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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-08-19

Big Reserve Officer John RollioVs,
saws the Philadelphia Record, who
stood for long time at Thirteenth and
Chestnut streets, where his gigantic
form won for him the playful nickname
of BABY" lies in the Hahnemsnn Hos
pital critically i'll from a paralytic
stroke. which be suffered yesterday,
and II is scared that he will never again
be fiji for duty. Rollings is the biggest
man on the police force, standing SIX
feet eight and half inches high and
weighing $50 pounns, and on account
OF mis- herculean size be was persuaded
once 10 ioiu the New York force, where
be served for year on the Broadway
SQUAD, aud was known as the broad
vav Giant" He also served several
wears as guard az the CAPITOL IN
Washington. Some time ago ne was
knocked down and run over by an M
manageable horse. sustaining Injuries
which incapacitated him for street
duty.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-08-19

MISS FooTLITE (petulantly) - 81
don't see why Dr.. Thirdly wants to be
always throwing stumbling blocks In
the way OF those who are striving for
eminence in the theatrical profession.
Yeger-"What has be been doing
now?"
Miss Footllte-"Adyocatin the abo-
lition of the divorce law"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-08-19
BuntinRa FIGht.

YOKOHAMA, August ~. Up ~, ON
cialIy stated that the Japatese Gbei,
which consists Of II vessels, Is hunting
for the Chinese feet with the purpose
OF engaging II In battle. IA Jap
anese troops in Corea have beei3 Ordered
to occupy all the passes on THE China
Corean frontier and prevent at all haz-
ards the entry into Corea OF Chinese 70.
Inducements.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-08-19

You only need make tho most super
fetal examination TO q stsrmIne the vAlus
OF the Register ne an advertising me-
dunn. Publishes moro local and tsis-
graphic news IN ISSUE than any OF
It's contemporaries do In three.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-08-19

THAT Is rather q highhanded pro-
ceeding," muttered Wibbles 10 himself
as Wabbles rsked in the pot on set OF
fours that made his own full look ex-
ceedingly small.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-08-19

All the Georgia mockingbirds have re-
tired and are now engaged in shiveriDg
and wrapping red flannel around their
throats. Atlanta Constitution.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-08-19

Two events OF almost equal interest
occurred in that negih0orhood soon
after the above incident.
One vas the church trial Of the
shoemaker on the charge OF lying,
which resulted in his ignominious ex-
pulsion from the church over which the
Rev. Baggett presided.
The other was the wedding OF Lee
Baggett and Alice Lowe, with the APP
proval and cordial blessings OF both
households.
GctLrSf}v Ohm
National Baptist world., 1894-10-26
CHINESE PUNISHMENTS.
Horrible Phase of Justice Among the
Mongolians.

In December 1891, / was in Canton.
One afternoon | visited the principal
law court. Two prisoners in chains
were introduced-one an old man, toe
infirm to walk, the other a youth, tOI
erably vigorous, but abject and forlorn
in demeanor The presiding mandarin
appeared, sat down and slipped his tea,
while an official pattered out a long
grafton, presumably an Indictment,
for the prisoners proceeded, as | un-
derstood, to plead mot guilty" What
followed, says a writer in the Specta-
tor, was this: The old man was held
up-not held down-while two stolid
Cinnamon fogged him with long,
plant canes above the knees. The
youth was divested of his chains,
which were then piled up in front of
him. Upon these he was compelled to
kneel, while his feet, hands and pig
tail were all attached by cord to
post behind him and tightly secured,
The cries of the victims AMI the COM
plete composure of the spectators were
alike disgusting. l said as much to
nv guide, whom ! generally regarded
as an amiable being. His reply was:
This very interesting. l never seen
this BEFORE" though | have no doubt
he had The explanation of the dread
full scene-excuse there could be none
was that, by the law of China, no man
can be executed until he has confessed
his guilt. These two individuals had
been convicted beyond doubt of helm
Gus crimes, but they refused to confess.
The alternative before them was exc
cution or death by torture, and appar'
emily they preferred the latter. The
ceremony l witnessed was to be re-
peated de die in diem until either life
o, resolution gave way. How the end
came, of course, I never knew.
National Baptist world., 1894-10-26
ASTONISHEO INDIANS.

