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The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-06-11

You can't toll how things will eud-what
pegins as q little lark may become a great
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-06-11

GLENN's Sulphur Soap is q genuine rem
edy for Skin Diseases.
Hills Hair and Whiskor Dye, so cents.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-06-11

"A sPonTsMAN's paper has an article telling
"bow to mako fles., The season Is coming
when most people would prefer to know
how 10 unmulto thom. -Somervllle Journal.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-06-11

PAIN from Indigestion, dyspepsia and too
hearty eating is relieved at once by. taking
one OF Carter's Little Liver Pills immedi.
ntely nfter dinner. Don'tforEet this.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-06-11

BRoNCulTIs is cured by frequent small
doses of Piso's Cure for Consumption.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-06-11

To A LANpsMAN Ii would seem that a cut
ter should DO at homo In a chopping ca
Boston Courier.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-06-11

The gontlor sen often suffer from pecul-
lar weakness thatglves them great distress.
Let them not suffet. A use OF DR.. John
Bulls S~arsaparilla strengthens the female
organization, apd they soon grow strong
and robust, 1t Is woman's best remedy for
weakness and declining health.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-06-11

BE not deceived by the grease on the slide
Of folly; there are slivers under tn. Y.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1891-06-11

THE polite reporter wrote That "Miss
ChroInatic rendered several piano pieces
but the printer set up that she 'rendcd the
piano to pieces. "-Exchange
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-07-08

deieatedtho measure offered prohibiting
the sale OF liquor in the district, He
gave it to them right and left, and the
senator was 81. pleased that he dropped
a ten dollar contribution in the basket.
Don't be afraid Of your salary. ! can
understand how you could sell US black
people, but i never could see
how you can sell your own
people to the saloon and the devil. You
love the gold better than the right.
Asto personal liberty Mrs. Hector said
they were not after personal liberty.
They were after the hearts of the moth
ers Of the land and the souls Of fathers,
sons and daughters. If the men had as
much courage rs the.women they would
step up to the ballot box and send
liquor to hell, where it belonged.
He said the temperance question was
the place to settle the southern ques.
ton. He was recently in the State ot
Virginia, in the town of Harriso sonburg,
helping them fight the saloon, and
white gentlemen, exc ederates, who
had bought and sold his people, took
him to their homes and treated him
with high respect. He was put IN q
room with elegant furniture; a great,
handsome mirror, and a great, soft bed
with ruffled pillows. When he awoke
in the morning he looked in the mirror
and saw himself almost buried there IN
the white ruftles and spreads. BE looked
like fly in milk pail. He could not,
said he, have gone South on any other
question and been treated SO.
Just before Mr.. Hector closed he re.
cited poem, zone Glass More, land
retired amidst loud applause.
Colonel Copeland was on the pro
gramme for the evening. BE was to
give his popular lecture on "Snobs and
Snobbery,"
In spite Of the terrible storm, he
spoke to about l 200 people, and was as
interesting as evers
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-07-08

quiet again. Even the guards, who
were supposed to have an inkling OF
what was going on, ceased walking and
stared up at that long slender white
pole which was outlined out against a
leaden western sky.
At5:15 o'clock the first rays OF the
morning sun topped the eastern bluff
and frightened up in spots the ivy Of
the prison house. When everything
looked gray and gloomy again the same
half man was visible. A pair OF hands
fumbled awhile with the halliards, and
then q square Of blue bunting crawled
slowly up the pole, 1t was 5:l5 and
Smiler, the salvation army boy slayer,
had given life for a life five minutes
before.
Il took the attendant FIVE minutes to
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-07-08
THE OHIO RIVER.
Census statistics Regarding the Traflc on
Itand It's Tributaries.


