. pouting, land my hat box won't
lock. | don't like having them. wish
You would keep them yourself"
Bother said Ralph, land father has
gone to bed. He can't put them back
into his safe, and he keeps the key him
self Where is the bag they go in?"
Aurelia said that she had seen him
put it behind certain jar on the chin
neypiece in the morning room. and Carr
went for it. she following him with
candle, as all the lamps had been put
out. They presently returned with it,
and Ralph, who had been collecting all
the jewels spread over the table, shovel
ed them in with little ceremony.
Bother he said, again, looking
round and swinging the bag, what on
earth am | to do with them? All, well,
here goesr' and he opened side drawer
in massive writing table and showed
the bag in.
There" he said, locking it and put
ting the key in his pocket-"they will
do very well there till tomorrow. Are
YOU content now. Aurelia?"
"Oh, yes" she said, Il am if you
are" And she babe us good night and
followed in the wake of the others. who
were really under way at last.
As we all tramped YEARLY up stairs
to the smoking room l saw Charles
draw Ralph aside and whisper some
thing to him.
Nonsense heard Ralph say. Safe
enough. Besides. who would suspect
their being there? Just as safe as in the
strong box Brahma lock. Won't be
bothered any more about them"
Charles shrugged his shoulders and
marched off to bed. Ralph and Carr
likewise went off shortly afterward to
their rooms in the lodge. Carr looked
tired TO death. went down with them,
at Ralph'S request TO lock the door be-
hind them, as all the servants had gone
to bed.
1t was fine night, still and cold, with
bright moon. 1t had evidently been
showing afresh, for there was not 4
trace OF wheels upon the ground, but II
had ceased now.
Good night" called Ralph and Carr
as they went down the steps together.
watched the two figures for a moment
i'm tie moonlight. their footsteps making
double track in the untrodden snow
The cold was intense. | drew back
Shivcring and locked and bolted the
door
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-10-05

served the administration Of justice in
the cases of the aldcrmanic bOodlerS,
this wild inSinuation will be productive
Of expansive smiles. Local ailicialS have
no longer any excuse for spending their
hard earned Steaings outside of Manhat-
tan Island. In fact New York is such
safe harbor of refuge to the wealthy
crook that moneyed malefactors all over
the world are seriously thinking OF sell
ing out and establishing themselves in
giddy Gotham. where high social status
bcckonS to them, and the Goddess of
Justice winks with both eyes.
The American who goes TO Europe
under the impression that aS soon rs he
strikes town the local king is going to
knock Off work and invite him 10 dinner,
even if it happens to be wash day, is
going TO be as much disappointed as the
dog was when he came up TO be fondled,
but departed suddenly with most Of his
hair off. Even when the wealthy Amer
lean succeeds in crawling on all tours in
the good graccs of a royal parsonage.
the suddenncSS with which that tretrach
drops the wealthy American when il
leaks out that his mother took in wash
ing, and his father studied natural his
tory at five dollars a week as a rdlct dc
cl,rdmbrc to an elephant in cheap cir
Gus, | say the suddenneSS of the drop
breaks the record Of the man who puts
down Il hot plate.
If the New Yorker merely desires to
gaze on majesty from respectable dis
lance. let him sit on a bench in Central
Park. and watch the carriage parade.
Let him gaze on the parade of imported
coachmen and fOotmen, with the calm,
pale celluloid, jOintleSS legs, and sta
tionery features as destitute of emotion
as those of the ice-cream freezer which
is now hushed in Slumber in the cellar,
and he will get more eighteen-karat
hauteur to the square inch than in the
entire European royal menagerie. The
king who can throw less expression into
his features than the imported coach
man has TO rise early and hustle.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-10-05
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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-10-05

ancient castles and crumbliug ruins. but
when it comes to old castles and crum-
bling ruins our harbor defenSeS furnish
us with all the old ruins we really need.
so that cannot be the attraction that
causes millions of American money TO
be spent in Europe.
The American who goes to Europe so
that he can travel without paying tips
is whiStling up the wrong tube. He is
humping the wrong watermelon, for.
compared with the English waiter and
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-10-05
M0NARCHIES.
GEMS OF THOUGHT FOR THE TOURIST RETURN
ING FROM FOREIGN LANDS
Grand Juries Largely Responsible for the Annual
Skedaddls-A Few Points About Kings
and Queens-A Plea for the
American Youth.
Special Correspondence Of The Register.

CVTT15T'VT1e7Tc5 W. I,t5Is-tT
New YORK, September 29.-The Eu-
ropean steamships arriving at New
York just about this time are cloyed
with returning American tourists in
various stages of financial collapse.
Why such large percentage of the
wealthy spend their summer in Europe
is question that is born in doubt and
swaddled in a bale of mystery. l have
devoted much valuable time in ponder
ing over it-time which would have
been more advantageously spent in shin
ing my shoes.
| read in an enviouS Western paper
the other day an insinuation to the eff
feet that the grand jury had something
to do with the annual Skedaddle from
New York City. To those who have oh.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-10-05
SHORT CREEK.

