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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-09-18

Mr.. James NJ. Dillon, the we'll known
ex-euperiutendent OF the city gas works,
recently took notion 10 make gun
barrel. He wrapped copper wire about
O rod, binding II tightly, and then bored
out the inside and planed OF the out
side until he had as pretty aud as ser.
viceable barrel as was ever seen. He
has 1t at Tom Titles plumbing shop,
north OF tho postotEice. where 1t has at.
tracted great deal Of admiring attep.
tfoo
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-09-18
baltimore s ohio station Robbed.

Thieves entered the Baltimore &
Ohio depot ut ST. Clairsville Junction
through window Sunday night. An
oyercoat expressed to Charles Bam-
berger and several small packages were
taken. The little iron safe containing
tickets, money orders aud packages oil
value was carried away. There Is no
clue to tho thieves.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-09-18

The employees Of the Baltimore &
Ohio shops at Bcnwood, who have been
notified Of a reduction in their wages,
TO take effect coon, yesterday held o
consultation aud appointed acommitteo
to confer with tho railroad officials on
the subject. A conference will DO held
In a day or two.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-09-18

Ono case each Grsy and White Blank
ets at 49c per pair.
Ono case each Fine All.Wool country
Blankets, Scarlet and White. 81 30
per pair, worth 81 90. -.
Ill Ton cases OF tho celebrated st.
Mary's Blankets, covering every shade.
grade and size produced by this famous
mill. We are sole selling agents for
Wheeling 4! :,
Ail.Wool Striped Flannel Skirts, fall
lengths and widths at Tee each, as
good 90 you have ever had at 81 90.
Silk and Wool Mixed Novelty Dress
Goods at 5Oc, that look whom made ny
like the dollar kind.
Covert Cloths in many grades and
colors, SOC q yard up.
p6yEight largo Dress Goods Depart
ments crowded with the best values we
have ever had. go.
New Moire, Novelty and Plain Silks.
Veiutina In all widths, shades and
qualities. Wears equal TO velvet.
Trimmings in Jet, Fur, Crochet,
silk Beaver, etc. Points, 1nsertings,
Edgings and Waist Sets.
Artistic shapes In buckles and largo
buttons. Soc some Of our trimmings in
Market street window.
Double Mapped Canton FlanuelS SIC
yard.
Ryard.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-09-18
A Saving Disposition Makes MAJ
Wealthy,

Suppose you call and lot US explain
our savings system to you. It'll only
take three minutes OF your t!mo. II YOU
can't como Let US know and we will have
representative Of the association call
on you. I'LL interest you. Mutual
German Savings and Loan Association,
rooms 30l aud 902 Peabody building.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-09-18
Transfers Recorded.

Clerk Hook yesterday admitted to roc
ord transfers Of real estate as follows:
September u, 1908, by Susan Z. Mil.
Ter to Edward A. Higsins, for $500,
lot on the south side OF Kentucky
street, Island.
September Is by Frank Wasmuth aud
wife to John Waamnth, for $500, lot
on the east side OF Wctzel street.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-09-18

Yesterday q white woman named
Hattie Underwood complained to the
police that Dennis Gardner, colored,
had beaten her. Dennis was locked up.
Tho two hayo been living together for
some time, and she says he frequently
beats her. The case will be investigated
In this mornings police court
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-09-18

Excursion to Pittsburgh Exposition via
baltimore 8 Ohio Railroad
Thursday, September 20. at low
round trip rates. Tickets good return.
ing until Saturday, September %.
Trains leave Wheeling ut s aud 1880
q, m,, | 80 and 5:35 y. m.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-09-18

Word was received by the police here
yesterday that Charles Ramsey and q
girl named Laura Ann Richie had
eloped from Midway, Pa., with a roam
horse and buggy, and were believed 10
have come to this city. The officers
were asked 70 keep lookout for them.
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Hum OF INDUSTRY.
Another Pottery Wage Reduction
Is a Possibility
THE EASTERN MANUFACTURERS

Have Already Approached Their Men
with q Red uetion ofwaEos In Wow.
The Men Thus far Refuse to oonsid'
or aay Proposition tor q Reduc.
tion-other News Ia che Local Field
Of Industry
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o'Hricu Cages Two.
Officer o'Brien last evening locked up
Andy Gideon, on charge Of disorderly
conduct He has been In several times
lately. Albert Ruthers was locked up
BY the same officer for beating his wife.
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runERAL pIaEcToRs.
QIse5atslliaet,eer
once, Nos. % and "a Fourteenth street.



