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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-06-08
tainted and went into Mysteries; all
seemed relieved when the cefem0A's'
were over. -,l-.l

SAD cEREMosiEs.
Sad indeed were the ceremonies
Those Of John Reinbold were espe-
cially heartrending. It was almost i'm
possible to prevent some d the .s family mn,
from casting themselves INTO sns "p a..
grave. But ofall the scenes thos e,;i ~
tending the funeral OF EDWIN 9 sjns.
wife and FIVE children were the sAu ~
to be imagined. Every membef OF In I
family was lost in the terrible HOY.
Not 4 relation or kin was left IN an 4, ~ IN
broad. land Of ours to mourn tn .s.s
death. even to place q flower on tne
grsvas. none 10 weep for them; none
20 mourn. but they lack not kind
hearted mourning and heartbFoken
friends and former neighbors: t9e
seven pieces OF clay were buried slae
by side and under the auspices Of me
I0. OF. The family united IN me ne
and death were lowered 70 tneir ia ~
earthly home. No one was tnete y
drop tear into the graves, ana tn2ugn
unaccompanied by relatives 70 tnsll
last resting place, they were none tne
less honored. The funerals TOOK the
best part of the day. In conformity
with a proclamation issued by mayor
Hunt, all business places were closeo;
and most of the business houses anu
dwellings draped in mourning, 49,.
The searchers for che dead, tnose
cleaning and clearing away the f2ins
and the relief committee and aids mao
no rest, and results already Sccom,
plished are almost wonderful ana
highly satisfactory. This morning the
subcommittee Of Pittsburgh, consisting
Of Captain ]. ]. yandergritt, George
Heard and s. B. Robson, accompanied
by Mr.. George P. Huklll and Mr.. N. :;
Clark, Of here, took carriages ana
drove to Ntusville. The object y to
consult with tho committee OF Titus
vile as to the needs and wishes Of the
people Of the whole Oil creek valley.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-06-08

GREgR-on Monday, June 9, 1892, at TBS p. m,
isABILpA Wife Of David Groer, In her Goth
yeaEnI spoi1neicsnoo ZIG,
Funeral from the residenco of her husband. No.
742 Market street, on Wednesday afternoon
at2o'clock. Friends respectfully invited to
attend. Interment at Mt Wood Cemetery.
Private.
Apreclous ono fron!us hasg gone,
frAYoicelyFe loved "A aJlla1sFs
A place Is vacant IN our home,
Which mover can behlled
columbus and Pittsburgh papers please copy.l
HEss-At Omaha Nebraska, on Sunday morn
ing, June 5, 1892, JosIPlI HISS. son OF Chris.
tian Hess. Of this city, In the S9th year Of his
age -..-'--
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-18
HOW ANIMALS BEAR PAIN.
In Heroic Silencs the Aute Creatures Sui
init to Intense Suffering.

In Heroic Silence the Mute Creatures Sub
init to Intense Suffering.
Manchester Times.l
One of the most pathetic things is the
way in which animals endure suffering.
Take horses, for instance, in battle. After
the first shock of the wound they make no
sound. They bear the pain with a mute,
wondering endurance, and if at night you
hear wild groan from the battlefield, it
comes from their loneliness, their loss of
human companionshiP, which seems abso-
lutely indispensable to the comfort of do
mesticated animals.
The dog will carry broken leg for days
wistlully but une5mplainingly. The cat,
stricken with a stick or stone or caught in
some trap from which it gnaws its way to
freedom, crawls to some secret place and
bears in silence pain which we could not
endure. Sheep and other cattle meet the
thrust of the butchers knife without a
sound, and even common poultry endure in
tense agonv without complaint. The dove
shot unto death flies to some Ear-off bough,
and as it dies the silence is unbroken save
By the patter on the leaves of its own life
blood.
The wounded deer speeds to some thick
brake, and in pitiiul submission waits for
death. The eagle, struck in mid-air, fights
till the last against the fatal summons
There is no moan or sound of pain, and the
defiant look never fades from its eyes until
the lids close over them never to uncover
again.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-18
ct strike him no more. !"

