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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-07-12
Tho Price Of uny.

In the local market yesterday hay ad.
Vancod dollar on the ton, both baled
and loose, The advance at this season
q the year is thus explained by feed
man; "Hay went up partly because tho
harvesting season is at lite height, and
the tarn.hands have not time Just now
TO bring hay to town; but that does
not entirely explain 1t. Another cause
Tor tho advance Ia found In the found.
ing OF u new export industry, that Of
sending American hay in large quanti-
Tics to Europe. Until the past month
not very much OF our hay went across
the big pond, Within that time hay
export steamer limo has boon ostab.
ilshod, the arst vessel having sailed
from brooklyn d week or two ago, with
cargo OF 10000 bales OF American hay;
IGi9 Is to DO a permanent thing, and
VIII hereafter have an effect on tho
american prices, Hay to-day brings
NV ", per ton In London, tho freight from
wheeling would amount to about $l2,
50 that tho price Of hay hOrc will DO
about SIS when II 10 $50 across tho
UCONn,h
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-07-12

TnR Cleveland, Iorain 4 Wheeling
Railroad Company will run special
Worlds Fair train from Wheeling and
intermediate points 10 Chicago July Ia,
nj tho low rate ei one fare for tic round
trip. Tickets good for ton days.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-06-05
An AIlisator,s Nest.

A1ligators' nests resemble haycocks
more than anything else to which they
can be compared. They average about
feet in height and about feet in di-
ameter, and are constructed of grasses
and heritage. First the mother gator
deposits one layer of eggs on a mortar
like floor, and having covered this
with a stratum of mud and heritage
about s inches thick lays another set
of eggs upon that, and so on to the top,
there being commonly from 100 to 200
eggs in the nest. With their tails the
parents then beat down the tall grass
and weeds to prevent the approach of
unseen enemies. The female watches
her eggs until they are Matched by
the heat of the sun, and then takes her
brood under her own care, defending
them and providing for their srlbsis-
tence. DIR. Lutzemburg, of New Or
leans, once packed one of these nests
for shipment to ST. Petersburg, but the
young Matched out before they were
started on their long journey, and were
kept about the doctors premises, run
ming all over the house, up and down
stairs, whining like young puppies.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-06-05

My engine gave a jump, and I knew
that in less time than it takes to tell it
we would be making a mile a minute.
eff the engineer of the helper was
running rapidly but carefully under the
impression that we were far ahead, the
danger signal at the tower would warn
him and he would stop, but If he had
lost control of his engine-l thought of
the high entertainments ahead and
trembled as the idea of rolling down
the mountain again came into my
brain.
1.-The wild and prolonged footing of a
whistle sounded in the rear. and re-
echoed again and again through the
valleys. | knew what that meant-the
engine was beyond the engineers con-
troll. We had at least a mile start
Could we with six cars hope to escape
an engine without burden?
Zone thing was in our favor. The
helper was locomotive built for great
power but slow running, and therefore
it's small driving wheels must already
be revolving at n dangerous speed.
Possibly it might jump the track, and
so put an end to the threatening ca
lamity.
II gritted my teeth in agony. A
hort distance ahead was q deep cut,
and then u high embankment; if we
passed that point part of the danger
would be over. We whizzed down the
track faster than l ever rode before or
since. A rumble and roar, and the
cut was left behind
"a second later we were over the
hill and on solid ground. l glanced
back and saw the headlight of the wild
| engine in the cut not one hundred
yards distant. With frozen blood l
awaited tho crash. 1t came. A sud-
den shock ran over the tram, and my
| engine leaped forward, but luckily did
not leave the track.
INSTANTLY l realized the vestibule
arrangement on the coaches had broken
the force of the collision, aided also by
the rapid speed of our train. A second
later the same whistle which had
| thrilled us before rang out, but this
time it was the CHEEKY call for brakes.
/ entirely different from the former
| shrielzs. I shut Off steam and put on
i air cautiously to see whether the light
engine was pushing us with her full
power.
Finding 1t was not, looked bach
and saw the runaway come to q stand
still just rs we passed the tower
and rolled under the Seventeenth
street bridge at Altoona. afterwards
learned tho levers on the helper haG
caught in some way, and the engine
1 could not be stopped.
'When it struck the rear coach, how
ever, the shock loosened the machinery
and the engineer at once shut off steam
and put on the brakes on the driving
wheels.
''Well, there comes the Pan Handle
connection. Good night. "-RostoI
Globe.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-06-05
FIG 1.

