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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-06-07

Tmr Brooklyn Times is the >taunchest
Kind of "a stauuch Republican paper aud
one of it's proprietors was very promi-
nentIy mentioned for the Brooklyn post
mastcrship, but il says regarding
QrAY'- silence under the grave charges
against him that 10 is ~thc plain aud
manifest duty of every Republican
newspaper iu tine country 20 insist that
QUAY shall waste uo more time, but
proceed 90 yiudicatc his honor without
DELAY"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-06-07

TIM proposed reform iulcgal veroias'
now being undertaken by the Pitt>ourg
bar Association. and commended oy
the RECI~rEE some time ago. is taking
practical shapcand should be generally
adopted. The committee has already
succeeded iu reducing deed now re-
quiring 37S words Co 96 words and the
g6 words are just as binding as the 3.S.
Under the new form a man may cif-
cicuuy mortgage his property ina s3'
words. where 10 now takes 6S5. The re-
form is % good one.
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St. Landry democrat., 1890-02-01
How Thimbles Are Made.

The way thimbles are made in England
and in this country is simple enough. Dies
of the different sizes are used, into which
the metal, whether gold. silver or steel, is
pressed. The hole. punching, finishing,
polishing and tempering are done after
ward. Celluloid and rubber are moulded
The best thimbles are made in France,
where the process is more thorough.
Strange as it may seem, the French con-
slider durability In their gold thimbles as
the first requisite. The first step in the
making of Paris gold thimble is the cut
of sheet iron. This is brought to red
heat, placed over a graduated hole in an
iron bench, and hammered down into it
with punch. This hole is in form of the
thimble. The iron takes its shape and is
removed from the hole.
The little indentations to keep the needle
from slipping are made in it, and all the
other finishing strokes of a perfect thimble
put on it. The iron is then made into
steel by process peculiar to the French
thimble- maker, and is tempered, polished
and brought to deep blue color. A thin
sheet of gold is then pressed into the in
terror of the thimble and fastened there by
mandril. Gold leaf is attached to the
outside by great pressure, the edges of the
leaf being fitted in and held by small
grooves at the base of the thimble. The
article is then ready for use.
The gold will last for years. The steel
never wears out, and the gold can readily
be replaced at any time. Nowhere else in
the world are gold thimbles made in that
way.-SeZected
St. Landry democrat., 1890-02-01
A Touching Incident.

Miss Maude Andrews, of the Atlanta
Constitution editorial staff, in a f, aiing
trib4t 9 to the late Henry w Grady, wr;te
evil do [ remember how he spent his
last years holiday season and the little
story he told me of it as | sat in his office
one morning & ter New Years. He had
visited his mother in Athens Christians
week, and he said i don't think ever
felt happier than when | reached the little
home of my boyhood l got there at night.
She had saved supper for ME, and she had
remembered all the things that | liked.
She toasted me some cheese over the fire.
Why, | hadn't tasted anything like it since
put off my round Jackets. And then she
had some homemade candy she knew |
used to love, and bless her heart, | Just
felt IL again rs we sat and talked, and she
told me how she prayed for me and
thought of me, and what q brightness I
had been 20 her life, and how she heard
me coming home in every boy that whis-
tied along the street. When | went to
bed she came and tucked the covers all
around me in the dear old way th@t EoIe
but mothers hands know, and felt so
happy and SO peaceful and SO full Of ten
der love and tender memories that | cried
happy, grateful tears until | went to slee
When he finished his eyes were full e..
tears, and so were mine. He brushed
hand across his brow swiftly and sal
laughingly: why, what are you crying
about? What do you know shout all this
sort of feelingY
St. Landry democrat., 1890-02-01
II Burdette Were q Woman.

