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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-11-02
Professionalism in Germany.

A German friend of mine Che Is some
what of a humorst) was bantering me
about the notorious aversion Of Ameri-
cans to walking, and he remarked that
he had heard it said that the average
American thought nothing Of starting
out for walk of five miles. cited
with good deal OF pride the habitual
practice Of Julian Hawthorne of taking
a more stroll of twenty or thirty miles
whenever he has a few moments 10 de-
vote to exercise. spoke. too, of your
townsman. Mr.. SlaSon Thompson, editor
of the .Amcricu, who is in the habit Of
walking ten miles day and running
fifteen or twenty more.
Ny friend thereupOn became personal.
and ventured to intimidate that | could
not walk five miles. OF course accept
ed the challenge implied, and, peacefully
doddcrng imbecie that was, actually
walked four consecutive hours before ]
learned upon demonstrating with my
humorous friend) that German mile
was equal to four and Il half English
miles. and that in order TO accomplish
the feat had undertaken should have
to cover twenty-five and half miles.
Germany would be veritable para
disc. methinks, for Julian Hawthorne
and Slason Thompson. They would be
elected to the reichStag at the first con-
gressional lection.-EUgcnc Field IN
ChicdqO NclrS.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-11-02

wears we have knOw'd you to be reason
ably honest. with generally putty good
dab OF meat in yO' SmOke-houSe, an we
KANT see why you should have killed
the wider Dalton'S sheep.
"Yes, spoke up the widow. who, for
the first time, | noticed was present.
sitting in the corner, IAN a finer ram
never blew his breath on bunch OF
nennyrile. But here comes JeemS an
shoots him an, that too when he's got
more meat than | have an he knows
that I've got three Son-in-lawS to feed.
ledge" says Jcems. IF you will jest
LOT me have a mint, | will fling good
deal of light on this here subject l
don't deny KILN of the sheep
"Wen, then. Jeems, you neentef say
no more. You've stated the very TACT
that we air tryin' to git at, an thar
,in't no use in foolin' along here no lon
GER. The court lows that it will halter
sentence you, Jeems. g,
Not without gigin' me hearln'
hope?" ,oor,n, will
do you when you have made that con
wall, Jest listen to my talk an then
,ohhv von'u see. | don't want to take
mn vo' time so that you KANT meet the
TELLER that pizened yo' dog, but DO IN
sist mon havin' a hearin.
oval, then, go ahead but cut ner
short" .,od hocl, his
LONG hair and thus addressed the as
sonhlv. Zone cold winter night wheh
the snow came down faster than you
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-11-02
The Most Common Misquotation.
IIica O5serger.


"What is the most common miSquota
ton in the English language?' asked
the inquiSitive member of the COgburl
Club this morning as the puriSt entered
The answer came promptly:
"When Greek meets Greek, then
comes the tug Of war
"Well. what is the matter with that's?
asked the inquiSitiye member.
That is the most common miSquota-
ton in the English language re-
spondcd the puriSt. ! heard the late
Roscoe Conkling say once that he
won basket of wine from Clement
l.. Vallandigham on that question.
He wagered that Mr.. Vallandigham
could not tell what the correct words
were. nor who wrote them, nor when
they were written. And he won on
every point. Now put yourselves in Mr..
Vallandigham'S place. What would
you have done?"
Il should have declined to make the
bet" said The inquiSitvc member.
And I. land |, "came from all parts
of the room.
But should not" said the puri>t.
when Greeks joined Greeks, then was
the tug Of war is the correct quotation.
1t was written by Nathancl Lee, an Eng
liShman, about the year 1900.
Did you ever see it quoted correct
ly?" asked the inquisityc member.
Never i'm the newspapers, said the
puriSt.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-11-02
Information for the Boy.


The instructions that nursemaids are
able To impart TO the greedy young
mind that is given into their charge is
truly fearful and wonderful. As Coney
Island boat was passing the Bartholdl
statue. a 5-year-old youngster was moved
to ask the Mileslan lady who attended
him:
"W'ot'S that, Janc?'
That's Liberty" quoth June.
.W'ot'S Liberty?" ne asked again.
"W'y. just Liberty. Don't you know
w'ot Liberty is?'
"W'ot's Liberty" he insisted.
.W'y, you goose" instructed his
teacher. Liberty is-w'y, it's-Free-
dom. And now you know, don't you?.
And of coure he did. just wait until
somebody asked him.
"W'ot's those, .Iane?' he asked again.
with significant finger at the life pre-
servers overhead.
"Them's life prcservers, said Jane.
"W'ot are they for?'
THEY'RE for when you fall in the
water and get drowned" she informed
him. land when you do they make you
float"
after you're drowned?" asked the
boy. ., I'm
"Oh. YES, do wish you'd keep still
and not ask so many questions, you bad
boy"
But he didn't.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-11-02
AWonderful Meteor.

