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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-01-13

mands such monuments or tablets as
would be creditable to our State, and it
has therefore not been expended,
NIcARAGUAN CANAL.
The last national platforms of the
two great political parties endorse the
Nicaragua Ship-Canal enterprise. This
is distinctly an American project and
one thata wise national policy and pro-
per national pride commend to the
country. West Virginia is as deeply
interested as any other State in the Un-
ion in point Of material advantages TO
be derived from the construction OF this
canal, and / recommend that you en-
courage the undertaking by adopting a
strong resolution in support Of extend
ing government aid to the enterprise.
EDUCATION.
The report of the State Superintend-
ent OF Free Schools is replete with val
liable information and suggestions reIa-
tive to the educational work of the
State. 1t contains a history OF our free
school system and free school work
from a period prior to the war, when
free schools were established in certain
counties only, down to the present time,
when the cause of popular education is
thoroughly established and our free
school system is the pride of the State.
Our schools to-day are better supported,
better attended and better tausht, and
are doing mere practical and effective
WORK than at any other period in the
States history.
Their surprising growth and develop
ment during the past twenty years Is
shown by the following comparisons be-
tween 1872 and 1892:
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-01-13

The changes In the school law sug-
gested by the State Superintendent,
especially those relating 10 tho estab-
liShment OF high schools, change OF
date OF school elections and the sdop-
ton of more effective system OF cOun-
ty supervision, merit your careful con-
sderation.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-01-13
GETTYSBURG MONUMENT.

The SUN Of $1,000 was appropriated
IT the last session Of the Legislature
for the purpose Of erecting stone tab
lets or monuments, suitably Inscribed.
10 designate the positions occupied by
West Virginia regiments in the Federal
service on the battlefield of Gettysburg
OF this sum 5000 has been expended In
placing upon the High-water Mark
Monument on this battlefield West
Virginia tablet Inscribed West Vir-
einis. HilPs Battery" The remainder
Of the sum appropriated was insufficient
10 construct upon the several other po-
sitions occupied By West Virginia con-
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-01-13

I submit a communication 1rom the
West Virginia Historical and Hutiquar
rian Society. setting forth wh7tit Is ac-
complishsng and stating theI SOciety's
needs. It's collections are itterestina
and valuable, and the entiEmen who
have from the inception Of tsIwOrk man
Tested so much zeal in the prosecution
thereof, are deserving Of thf thanks Of
the people.
An appropriation By the{ Legislators
OF lsel was made for the &ocIe:y's use
ia the collection and pref Derivation OF
relics, books, etc, relating 70 the bis.
tory Of the State. and l would recon-
mend that the State reed znize the So
ciety as State II ftltution. ex-
tend oil necessarily aid ana
furnish the Society uitable rooms
for the care and exhib OF its collec-
ton. conditioned, how yer, upon ths
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-01-13

Total in the treasury dur
ing the year. 149, $50 80
Amount disbursed for all pur-
poses during the year. 1,267, 2TS IS
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-01-13

enactment OF narrow, unwise, special or
class legislation. It is a maxim as true
as Il has become trite, shat the least
governed is the best governed State,
and the safe and prudent legislator will
usually find Il more difficult to prevent
unnecessary and hurtful legislation
than to accomplish the enactment Of
wise laws.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-04-17