SHORT CREEK, w. Va. October Miss
Maggie Harris, of this place. died on Tues
dav last of typhoid fever, and was buried
Thursday at Short Creek Cemetery.
The sad death of Miss Sallie Atkinson
occurred on Tuesday Miss Atkinson was
n years of age and was greatly respected,
leaving many friends to mourn her loss.
The funeral took place on Thursday at
Short Creek.
Mr. James Miedel is slowly recovering
from an attack of the fever.
The farmers are busily engaged in cut
ting their corn, and they report the crop as
being very light.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-04-03
Death BEFORE Marriage.

English and American girls occa-
sionaily commit suicide through disap-
poiutmeat al not getting married, says
the n Y. HorNja9 j9utU4s but it viii
surprise them to learn chat the Chinese
Young ladies have such dread OF the
matrimonial chain that they frequently
prefer death to marriage.
"Ol an people said Confucius,
''womeu are the most difficult to man
age Ii You are familiar with them
they become forward, and if YOU keep
them at distance they become dis
coutcnlci.
So many are the disabilities of mar
ricd women that many Girls prefer 90
inc into Buddhist, or Tauist nuuaeries.
or even committing suicide. to trusting
the.ruture to men of whom they know
uotuiu- but from the interested re-
ports OF go-bctWeens.
Arcndeacou Gray i'm hi, work on
China states chat in 1878 eiLst Young
girl, residing near Canton, who had
been uhianccj. dressed themselves ia
their best attire. amt at II O'Clock. i'm
the darkness of the night, having hogud
themselves together, they threw them
selves into % tributary stream OF the
Canton river
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-04-03
FARM NOTES.

Keep pieces of chalk where the young
animals can lick them.
Cotton seed meal is too heterogeneous
to be healtbful food for pigs.
The shelter that shuts out both pure
and cold air is not profitable struc-
ture.
Every animal must speak for itself,
and only its pedigree can speak for its
offspring.
The coming farmer will trust less to
his eyes and more to foot-rules and
pound-weights.
The value of pedigree is not in its
vouching for ancestry but in its youch-
ING for offspring.
Rust and rot do more for the implo-
ment maker in winter than wear and
tear DO In summer.
The Bohemian oats swindle has gone
East to grow up with the country. It's
played out i'm the west.
The secrets OF large yields always
and everywhere are rich soil, good
seed, and thorough tiilage
The farmer who makes his own pork
and beef puts another bond on health
anu pay > '''''''e'i ''' 80 N"'H='
White clover Is SAID to be disappear
ing IN some OF the Eastern States but
II Is more imam hoIulnS It's own IN the
West.
Hoard estimates the annual cousump-
ton Of butter in this country to be L.
100000. 600 pounds. 739, 526 pounds
per gay.
The HesSian fly is said to have been
introduced into England IN the straw
in packing cases. It's a stand of
against the English sparrow.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-04-03
The Man for the Emergency.

We were humping along down to-
ward the Gulf on a trunk line road
less than a year ago. when we stopped
at a small station thirteen minutes late.
We had been reported rs late from the
last, and expected orders here to
change mo run. A brief investigation
disclosed the fact that the station
master, who was also the operator, was
drunk. He had felt u chill coming on,
and had downed about pint OF redeye
to keep it off, He sat in a heap in his
chair, his strength all gone, and his
eyes blinking, and all the reply he
could make to the conductor was:
SHAY, ole Teller, whazzer mazzer
wiz you?"
The conductor pondered minute.
The side track there was full of freight
cars. 1t was six miles ahead to the
next station, but did the north bound
express have orders to let us make ftp
He suddenly grabbed the operator,
hauled him out of the Office upon the
platform. down upon the earth, and
then carried him TO the water ditch
and dumped him in. There were
three feet Of water, and it was cold as
ice. He hauled the operator up aud
down for two minutes, dragged him
out and stood him on his pins, and
then said to him in a voice as menacing
as the point Of a dagger:
Go in and telegraph for my or
ders!'
The man walked in all dripping. sat
down to his table and sounded his call,
and in fifty second our train had orders
to make SiX-mle Siding" and make it
like-m The engineer got the word,
and away we went, and five minutes
later were at the switch. just then Old
north-bound footed, and our last car
was in and the switch thrown over not
a second too soon. She came past us
at the rate of fifty miles an hour, fling
ing dust and gravel clear over every
car but we had saved our bacon. Two
months later | met the operator in
New Orleans and asked him if his cold
water bath left any i'll effects
"Not the slightest was his reply.
The only trouble was that the com
pany objected to my way of taking
bath, and fired me out. ~ Y Sun.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-04-03