brought into place for exposure at q
suitable distance behind the lens, and
then be transferred to another recep-
tacle until the artist returns home.
This may be accomplished in several
ways. Two of them are here illus
trated. In Figure the plate-holders,
or carriers of cut films, each holding
only one plate or film, are arranged in
the back Of the camera, facing for
ward, and . stiff spring behind the
whole set keeps them pressed up, so
that whichSFer is in front is in focus.
After ap exposure is made, a lever,
operated from the outside, can be used
to trp the plate downwards into a
magazine below and bring another for
ward into place.
Fig. Q shows another way of ae-
copp1ishing the desired end. Compart-
nent No, contains the unused plates
or films, facing forward, but pressed
backward by a spring in front of them.
The rearmost may be slid into position
for exposure, in the back of No. 2, by
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-06-05
SARAH G. JONES.

fore the state medical examining
board with eighty-four others and re-
ceived certificate which entities her
to secure license to practice her pro-
fession. Mrs. Jones received over nine
ty per cent. on the examination in
surgery. Out of the class of eighty
five twenty-one white graduates, rep
resenting several colleges, failed to
pass. DR.. Jones and her husband are
representatives of the best society of
colored people in the state and are
well-to-do people. When a school
teacher she was known as one of the
brightest young colored women in the
city. She will practice among her
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-06-05

early in 1875. Several flexible films
and roll-holders have been tried in this
country, but owing to defects in prep
sration and to infringement of exist
ing patents most of them have been
forced out of the market. The two
rou-holders now best known are much
alike, but buyers may find on careful
examination difference between
them in point OF simplicity. Inquiries
as to this and as to the quality of the
films in use ought to be made by mex
perienced persons, not only of dealers,
but also of disinterested friends who
are experts. Rolls producing twenty
five, fifty, seventy-fve and one hun
bred pictures are to be had.
Films cut into short sections and
placed in Carriers to hold them fiat
are used in the other form of camera
like glass plates. Films have the adj
vantage of hghtness, compared with
glass plates. but some photographers
think ethe glass plates preferable
nevertheless, for the highest artistic
success. After a little experience the
amateur will use one, perhaps, where
llghtness is a very important consider.
alton, and glass under other circum
RtanCeS
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-06-05
FROM THE OLD WORLD
Wilhelm Gives Up His Pro-
jected Trip to Norway.
UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTIONS

The Kaiser's Proxy to the Worlds Fair
Eng1and's Agreements to Pr otect Russia
from Poachers-Astor's Magazine Has
Caught on-other News by Cable.
BERLIN, June $50 hot boils the politi-
cal cauldron here that the Emperor has
given up his projected trip to the Nor
wegian coast. He wants to be within call
until the ELECTIONS are over.
Chancellor Won Caprivi has begun the
campaign of suppression. He is especially
angry at the attitude Of the Alsatian
Catholics, who counsel the killing of the
Army bill in the next Reichstag.
The semi-oficial press has been stopped
in its attempts to create war alarms and
its suggestions to inducements to bring
about party adhesions to the Army bill.
The Government is quiescent. Its atti-
tude, whether inspired by prudence or by
higher moral principle, is perplexing
to the minds Of the bureaucrats, who are
accustomed to get official inspiration as to
how they should work upon the electoral
districts The papers holding brief for
the Government have become low spirited
and dull, lacking, as they do the prompt
ings they have usually received. If the
Government issued a manifesto or If En-
peror William broke out with some rash
address, the leaders of the Opposition
groups would be highly gratified, but it is
understood that the Government intends
to remain reticent. hoping to draw more
advantage ON party schisms than by
taking an active part in the electoral cam
paign.
Herr Leibknecht was invited to al.
dress Socialist meeting in Metz yester-
day. He was warned that the meeting
could not be held in any of the public halls
in town. So the Socialists proceeded in a
body to grove owned by q brewery in the
suburbs.
Police officers were on hand, however,
and they broke up the meeting, SO that
Leibknecht was unable to deliver his
speech.
Special arrangements are making in
Austria for the reception of Emperor Will
liam and the King of Saxony, when they
shall be entertained by Emperor Franz
Josef at the September manoeuvres.
A unique feature Of the arrangements
will be special quarters for the newspaper
correspondents. These quarters will be
appointed under the supervision of War
Office officials
The distinction thus to be accorded to
representatives of the press has staggered
German officials, who rarely omit an op-
portunity to affect publicly utter indiffer-
ence to the newspapers and their CORE
spondents.
Countess Herbert Bismarck, nee Hoyos,
expects an heir in July.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-06-05