I've been hero fifteen years-hfteen years; think of that! Fifteen years. If I were a coolie, dead and buried fifteen years ago, my grave trodden level with the ground, couldn't be more for gottenl'
 But you've got friends at home. You must have people"
 ''I have. There's my elder brother, the prig-Ive got him. And there are cousins by dozens, first and second, and second once removed. And I had & father, but he is dead, poor old mani Friends? Plenty of friends. As for friendships well-but once had true friend. We outdid David and Jona- than. So far as know, David never but then Jonathan died young and per haps there were passages. Ours was a divine, an ideal, friendship-no two friends ever moro co; because, you see, in the higher planes of friendship what one gives the other has got to ac- cept. The world doesn't understand this, for there is no friendship in busi- ness, and we are mostly business men therefore there are no friends"
 "I don't understand"
 "No more do I now. It was magnif- cent, but it wasn't business-Well, as I said, had true friend orce, a more than pal, a closer than brother. Where is that true friend now?"
 When you go home again"
 ''I never shall go home again, sonny. This is my home. Very thankful l ought to be to have such a home. What more can n man desire? From ten to four the healthful labor of the office. Home to this elegant mansion at five. A stroll on the shore till half-past six or so; dinner, the finest dinner in the world, with the best clarct in the world. No promotion, even, to agitate the soul.''
 You will get promotion some day. You must Oh! it is shameful
 You will, you boy. As for me what does it matter? I draw two hun dred rupees month. am junior in the audit office. We live in this agree able mansion of three rooms, and a veranda. Its walls are made of pack ing cases; and its roof is made of the tin which formerly lined those cases; it is surrounded by lovely compound containing three ragged bananas and a pricllly pear, and it is furnished sumptuous!y. Behold! Style, second empire, for s.le most part"
 The SD aker, man with a counte- nance still ruddy, spite of his tropical experience, and big brown beard, a large limbcd man, lay back in his chair and replaced his pipe between his lips. He spoke bitterly, but his face was not bitter, and his eyes were as kindly as the eyes of any silver king or lord of a nitrate boom could be- The other was a young man of one and twenty, just beginning his career in the same splendid service which had
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-04-17

"A commanoer m the United States navy says that the heaviest drain on the resources of the officers comes from social obligations especially in foreign portA They are invited to dine with a king, prince, governor, and as rep resentatives of this nation they have to go Then, in return, they must invite the potAntate to dinner with them; they must decorate the ship brilliantly and provide sumptuous 'tspread" not only for the king. but for as many of his ministers and hangers-on as he chooses to bring with him. and every time this is done each officer must % down into his pocket for 825 or more
 Anybody can measure, approxi- mately, the breadth of river without a surveyors compass or any mechanical means whatever. The man who desires to make the experiment. should place himself at the edge of the stream, then stand perfectly still, face the opposite bank and lower the brim of his hat until it just cuts the opposite bank. Then let him put both his hands under his chin to steady his head and turn slowly round until the hat brim cuts some point on the level ground behind him. Mark the spot where the hat brim cuts the ground, then pace off the distance,and 1t will be found about the hraadkh of the rivaU
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-04-17
CHAPTER III.

The monotony of life, praised so highly, was rudcly broken by this strange event. The colony was so linn tied as to size, tho officials so small in number, that the governor would cer- tainly know something about everyone in the service. There was not the least doubt but that King David would dis cover Jonathan. Henry Diversion Dunkeld, king, would discover his old friend John Lorimer Longden among the scribes to the palace. What would the king say9 Would he call for the purple robe and wrap it round that scribe, and send him forth upon white horse richly caparisoned, with trum- peter pro~laiming the honors done by order of the king? Or should Jona- than begin it? Should he bow himself down upon the ground saying: 70 king, live forever. I am Jonathan, friend of thy youth, and l am held down in low estate by reason of thing" How would that do?
 Longden pondered the subject long and douEtfully. What would happen? As for the confession, he had it still. The papers lay among other papers in desk. There was letter from his father casting hira off; one from his brother preaching a sermon as to a condemned criminal. There was a DOT trait of a girl-thc Eva for whose sake his friend had consented; there was an other of his friend himself, a gallant youth, and some letters from that friend, written before the fatal trans fer-none after; and some verses writ \ ten in praise of Eva, dancinG-thcy were after Herrick. If at any time in | the future you can advance yourself by using that paper, use it. The words returned again and again. How should he use it? He might place the paper into the hands of the governor, and leave the matter to him. He might go to him and say: II am your old | friend. We know what we know, but ' we trust each other. What I have done l have done." So thinking, his heart grew soft to that old fricnll; he said to himst If that he must have suf- cred from thinking of what had beer done; but that fer Eva's sake--Goubt leAJ now his wife--the thing was we! done. He would do it again, whateve; happened.
 ! With the rest of the world, with the acting governor, the bishop, the colonc | kAiC cOu1lt' \ and the heads of departments, he wen down to the quay--he did net stant' with these iilustrlous persons, but vefi
 behind them in the crowd-to receive
 the governor.
 His excellency, Sir Henry Dunlzeld. K. c. NJ. G.. came ashore in the harbor masters launch. with an awning and a crew of six stout negroes. lie was ac- companicd by his wife, his daughter, a child of ten, his daughters governess, and his aide-de-camp.
 Oh, yes; Jack Longden knew him at once. And Lady Dunkeld, too-Eva, oi course. Then he had married Eva. There she was, and after seventeen years a lovely woman still Of course he would have recognized her, too, at once. His
 heart become very soft, watching
 these old friends of his youth.
 To be continued.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-04-17
EIGHT BADLY INJURED.