Attention, Sir KnIghtL
RepublieinG Notice.
Opera HouSS-The Country Squire.
Pof RalO-TWo Young Cows.
ITOrSs for aal4-C. o Carr.
For SAle-Mule Team.
Stock for Sale-R 8 irwin.
Duluth Imperial Flppf-H. y. BehrcnA
Think OF ThIS-Dr, GFeen9s HefTurH.
LIGHTNING Hot Drops-SecOpd Page
Kiein'S silver Are Whisky --Socopd Page.
GaG Chimueyh eto-EFipg Bros.
sultana Raiilns-A Albert Stole d Co.
FOR STYLE AND SUBTRACTION
Coil and examine our large aud handsome
stock OF Foreign md Domestic Wooions,
procured exclusively by our agent for the
fino merchant TAILORING trade.
Our assortment Of Fall OVOroohttngs,
suitiuEs, Trousorings and Fancy Vesttngs
uuequnIed, and embracing every novelty.
va guarantee az, and matte prices 70 suit
a full line Of Cent? Furnishings-"pow
and nobby,"
Hose again received,
Tho popular EIghmie Shirt q leader.
All Knit Wool jacket for sale BY us only.
q. HESS g. SONS,
Pine TnlIors and dents' Furnishers, 1881
aud 1893 Market street,
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More Div Goods than ever for the money These oteFi

Dress prints, medium shades, $50 I'D.
Extra quality, 40-inch Muslin, &c I'd.
Vary large Turkish Bath Towels loc,
worth lsc.
Glass Linen Crashes Sic, worth DC.
Turkey Red Table Linens ID, 20,
SO. &c.,, etc.
India Linon Remnants, another lot,
Curtain Ends at le. 20 aud 3ec each.
Gloria Silk Umbrellas, Paragon Frames,
Natural Wood Handles, $50, cheap at
81 80.
Gloria Silk Umbrellas, ParagonFrames,
Weichsel and Acacia Handles, 81 80.
worth s. 90. A finer grade at 81 70.
worth 81 So
Ladies' fino Seamless fast black hose,
Hermsdorf dye, 2ic n pair.
Ladies' Silk Plated Hose 49c pair,
worth Zoe.
Ladies' Hose, Hermsdori dye, prime
quality, 12ic a pair.
Ladies' Black Seamless Wool Hose,
Ribbed Tops, csc pair.
Mons senmless Half Hose that give
solid wear, four pair for Csc.
Fast Black Seamless Hose for Child.
ron, l2!c pair.
At SO and 6ec we soil Jersey Ribbed
Underwear for Ladies, worth fully ono.
fourth more. Tho new style Jersey
Ribbed Union Suits.
Fibre Channels, tho now interllning,
Wa have i'll
; and Collars Just In !
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-09-18