WAsn1SoToN, July 7.-The census
bureau to-day issued bulletin upon
the subject Of transportation on the
Ohio river and its tributaries above
Cincinnati. The number OF miles
OF navigable water on the Ohio
and its tributaries is stated to be
OPS, excluding the 500 miles from Gin
cinnati to the mouth of the Ohio. The
cost OF improvements on these waters
was S12,129,7l3. The total number OF
passengers, including ferry passengers,
carried during the year Of 1889 was
2,5TS, 1896, and the total number Of tons
OF freight moved was 10,744,005. The
tributaries Of the Ohio which are con-
sidered in the bulletin are the Monon-
gahela, Allegheny, Muskingum, Little
Kanawha, Great Kanawha and Big
Sandy. As to floating equipment the
Ohio, together with its tributaries, is
credited with 5,2l4 boats. The amount
of coal shipped from principal coal
points is given as follows:
From Pittsburgh, Pa, 3,0S7,2 tons;
Point Pleasant, w. Va, ], ,087 ,s67 Pome-
roy, Ohio, 1S6,9O0 tons; Ashland, KY,
1850 tons; Bellairs, Ohio, 1892 tons.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-07-08

sought elsewhere. The autopsy on the
bodies was commenced early in the
morning and lasted well in the after
noon. Those who conducted the oper-
ations were Drs. Mcdonald, Rockwell,
Southwick, Daniels and Prof. Laudy.
The body Of Jugiro was the first to be
placed under the dissecting knife. As
10 the result of these examinations
there appears to be difference Of opin-
ion among those who took part in the
autopsy.
Some Of the physicians assert that no
burns or marks were discovered, while
others tell exactly an opposite story.
DR.. Rockwell said that the dynamo
worked perfectly, and that the force Of
the current was between ] 800 and 1000
volts.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-07-08
Aal11ITARY sPEorAc1E
Enjoyed by Eugland's Royal Gpest-l
Flood Interrupts Banduet

Enjoyed by Eugland's Royal Guest-A
Flood Interrupts n banquet.
LONDON, July 7-After brealfasting
with Queen Victoria the Emperor drove
to the park, where he critically watched
the musical ride of the Life Guards, q
most skillful equestrian performance.
The Prince OF Wales, the Duke Of
Edinburgh, the Duke OF Anhalt Dessau,
the Duke of Connaugh and Prince
Henry, OF Battenberg, all in brilliant
uniforms, and the Princess OF Wales,
Princess Beatrice, the Princess Yictorig
OF Wales, and the Duchess Of Eite,
smartly attired in morning dress,
Joined the emperor in watching the Life
Guards magnificent ride. The Guards
exhibition provoked the greatest admi-
ration on the part of the Emperor, who
was very enthusiastic over 1t, saying
that 1t was one OF the finest military
spectacles that he had ever seen.
Owing to the old fashioned way In
which news is circulated here, and from
the fact that the newspaper representa-
tiyes have few facilities for Wsgather-
ing placed at their disposal at Windsor,
~ ulu uOb OcGOlhG BShVAaiAl AAgWh HLl-
til this morning that there was an ex.
citing scene OF the royal banquet given
It Windsor Castle last night in honor
/ the Queens Imperial grandson. It
lpears that large water pipe burst
i the banquet hall, while the Queen
ias entertaining the Emperor and q
i party OF distinguished guests, o major
ivy of whom were members Of the Royal
and Imperial families. The result was
that the hall was almost flooded with
water.
Finding that the combined efforts Of
the Queens attendants and Of the castle
servants were powerless to check the
flow OF water from the broken pipe Il
was found necessary to summon the
fire brigade, who eventually succeeded
in turning the water Of Sometime
elapsed before order was restored and
Queens guests were ableto resume their
seats ut the table and continue the ban
quet in the dampened hall.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-07-08
THE EARLY REPORTS.