They Thought a Red-Haired Paiefaca
Something of Freak of Nature.
Twenty years ago the Indians in
Colorado knew but little of the white
man, and nothing hardly Of his ways
or habits except from tradition.
Among the people who went to settle
in Colorado at that time, says
Golden Days. was a man with very red,
hair. He and his party were thrown
among the Indians, who thought at
first that his hair was painted, just as
they painted their own bodies and
faces.
An old chief came up to him one day
and looked at his hair very carefully.
''Ugh!' said he.
And then, turning to the interpreter
who had the party in charge, he
wanted him to ask the man where he
got the kind of paint that would color,
and yet not be greasy or look dauby.
He was told that the mans hair was
not painted, but he would not
believe it. He once more walked
Up to the man and serutinized
his locks, running his hand through
them and looking at his fingers.
The red-haired man became little
nervous, and half fancied that the chief
was calculating how nice a red scalp
would look hung to his belt. The in
terpreter, however, laughingly told the
man what the chief had said.
Two or three more of the Indians
then gathered around the party, and
they and the interpreter had pow
WOW. Finally the interpreter asked
the man if he would object to putting
water on his hair.
He saw that the Indians would not
believe but that it was painted, until
they saw that the water would not
wash the color out. The man took
some water, rubbed it on his hair and
then showed his hands to them. But
it took four or five days of wondering
examination to convince them that he
had not found some peculiar paint, and
got himself up in bright red suit of
hair
National Baptist world., 1894-10-26
USEFUL ALLIGATORS.
They Are Valuable as Destroyc<s oc ':roub"
tesome Rodents.

tesome Rodents.
The bayous of Louisiana we're form.
erly the homes of alligatOrs without
number. They did no particular harm,
except by catching stray pig or dog
now and then; nor were they known
to be of any particular use. The peo-
pie, for the most part, let them alone
Then there sprang up at the north
demand for alligator skins for the
making of satchels, pocletbooks and
the like, and the natural result fol-
lowed The alligators We're killed in
great numbers, till presently they were
almost destroyed.
No harm was done, people thought;
but by and by it began to be noticed
that certain mischievous quadrupeds
were multiplying. In the rice fields,
according to a Louisiana exchange. the
muskrats increased in such numbers
that it became hard work to keep up
the back levees, which had been built to
keep the water on the rice during the
growing season. What perhaps was
more serious, the same burrOwing rO-
dents infested the front levees, and
nothing but constant watchfulness
averted disastrous consequences.
Then market gardeners began to
complain of an alarming increase in
the number of rabbits, raccoons and
other animals which preyed upon the
caulifower, cabbage, lettuce and SINH
lar vegetables. Some of the gardeners
were compelled to inclose their gar
dens with close wire fences, or else
abandon the cultivation of some Of
their most profitab BILE crops.
The alligators had not been useless,
and the people had learned anew that
it is dangerous to go too fast and too
far in disturbing the order of nature.
National Baptist world., 1894-10-26
BLASTING GELATINE.
How the Terrible Explosive Is Prepared
and Handled.

How the Terrible Explosive Is Prepared
and Handled.
BY far the most important as we'll as
the latest form of dynamite or solidi
fed nitro-glycerine are those desig
mated not too happily as blasting gela
tines" Many persons imagine, quite
naturally, that these consist of some
form of gelatine, isinglass, or glue
converted by chemical means into 3
powerful explosive. But blasting
gelatine'' contains no particle what
ever of gelatine, properly SO called, the
term being applied to mixture OF
nitro-glycerine and nitry-cellulose.
1t is prepared at Ardeer, in Ayrshire,
n B., by heating nitro-gl lycerine in
"iacketed" pans to between 40 degrees
and water at 60 degrees Centigrade
GAO degrees Fahrenheit) certain pro-
portion of dry guncotton of the ''solu-
ble'' kind. A current of hot water at
60 degrees Centigrade GAO degrees
Fahrenheit circulating between the
outer and inner pans keeps the con-
tents of the latter at the required tenn
perature, and the mixing is effected by
|
mechanical stirrers.
Any rise of temperature above A. de-
grees Centigrade Q13 Fahrenheit is
quickly checked by turning into the
outer ''iacket" a stream of cold water
in place of the hot for time. In the
course of about an hour the nitro-cot-
ton is dissolved in the nitro-glycerine,
the two bodies uniting to form more
or less stiff, homogeneous jelly; it may
indeed be compared to the Photographic
| collodion, thickened by evaporation
the guncotton having been dissolved
not in the usual alcohol-ether mixture
but in nitro-glycerine. When composed
of 90 per cent. of the latter. with pei
cent cotton, we get most powerful
explosive. Mr. G. Macroberts, the man
ager at Ardeer, observes upon thl:
point:
''Of all the nitro-glycerinee explosives
| blasting gelatine is the strongest. L
the energy of dynamite be represented
by 100, that of blasting gelatine will be
| $50; nitro-gelatine itself shows less
| energy than blasting gelatine. Nine
| teenth Century
National Baptist world., 1894-10-26
#T-HNH-WtSCGmm.