River Steamer Biows Up-Pess@ngera Saved by kfMkinS in Shall Ow Water.
 WI>AMAC. Ind. April 17 1T hs passen- ssr steamer Nellie By, owAed by J. F. rishtorn & Co, while ma king a tripdown river blew up, seriously in turing eight persons
 George Traun, proprietor of the Eagle 'iachine shops of this cisy, had both legs broken and crushed and was severely in iure,l internally. The others W ere less ser .ously hurt. None of the pn sscngers es- caped injury.
 The boat was entirely dem olished and sank immediately after the ex plosion.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-04-17
Three Persons Killed at Charivari.

NESS CITY, Kan, April 17.-Three per sons were killed at charivari near this city. A young man named Anderson was married and a crowd of neighbors sere- naded Anderson and his bride with tin pans cowbells and shot guns. A drunken cow boy fired load of buckshot into the cot tage where the wedding was being celebra- ted, slightly wounding the bride. This angered Anderson and he fired both barrels of shot gun into the crowd ou tside. I've men were instantly killed and third was fatally injured.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-04-17

namely, a certain Eva. Above all things she was to be kept from the un- happiness which would fall upon her if she knew.
 Then the other man gave way. But he made . condition; so much grace was left to him. He sat down, and he wrote at headlong speed a certain little narra- tive. This he signed, dated, read through, folded and gave to his friend.
 "Jacix," he said, II will accept your sacrifice on one condition. Here is a complete confession of the whole busi- ness. Take It. Do what you like with 1t. If yousuffer from the consequences, reveal it; am altogether In your hands If at any time In the future you can advance yourself by means of that pH- per, use it. You have the right tu use It." 7Fa' a
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-04-17
SET FREE BY ALEXANDER.

Servia's King Iib~rntes the ev-Regenta
 and .ex- Ministers.
 BELGRADE, April 17.-M. Ristitch and Gen. Belimarkovatoh,t the ex-regenta of Ser via, who were deposed from power by King Alexander's coup d etat on Thurs. lay niget, have been liberated.
 The ex-ministers have also been set at liberty, King Alexander being satisfied that there is no occasion for detainine them. as everything is peaceful and there is no resistance to the authority of the YOun0 king.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-04-17

taken away the elder mans youth. The united resources of this mess were slender, and when the rent of twenty rupees a month had been paid and the wages of their one servant and the dhobie and the claret (which was dear at 5d the bottle) and the whisky and the stringy beef and the skinny chicken which graced their board, there really was very little left for the minor lux uries. Yet in lands where twice year there falls no shade on any side of rock or house, the minor luxuries are to most the simplest necessities. On the two sides of the room were two small bed rooms, in each a bed, a mosquito eur tain, an arm wire, a chair and a wash stand. The room in front opened upon a small veranda.
 Well, my boy" Longden went on, you shall have better luck; you shall get promoted early; you shall leave me and mess with other promotions; chief clerk presently in your department; acting head of department; sent off to some other colony as head; colonial sec retary somewhere else; lieutenant gov- ernor, c. NJ. G.; governor, N. c. M c. Heart up, sonny. The world is all be- fore you"
 The younger man was a little discon- certed at this outburst; when one is twenty 1t is hard to understand that c man of five-and-thirty, which seems an age so advanced, and a man who has ''stucls" in his upward flight, and one who is invariably cheerful and ap- parently contented, should ever have had ambitions.
 Longden's case was exceptional. There are plenty of shady Englishmen who get taken on in the colony, in ob. scure branches of the government service with never n chance or hope of promotions; but for a young man to
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-04-17
A Plan for UIster.s Benefit.