"Good." said the magistrate, 'if he will
strike OF terrify the people with enormous
voice, he will himself be an object of fear
for the people Goodbye. Do not continue
here the other time"
At Kioto, the Athens of Janan, met
many of the professors. Prof. Ladd, of
Yale College, who went over with us on the
Canadian Pacific, was there delivering a
course of lectures before the Imperial Col
lege on Rational Psychology. One day I
met Prot. Tenabe, native professor. He
was one of the Tenabes who entertained
Commodore Perry in Yokohoma in 1854
The professor is called a fair English
scholar, and I was anxious to see how he
handled our idiom.
"You speak English, professor" I said
when I met him.
'No, do not fuently it speak, but
write very good English. I can parse it
dramatically" Then he smiled, took his
pencil and wrote:
'sThough exercised English diligently,
yet I'm very clumsiness for translation,
dialogue composition, and all other"
"Why, you write it very well, )" said.
scholar no viii Persrvere.
NO." wrote the professor, 'T learned it
without teacher. 1t is a great shameful
ness but I don't abandon English hence
forth. 1 swear to learn it perseveringly y
even if in lucubration."
"Sometimes you have earthquakes In
Japan?" said, remembering that I had
been shaken up by one in Osaka the day
before.
The professor writes: Sometimes we have
an earthquake here at now, but the people
was afreight no more"
"Do you like the Chinese?"
The professor writes: "No. He is about
1000 years old; yet there are many smokers
of the opium, but the Christian he is not 4"
::'What do you think of England?''
The professor writes: Gle is occupied of
| the largest dominion which rarely can be-
The Englishman works with a very power
full hands and eminenced mind. His chin
is strong. He are not allowed it to escape if
he did seize some thing. He boastally say,
the sun are never set on our dominion. ,
He never any benefit though he had gained
the complete world!'
Better Than Kiping's English.
Then, looking up from the paper, he said
proudly: "You my English like ?''
20, yes," said. at pleases me better
than 'Rudvard Kipling's English. 1t is
quaint and strong and they will read it in
America with deep interest"
Sir Edwin Arnold tells me that the JAP
anese are SO polite that they have no i'm
perative mood and no personal pronouns.
Instead of saying you, they say "the honor
able one." The egotistical 'I'' of the En-
glish would be ''the humble servant" in
Japan. When Japanese gentleman wanted
to tell me that a friend was dead, he said
''The honorable friend condescended to
become non-existant" ELI PERKINS.
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Better Than Kiping's English.
SPIDERS AT CLOSE QUARTERS
They Use the Threads in Their Wob as 30
Many Telegraph Wires.

They Use the Threads in Their Wcb as 50
Many Telegraph Wires.
In paper in Longman's Magazine Mr.
Grant Allen gives the result of some per-
sonaI observations of the common garden
spider. Last summer two of these creatures,
both fem ales, spun their geometrIcal webs
outside Mr.. Aliens window and he pre-
vailed upon the housemald, though with
some difficulty, to leave the webs alone.
What struck Mr. Allen most torcibIe was
the barbaric bloodthirstiness Of the spiders
One of them even devoured the male COM
panion. But to see the fercer of the two
spiders destroy wasp was sight to behold.
Mr. Allen grows eloquent on the business-like
fashion in which the wasp was rolled round
and round and swathed rapidly and effectu-
ally in dense network of web, the spider,
meanwhile, taught by ancestral experience,
keeping out of the way of the wasp's sting.
Sometimes the wings were sawn off so as to
prevent further struggling, and consequent
damage to the precious web. The'blood of
the insect was then sucked to the last
drop.
Large humble bees the spiders seem afraid
to encounter, but humming bird moths, in
spite of their size and quickness, would be
killed Immediately. Mr.. Allen thinks the
spiders did not trust to their manv eyes to
tell them when catch had been made, but
kept one foot on a particular thread of the
web, which thus became kind OF telegraph
wire. One might ask how there could be
any certainty that the eyes were not used,
but the minuteness of Mr.. Aliens observa-
tion can be judged BY his positive assertion
that be could tell when one of the spiders
wss smiling
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Ann Bigger to stand up. Ann stepped
forward briskly, kissed the book, and when
ordered to speak wagged her tongue so
freely that the Magistrates found it neces-
sary to check her She told her story
glibly. How John Lee was angry when
bis brother James entered; how Mistress
Lee defended him; how Janet was on her
uncle's side, neither believing he was guilty
of killing the cows and sheep-how much
was said concerning the proud name Of the
Lees, and how John Lee said he would
rather see his brother in his grave than to
be brought into court. How Janet Leo
said if 'twere true that james Lee killed
the animals, she could see him ''well cut of
the way herself-that it would be a blister
ing disgrace his presence in Salem-but it
would never do to let him hang.
When she ceased, Janet said aloud,
"Heaven's will be done; we are greatly
wronged by this lying witness who has
perjured her soul out of sheer malice.
The Magistrates consulted again, and Gov
ernor Danforth spoke in solemn tones:
"Janet Lee, the evidence is deemed suf-
fcient to Justify the charge of witchcraft,
but there is another and more serious
charge Although diligent search has been
made James Lee, who was charged with
killing Thomas Baxter's COWS and horses
upon his return from abroad, is nowhere to
be found. Dorothea Lee admits that the
brothers quarreled, and Ann Bigger swears
John wished James were dead, and that you
said it would never do to let him hang. All
these things warrant the presumption that
James Lee has been put out OF the way by
his own people, and the evidence justiies
us in holding you on the charges of WITCH
craft and murder"
"Do not hold Janet, &" said Dorothea Lee,
standing up suddenly. "'Tis 1 who was on
Willis Hill 1 will proclaim it with my
dying breath. Twas from my neck, not
Janet's that Ezra plucked the neckerchief."
Dorothea Lees avowal .astonlshed all
who heard it, but it fell with crushing effect
on John Lee, who staggered like one drunk.
Again the Magistrates consulted, and once
more the voice of Governor Danforth was
heard.
"It is the opinion Of my associates that
the extraordinary avowal made by Doro-
thea Lee justifes us in ordering Janet and
Dorothea Lee to be confined in Jail until
such time as they make final answer to the
charge of witchcraft and murder"
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FLOODS AND THEIR CAUSES.
Their Destructive Capabilities Depend on
on Different Things.