We first make our habits, and then
our habits make us.-Anon.
Something every man has to part
with-a comb. mb.-Philadelphia Record.
The man who is standing up for
you soon gets tired and sits down. -
Atchison Globe.
$50 he's going to marry Miss Gold
bird, eh? What sort of racket did he
worll?'' ''Tennis, | understand. DE
troit Tribune.
From the Georgia Point of View
81 don see no reason for folks tryin' tc
find de norf pole,'' said Aunt Chloe.
"Day amt no pussimmons grows dar. ;
Chicago Tribune.
He that is good infallibly becomes
better, and he that is bad will as Ger
tainlv become worse; for vice, virtue
and time are three things that never
stand still.-Colton.
AT the Concert-"That sounds like
annie Laurie she is singing" ''Well,
it isn't" How can you be SO sure?'
Because it wouldn't sound like it if il
were Inter Ocean.
in many instances the man who
spends his life waiting for his ship to
come in wastes his time, because he
originally omitted to send any ship out.
Milwaukee Journal
He that lays down precepts for
governing our lives and mOderating
our passions, obliges humanity not on
ly in the present, but for all future
generations Seneca.
Mrs. Shortstop-Jack said they had
quite spirited game yesterday. Mrs.
Neverplay-I guess like enough; Char
ley said they had about two gallons on
the grounds. Boston Courier.
--Veracity, true simplicity of heart,
how valuable are these always. He
that speaks what really is in him will
find men to listen though under never
such impediments T. Carlyle.
-Lady-Do you know how to look
after bric-a-bra New Servant-4es
sum; l always put the broken pieces
in the fire, so the poor rag -pickers won't
cut their fingers Boston Gazette.
-Watts-Do you always agree with
your wife when she makes an asser
ton? Potts-Of course don't. Do yor
suppose | want the poor woman to have
no amusement at all?-Indianapoli:
Journal.
-Jess-Ethel and Jack are botl
| fighters; l don't believe they will evel
make a match. bly, it viii
be like most fighters matches; ST,
months of talk, and then all forfeit
withdrawn Once A Week.
Observation-Disclosures the matter will
the lady you are watching? Is she sus
pected? Clerk Sh-sh! Yes. She is in
sane What did she do?' asked t.
look at shoes that were really larg'
enough for her. Inter Ocean.
If he who has little wit needs ;
master to inform his stupidity, he wh'
has much frequently needs ten to keel
in check his worldly wisdom, whlci
might otherwise, like high-n-ttle(
charger, toss him to <the ground. =
] Scriver
National Baptist world., 1894-10-26
Harold" d!"-Chicago Record.
He Was No Singer.

1t is not often that young people will
freely acknowledge their shortcomings
like the youth at social party who
was asked to sing. He replied that he
would first tell a story, and then, i
they persisted in their demand, he
would endeavor to execute a song
When small boy, he said. he took les
sons in singing, and one Sunday morn
ing he went up into the garret to prac
tice alone. While in full cry, he was
suddenly sent for by his father. This
is pretty conduct" said the latter
''pretty employment for son of mine
to be saving boards in the garret on 3
Sunday morning, loud enough to be
heard by all the neighbors! Sit down
and take your book" The young map
was unanimously excused from sing
ing the proposed song.-Golden Days
National Baptist world., 1894-10-26
The Up-tO-Date Method.
CHAPTER !