In paper printed in the new number
of the transactions and Proceedings
of the New Zealand Institute" Mr.. Tay-
Tor White describes an extraordinary
meteor which he saw at Wimbledon,
Hawkes. Bay, on May 4, 1SSS, between
and . o'clock p. m. The nucleus or
head, was of oval form, of tranSpar-
ent light yellow color, aS Of iron at a
white heat. The tail was in the form Of
the tail of 4 pheasant, eNpanded-that
is. the two centre StreamcrS were OF
uniform length, and the outer ones
gradually shortening, SO that the outer
most Streamer on either side was very
much shorter than those in the middle.
These StreamerS were of duh, Opaque
orange. They were distinctly divided
each from each by dark bands, which
consisted of several fine black lines 10
probably the number of five TO each
band.
Mr.. White is unable TO fix the number
of orange StreamerS, but would guess
ten as probably correct The cOlorS
blue and green were also certainly pres
ent. No sound was audible while the
meteor was in view. But says Mr..
White, after had gone into the house
and was describing what | had seen, the
sound of its striking the earth or the
sea was heard-a loud and heightened
noise. to me like the violent shaking Of
all the forest trees. and evidently above
ground, thereby differing from the
sound accompanying an earthquake
coming from the westward, and this
was followed, after hardly percept-
ible interval. by fainter sound, like
an echo. TO the northeast. The time
which elapsed till the sound was from
three TO five minutes"
Various New Zealand daily journals
gave full descriptions of the phenom-
enon at the time According to the
New Zealand Times the apparent size
of the meteor was quite half that OF
the full moon"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-11-02

even seen chat come outen a wheat fan,
heard bleatin' noise, an goin' TO the
door, i thought the sound come from
the valley not fur from my house.
told my wife that had to go down in
the valley because l heard lamb calm
for help, and let me say right here that
| may be bad in good many things,
but no lamb never called to me in vain.
| thought of Simon Peter that was told
TO feed the Lords sheep-thonght of it
as | stood there in the door with the
snow a-drivin' past me into the house.
My wife said that better not go out in
sich night, specially as | want feelln'
very well; but l lowed that / couldn't
sleep with the pitiful cry of that lamb
a-rlngin' in my ears, so l took my Ian
tern an went down into the valley.
The snow was whirlin' so fast that |
could hardly see whar | was goin', but
at last, comm nearer and nearer to the
bleatin'. | at last found little lamb
with his head stickin' out of snow
drift.
Il took him out; his legs were frozen
still as sticks. took him TO the house
an warmed him by the fire-got bot
tie of milk an fixed it so he could suck.
! built up good fire so he wouldn't get
cold durin' the night, an every time he
would bleat, | would get up an fix his
bottle. The weather staid cold for
long time, an once when the old COW
got out of the lot an wandered OF an
didn't come up in time to give milk Tor
the lamb, searched for her on the
mountain side an way way down in the
valley. 1t was late when | got back
home, an long before | reached the
house, | heard the lamb a-bleatin'. He
seemed to be powerful glad when |
came in with the milk, an the thought
] read in his eyes was: Il never will
forgit you. Wall, to make long story
short, brought up that lamb till he was
as fine a sheep as you ever saw, an in
every look out of his eyes he said that
he never would forgit me. We called
him Bob an he 'peared to like the name.
One day the next fall, Nat Sarschet,
that | owed five dollars, come over to
my house an lowed that he must have
the money. | didn't have it an told
him so. Just then Bob he come up. III
take this sheep says Nat, an he done
il in spite of all my begin an promis-
in that | would pay him as soon as
could get the money. Last spring |
heard that Nat had sold Bob to the Wild
er Dalton. So much for the first part,
an now for the second: A day or two
ago, | was goin' through the woods, car
ryin' bag of corn on my back, an all
at once ker bip something took me an
almost knocked me Senseless.
LAS soon as could git up, | looked
round an thar not more than ten feet
away stood Bob, a-Shakin' of his head.
Gracious alive, Bob, said l, don't you
know me?' He backed little and jest
NJ nvnnctnd Ia 500 the look TINT said
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-11-02
FULL OF PERIL.
A Terrible Adventure in the Empire Shaft
Gold Mine.
Mem York World.