shouldn't try to be man. Cut thai
out and paste it on your looking glass
daughter, and it will be an ornament oil
grace unto thy head, and chains about thy
neck many times day.
| shouldn't shudder and groan every
time the name of the monster was men
toned, but | would studiously avoid &C.
quiring the lightest of his many accom-
plishments and the best of his manifold
ways.
would never learn to lay a fire in
range or fireplace. Every time touched
a fire, summer or winter, would put it
! dead out. Then I'd never be expected to
make one.
The first loaf of bread I baked, l would
let drop on the dog and kill hin. Then
I'd never be asked to bake bread again,
and I'd get new dog.
When | descended into the laundry, l
should manage to bring out all the fancy
fannels white as ghosts, and all the white
shirts as blue as the skies of June. Then
I'd never be asked to assist at the wash
tub again.
If | had to sit on the front seat when
asked to drive, would carry large sun
umbrella, and gouge the drivers eyes out,
and run the team into fence corner the
first mile out. Then I'd get the back seat
on the shady side ever afterwards.
would always sit sideways in a street.
ca Then | would have plenty of room.
| would wear a carriage dress in a street.
car, if had no other place in which to
show it off.
l would smash something choice and
expensive every time | swept room or
busted parlor. Then I'd never be asked
to do such work.
In church | would never rise during the
singing, ard never kneel during prayers.
Then people would notice me and say ::
"Who is that pretty girl with such lovely
eyes?"
At the theatre l would wear the biggest
hat obtainabie.
At cricket and lawn tennis matches, I
would sit in the front row and raise my
parasol.
l would cultivate such charming help
lessness. sucA hopeless innocence, such
pretty, childish ignorance, such fascinat-
ing dependence, such dainty baby ways,
that people would say "Oh, we must
take Care of her she doesn't understand
such things" Then all my life long, l
would be petted and coddled and fondled
and cared for in thousand ways, where
more Independent women have to s'hustle"
for themselves.
That is, daughter, if other woman
would care for such sweet little bit of
helplessness. Maybe they would. You
know better than l do how women regard
that sort of a woman.
But you can gamble your piece of mind,
yonr love of ease, and all your enjoyments
of life, that the Monster man wouldn't
torment the solitude of such q woman with
his presence longer than day or two, and
she would thus be spared one of the great
est annoyances to which womankind is
subjected. j. Burdette, in Yon-
kers Statesman.
St. Landry democrat., 1890-02-01
The Ungrammatical Policeman.

A man was lying stretched out on one OF
the benches in the Court House park the
other night. 1t was nearly midnight, the
leaves ratified dismally in the autumn wind
the park was long ago deserted and the
bench was anything but pleasant resting
place, yet the man lay there until police
man rudely shook his shoulder and said
You can't lay here"
''l'm not laying here, SIR" replied the
But you are what'er you givin' me %
But I'm not. :"
ooh, come off Get up or I'll call the
wagon. You can't lay here, | say
But | say Pm not laying here
"Well, what are you doing then, you
blame fool?'
'I'm lying here, sir; rot laying I'm no
hen"
"Well, lying then" said the bluecoat in
intense disgust; You can't lie here,
then"
''But differ with you there. | say |
can lie here"
And | say you can't"
"But can"
"Well, say you can't" and the officer
gave strong tug at his coat collar which
sent his hat rolling off On to the grass, not
withstanding the explicit orders to keep
off
my friend" said the weary one, as he
arose and prepared to accompany the Of
fcer, 'tyou could never follow ' our calling
in Boston. You say cannot lie on that
bench when have already proven to you
my eminent ability in that direction. Had
you remarked to me, s'You may not"
But the copper was pulling the box by
this time. and told his ward to drop his
chin "-Ioledo Blade.
St. Landry democrat., 1890-02-01
he lay thinking quite busily As he started

he lay thinking quite busily. AS he started
| off to school, his mother called
"Be sure and get another book, Harry
and tell the boys to come here tonight
and read them if they want to-
The boys we're thunderstruck at the in
vitation. Rob Ellis, who was leader of the
crowd, was disposed to scold:
such cad as you are, Harry Nelson,
to blab everything to your mother"
"Well, what of it? She enjoys them. l
guess if can read them my mother can. -
Rob was little confused at Mrs. Nell
sons literary taste, but next evening
Harry coaxed Rob around for the evening.
The reading began, and although the boys
took turns about reading, it tagged. The
color would creep up into Rob's face when
he read some of the tall, Dragging talk
that some of the characters INDUCED in !;
it didn't seem just the thing before Mrs.
Nelson. Before the evening was well over
both boys were completely nauseated with
the book. When they were alone, Harry
said:
81 don't believe I'll finish that book,
mother; don't think it's NICE
"Why not, Harry?"
"Well, it all seems to me as if it couldn't
have happened"
Mrs. Nelson wisely kept silent. There
is time when silence is so much more
effective. If mothers only knew this bet
ter, their influence over their boys would
be so much greater, for there is nothing
boys and men, too, so utterly detest as
constant nagging and pointing out moral
in everything. The world cannot be re-
formed in day, but great deal can be
done toward it if every mother would re-
form her own boy. Woman need not sigh
for missions when the greatest of all mis-
sions lies at her own door.
In after years Harry Nelson said that he
owed all that he was and hoped to be to
the wisdom and gentle tact of his mother.
Was not this sphere enough for one wo-
man? Can you suggest any better way to
have dealt with the matter ?-7he Ladies'
Home Companion.
St. Landry democrat., 1890-02-01
THE LITTLE KINGS KINGDOM,