Gladys Martyr was an heiress. She
was the idol of society. Men fiocked
about her. She loved but one-Harold
Simpson. He was poor, obscure. Fami-
ly pride restrained her. She concealed
her feelings.
CHAPTER II.
con, say the word.' implored Harold,
clasping her jeweled hand.
Would you win my hand?" said she
"Then go and do something. Be ia
nous. Become a worthy suitor."
81 will" he replied, with a ring OF
manly resolve in his voice.
CHAPTER III.
Gladys Martyr glanced at the news
paper in her hands. What is this?
Harold ldSimpson-operation-appen-
dicitis?" There was two-column pic
ture Of Harold and page description
of the operation.
''He is-he is famous, she exclaimed
bursting into tears.
CHAPTER ~.
"Gladys"'
"Haroldn'-Chicago Record.
National Baptist world., 1894-10-26
DELICIOUS AND EDUCATlCN NAL.

Speech is but broken light on the
depth of the unspoken George Eliot.
1t has been proposed that an in
ternational salvation congress shall
take place in London, next July.
Two sentiments alone suffice for
man were he TO live to the age of the
rocks-iove ssa,l the contemplation OF
the -Deity.-Dr. Watts.
The latest statistics, compiled by
M. Fournier de Faix. French statisti-
clan, give the number of Roman Cath
olics in the world as $50, S66, 633; Protest
ants, 143, 237, ,625; Greek Catholics, 9S,-
O16,OOO.
The effective life and the receptive
life are one. No sweep of arm that
does some work for Goa but harvests
also some more of the truth of God,
and sweeps it into the treasury of life.
Phillips Brooks.
At Lucknow, India, where thirty
years ago so many Europeans Were
murdered during the Sepoy rebellion:
so, 900 children, all of IIindOo and Mo
hammedan parentage, recently march
ed in Sunday-school procession.
The following is list of the dates
of founding the Oldest colleges in the
United States: Harvard, 1896; William
and Mary's, 1862. Yale, 1900; Princeton,
1746; University of Pennsylvania, 1749
Columbia 1854; Brown University, 1869
Rutgers, 1770.
God knows all, but his attitude is
not the same to all. His eyes are on the
righteous, that he may hear THEN
prayers and help them; His face is or
the wicked, that He may know and de
feat their purposes, and bring THEN
work to nothing.
David Ingalls,, Of Springville, n. V.
left an estate valued at about $500, 600
| the bulk of which was bequeathed tt
charities. The board of home missions
of the Presbyterian church receive:
5000, 900, the board of foreign mission:
| $3.50, 900, and the board of relief $50, 900
| The will is contested.
During the last twenty years ;
little more than $53, 900, 900 has beer
| spent in restoring cathedrals anC
| churches in England, and more thar
s4S, 600, 600 has been spent in building
new churches In London alone more
than $4, 600, 900 has been expended il
| building and restoring churches.
The Anti-Cigarette Smoking league
started by Charles B. Hubbell, of the
board of education, in the grammar
schools of New York city, is having
quite success: and the principals o
the schools and the boys themselve
show great interest in it. The boy
pledge themselves upon honor not t.
smoke cigarettes before they are TWEEN
ty-one years old. The league is spread
ing to the public schools in othe
cities.
"A year ago 230 ladies in ST. An
drew's church, Kingston, Ont, wer
given 81 each to turn to the best &C
count and return the proceeds in Jan
uary. 1894. Monday night the cash wa
summed up, and the trustees wer
amazed to have $2,31S placed in thei
hands. Mrs. Mackie. wife of the pas
tor, made the greatest gain. Her dol
lar realized $3.50. Rev, Mr. Grant, a
an expression of admira ton of tn
ladv's success wrote out a check TO
S16O more. The ladies will work tn
scheme again, and have set $4,000 as tn
amount needed.
National Baptist world., 1894-10-26
Canine Protectors.

In an exhibition of trained wild ami
mails now open in New York number
of large and very intelligent dogs are
always introduced into the cage with
the other beasts. This is said to be
for the protection of the trainers, the
quick instinct of the dogs enabling
them to discover instantly any indica-
tion of dangerous temper in the
lions or tigers. If there were likeli-
hood of the men being attacked the
dogs would rush upon the wild creatures
and thus give sufficient warning to the
trainers to resixa It is an exh:bi tion
in which the men in cUarge ,@la g 7ez5
serious risk.
National Baptist world., 1894-10-26
A Proof of Genius.