bonnet. Tier, x zen tell hIm you
haven't got a black frock that is fit to
wear, he'll ask If you don't own some
quiet brown thing?N Very young men
and very old men, those nearing second
childhood, like to take ont women who
are conspicuous by their handsome
gowning. but the real man, the best
type of the man of the world. prefers
that, while a woman is we'll she should
still be quietly dressed. An observant
citizen, whose opinions OF men in gem
eral and women in particular are good,
said he d rather have, when he took
out a woman be cared for, man say
to him the next day, Tommy, my boy,
who was that quiet little lady with you
last EVENING"" than TO have him rush
up to him and say, Tom, you can't
keep that to Yourself You've rot TO
introduce that stunning creature TO me.
Never saw such a beauty in my life.
What a lucky fellow you are!' Men
are "A hundred times more sensitive on
the subject of refinement in women
than women believe, and the young
woman who is given to cigarette smok-
ing who "slings slang like a man,
who talks about the fellows, and who
never flinched before mouse or COW, Is
apt in time to be re egated by them to
the world in which she belongs. Men
are decidedly the best Judges OF what
is desirable in women, aud they seldom
have a dcep-seated admiration for the
fast or horsey one Chicago inter-
OCEAN,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-04-03
Popular People.

The popular people, that is, the peo-
pie popular socially are the adaptable
ones. The man who doesn't believe
his host is responsible for the weather
or his lack Of appetite. or the fact that
most Of the people are strangers to him,
on that his clothes are uncomfortable.
is the man who is going to be in-
vited ont very often. The woman
who doesn't expect her friends TO
he always al the fever heat OF affection.
who doesn't expect them TO keep day
book of her likes and disllkes Who
doesn't want the best seat i'm the opera
box and who doesn't complain II size
has TO entertain somebody who ism a~
vet a celebrity. is the comfortable enc
and the one that everybody IS giad 90
meet again. She is certain to make
even stupid people bright on better
still TO make them think themselves
bright and She is equally certain 70 he
a tolcrably happy person herself. lat
there is great deal of truth III WAT
one of the sium sisters so funniiy sal4.
'If YOU make other people app you Ne
q 'appiness i'm your own art that ca" ? I
come in auy other way.
Ii you ask a man how yen h3d peter
dress 10 20 to the theater, he y q.
-Oh. wear black froeA aud Mite
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-04-03
Metcn1nsYchosI..

When slowly % smile made its WAY Oer bic
face.
As he thought what "a field was presented ~
view.
In case truusmlgTatiOn should prove 70 ii
true; . ,,,
wove i,se round the theme ia the follow
WAY;
IN hopes of find 20 amusc or surprise.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-04-03
Toys of the OIden Time.

A thoughtful-looking little gent.
man sat in the Girard House, of Pills.
delphia, one evening watching tbs
people pass i'm and out and listening 81
snatches of conversation which Wen
waited TO his ears. He sat alone IN /,
corner, smoking pipe with a l0n.
slender stem. His black coat ws
ornamented with braid, and his gref
hair was topped by black skull caRI
The gentleman is Auguste Biare, n
Paris, an inventor of mechanical toRI
He has spent his life in this work, and
each year brings him additional HI
terest in it. Mr.. Blare has marvel.
Gus fund of anecdote. especially about
the wonders of automata, and taxes
great pleasure in talking about ths
latter
Puppets and marionetts were pat
ronized,n he said, both by the Gree8
and the Romans. and automatic, whiGi
are the inventions now principally
dealt in, also 90 back to remote
period. Vulcan's tripod on wheels has
the authority of Homer; Daedalus made
moving statues; Archytas Of Ihreniun
in 400 b. c.. invented a wooden pigeol
that could fly in the air. In the 81
teenth century Regiccdntamons made
an iron fly which moved through ih'
atmosphere, and afterward an auto
matte eagle, which on the arrival Of
the Emperor Macmillan at Nuren'
burg flew forth to meet him.
But one of the most wonderful Of
such inventions of which we have
record was a group of automata coz
suucted by Philip Camuz for Loua
XIV. This consisted OF coach all
four horses that started off at tl'
crack of a whip, the horses praneins
trotting and galloping in turn. L. Tai
along until il got in front Of the King
when it stopped. Then a toy footmsl
descended, aud opening the carrIa9'
door, handed out "A lady with ooIa
grace, as the records tell US. I'M
lady made a courtesy, presented
petition to the Emperor, re-eniered le'
carriage ana was driven rapidly away.
Such is the description OF the ma"
wonderful automaton, D." concluded NJ
Blare. Il never saw the toy Itself. o.
course, but the description Just I'VE
to you tallies almost word for Won
with an authentic record. l memories
the latter at Que time, so maFFe.VA
did it seem to me-"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-04-03
Lunatics in Great Britain.

The tortF-third annual report of the
commissioners in lunacy for Great
buJaia contains interesting figures.
On New Years day last there were In
the kingdom S4340 insane persons.
Various causes ofinsanitv are set forth
IN table covering I36, AS eases. OF
these 4369 persons lost their reason
from domestic trouble, 5000 from "ad-
verse circumstances, S.27S from over
work and worry, 3 769 from religious
excitement. and 1920 from intern
peraHee The influence Of hereditv
vas aseertamed in zs.065 eases and
congo atal defects Id ;. sol.