In the hush of the Christmas night he looks
Out on the world from his bed of straw;
The wise men have knelt with their cfferng
meet,
And laid them down at his dimped feet:
The angels have trembled and trilled their song
All mystic and holy it sweled along;
But now in the silence the little King looks
Where the night-shadows culver and wave il
awe.
Beyond the night-shadows and on and on,
Past broad, sparkling streams, DER the fathom
less deep,
Through fair smiling valleys where wild bios
SONS blow,
And over the realm of the wonderful snow,
From his manger of straw looks the little King
Not whisper the glorious tidings to ring
Beyond the night-shadows and on and on
Through the Kingdoms that laugh and the king
doms that weep.
His mother bends over and kisses his brow
And turns her brave eyes to the alI-seeing blue
The kings Of the earth have crown and a
throne,
The little Kings curls are his crown alone;
But through the nlght-shadows and on and on
He sees his own kingdom in darkness and dawn.
His mother bends over and kisses his brow
And the little King smiles in her face so true.
Oh, where may the little Kings kingdom be?
Others are ruling with might and with strife,
In garments of purple, in glitter of gold,
In the flash of the sword and the banner I'M
rolled.
Through the night-shadcws and on and on,
in the g int of the moon, in the streak of the
dawn.
Oh, where may the little Kings kingdom be?
IT'S the kingdom of love and the little Kings
life
Louise r. Baker, in our Little Ones and The
NurseTu.
St. Landry democrat., 1890-02-01
?. eparing to Kick.

A well-known citizen was discovered
going through some singular motions in
one of the corridors of the city hail yester-
day, and an acquaintance who ran up
against him cried out :
what on earth are you up to now2"
''Taking off my diamond pin"
''But where's your watch ?''
tEn my coat-tail pocket
''Afraid of being robbed ?'
"Oh, no; it's business
'How?
"Why the assessors have put me down
for four dollars tax on personal property,
and Pm going in to kick
"But you've got horse"
Yes, but he wasn't in the day they
Called
''And piano"
'tThat happened to be at the factory to
be revarnished''
"But your bank account p
''Sh It's in my wife's name Keep
quiet. Now, then, Pm ready to go in and
tell them that the people a1e ready TO take
up arms to rid themselves of this terrible
burden of high taxation. "-Detroit Free
Press,
St. Landry democrat., 1890-02-01
An Honorable Merchant.

Several years ago a Boston merchant
failed in business, owing many thousands
more than he could hope to pay, wi no
assets but health, strength and strict in
tegrity. Among his creditors was brother
merchant to whom he owed $11 900, which
in course of time was charged to profit and
loss and probably forgotten. Some years
afterward the creditor died, aud all evil
dence of the debt died with him, his child
rem having no knowledge of it. But tickle
fortune unexpectedly smiled upon the
bankrupt, and his efforts to recover him
self and regain his lost wealth were
crowned with success. He remembered
his debt, and outlawed though it was, de-
termiDed to pay it. He svaght out his
creditors children, and relating the cir
cumstances, insisted upon their receiving
the amount of the debt, with compound
interest, paying them upward of $40, 900,
exseting but one condition, that the fact
should never be mentioned publicly and
it is now made known for the first time
after he has been long in his grave. 1t is
fair to presume that other obligations were
met in like msnner.-Boston Budget.
St. Landry democrat., 1890-02-01
Queer Things in Pawn.