A father placed his son with res
taurant-keeper, to learn the trade Oh
waiter. Some weeks later he called to
inquire what progress the boy was
making.
Excellent" answered the proprie-
tor, enthusiastically. He charged a
gentleman seyenty-fve cents too much,
to-day. Truth.
National Baptist world., 1894-10-26

ALL known chemical elements are
represented in sea water. They are not
always capable of being detected by
chemical analysis.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-14
A ZIG BLOW IN EUROPE.
A Score or More of Lives Lost in Bel
gium and France.

Brussels. Nov. ia terrific wind, rain
and hail storm prevailed in this city and
it's vicinity to-day doing immense dam
age to property, and involving consid-
cradle loss of life So far fifteen deaths
are reported. During the storm the roof
Of a factory at Ath was carried away
killing four persons.
Berlin, Nov 13-The hurricane which
has prevailed along the coast of the North
Sea has done a great deal of damage and
considerable loss of life is reported. The
telegraph wires throughout Germany
have suffered greatly from the storm, and
in many sections they are wholly pros
trated.
London, Nov. 18.-Floods in various
parts of England are still raging.
In Buckingham houses in the lower por-
ton of the town are flooded and roads
blocked.
The Avon has overfowed its banks at
Bath and thousands Of persons are inn
prisoned in the upper stories of factories
and dwellings.
The gale on the English Channel last
night was the most violent experienced
this year. The channel steamers report
having fearful passages The steamer
Victoria was unable to make Dover and
returned to Calais. The steamer La
Flandre was badly damaged and many
of her sailors were disabled. The barken-
tine Elizabeth Jane. loaded with grain,
was found derelict and towed to Dover.
Nothing has been heard of her crew. The
warships anchored at St. Malo, France,
were in serious danger and put to sea
flying signals of distress. Cherbourg and
other ports are crowded with damaged
craft.
The steamer Prussian was torn from her
mooring at Hamburg and damaged many
other vessels with which she collided.
although she sustained no damage her
self
The storm was very violent in Paris.
Much damage was done to chimneys,
roofs and windows. Three persons were
killed by falling chimneys and several
more were injured. The velocity of the
wind, as recorded on the Eiffel tower,
was eighty-two miles an hour
Deaths and injuries due to the storm
are reported from Nantes, Rouen and
other towns
Telegraph and telephone lines were
blown down in France, Belgium and Ger
many.
The loss of property and live stock by
the floods in Devon, Cornwall, Doreset,
Somerset and elsewhere in England is
enormous.
Hamburg, Nov. 13.-The hurricane which
swept over this city yesterday did great
damage TO the town and to the smaller
class of shipping in the harbor num-
Der of small vessels sustained considerable
damage.
Lubbock, on the Trave suffered in a sim
liar manner
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-14
BLAZE OF THE FORESTS.
The Towns of Reebe and Neelyville i
Imminent Danger.

Imminent Danger.
Beebe, Ark, Nov. 13.-The forest fires
are approaching dangerously near this
place. The city was enveloped in smoke
last night and to-day it hangs like a
pail. Many hunting parties were camped
in the woods, and 1t is feared several bod
les will be found
There has been no rain here for sew
eral months, and as the ST. Francis basin
is dry, the lumbermen are apprehensive Of
d serious loss. Farmers are out lighting
the fire, but it spreads so rapidly that
little or no headway against it can be
made.
The situation at Neelyville is alarming
and the farmers are fighting Gay and
night to save their homes and buildings
Memphis, Tenn, Nov. 13-The forest
fires in Northern Mississippi, Western
Tennessee, and Eastern Arkansas, con
tinue to rage with UNDATED Vigor The
fires have made their way into Alabama
in the vicinity Of Florence. following
the line of the Tennessee river. whose
banks are heavily wooded. Many men in
the ShOal creek neighborhood, near Flor
ence, are engaged fighting the flames
to keep them from the settlements yet
a dozen houses have been burned, and
'barns, fences and crops swept away
Paris, Tenn, is surrounded by flames.
James Snyder living near there went to
fight the fires from his fences. When he
returned TO his home ii was In ashes.
This is the experience OF hundreds of
settlers.
The village Of Hollywood, Miss. is sur
rounded by fire, and in great danger
Near Renova, Miss, Harry Owsley and
wife, white and aged were burned to
death. and d young woman living with
them had a narrow escape.