Their Destructive Capabilities Dependent
on Different Things.
'Tt is not necessary to control all the
rainfall of basin in order to control the
floods of its river. Again, the river will
normally take care of the greater part of its
discharge. The channel itself is adequate
to the task of carrying away the water of
any ordinary rain. Every destructive flood
is caused by the comparatively small excess
of storm which is of unusual magnitude, I"
SAYS Major T. W. Powell in the North Anlerl-
can Reyien
"Let us see what the problem is, how it
varies from region to region, and to what
extent it is affected by the operations of
man. The rivers of the earth may be
divided into two classes, namely, food-plain
rivers and canon rivers. In food-plain
rivers under conditions of great precipita-
tion the waters rise above the channel banks
to overflow the plain which descends sea-
ward or toward the mouth of the river In
canon streams the channels are cut so deep
that the highest flood never reaches the
brink of the canon walls. There are many
rivers which are hood-plain streams along
parts of their courses and canon streams
along other parts of their courses. In canon
channels it is evident that human habita-
tions and property are safe when above the
food line, and this food line is always
easily discernible, SO that little excuse is
found for those who suffer from floods under
such conditions
"But great majority of rivers are flood
plain streams, and here the conditions of
safety are not so readily discovered. A
great river ramifes into small rivers and
these ramify into creeks and the creeks into
brooks Along the course of such a tree-of-
rivers all those parts which are not canon
reaches have flood plains-that is, compsr-
atiyeiy level stretches back from the river
on either side to the foot of the hills"
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WAGES ON RAILROADS.
81 for an 11-Hour-Day the Highest
for England's Engineers.
MANY WORK FOR ONLY Is CENTS.
No CUmpen ating Provision in the Way of
Rents or Tensions.
THE MEN SATISFIED WITH THE PAY
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE n1spArcn1

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DIsPArcH.1
LONDON, Sept 8.-The railway lines of
Great Britain and Ireland cover in all
about 10000 miles The money invested in
them is returned at something like 81, 500, 4.
100000. Last year the total number of
passenger journeys. exclusive of those by
season ticket holders, was S45, 1853, ,6SS.
These figures were given by Sir George
Findlay in his recent testimony before the
Royal Commission on Labor. They are in
teresting, but confusing. They bewilder
more than they enlighten u.s.
But when we learn from the same source
that in carrying forward the immense rail-
way traffic of this busy little island up
ward of $50. 900 men are employed, we fe ell
as though we had come upon fact which is
at once practical and comprehensive. On
this side the wages of railway men are not
very live topic. A university lecturer has
just pointed to the English railway COM
panies as the best employers of labor in the
whole realm, and in proof of his position he
instances the general spirit of content
which prevails in the railway service and
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half-dress suit?" asked All Shing, point
ing to a New York fashion plate