Passing along Third avenue yesterday
saw well known pawnbroker, whom we
will call Mr.. X, smiling as if something
very droll and pleasant hsd occurred.
'What are you smiling about, Mr.. X ~
I asked. "Is business briskY'
ooh, business is about as usual, but do
you see that fashionably dressed young
man just turning the corner2 Well, he
has just left with me half dozen quart
bottles of champagne, on which lent him
$40. 1t is as good, almost, as money.
Why did he pawn it? l give it mp. Per-
haps his father has lots of wine in his eel
lar but will not give him pocket money.
Oh, take in lots of curious things. An
actress left me her child one time and I
gave her $25 on it. She redeemed the lit
tie one an hour later. On another occasion
got ina 32-pound salmon, alive. What
do you think of that? And at another
time sllovely Newfoundland pup which l
have now grown up to dog, and which |
would not part with for $100.-Neao York
Press
St. Landry democrat., 1890-02-01
How the Piano Grew,

The piano, as we see it to-day, is the
growth of centuries of invention. In its
infancy it was harp with two or three
strings. From time to time more strings
were added, and after a while the cithara
was born. The cithara was in the shape
of The letter P, ard had ten strings. 1t
took many centuries for musicians to get
the idea of stretching the strings across
an open bog, but somewhere about the
year 12f this was thought of. and the
dulcimer made it's appearance, the strings
being struck with hammers. For another
hundred years these hammers were held
in the hands of the player, and then a
genius Invented the key board, which being
struck by the fingers moved the hammers.
This instrument was called a clavicyther
ium, or keyed cithara. This underwent
somo modification and improvements from
time to time. In Queen Elizabeth's time
it was called q virginia.. Then it was
called spine, because the hammers was
covered with sp;nes of quilts. which struck
or caught the strings of wires and pro-
duced the sound. From 100 to 1900 it
was much enlarged and improved, and
called harpsichord, and this was the in
strument that Lady Washington, Mrs
Hamilton, and the fine ladies of the Revo-
lutionary times played on. In ITO Barto-
omeo Cristofoli, an Italian, invented key
or keyboard, such as we have now sub
stantially, which caused hammers to
strike the wires from above, and thus de-
veloped the piano. In the past one hun
dred and fifty years there is no musical in
strument which has so completely absorbed
the inventive faculty of man as the piano
At the present day the upright piano has
the field almost entirely to itself, and has
reached such high grade of perfection in
shape, tone and appearance, that there
would appear to be no possibility of
further mprovement. -Eachangs
St. Landry democrat., 1890-02-01
WIT AND HUM0R.
never

( toLro:. m&y puG man W, b. never
. prop him up.-Rll&klH.
/ hero is man who refrains from eat
ing things that do not agree with him
Atchis0n Globe.
Every man is a missionary now and for
ever for good or evil, " neither he intends
C. designs it or not.
Avarice. most easily besetting sin, is
most easily prevented and best removed
by generosity.-AdUance.
| There il no good substitute for wisdom,
| but silence il the best that has been dis
covered yet.-Josh Billings.
The man who cannot sing should not be
made to sing He will only distress The
balance Of the congregational o. Pic
0yat1ae.
The tale-bear and the tale-hearer
should both be hung up, back to back, one
by the tongue and the other by the ear
South.
The darkest hour in the history of any
young man is when he sits down to study
how to get money without honestly earn
ing it.--Horace Greeley.
"But, my dear woman" said De Broot,
''be reasonable" II won't be reasonable"
she snapped, pettishly. Every well, then;
be woman. ''-MercAant Iraoeler.
A girls sincere friendship is good
thing for young man to have, but the
young man who is in love with the girl
has no earthly use for it. - S0naer0ilIe
Journal.
It is happy thing for us that this is
really all we have to concern ourselves
about-what is to 60 next. No man can
do the second thing. He can do the first.
George Macdonald.
First Flower Girl wonder if could
sell some roses to the owner Of this office?'
Second Flower Girl - ''You could not
''Have you tried ?'' "No, but tbs the type.
writer in there is a man. "-Sociaty.
Caffie-"You jiss put one shot in that
target. So it was chance shot, shuah."
Jetferson-''You fool Niger, al dem six
shots went froo dab fust hole. "-Aunsey's
Weekly.
True wisdo n is thing very extraordi-
nary. Happy ara they that have it; and
next to them, not those many that think
they have it, but those few that g. are sensi-
bic OF their own defects and imperfections
and know that they have it not
''Why do you visit those odious Browns7
Do you like them?" Il hate them! But
Mrs. liner visits them and consequently
do "But | also spoke to Mrs liner about
the Browns last week, and she said she Wis
tied them because you do."-Society.
Bobby-"Pa, what do they call a man
who has two wives?" Pa-"A bigamist,
Bobby" Bobby-"Pa, suppose he has
more than two wives; what is he then ?"
Pa-''A blamed fool Now don't bother
NE with any more questions. "-Judge.
Mr.. Masop-"We's kim t. git married"
Rev. Mr.. Dixon-"Why, Sam, how yo'
gwine to support wife ?" Mr. Mason
yves gwine inter d laundry biz" Mr.
Dixon-"Yo' can't washr' Mr.. Mason
No, sab but Pse gwine ter furnish d SLED
clothes. "-JudQe.
St. Landry democrat., 1890-02-01
ANDRoMEDA AND PERsEUs.