Feather and Fur Boas and Collars Just In l
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orr daughter. My only objection ID
their extreme youth Then he added
that Mr.. Prentice, ST., had been up to
see them and was equally pleased with
the engagement
''ln the course of ten days came
cablegram from his wife saying:
Break engagement at once. I sail for
home by next steamer
''This message was q dreadful blow
to the young people concerned, and
greatly bewildered the clergyman
However. nothing could be done
but await his wife's arrival, and then
matters would probably straighten
themselves. In the meantime his wife
had sailed, and landing In New York
the following Saturday had driven d.
rectly to the office Of the young mans
father and asked for an interview with
HIM.
"Mr. Prentice was as much distressed
at the broken engagement as the
Others, and he readily granted her re-
quest
ut is easier for you to imagine, than
for me to describe his sensations. as
she explained her cable by this story.
She began Immediately:
"'Mr. Prent ice, your wife was very
dear friend of mine. We were at school
together. and shortly after separating
as schoolmates, she married you and
went to the south to live. heard from
her occasionally, and knew she was
very happy, and, later, heard that she
had q son.
"'About four years went by, when,
one day. she wrote to us that you were
in Europe on business, her little boy
was with some relatives, and she was
alone and very miserable in New
York boarding house, and asked me il
l would come to her.
My husband was away from home
at that time, and there was nothing to
prevent my leaving, SO came to New
York and Joined your wife.
~ had been with her but q few
days when another child was born-a
little girl
Prom the first l said the mother
could not live.
She knew it also, and called me tc
her bedside.
"'She took my hand. and said:
""Jeanne, you have been my best
friend all my life. have not long to
live, and ask a last favor OF you.
"'"I know your great sorrow In life
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LITTLE IMO9ENE ON HIS ANEE-
Of the family during their dau ghter's
childhood. 1t was not adequate for
their expenses as she grew into woman
hood.
This matter Of income troubled
these good people for some time, until
the father conceived the idea Of tutor
ing college men who had been unfor-
tunate in not passing their class exam
inationa
"Ae, therefore. went up 70 New
Haven, which IL but few miles from
Milford, and made arrangements 70
take into his family one or two of the
students during the summer montha
This proved very feasible plan.
and the pecuniary results were most
satisfactory.
''Thus matters went on for year OF
more.
1T was during lmogene's seven.
tenth year that her mother was In
vited to spend the summer in Europe
with an invalid cousin, and, as her
husband and daughter urged her to go,
she finally consented to leave them for
three or four months.
''She sailed early In June, and, two
weeks later, there came to Milford q
young man from Yale, to be tutored
for couple of months
He was the son of Mr.. Prentice, q
well-known New York broker. and q
very charming fellow.
1T took but q short time for the
young people to fall in love. and In 9
very few weeks he asked permission Of
Imogene's father to marry her.
'The clergyman was delighted and
wrote to his wife, saying:
The young people are so happy
and the fellow very attractive.
couldn't wish for = better mstch 1ol
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cHlLpREN's GOWNS.