after dark, but whether night run
makes a man supersSitious or not /
would rtet like to say. had peculiar
experience myself on the mountain
some years ago, one which led mo 10
ask for n day run, although didn't
get it. At that time / was taking the
fast line east, leaving here about eight
o'clock in the evening and getting into
Altoona n little after midnight. That
night we pulled out of the union depot
half an hour late, tho Pan Handle con-
nection being that much behind tlmo.
1.-THE first section, which took out,
consisted mostly OF baggage and sx-
press cars, there being but two pas
senger coaches coupled on bohind.
The sleepers were on the second 500
ton, which followed us about twoaty
minutes lgter. You knew how wild
and lonely the country is along the
Pittsburgh division. and that outside
ofIGreensbur1 and Johnstoxn there's
40 settlement worth mentioning.
Hkhen we reached the narrows east
of RlairsvTle intersection n rafnStxTm
set in. The wind howlerl through the
forest and blew u regular gallo, the Of
casiop4h crash of Ballln9 tree ca tia
mountain above showing how tho storm
was raging. jack my fireIffan, got
scared and begged me 10 stop the train
for fear we would run into n log or a
landslide.
81 didn't dare to do it, for as 1 said
before, we left Pittsburgh half an hour
late, and SO far had not made up one
minute, and besides it wouldn't do to
get on the time of the second section.
shut off steam little so that in case
we should strike anything we would
not be likely to roll down the rocks in
to the Conemaugh river.
eve passed through the Pack Sad
die all right, however, and reached
Johnstown near midnight. This was
years before the great flood, and was
glad when we came In sight of the
furnace fires and electric lights of the
iron works, for somehow felt nervous
and out of sorts.
"When we got away from Johnstown
and began to climb up the mountain we
were again in the wilderness, for, as
you know, the stretch of track on the
western slope between Cresson and
Johnstown runs through about rs desc
late n section as you would find any
where. We were the only crew on the
nil GnaO ulBnu, ana Salu TO JACK JnaI
| there must be block on the west
| bound track on the other side of the
mountain, for we usually passed half d
dozen trains of empty coal cars after
leaving Johnstown.
'Well, we found there had been q
landslide near A1lcgrippus when. VIC
reached Gallitzen, but it had been
cleared away, and three west-bound
extras had already reached the summit
1t takes three engines to bring up ar
ordinary freight from Altoona, two il
front and one behind. The two help
ers are cut off at the top of the noun
tain and run back light to Altoona fol
another trip.
when we reached the summit, there
fore. there were six empty engines
waiting to follow us down. You wan
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-06-05
'YoU WANT TO KEEP A MOVE ON"


TO keep a move on one of the freight
engineers yelled to me as we rolled
slowly by, we're going to chase you
down into Altoona yard ahead of the
second section
81 laughed, and when my train got
fairly over the summit and began to
slide down the grade, shut off steam.
knew the engines which would fol-
low us would be kept far enough in
tho rear by the signal men in the
towers. We soon plunged into the
tunnel and ratified along at lively
gait, with that clickety-clack of the
wheels which makes it plain to every
one that the train Is running down
grade by its own weight
al kept the air on pretty clos ely and
so held the train under control, for If
the brakes failed to work when needed
going down there it would be good-by
John when the first curve was reached.
1 got to thinking of that as we swung
down the track that night and fell to
wondering what it would look like to
see an engine or car roll down the
mountain to the bottom, hundreds Oh
feet below.
"The air was misty, the rain having
eeased, but now and then n gust OF
wind would blow away the fog and
for an instant the mountain tops and
sides could be seen. Then the fog
would fall again and shut out every
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-06-05
MAGAZINE CAMERAS.
Some Valuable Hints for Amateur
Photographers.
How to Dispense with = Load of Extra
Plate Holders-TwO Ways of Sim
pllfylng Outfits Illustrated
Stocking Camera.