half.dress suit?" asked All shing, point
ing to New York fashion plate.
"Cloth cost thilteen dolla. makee suit
for sixteen dolla," and in two days he
brought in beautiful suit from the finest
English cloth, and followed it with hand
some beaver overcoat lined with rich satin
for sixteen dollars The low price was on
account of low wages-about 20 cents per
day for superb workmen.
"What do you pay your men for making
. suit, All Shing?" asked
'"Two dolla for suit, one dolla half for
ovelcoat. I makee one dolla on suit and.
sixty cents on ovelcoat."
AGood Place to Buy Clothes.
This same tailor makes the richest tailor
made woman's suit, lined with satin, for
$2S; the same that New York tailor, pay
ing big wages, would ask from $50 to $3.50
for. =
This great change in dress, of course, has
only come to the large cities like Toxic,
Yokohama and Kobe. Away out in the
country the poor farmers still dress in
primitive costumes. On rainy day they
wear grass suits. They are simply thatched
with rice straw, and in that costume you
will see men and women standing knee
deep in the flooded rice fields. 1t makes
ones heart bleed to see them bending over
in the hot sun hoeing the rice hills with
their hands.
So anxious are the Japanese in the cities
to learn English that the jinrikisha man or
Amah (maid) will repeat after you any
English word they hear. Servants will
come and beg to work for an American for
their rice and the privilege of being or
dered in English. When we came away
iro Yokohama the last, dav 1 remember
how proud our jinrikisha man was when he
made us present of a bundle of fans and
said with his face all beaming with smiles,
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CHAPTER III.

CHAPTER I'LL
OF all the stirring scenes witnessed in the
old Meeting House in Salem in those per.
ilous DAYS, none excited more interest than
the examination of Janet Lee. Thomas
Dantorth, with a magistrate on either side
OF him, presided. His preliminary remarks
were brief 1t was sufficient to say that
Janet was charged with witchcraft.
"These proceedings must be guided by
the necessities of the cases brought before
u.s." said Governor Danforth, severely.
Ezra Easily, what do you know concerning
this matter?"
The apprentice trembled. his face flushed,
then grew pale, as he recited the events
have narrated.
"Janet Lee," said Governor Danforth,
"ynu have heard the witness You admit
the neckerchief is yours. Is there anyone
here to speak for you? John Lee. have you
anything to say?"
"Whatever L may have to say is as we'll
unsaid for the present." said John Lee, in
resolute tones.
'1f nobody makes answer we will take
the testimony and pass upon it after due
consideration.
''In that case ask permission to speak in
my own behalf" Janet lifted her head
proudly. All ewes were turned on her
The suns rays streaming in through the
window bathed her in golden light. Her
beautiful head-there was none shaplier in
Salem-upheld with the pride of the Lees,
and her clear-cut features impressed all
with a sense of her beauty, while her COM
posure and courage appealed to the SYM
pathy of all who knew the Lees.
Ezra Easily, how do you know 1t il
wrong TO go TO Willis Hill? Did you ever
see the evil one or witch there?"
Ezra hesitated, then answered: "Polly
Goodman swore she saw the evil one on o
Monday"
with horns and flaming eyes?"
''She saw the horns"
"And barbed tail-did she not say twas
like the fuke of an anchor?''
|" Twas like a fuke, she said, and she
fell in faint"
"And just then her sister, Ann Bigger,
here came up behind my fathers COW. That
was the evil one Polly saw"
One of the magistrates smiled, then all of
the people Uttered.
'Tis false" Ann exclaimed.
Are my affairs and Ann Bigger's to be
brought up here?" the apprentice demanded,
whereupon Janet coolly replied: "You have
introduced AIMS name-you have referred
to her as witness score of times, and you
have confessed that you went and came at
AIMS bidding"
The people laughed. Ezra, in answer to
whisper from Ann, said angrily: 'sNo
more than Proctor there comes at your
bidding"
Janet turned to the Judges with the ut.
most composure and said: "Arthur Proctor
has asked me to marry him, and have
given him my promise. AS for this pool
creature who attributes motives to me such
as animate him and Ann, Bigger-both be.
trayers of as upright man as lives in
Salem-if he is my accuser then so much
more is he to be pitied, since it is plain that
he is the tool of another. 1 will say to the
end that malice is at the bottom of this
matter"
The Magistrates consulted, and ordered
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CHAPTER IL