How the Reporters on the outside Got
the News = Events of tho Morning
Hours.
SING SING, n. Y, July 7.-The killing
of tho four murderers, slocum, smiler,
Wood and Jugiro, was done this morn,
ing. slocum was killed at 4:42!. Smil.
er was put to death at 5:14. Wood met
his doom at $3.50. Jugiro was killed at
0:O6.
The lights in the prison buildings are
usually put out at 4, o'clock every morn
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-07-08

The autopsy were performed by four
o'clock and the corps of physicirns left
the depot short time after that for
New York and Albany. DR.. Mcdonald,
who conducted the execution and
autopsy, said:
"Unconsciousnesswas immediate, and
the men suffered no pain. They made
no resistance at all" -,
"Do you denythatth they wereburned ~
~ decline to be interviewed on that
The bodies of Jugiro, Wood and slo-
cum will be buried late tonight in the
potter's field. Smiler's body will be
removed by his wife in the morning
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-07-08
4 PAINLESS DEATH.
mo Four New York Murderers Die
by Electricity.
TgE EXECUTION A SUCCESS
IN Every Particular, Unconscious
ness Being instantaneous.
TWELVE WITNESSES PRESENT.

Al Sworn to Secrecy, but a Detailed
Rcport Secured by the Industrious
reporters Notwithstanding the
low...ThcIr Vigil Outside the Dead
Liue..How the Night was spent--The
Condemned Men Meet Death Un-
sInchingIy-Full Details of the Exc
cution.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-07-08

ing or few minutes after that time.
At that hour there is enough gray day
light to permit the keepers to walk
about without falling over things.
This morning there was change.
The lights went out half an hour earli-
er than usual and those of the curious
ones who remained in front OF the pris-
on all night noticed that something was
happening. The watchers outside had
grown very suspicious of the new war
den Brown. They thought it would be
Just like him to execute the men at
some unexpected time, and then say
nothing about it for hours afterwards.
So when at $3.50 the lights went down,
it was believed that something was to
be done with the dynamo.
The dynamo was running. The tests
were making, and, for all those on the
outside knew, the guards might be
binding man like sheep on bundle
Of fagots before taking him into that
waiting chair.
TIRED REPORTERS.
|, The day broke this morning upon n
row of very tired men who sat on the
stone wall opposite the prison, outside
the dead line. The guards who patroll-
ed the dead line had turned very in
solent. Their long walk OF the night
rufiled their tempers considerably.
The hour Of 5 O'Clock came and went
and there was nothing to show. There
was not hint from those walls.
The curious group lounging on the
stone steps and the bluff opposite the
prison, did not observe half of a mans
body stuck out of the west window Of
the cupola. The crowd opposite the jail
did not see him because the cupola was
between, but il they had looked closely
they would have seen the twin halliards
moving as they moved yesterday. 1t
took the man up there less than half q
minute to make q bit OF bunting fast to
tho ropes, and then there fluttered
gently up to the peak OF the pole small
white flag.
That was the prearranged signal that
Sloeum the base ball player had died
lust FIVE minutes before. Before the tldg
was set the news was ona dozen waiting
wires. A close calculation fixes the
time Of Slocum's death at 4.42!.
The flag hung against the pole Imply
for q couple Of minutes, and then it
came down and was pulled inside.
WAITING FOR TIE NEXT.
There was little hustle outside when
the white flag went up, but as soon as
It was pulled down everything became
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-07-08
oUAY,s REPLY.

The Attacks on Him Come from Demo-
cratic Free Traders.
PHILADELPHIA, PA, July To-day
Senator Quay, in answer to the address
Of the independents, said: ~ would
Just like to say that SO far as it refers to
me it is false from beginning to end.
The gentlemen who signed this address
are not Republicans. All Of them voted
for Pattison for Governor, many OF them
voted for Cleveland, and you will find
among them large number who are
free traders.n
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-07-08
FARArERs, ALLIANCE.
Leaders ofthe People. Party Counting ON
big Vote.


CINCINNATI, o., July 7.-H. E. Taube-
neck, chairman of the National Com
mittoe of the Peoples party, is at
Frankfort, KY, taking personal control
Of the organization OF the State for the
purpose of polling heavy vote for the
Peoples party candidates at the election
to be held August 8.
Mr.. Robert Schilling will join him on
the 18th inst. It is understood that
they are hopeful OF large results. A
private circular has been issued by
Secretary schilling, in which he says:
"a victory, or oven large vote in Ken
lucky, will do US more good in other
States than hundreds Of speeches and a
hundred thousand documents"
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-07-08
COL. ALEX. CAalPBELn
To Be Nominated Special worlds Fair
Commissioner 70 Australia.