About as tight place as / ever got
into, said Comstock miner, was some
years ago at the old Empire Shaft Gold
Hill. Myself and another man were
down in the shaft for the purpose of
trimming it up, as the swelling ground
was squeezing in the sides and it was
good deal out OF shape.
We were not on cage, but simply
on a platfoI IN of planks, with ropes
going up from the corners to the main
cable, which was OF hemp. When we
reached tight place in the shaft we
stopped and trimmed out the guides.
then went on till another such place
was reached.
At one point, having given the signal
to lower, we went down some distance,
when we finally stuck. We reached for
the bell-rope in order to give the signal
to stop, but we found that IL had wound
round nail some distance above, and
we could not use it. The engineer knew
nothing of our trouble, and continued
to lower away. There was no station
near, and on all sides rose the smooth
walls of the shaft, leaving us suspended
over the horrible chasm.
Down upon us came the heavy cable.
We feared every moment that the plat
form would turn over or would be press
ed through the tight place and drop
under us. All we could do was to get
hold Of the cable and keep the coils
Of it under our feet as it came down.
Should the platform turn over or drop
from under us we might be able TO save
our lives by hanging onto the cable.
We shouted up the shaft till we were
hOarse, but no one heard our cries, and
steadily down came the cable, causing
us great trouble to keep on top OF its
coils. We felt that the great weight
must soon start the platform, wher
both would most likely be buried to the
bottom of the shaft.
Finally, to our great relief, the cable
ceased TO descend. For long time WI
waited in suspense, not knowing wha
would be the next move of those above
At last, however, we heard the voice OF |
man shouting down to us from the near
est station above. We explained oul
perilous position in few words, and a
length the great cable began 10 craw
slowly up the shaft again. Still, being
afraid the platform would give way, W,
were obliged to keep hold of the rop'
and dance about on the coils as they un
wound.
1t was tedious business, and was al
the time matter of the toss of "A cen
whether we got out alive or went to The
bottom: but at last the platform tight
ened up under us, and we began tC
ascend Our work was over then anC
we felt safe. On arrival at the snrfac,
we found that the engineer had con
cluded that we were going too far, anC
hating. or stopping his engine, haC
/ sent a man down to the station 10 fine
out if anything had gone wrong.
may have been in more dangerOu:
places in the mines, but was never in I
place where the danger lasted so long
and all the time up to fever heat. II
was too long time for any mans hail
TO stand on end
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-11-02

he was never goin' to forgit me, he shot
at me and gave me biif that sent me
Sprawlin' on the ground. think he hit
me three times before conld get up, an
then he followed me to the fence, IL
churnin' me every jump of the way
an tickled! Wy, never saw ram en-
ioy himself SO in my life. Well, when
| got home. Sot down and thought a
long time about the ingrattude Of this
life. an then thought | would teach
that rascal a lesson: so got my gun and
went back into the woods. ! held the
gun behind me an poked about. Putty
soon | saw Bob, an he saw me about
the same time. Here he come. | didn't
say a word. He was so tickled that he
thought he'd stop an laugh Il little be-
fore bifTin' me. an he stopped an
Snortcd with delight, an jest then ! ups
with my gun. | never saw such Il sur
priSed sheep. When he saw that | was
fixed for him he tried TO look lOvin. but
let him have it right between the eyes.
That's my statement. iedge, an it shows
want out after meat. but revenge. fur
didn't even skin the rascal; an now,
if YOU want to whip me an make me
work on the county road, all right
'JcemS," Said the Judge. ANY court
that could have the heart to convict
Won oughter be hung. Wider Dalton,
what have you did with that Sleeps
mcat?"
eve got it at home"
"'Wall, you 90 home an roast hin
quarter of it. This court an JeemS air
goin' to take dinner with you to-mor-
rcr." OPIE i. READ.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-11-02
4 Great Swimming Bath.