LONDON, April 17.-A story has been current for two or three days that several members of the cabinet favor 8 plan by which a choice between government by a Dublin Parliament and government by the kritish Parliament shall be granted to Ulster. A provision to this effect, having been approved by the Irish leaders, would be inserted in thr Home Rule bill.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-04-17

A WOMAN with two children. after dining in a Texas restaurant, discovered that she had lost her pocketboolx. The proprietor was in the act of having her arrested as fraud when man walked up and offered to pay the bill Both looked at each other as though they were acquainted, but neither spoke
 Once they had been man and wife, but ~Io
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-04-17
Prevented the Lynchinr.

CLINTON JUNCTION, Wis, April IT, The Governors guard, State troops, ar rived here late last evening just as mob was collecting with the intention of lynching Murderer Britzon. The prisoner was taken from the jail by thet roops and conveyed by train to BaraboO, where he will be confined under military protection.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-04-17
Sailor Probably Fatally Stabbed.

JERSEY C1TY, April 17.-Peter Vancer- berg and Joseph Gibbons, sailors on the Liverpool tramp steamer Ferris, lying at 4th street. Hoheken. Quarreled, and Glib, bons stabbed Vancerberg in the neck with d sheath knife, infictinga wound which will probably prove fatal Gibbons was locked up. Vanoerberg was sent to St. Mary's hospital
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-04-17

'sHe certainly said that" murmured the audience "He said it--and I have the paper still-and he is governor and I an junior in his audit office"
 Then he looked again and he saw a girl She turned her eyes from one to the other in astonishment. A very beautiful g1rl she was. At the sight of her the audience caught his breath.
 'tWhy," she said, ''what is the matter with you both?" "Eva," cried the man, whose burden was to be transferred, but said no more.
 "Eva," said Jack, "I am sorry you have come at this moment. Hut you may as well hear the truth at once"
 Truth? What truth?" She looked quickly, not at Jack, but at the other.
 1.-The truth is," said Jack, 'that a very disgraceful thing has been found out, and that one of us is going to say good-by most likely forever"
 "What Is it, Harry" She caught him by the arm. Why do you look like this?''
 "Because he is my friend, Eva. have shamed him. It is who have done this disgraceful thing. You had better go now, both of you"
 "Yes, he said that" murmured the audience. And they went away and left the guilty man. And there was an end of everythingr'
 The guilty man folded the confession and placed 1t in his pocketboolk. Well, v he said, II would have done more than that for Eva's sake, not to speak of Harry. I don't suppose she will ever know that have ever done 1t or why. Now we must face the footlights-"
 The scene disappeared and the black night returned. Longden was on the vernnda again looking out into the darkness; he heard the gentle tapping of the water on the coral reef and the l1nell of the bell buoy tolling out at sea beyond the harbor, and the hlhaos mourned and sighed in the fresh sea breeze.
 "Yes," said Longden. ''He was eighteen, and he believed in friend ship. What did the other man believe in?"
 And he remembered how the thing which he had assumed was really a much more serious thing than he had believed, in fact, a thing which stains; thing which will not wash off; thing for which he was immediately sent home to his father who refused to re- ceive him, for which in fact he was bundled off to small clerkship in a distant colony, with no farewells ex- cept from his elder brother-the prig- who informed him that it was never too late to build up a new character on the ruins of one which had been de- stroyed.
 "When Jonathan died" ,Longden murmured, David wept and lamented. Suppose Jonathan had disappeared in disgrace only to be recovered when Da- vid was king over Israel?''
 He went to his room and to his bed in the dark. But he slept little, and when he woke in the morning it was with an uneasy sense of having become King David, and of having found his old friend Jonathan adding up the ac counts in the chief stewards chamber and of being embarrassed by the dis coyery.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-04-17

In replying. he condemned the Queen' colleges in Ireland and Dublin university as Gollless institutions. dangerous to the faith of Catholic students.
 The Irish Catholics, he said, had long been fighting for their rights in educa tionai matters, and never would be satis fled until they enjoyed perfect equalit. with other denominations.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-04-17
Collided Witl, a Dredxe.