Commissloner 70 Anstralla.
CHICAGO, July 7.-col. Alexander
Campbell, of West Virginia, win to-
morrow be nominateda as special worlds
fair commissioner to Australia. he rep
resented the United States at the Mel
bourne exposition. Henry Ballsssas.
United States Consul at Bombay, win
be named as commissioner to India.
Both appointments are subject to con-
flrmation by the directory
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-07-08

A caterer gives it as his experience
that whore the guests-at a little gather
log know each other well at least % per
cent more Is eaten than would be other.
Wise.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-07-08

The death OF the four men appeared
to the observer to be painless. Death
came like fash. II was one awful
shock and then oblivion. The doctors
took charge Of the four bodies tmmedis
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-07-08

For West Virginia, Western PcunSyivania md
Ohio shower, lllghtly cooler, north winds
TBNPEnATulE YEsIERDAY, n,
q furnished By c. scuNErE druggist ope,i
Honse corner:
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-07-08

as Senator Edmunds was present. BE
swelled himself up for while and
found he couldn't make it 60, so he let
himself down and waded In. Senator
,Edmunds was one OF tile senators who
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-10-29
Photography and Crime.

The exhibition of the Photographic Soci-
ETY. of Great Britain, which opens to the
public this morning. is of great interest,
both from the artistic and the scientific
point of view. DR.. P. Jeserich. German,
has devoted his attention to the develop
ment'of photography as means of assisting
the administration of the law. The screen
which contains DR.. Jeserich's plates is one
of the chief curiosities of the exhibition.
He has shown, by enlarging photographs
taken upon sensitized plates, that it is pos
sible to detect certain kinds of forgery in
the most unimpeachable way; for example.
where figure or word has been altered
and this is one of the cOmmOnest kinds of
fOrgery-the different inks employed appear
in the plate in quite different colors. Simi.
larly where name has first been written
in pencil and then traced over in ink, how
ever carefully the pencil marks have been
erased, some faint traces of the plumbago
are sure to remain in the intersticeS of the
paper. and these are revealed in the magni-
fled photograph. DR.. Jeserich's photo
graphs of hair and of pure and impure
blood, before and after treatment with re-
ducing agents. are also most curious, and
several stories are told of the use that has
been made of them in murder trials in Ger.
many.-LOndOn Times.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-10-29
The sPrOcrustean Bed..'

If you have an opportunity to visit PEN
itentiary, do so. note the difference in the
men who are convicted for the same crime
say the crime of murder in the second de.
gree. You wilIsee as marked contrast in
those men as you will find in any average
equal number of men outside of prison.
They do not think alike, nor have they been
raised alike. No two of them committed
the crime under like circumstances. They
are not of the same age. Each one is an
entity to act and be acted upon. in different
ways. Yet under the law of our land.
these men are treated exactly the same. no
account is taken of their blood or their
breeding. The same Procrustean bed is
provided for all. They are all sentenced
on an indeterminate sentence. We are
more just with the brutes. We have lit.
tie regard for their disposition. their age
and their breeding. We complain of GRIM
inals while we breed them; we complain of
the impossiblity of reforming convicts
while our treatment of them tends to ag-
gravate the evil in their nature, and harden
them in crime. RatiOnalize our prison sys.
tenn, and what is much more needed, ra-
tiOnaliZe our methods of drying up the
causes of crime. and the daybreak of bet
ter time will brighten and make more intel
ligent the efforts of humanity to heal it's
morally and physically diseased.
i've Age.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-10-29
An editor died and slowly wended hi