En- Mayor Carter Harrison writes in
the Chicago Tribune: The greatest
swimming bath in the world is situated
four miles from Helena, Mont. The
building is about $50 feet long by $50
feet wide, with roof 100 feet high,
supported by buttreSSeS in Il single span.
The tank is 300 by 100 feet, at one end
about four feet deep, running to ten or
more at the other Natural hot and cold
water pourS over the huge precipice Of
cvclophean masses of granite ut one
end. about fifty feet wide and forty
feet high. The precipice is pierced by
three large openings, over which the
water pourS in great sheets and Is so
artisticaly erected that one would
easily believe it to be series OF
natural falls. The flow is so large
that the tank is repleniShed several
times A day. The temperature
* 10 me rather high-about
eighty degrees. A swim in its deep
waters. however, is very fine. The
whole is lighted by Gay through great
areas of cathedral glass in different
tints. terra Gotta predominating. The
tonk-house is illuminated at night by
incandescent lights. We saw it only
one dav. but could easily imagine how
beautiful it must look and how gay
scone il must be when three hundred or
four hundred people are in at night
men and gay ladies. | was told that
three hundred of an evening is not an
unusual number, and that it is largely
freouented during nine months OF the
wear. The owner has expended half
million on the house and grounds, bring
inc in his hot water from mineral hot
snrinr some four miles up gorge,and
large supply of cold, pure water also
from the hills.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-11-02
THE DEATH OF LOVE.

too1 Reqdiag Ga--rD Ia Pislade'phia Tunes.
Let me breathe a little.
A lttlc." pleaded Love.
e. For if / smother quite.
You cannot call me when YOU want mo-
A. YOU have done before.
You have called me back so Often
SO often i'm days of wore,
I,,r, 10 life when my life seemed gone.
THAT YOU think | can never be- grown qullec" e
So cold that YOUR kiss cannot warm me-
Into living again.
But hear me, If YOU stiile me
Just "a little too far.
II Won keep your love locked up too long
That i water and bread and mir 10 my soul,
The dov will come when you'll find
am gone beyond recall
Yop will knock perchance at the door OF my
heart.
With little surprise that response Is SOW
4 louder knock-and more surprise;
Twas never So in the past Al. no.
But that. So sweet. 50 sad 50 cold'
Living within. is Dead. my frieni'
And believe me. of all things beyond recall
THAT Love Is. when dead most surely oil All.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-11-02
BOB, THE COSSET.
AFTER A TENDER BRINGING. UP TURNED OUT
AN MIGRATE.
lie Had Some Fun With His Old Masier-Tht
Court Decides That Revenge is Sometimes
Jushfable-The "Widder Dalton
Pays the Fiddler.
ICoPYRIGHTED.

was travelling among the mountains
of East Tennessee, and one day about
noon was casting about for place
where l might get something to eat,
when, like the traveller who discovered
the blind preacher, my eye was at
tracted by number OF horses that
were tied near Il ruinous, old log
house."
Curiosity and hope that might be
on the trail of something to eat, drew
me to the house. Upon entering the
doorway found justice of the pea@
holding court. 1t was a criminal case,
and | discovered the prisoner TO be a
long, lank fellow, with bony face and
a complexion that proclaimed the clay
eater. | fancied that having Killed
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-11-02
WILL MAN EVER FLY?
a Glance at Natural History Indicates
That Tie VIII Not.
Edinburgh Reris,c.

Edinburgh ReCis,r
The giant birds of geology. sucb nc
the dinorniS, the extinct moa Of Nov
Zealand, some of which stood more than
ten feet high, were most of them wing
less, just as still the great ostrich is n
running, not flying bird. The AL
batroSSeS and the cOndorS, giants among
the winged fowl of the present dav, are
only relatively gigantic, since the
weights of their bodies are triflinr com
pared with those of human beings. and
their lofty flights, even if matched by
the ascending powers of balloons, are
unsulted TO the respiratory faculties of
man.
Helmholtz observed that. though
many small birds which are gran
iverouS fly swiftly, the great birds that
are potent on the wing are fish and
flesh eaters, not needing extensive or
ganS of digestion for their concentrated
food. He thinks it. therefore, probable
that in the model of the great Alpine
eagle nature has attained the utmost
limit that can be attained, with muscles
for the working organs and conditions
of nOuriShment as favourable as posi-
bic for the size of creature which is
to raise itself by wings and maintain
itself for any time high in the air.
Under these circumstances he con-
cludeS that it is scarcely to be conSid-
cred probable that man, with the most
Skillfully contrived mechanism, to be
moved by his own muscular power,
would ever be able TO raise his own
weight into the air and sustain it there
for any time worth speaking of. When
vessels filled with gas lighter than air
are employed to supply the lifting pow
er, and yet other vessels are employed
with some stored force to take the
place of our own muscular resources,
the consequential increase of bulk and
weight in the complex machine must in
deed greatly discourage human aSpira-
tionS and longingS for the invention of
artificial wings.
The desire involved, however little it
may be formulated in those aspirations,
is for the capacity to cleave the air like
a merlin or To skim over the waters like
a swift. and for ability to do this or
something like it freely on the impulse
of the moment, not after consultation
with the gas works and fee to the
electrical engineer.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-11-02