Always Interesting, and just Now Varied
and Very Pretty.
Gowns for little girls never cease to
be interesting to those who have to
make or buy them, and children re-
quire SO many changes that every
varying phrase Of their little dresses is
welcome to those who must supply the
need. Their styles were never prettier
or soft, clinging materials which are
so becoming to children, in greater
variety. A dainty frock of white
China silk, dotted with satin birds
eye spots, and suitable for q girl OF
eight years. is trimmed on the skirt
with two rows of lace insertion over
yellow satin ribbon. which also trims
the revers and forms three bands up
and down the waist both back and
front. A pale green wool crepon, or
cashmere if preferred, for it is fashion
able again, as q shirt cut basque, q
plain waist, and turn-back revers open
ing over vest striped with white en-
broidery. One row trims the skirt and
edges the collar.
A simple little sailor costume made
of blue wool serge is trimmed with
bands, vest and collar of white silk.
Square lace collars are a special
feature of children's gowns, and the
waists are usually full, particularly in
wash materials.-N Y. Sun.
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Is that you have no children; ask you
now to adopt my baby.
"..My husband is still a young man,
and. in all probability, will marry
again. In that case. a stranger to me
will be the mother of my child.
"'s'My husband has the boy to re-
mind him of me, but this baby wish
you to take
"'"Will you do this for me?"
~ hesitated but q moment, and then
1 promised.
"'She was too weak to say any more.
and she died that day. without speak
ing again.
1.-THE same evening wrote to you
telling you of your wife's death, and
added the awful lie that the child had
died too
81 signed the letter by my maiden
name, that you might never trace me
and discover your child.
latter the funeral took the baby
home, and told my husband / had
adopted her. that was under bond Of
secrecy not to say where. but that !
knew her parentage.
$50 my husband asked no ques-
lions, and we brought the child up as
our own.
81 think he has even forgotten that
she is adopted.
| 1.-The rest you know; you came home
from Europe. settled in New York, be-
came prosperous, and as your boy grew
up you sent him to college at New
Haven.
"'Then. with 1.-The irony Of fate" dur.
ing my absence from home. he comes
into our house, falls in love with our
daughter, and, but for my tardy con
fession, would have married his OWL
sisterP"
Lady Berkeley paused In her nara
tive, and sighed
She was looking into the fire with
her hands clasped on her knee, and
thought her face pathetically sad
Silence reigned for minute. but be
fore anyone had chance to speak
Lady Berkeley continued:
''Well. the young people were told
the circumstances, and Mr.. Prentict
went up to Milford and wished Il
claim his daughter.
1.-THE clergyman and his wife wert
broken-hearted, but dared not oppos,
the rightful father after their selfish
ness in depriving him all those years o.
lis own child.
IA compromise, however, was made
that lmogene should live In her ole
home three months of the year.
i "She then went away with Mr.. Prem
tice, but never came back to Milford
for. be lore the year was out she wa
engaged to an Englishman, and sooI
after married him"
| Again Lady Berkeley paused. and
looking at Jonson, said, with smile:
i 'Is not this strange enough for &c
tion?"
/ "Yes," he answered. land feel q
though it must be. it was 50 unn stura
in the gil to go and live with he
father. who was practically stran
ger"
'sShe was awfully hard-hearted
wasn't she?" asked one of tho party. /.
II am not an impartial judge" salt
Ledy Berkeley, s'for was the girlp'
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q week, and five days had passed most
pleasantly. But, alas! the sixth day
was cold and rainy, and our poor host
ess was In despair to know what to DO
with her houseful of guesta
The morning had dragged by It's
weary hours.
The men found occupation in the bill
liard-room or library. The women tried
with fancy work or music to while
away the time. but an air OF restless
dependency had settled over these
heretofore gay people.
At five o'clock tea was brought in,
and we all gathered around the big fire
| In the hall
The guest of honor In our party was
Lady Berkeley. lately come to Amer
lea for visit, and q very pretty and
charming woman.
had once before met her-two years
| ago In Rome-but knew nothing about
her. though some one had told me she
had quite history.
For the few days we had been to-
gether in this country house she had
been the life of the party and had won
the admiration Of all
Her beauty and her attractions were
unusual, but this wretched weather
had cast q gloom over even her high
spirits.
As we were all taking tea together,
Mr.. Jonson. one Of the party, laid
down a book he had been reading and
remarked:
IA good story, but 90 improbabler'
II don't know" said Lady Berkeley;
"that might have happened; stranger
things have"
II doubt It," replied Mr. Jonson. Il
don't believe in fact ever being stranger
than fiction"
Lady Berkeley smiled and said: "Per-
haps q very strange fact has never been
brought to your notice"
no" admitted Jonson. 1--WE lived
nearly forty years, and have still to see
anything improbable happen in real
life"
"well," she replied. Il can tell you a
strange story, the truth of which can
vouch for"
II should like to hear It," said JON
son, and the other members of the par
ty, having overheard the conversation,
drew their chairs nearer to theatre and
gave her their attention.
1T is curious" commenced Lady
Berkeley, "that ! should tell you the
story of an American family. living in
q small New England town, and for
fear some Of you might know the PEG.
pie concerned, shall change their
namea
About twenty-five years ago. there
lived in Milford, Conn.,, o clergyman
and his wife and child.
These two parents worshiped Their
little girl, for It was late in life that
she had been sent to them
''As the child grew older, they seemed
to grow younger, and life seemed to
them well worth living
THE old clergyman was never sc
happy as when, with his little Imogens
ON his knee, he told her stories. OF
taught her her first lessons
1T was their greatest pleasure to de
prive themselves. that they might give
more to their child
Their income. however. was small
and. though sufficient for the comfor'
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OF the two thousand or more Chinese
women in San Francisco nearly half
that number are in bondage. They
may be divided into two classes. Tho
first class is that made up of little do
nestle servants called muey ebay. 1t
is the custom in poor Chinese families
where daughters are plentiful to sell
one or two of their girls to wealthy
families as servants The price paid
depends upon the age and personal APP
pcarance of the girl. A good looking
healthy girl of eight or ten years OF
age in Canton is worth about one hun
dred and fifty dollars. Before the pur-
chase is completed she is carefully
examined to be sure that she has no
hereditary faint or infectious disease.
If found to be healthy a contract IL
executed between the parents OF the
girl and the purchaser, STIMULATING that
She shall be kindly treated and pro
vided with nutritious food and suitable
clothing until of manageable age,
when her master is bound by Chinese
custom to provide her with a husband.
On her marriage she becomes a free
woman. II she is sold it is also pro
vided that her purchaser shall bind
himself not TO sell her or use her 591
Immoral purposes. = Chicago Iote'
0ceap
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ANCIENT CHEMISTRY.