The use of dry plates in photogra-
ply has greatly simplified the work of
professionals and made possible the
existence of almost countless amateur
devotees of this art. Both classes have
been looking eagerly for some inven-
ton which would enlarge the supply
of plates easily available during either
days outing or more extended
tour. Formerly only one single or
double plate-holdeR could be carried
about in the "box," and it was neces-
sary to make a separate and cumbrous
parcel Of the other.
One mode of meeting the difficulty,
says the New York Tribune, is to pro-
vide a camera with magazines in which
nnexposed plates, in series, can be
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-06-05

thing. SO that the traOk right ahead
could not be seen.
''Just above Anegrippus, at the
point where the track bends around
and runs down to the Horseshoe bend. is
signal tower, and below the curve Is
another. We got the white at the up
per tower, and, reducing the speed,
rolled on.
"a gust of wind blew away the fog
Just as we were rounding the bend and
the wild mountain scenery was clearly
outlined against the darkness. We
moved slowly down to the curve, for
the rules were very strict about keep
ing control Of the train along there.
We rounded tho Horseshoe and put on
O little steam to get back to a fair speed
again.
Jack was sitting In the cabin half
asleep, for tho fireman has a rest on q
down griseAe. F saw ahead the clear
signal at the Kittanning Point tower.
Something made me turn my head and
look across the valley to the other side,
from which we had Just come.
Gas gazed the mist cleared away
and ud1enly headlight flashed into
view and an engine was outlined
against tho sky beyond. In second 1t
disappeared, but n rattle and roar and
faint light as from IN open furnace
door told mo that a locomotive was
coming down tho mountain at terrific
speed
1.-THE course Of the engine was then
nearly parallel with that Of ours, but I
knew that a moment later it would
skim around tho curve and be right be-
hind For IN instant 1 was almost par
alyzed with surprise and fear. The
idea of an empty engine dashing down
grade in your rear with a speed four
tunes that of your own is something to
| benumb ones brain.
"a person accustomed to act upon
the impulse of n moment does SO al
most unconsciously, and in this in
stance throw off the brakes and put
ON q full head of steam. even while my
eyes we're fixed on the engine behind
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-06-05
Noah Left the ARK on April 80.

April 90 is the day marked in all an
cient calendars as being the one upon
which Noah and his family quilted the
ark after having withstood the siege of
the great deluge. The day is marked
in all ancient calendars, especially
British, as egreSSus Noae de area; the
18th of March, the day upon which
Noah, his family and their great float
ing collection of natural history speci-
mems, set sail, being designated in the
same class of early printed literature
as sntrostus Noae IN area, ''the day of
Noah's entrance into the ark" Why
these days were chosen as the ones
upon which the supposed embarkation
and debarkntion were made are enig-
mas which the antiquarians have not
yet solved.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-06-05
THE NEW LORD DERBY.
He Comes from a Family Noted for Its
Love of Humor.

He Comes from a Family Noted for Its
Love of Humor.
The late Lord Derby had none of the
levity of his father, which forbade the
greater statesman to take politics too
seriously, even when he was prime
minister of England, and which
levity was often the despair of his
more solemn colleagues. His son,
who was learned beyond his contempt
raries in political lore, gravely won
dered whether a great statesman was
ever as ignorant as his father. The
father returned the compliment by
calling his son "Blue Book in
Brooches" Yet, for all these obvious
Emergencies in character, father and
son were alike in possessing strong
sense of humor; but while with the
father it showed in public, the late
lord kept his humor for his intirnates
He was an excellent companion, and
loved to laugh and to make laugh. Per-
haps no incident in his eventful career
could so have touched his feeling for
humor as the fact that he-the staid,
formal, unromantic, conventional Lord
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-06-05
THE kAISER'S PROXY