some one he was now on trial TO de-
termine whether or not he should be
sent before the grand jury as sort of
sarcastic preliminary to being hanged,
and had begun to pity his probable wife
and presumable children when the
/ Judge said:
"ThiS here court, bein' SOrtcr tired
will now take recess fer halter hour.
| The court has Sot here an chewed new
tobacker till she hide is all about took
often the inside of his mouth, an | wan
ter say that if anybody has got any to-
hacker that is Il lcedle mildcr in its
parts, pass chew of it right up to the
court"
The prisoner took out twist of to-
/ baccoan handed it To the Judge, where
upon the juriSt remarked: This court
thanks you. JeemS. but at the same
time reminds you that the law of this
great land amt To be bought for mess
of pottage nor chaw of tobacker
IIow'S yo' crap, JeemS?'
"Sorter wallerin' with the crab grass
an raSSln' with the rag weed. |
woulder had it all right but this here
trouble come on me. When a man Is
bowed down in the Sperct he amt
thinkin' of craps He iS-a thinkin' Of
the shame that mout fall on him an take
all the color outen his reputation.
YES, that's fact, JeemS.
''What is all this about?' | asked,
turning to a long-haired fellow that sat
near where | stood.
"Wall." lie answered, leaning over
and turning loose squirt Of tobacco
extract that might have Singed cat.
"JeemS Timberly he shot sheep an |
reckon he's in fur it
They don't intend TO hang him, do
they?"
no. wus'n that. They'll hit him
about fifty laShes with Il hickoryaan'
/ then make him work the country road
some day when thar'S horse show IN
the ncighborhood
At this iuncture the judge pounded
on the table. Come TO order now. The
court is about to put on the solemn
gyarment of the law of this here free
an mighty land, an if any man SO fur
furgitS himself a To interrupt the pro
ceedin'S. he'll fall under the witherin
displeaSure of yourn truly. Now, let ;
cit M this business, fur this court has
other affairs on hand. This court must
20 some time this cvenin' and reprimand
man that pzened his dog. JcemS, as |
said mt the outset of this trial. | never
was more shocked in my life. For many
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-11-02
ENASPERATION.


Emma L. ODper IN JHdge
I'm timid love I woocd with zeal and fire
Her family: sought favor with her sire
Hy gifts of books galore and wulking->tlcAs
And silver match->afeS: till did prr-pirr.
discussed the daily news and politics.
I'm trembling love / sent her mother flowers
Al vast expense: eNcrted all my powers:
Carried her packages ana held her shawl
AMI l,.d about dyspepsia Hours aud hours
PLAYED checkers with her brother young and
small.
And yea-i,ome. Walked with her uncle; took
Her aunt to drive: made presents to the coon.
The gardener. and meath the weak hlh-
strain
knew with the shrinking OF my porkctbook.
A los, of flesh and rceliug of the brain
What minglinc. then. of happiness and ire
Ofbli,s and rage. when my thr1bbins desire
nam ed forth-aud she with downca>i smile
Nurmured with tender color mounting hIsh,I'
yes. dearest. yes. We hAed you "'' INV
ff.
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LIES PARADOX.


,,,..,,. o-. the happiest who know most pain.
T., oven the saddest life. to every tear
4 thousand smiles are shed, our rainest year
-. Golden ring o'ermeaSures sorrow tram.
~ noint me out that form that % er the bler
~, LONGEST lingerie. shaking in sincere
F%uberancy Of grief. has often lain
i-non a MONDAY couch in ectaSX
y Pu .",ii,igbt wretchedness and Will say;
her * The heart that beats the quickest time
LII loves soft fnger-touch. Capacity
~ SC'' s,'tfering is but that for ioyng-they
Who sound woes depths the heights Oh rapture
climb