An editor died and slowly wended his
way to where he supposed a warm reception
awaited him. The devil saw him and said:
'FOr many years thou hast borne the blame
for the many errors the printers have made
in the paper. The paper has gone. alas.
for $1.50, and the $1.5O has often failed to
come In. The printers have deviled thee
on Saturday night when thou hast not a
cent to thy name. Men have taken the pa
per without paying for it. and they cursed
thee for not getting out better. Thou hast
been called dead beat by the passenger con-
ductOrs when thou has shown thy annual
pass to envious gaze. All these thou hast
borne in silence. Thou canst not come in
here" And he fired him. Heaven is thy
home and besides if we let him come in
here he would continually dun delinquent
subscribers. for hell is full of them and thus
create disorder in my kingdom. y Selected.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-10-29

1t is hard to live. sometimes; there are
more people who live martyrs than suffer
martyrdOm in death. Life is ever more
terrible thing than death. Anybody-the
meanest thing that ever crawled-can die;
there is nothing heroic in that. But to live
that calls for grace. patience. courage
and nerve" Try it one of these days.
Just try to live whole day from sun to
sun. straight through, so that in your med
itatiOns in the night watches there will be
not one thing, not deed, not word or
thought to regret or to wish undOne or
done otherwise. and see if you don't think
that dying is baby play along side of living.
''Why don't die then if 1 think it so
easy?" My son have MT received march
ing orders yet. shall dwell in my tents
and ''abide by the stuff until I hear the
bugles sound 1.-THE assembly. y."-Burdette.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-10-29
On Quotations.

Next to the author of a good sentence" I"
says Emerson. islands the man who first
quotes it," If this be true Chautauquans
should stand close to great men. That is if
they respond at roll-call with good quota
tions. The books like best are those
whose chapters open with quotation, in
poetry or prose. Such quotation. if we'll
chosen. should be the chapter in miniature.
In argument was ever willing to yield
to my opponent, if his statements were sup
ported by reference to classic authority.
Persons aware of this would sometimes
take an unfair advantage of it. and ring in
quotations of their own making. OF course,
it doubted their authenticity. they would
affect surprise at my ignorance, and regard
me as an inferior being.
Macaulay was an expert at this style of
argument. During one of his celebrated
mOnOlOgueS, young lady, tired of his ped
antry, interrupted him with the question:
"Pray, Mr.. Macaulay. when were dolls
first invented?" The great essayist an
swered Immediately that the Romans used
them-mentiOning the year-and quoting
as authority half dozen lines of his own
invention as from Plautus.
Most all the great cOnversers were adopts
in the use of quotations. Foremost of these
stands DR.. Samuel johnson than whom
perhaps no man of his time knew more of
the best sayings of ancient and modern
writer's. Next to him is Robert Burton, the
author of the Anatomy of Melancholy"
which. by the way. johnson said was the
only book that ever took him out of bed
two hours sooner than he wished to rise.
Modern writer's are poorly represented
in the Anatomy of Melancholy" but in
JOhnsOn's Dictionary there's not a writer
OF any note from Chaucer to Swift but is
represented. Garrick evinced his surprise
at him quoting Wilkes. to which the great
photographer replied. NAY. done worse
than that, quoted thee, David"
Since 'brevity is the soul of w.t." quota
tiOns should be brief. They rarely should
exceed two lines.
We should guard against pedantry in the
use of quotations, and while cautious to
render unto Caesar that which is Caesars.
there is no need of being so exact as was
certain young minister of Edinburgh. who.
during prayer, implored the Lord to pre-
pare his congregation "fOr that happy
period which a writer In the Edinburgh
Review styled the second coming of
Christi" LACON.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-10-29
THE WHEEL OF THE WORLD.

The wheel of the world turns round and round
Those who are uppermost soon may be
Down in the dust, under the ground;
The king in chains. the serf set free.
Over the track in sunshine and rain
It rolls on over and over again.
The wheel of the world moves day and night,
And its swift revolutions bring
Nations from darkness into light,
Where bells of good time coming ring.
Over the spot where the palace shone,
It rolls in the dust the crown and throne.
Round and round it turns and goes,
And we 60 with it, now up, now down,
Few win the prize that many must lose,
Tired at the goal how late comes the crown!
The brave. the true. the noble, the just,
Will never be lost in the whirling dust.
Selected.