CTx ISLAND, N. Y., April 17.-The sloop Veto, from Bridgeport, Conn, with seed oysters for Rockaway, ran into a dredge, which is anchord in Hell Gate, yes terday. The bowsprit, figurehead and cutwater were carried away, and she sus tained other slight damage. She anchored in Harlem river
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-04-17
Found Dead on the Sidewalk.

ORANGE. N. J., April 17.-Cornelius Driscoll, 8 years old, who lived in West
 Orange, was found dead early in the morn ing in Washington street He had slipped against fence, and falling, had struck his head on a stone, fracturing his skull. He had been sick with consumption for some
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-04-17
Approve of Alexander's Action.

ST. P.Tm,sIuEG. April 17.-Excepting the Novos5i. ail the newspapers approve of Che course taken by King Alexander of 5ervia. The semi-otiicial press is e. pecially generous of its conlmentlation.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-04-17
Had to be Sank to be Saved.

NEW LONDON, Conn., April 17.-The tug James A. Garfield took fire and had to be sunk to save her. All the upper DOT tion of the tug is burned away, and big hole is burned in her lower deck. The loss is estimated at about $5, 900.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-04-17

AVE you go t your letters by . by the m ail, Longden?" "No,I haven't, my son. I never do get any let ters. I have left off exrec c ting letters.
 His chum, who was a new ar rival, look c d surprised.
 " Why, man,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-04-17
Unusual Turkish Ceremony at the Fsa-.

CHICAGO. April 17.-An unusual cere- mony and one that has has never taken place of Turkey, will be the dedication of the Turkish Mosque in the midway plais-
 ance, April 2S. The ceremonies will be conducted under the auspices of the Ancient Arabic Order of Mobiles of the Mystic Shrine
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-04-17

be actually sent out by the colonial office at the agesof twenty, to begin, as he should, with his foot on the lowest rung, and then to be left there, is not common. After fifteen years he re- mained junior in this department; he drew, it is true, two hundred and forty pounds year, or double his original pay, but he had been passed by all his contemporaries, and now remained stuck fast, apparently forgotten. 1t was said that there was some scandal about him which stood in the way of his promotion--something he had done. What that was did not take definite form. Here, however. was the fact: An English gentleman, of good family, left in the lower branches of the colo nial service, Accountability years of age, possessed of every quality that should command success. What did 1t mean?
 There's some news in the Commer- cial special" said the young fellow. We've got Q new governor. He comes out next mail. Here's the order" He tossed it over. There was a half column hastily printed with a summary of this month. Longden glanced down the paragraphs, Suddenly he started, sat up and dropped the paper.
 Good Lord!" he cried.
 "What is it?" asked his companion.
 Longden sprang to his feet. Then he stepped out upon the little veranda be- fore the cottage and began to walk up and down with an energy worthy of his native land in an east wind.
 Presently Longden came back and took up the paper and read slowly a second time the paragraph that had startled him. ''Sir Henry Diversion Dunlxeld. K. c. D., is the newly appoint ed governor. Sir Henry Dunkeld, the eldest son of Maj. Gen. Dunleld, R. A., was educated at Trinity college, Cam bridge, where he obtained @ first class and fellowship in the year 1875. He
 as called to the bar in 1877; he sat in
 .e house of commons for the borough Chester on the conservative side
 rom 1879 to 1882. He was then appointed lieutenant governor of Benang: in 1884 he was made governor of the Leeward islands. Sir Henry is believed to possess great administrative abilities. lie is personally popular; he is said to possess great charm of manners, and his sympathies with any religious and philanthropic' movements are well known."
 Good Lord!' said Longden once more. And am an assistant clerk ir his autlit office
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-04-17
uae Ccnfort scap

For the Hands the Face, the Complexion. It is antiaeptic. Emollient and Curative. Price 26 cents cake.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-04-17
Five pearhs from Cholera pailx.

PARIS, April 17.-Cholera continues to claim victims in the towns of L'Orient md elsewhere in the department of Nor bihan. It is stated that the de aths from cholera in that district average five lnilu