A Perseus skins Aethiop's smiling skies,
With Mercury's wings the hero swiftly flies,
Fresh from the fate a Polydectes grimly rues,
With hostile hand, Danas son pursues.
Chained to the rock on Cepheus' frowni1g coast
His child prey to beauty's senseless boast,
With hideius mien the the dragons Shiny length
Curves on the deep, and curbs his Titan strength.
With questioning looks Perseus eyes the maid
A tender pity DER his wond ring features played.
Swift as a flash he darts thro' aerial spsce;
Hides in his pouch the stern Medusa's face.
His harpe flashed with every deadly wound,
Now, here, now there, the SAVIOR circles round.
The writhing coil still lashes to evade
The skillful thrusts from Herme's crooked blade
The monsters blood dyes every struggling wave
That soon will be the dragons restless grave.
The sea nymphs fee with looks Of fell dispair,
While believing thunder fills the tranquil air.
Well won, the prize that Feed victor's side;
A mothers hope, fathers daring pride.
On to the feast that waits the happy pair,
Where golden hours beguile tie frowns of care.
Yet Phineus dared TO live to see his promised
bride
Snatched from his arms, by Neptuue's might
defied
With cringing fear the coward creeps away,
Winged with the speed that timid tn lights obey
What warlike menacefrom Phineus lips,
With minions bold all armed from crown t. hips
To claim promise that kind heaven fer end
Should have some better object. or see me
fairer end.
A son of Jove by prisoned Dane in her braZen
tower
Born of the shine from Leus golden shower.
With Hermes' wirgs, and grave Minerva's slield
Shall never to craven Phineus yield.
Back! all guests, with faces to th3 wall,
That none may see towards righteous fall,
Uplfted spears are aimed at Perseus' breast,
Fixed are the arms, each throbless heart at rest
The deadly shafts all leveled to be thrown.
But gorgon's gaze has turned the men to stone.
Foul betrayer of a solemn rite. you go not hence.
Thus do Il make my enemy my Defence
Your fleeing life, shall live in senseless stone,
That you may grace Cepheus royal throne.
-JuniuS L. Hampstead.
St. Landry democrat., 1890-02-01
The Little BootbIack.

A hundred years ago there lived little
boy in Oxford whose business it was to
clean the boots of the students of the
famous university there. He was poor,
but bright and smart.
Well, this lad, whose name was George,
grew rapidly in favor with the students.
His prompt and hesrty way of doing
things, and his industrious habits aad
faithful deeds. won their admiration. They
saw in him the promise of noble man,
and they proposed to teach him little
every day. Eager to learn, George &C
cepted their proposal and he soon sur
passed his teachers by his rapid progress.
ga boy who can blacken boots well can
study WE'LL" said one of the students.
"Keen as briar," said another, land
pluck enough to make hero"
But we cannot stop to tell of his patience
and perseverance. He went on step by
step, just IS the song goes
lone step and then another
until he became mana learned and clio.
quent man, who preached the gospel to
admiring thousands. The little bootblack
became the renowned pulpit orator, George
WhiteGeld. -eabbnth Reading.
St. Landry democrat., 1890-02-01
Money From a Hole.

An old farmer in the Granite State one
Sunday morning started to wind up his
great silver watch. and found that the key
was filled with dirt. Being unable to dig
the latter out with a pin, the farmer
drilled a hole in the key, and with single
breath blew all the dust out. Then he sat
down to think, and within month had
patented the hole. To-day in Lebanon,
N. H., there is large factory running by
electric power, wherein are manufactured
daily thousands and thousands of watch
keys of every possible size, shape and de-
sign. Each one of these keys contains the
hole which has been patented by the
farmer. The latter has already made 8
forlune.-Auburn Gazette.