John Lees voice trembled when he read
the Scriptural lesson that night and bowed
his head in prayer. The family separated
sooner than was their wont, leaving the ap-
prentice and maid in the room. The mo-
ment they were alone Ann Bigger whis-
pered to the apprentice:
"And you will be advised by me, we will
soon see who it is that takes the cake and
milk the master taxed us with. He SAID
tits not the value, tits the principle of the
thing I'll warrant I'll teach him 1 have
@ principle at stake, too. Give heed to me
now. Tomorrow Master Proctor will be
here-I know how he times himself After
prayers"
The voice of Mistress Lee was heard
through the open door saying,
"'Tis best you get to bed" Ann
said presently" then continued in low
tone, AFTER prayers you will go to Witches
Hill"
Ezra started and shook his head vigor
ously, but Ann Bigger's contemptuous
Icorn stung him into acquiescence as he
listened to her scheme with sundry shrugs
of the shoulder and much furrowing of his
brows The lout was like clay in her
hands.
Matters fell out as the maid servant pre-
dicted. Arthur Proctor called at John
Lees the next evening. CIasping Janet's
hand tervently, he said: 'Trust me to serve
you and yours. There are strange reports
] hear concerning you. John Lee, or the
Lees, are accused of harboring witches"
Shame on The people of Salem," said
Janet Lee. "Was not John Lee foremost
in the fight at Narragansett? Who has done
more for Salem than John Lee?"
''Is it not strange that these stories follow
hard upon the charges made against your
uncle? 1 have been pondering these mat
ters in my mind; l will strive to learn what
Is at the bottom of this new misfortune.
Fortunately, 1 have access to Thomas Dan
forth-he will listen to me. Keep up stout
heart, even if the worst should come.
"Aye," said Janet with a sad smile, SGT
will be easier now, since my mother is on
our side"
She pondered long in silence when her
lover withdrew. Curious ewes noted her move
ments. Ezra Easily and Ann Bigger signed
meaningly to each other when they assem-
bled TOR prayer When prayers were over
Ezra made an excuse to go out; Ann left
the house, too, and presently Janet Lee was
alone In the lower part of the house. The
lynx eyes OF Ezra Easily saw her go to the
dresser and conceal some cakes taken hastily
from the plate. Ann Bigger stood on the
other side of the window.
AT the time refer to-1692-when New
England was convulsed with the dclusion
OF wltchcraft, there was pond called Will
klns Pond, near one OF the FIVE hills familiar
10 the people of Salem. Wills, Solomon,
Smiths, Alfred (or Cherry and Bald Hills
were localities known TO young and old.
One OF these was aiterward known rs Witch
Hill. Several women condemned to die
mounted from 1t on ladders with ropes
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the driver receives and the lowest the bot
tom sum paid to the firemen. What comes
between these figures 1 have no means Of
learning, but with the exception of that one
item the table which I submit is quite clear
and to those who know what the same men
get in the United States it will speak in no
uncertain tones
After diving into the figures out of which
the table has been evolved, it occurred to me
that the wages paid to English railway men
might be helped out a little by some ar
rangement in regard to free house rent or
some old age pension scheme. Accordingly
wrote to Mr. Hartford upon these points
and mis- reply, which he permits me to pub
lish, is as follows:
The Question of Rent and Pensions.
Aug. 20, 1892.
DEAR SIR: In reply to the two question
you put TO me, beg to say:
First-That the wages OF railway employees
are not helped to any great extent by resi-
dence in houses belonging to the railway
companies. Some stationmasters, gate
keepers, anda few others, live rent free, but
that fact is taken into account in fixing the
rate of wages, that is to say, that but for
living rent free the wages would be SO much
higher.
Then others reside in cottages provided
by the companies, for which a fixed weekly
rental is charged, always sufficient to pay u
yearly interest of 8 to per cent on the cost
of their erection. In my opinion, the benefit
of such an arrangement is OF questionable
character. In some instances, more COM
modious cottages, with better sanitary
arrangements, are obtainable from private
house owners, at the same rent. Then, again,
for an employing corporation to have its
workpeople as tenants, is simply a power
the more in its hands, and an immense
danger to freedom of action OF the employed,
as dismissal not only means loss of employ
ment, but being turned out of house and
home as well.
Second-Some few railways have pension
funds, which are raised by contribution from
the men, and assisted by grants from the COM
panies. The men are not generally en-
amoured with such schemes. They are sup
posed to be established on the voluntary
principle, but when formed, if q man OBJ