Duke Ernst Guenther, of Schleswi g-HOl-
stein, to Come to the Fair.
BERLIN, June 5.-Emperor William of
Germany has selected to represent him at
the Columbian Exposition his brother-in
law, Duke Ernst Guenther, who expects to
go to the United States in September
The official titles of this imperial repre-
sentative are: Ernest Guenther, Duke
of Schleswig Holstein, Heir in Norway Che
belongs to the first branch of the first lint
of the House of Holstein desc .nded from
Christian l., King of Denmark, Norway
and Sweden IN the Fifteenth Century,
Count of Stormarn and the DiJmar hes.
also of Oldenburg. He is the only brother
of the Empress of Germany. just before
he sails for America he will celebrate his
thirtieth birthday.
The Duke is Colonel OF the Schleswig-
Holstein Hussars, and, though too young
to have achieved renown in war, he doJeS
on the military. He is not attracted By
politics, and court life has few charms for
him. But he is one of the best horsemen
of Germany, owns fine stud, is fond OF
the turf and frequents the Union Club,
the swell jockey club of Central Europe.
He was a close friend of the late Archduke
Victor Moritz Carl Franz Won Ratlbar,
who was president of the club.
He has large estates, and as the brother
in-law of powerful monarch ranks high
in the nobility of the Empire, yet he puts
on no naughty airs. Rather, he is noted
for simplicity in manners and for his dem
ocratic tastes He is far from being
effeminate, having a robust physique. de-
veloped by atheletic training at college and
army discipline. He seems to enjoy what
some would call the hardships Of a sol
diers life, and loves outdoor sports.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-06-05
FIG. 3.

o lever extending outside the camera.
The next motion of the lever removes
this plate into chamber No. 8, and
brings a fresh plate out of No. into
No. Q. By degrees all of the set are
transferred to No. 8. Snap-shutters,
external focusing devices, finders and
most of the other familiar features of
improved cameras are usually found
Oh those of the magazine type, which
are adapted to taking from twenty
Eve to fifty pictures without reloading.
Trifling improvements in these "boxes"
are made from time to time to facili-
itate the movement of plates.
The only other way of stocking a
camera for . series of views now
known is TO employ flexible sensitive
Aim o.. rollers worked from outside.
The original inventor of this plan was
Leon WarneclkO, and Fig. shows a
mechanism used by him in England
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-06-05

The American master Of princely Clief-
den has caught the boom of society, from
the royal palaces to the pretentious homes
of the great and rich in commerce. Had
he been worker for bread and butter,
like thousands of others in this city. his
fortune would have been made by the no.
tices and the patronage.
But then society would not have taken
struggling man by the hand until, pos
sibly, it had become too weak to feel the
grasp London has certainly taken to
Mr.. AstOr
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-06-05
THE NEW LORD DERBY.

Derby, whom we all thought we knew
so well-had once been offered the
throne of Greece. His lordship's sue
cessor to the title is Lord Stanley, of
Preston, better known in politics as
Col Stanley, who, under that name,
filed many official posts, and was sec
rotary of state for war and for the col
onies. He is at present governor gen
eral of Canada.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-06-05
Blood In Their Eyes.

More than twenty years ago A. R.
Wallace published letter from a Cal
Hornia correspondent which said that
the horned toad squirted from one OF
its eyes "a jet of bright red liquid very
much like blood" OF course everybody
thought it was "a California yarn"
Now o. P. Hay has proved that horned
toads do squirt q red liquid from their
eyes when vexed and that the liquid is
blood.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-06-05
TO STOP PoAcHINe IN RUSSIA
Great Britain Agrees to Bring British
Trespassers to Speedy Trial.

Great Britain Agrees to Bring British
Trespassers to Speedy Trial.
LONDON, June 5.-The Foreign Office has
issued a blue book containing the cores
pondence concerning an agreement be.
tween Great Britain and Russia as to the
protection of Russia's sealing interests in
Behring Sea.
Russia's original contention was that hel
cruisers should have exclusive right to
police the sea and to convey British tres
passers to Petropauloysk, Asiatic Russia,
where the cases should be adjudicated.
Lord Rosebery declined to agree to this
and suggested that British vessels caught
trespassing be conveyed to Yokohama,
where the cases should be adjudicated by
a British Consular court.
Eventually the powers agreed that the
trespassers should be deliveredto British
cruiser or to the nearest British authorities
on land, Great Britain at the same time
undertaking to bring them speedily tt
trial
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-06-05
LADY Aberdeen in Chicago.

LONDON, June 5.-Countess Aberdeen
has returned with wonderful stories from
Chicago. She says the Irish village and
the Irish lasses simply captured thu lurid
Western city. Her experience with the
lady managers, while personally pleasant.
does not seem to have left happy impress
sions. Lovable and gentle as they were
socially, she thought their methods in
meetings savored altogether too much of
men in politics.