Tho Science rs 1t Was Developed In the
Early Centuries.
The worku(n who dyed cloths,
clothing, and tapestries in purple or
other colors, an industry practiced first
in Egypt and Syria and then in all the
Grecian, Roman, and Persian world,
not to speak of the extreme east, en-
ployed highly developed chemical
manipulations; and the cloths found
on the mummies and in the sarco-
phagi attest their perfection. Pliny and
Vitruvius desc ribe in detail the pro-
duction of colors, such as cinnabar OF
vermilion, minimum, red chalk, indigo
black, green and blue colors, vegetable
as well as mineral, performed by paint
ers. The chemistry of Authorization.
fruitful in resources and in frauds, was
next practiced. The art was known of
accomplishing at will those delicate
lamentations which produce bread,
wine, and beer, and which modify a
large number of foods; also of falsify-
ing wine by the addition of plaster and
other ingredients. The art of healing,
seeking everywhere for resources
against diseases. had learned to trans
form and fabricate large number of
mineral and vegetable products, such
as sugar of poppy, extracts of night
shades, oxide OF copper, verdigris, lith-
arge, white lead, the sulphurets OF
arsenic and arsenious acid; remedies
and poisons were composed at the same
time, for different purposes, by doctors
and magiciana The manufacture OF
arms and of infiammatory substances
petroleum, sulphur, resins, and btu
mens-had already, anciently as well
as in our own time, drawn upon the
taller of inventors and given rise to
formidable applications, especially in
the arts of sieges and marine battles,
previous to the invention of the Greek
fire, which was in its turn the pre-
cursor OF gunpowder and of our terri
bic explosive matters.-M. p. Z. Berth
elot, in Popular Science Monthly.
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LOST TWO CUSTOMERS.
Yet the Clerks In the Store Laughed Tho
aud Are Smiling Still.

Yet the Clerks In the Store Laughed Thcn
and Are Smiling Still
1T was a rainy day." said the book
seller, land the wet shoss and drip.
ping umbrellas Of customers had made
the floor quite wet and slippery just
inside the store door. All our clerks
happened to be in the back part of the
place when the door opened and q
large and very stout lady hurried in.
Just as the door swung shut behind
her she slipped and fell fat upon the
floor.
"Before any of MS could reach her
she picked herself up with surprising
uuickness for a woman Of her size,
eave a stony stare all around the room.
and then, without uttering word.
turned around. opened the door and
walked out in the most dignified man.
ner.
sNone OF us has ever seen the woman
since, and I suppose her pride will pre-
vent her from ever coming into the
store where her first appearance was
so Notifying.
ssIt was only a day or two after
that" the salesman continued, when
we lost another customer. A lady who
had bought book from us q week OF
30 before cana in and asked to ex'
change the volume for another one
she thought she would rather have.
81 explained to her that it was our
rule never to exchange books, and
though talked as politely as could
could see she was getting angry every
second. ~She was indignant. and didn''
hesitate to say so. AMI she had begun
to make me rather nervous, when, In
the midst of what was really regular
TRADE, she snapped out:
81 suppose your rules are as un
changeable as the laws of the Pede:
and Mersians-I mean the Perds and Me
sians-or-I mean-the Nerds and'---
"And then she stopped, took long
breath, made break for the door and
disappeared, and wc have not yet ex
changed that book. IN. Y. Herald.
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An Extensive TERRITORY.

Alaska is large enough to allow ter
ritory equal to the size of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the empire of Germany with its
twenty-six states, the republic of
France with its eighty-six departmental,
tae kingdom of Greece. with its thir.
t,en monarchies and the republic of
Switzerland with its twenty-five can.
tons to be carved out of it-Chicago
Herald.
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Faithful.

Fair Missionary-Wung. why don't
you come to our Sunday-school?
Laundryman (apologetically)--I got
tee wife in Gilman. Y, Weekly.
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1aiilg azlea.
49,.
Hsr.HHrRNINS

Copyright, 1894.
by the Author.
3 w E R E .
house party ct
ffte e n In q
most beautiful
part of t h Q
B e rk 8 h / r Q
hills We had
been brought
together for