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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-11-14
LIVE STOCK.

PHILADELPHIA. Saturday evening
Beeves. Sheep. Hogs;
West Phua. Yards....l7S o l2SI o-6933
North Penn Yards. geo LUZ oDo
Total for the week...3.S0 1851 55555
Previous week .......5.tO AO5o o'o'
BEEF CATTLE.
The market was I'm light supply and poor
request with prices ruling ashade lower,
the unreasonable weather having much TO
Go with the market conditions, feceiuts
being principally Of Virginia and lar
Among the exports were 4W cattle ior
Glasgow by steamship Carthasenian. and
720 quarters dressed beef 10 LiVerpool on
''''' = oU0TATIONs.
Extra ......... ......... ...None IN marhet:
Gooa ......... ......... ..-.-........f5 ~ Sv
Medium ......... .....'..' ...'''''' 49, 50
SHEEP.
The market under sufficient supply ana
fair demand ruled q shade higher IN oeSJ
stock =. II. Cook reports the sale OF 4.HtQ
sheep and lambs az the quoted prices and
-'' ''' we QUOTATIONS.. 1880,
Extra ......... ......... 91tt.912
Good ......... ......... .-.........'.'' %.
Medium ......... ..-...... .......'.... 2:c,.t
Common to fair .......................il.. tds4
Lambs 1890. ifJi0f,s. '-''' -
The market under reasonable supply ana
moderate inquiries ruled roint or two
lower. the warm weather depressing me
market. No state hogs were in market.
We quote: Best hogs. 5kN5Hc; common
stock overwhelmingly lower
Fat cows were in moderate demand az
Thin COWS wero in light request at S GO
Veal calves were in fair inquiry at SF"4c'
Mich cows. choice. were in moderate
demand at So 0tr6t Go, common STOCK
ruling dull and lower.
Dressed beef sold for +z4G2ic.
CHICAGO. November 13.-Cattle, re-
celpts. 1900 head; the demand was COED
on a basis of So 1oG4 90 for common to eN-
ira choice native dressed beef ana spring
steers: butchers, cows and heierS SOLD az
81 sNT2 so. calves s. 0e06 CO.
Hogs. receipts, 5000 head; the demand
was good and prices ruled stronger; safes
were within range 81 iyc common ili'. ~. -
choice hogs selling at 50 1908 so' PIGS act
sheer. receipts. 1.OC0 head; market act
i've and prices higher; inferior 70 choiee
native sheep sold al 81 1913 % ana iainos
brought 50 GOA CD.
EAST LIBERTY. November 13.-Cattle
steady and unchanged. III.
Hogs, active on prime grades, while
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-11-14
OHIO RIVER RAILROAD CO

On and after Sunday. September % 1925,
Passenger Trains VIII run IS follows:
sDaly. DAILY except Sunday. Eastern
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-11-14

TOCLINI ND NNNT.
4.o--e live chickens. 55U51c per pair;
Nv. chickens. small. t0Q Sc, spring chick
a-- q-FS0c. as 20 size; dressed chickens.
it+i1c rer 10: live ducks 6Ftloc per pair;
ii,-o ti,rilcvs. SE9c per 10; dressed, l20Sc.
",S,wcMiabbits. GN35c per pair quail,
o. 5-t-S IN nor C0-. phCaSants. S. 0VGa ID
~ Joz. SQUIRRELS. 81 S5G1 30 per doz;
l,,,so e. 1901 Oh per dCZ.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-11-14
GOING SOUTH.
Central

GOING NORTH.
Electric cars between Wheeling, Mar
fins Ferry and c., l.. {; W. Depot in
TsridgepOrt.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-11-14

The market under sufficient supply ana
fair demand ruled q shade higher In best
stock. T. III. Cook reports the sale OF 4Hl
IL. . ir..a
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-11-14

Northwest System-Cieyeland and Pitts
burg Division.
Trains run daily except Sunday as fol'
lows:
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-11-14
RAILWAY TlME CARp.

Arrivals and departures &C trains on and
after Oct 20, 1895. Explanation OF Refer
ence Marks: "Daily; SUNDAY excepted;
monday excepted; Saturday excepted;
only. Eastern Standard Time, which Is
ono hour narlier that Central TYNE.
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and cnrthenware vessels against the door of the house occupied by a bridal couple is stil maintained, the object of the fusillade being the driving-away ol ''scolding sprites." This custom also prevails in Sardina. In some parts of the orient the bride cuts off her hair iIl tokens of submission to her husband and in certain sections of Russia she pulls olr her husbands boots, the groom at the same time giving her a slight cut with a whip.
 Entertainments are still announced in newspapers and by card in Ger. many and Austria as well as most other European countries. In the United States this custom has never obtained q foothold, except among the Jews and the direct descendants of foreigners.
 An important factor, of comparative. ly recent development, in matrimonial negotiations is the marriage broker Adopts in this profession have existed from time imnemorial. In parts of Asia and in the rural districts of east. ern Europe, they have always been con. sidered important personages; but ill genteel society they were not recog. nized until very recently. The marriage broker of Paris is the prince of his pro. fession. He usually maintains cost. ly establishment on one of the fash. ionable boulevards. Applicants for husbands or wives are listed and sched. uled. They have to give their names, age, titles, possessions and prospects. Their statements are carefully inves. tigated, and if found correct, they become clients of the establishment. The modus operandi of the brokers is as follows: After an applicant and his wants have been entered on the books, the agent proceeds to employ sub agents who are familiar with the fipan. cial circumstances of all wealthy or titled families. These designate. u man or woman. as the case may be, whose social position corresponds with the requirements of the appli. cant. The agent next ascertains what places of public amusement are fire. quented by the person he wishes to meet. Having accomplished this, he makes use of his large circle of ac. quaintances in all classes of society and secures an introduction. It is then very easy matter to bring the two young people together; and in nina cases out of ten q marriage results. For his trouble the broker receives an entrance fee and certain percentage of the brides dot, without which no marriage is made in continental Eu. rope. Many attempts have been madd to establish similar matrimonial bu. reaus in the United States, but hitherto, let us thank the good sense of our peo- pie, without success.
 c. w. WEIPPrERT.
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tribes, including the Turks. Egyptians Persians and Arabs, cling to the tradi' tion that it is improper for the groom to see his bride until after the marriage ceremony is performed. Among the Kabyles prevails another ancient cus- tom. After the couple has been mar ried the bride rides through the prinoi- pal streets of the village on Q mule, surrounded by picturesque mob of relatives, who exhort the villagers to contribute victuals of various kinds toward the establishment of the new household.
 In rural Russia the bride is conducted to the church by two young men and the groom is escorted by two brides- maids. After the marriage ceremony the bride is conducted to her new home by the relatives of her husband and the groom is placed in charge of his wife's people. The Kirghese, some- times called the lords of the steppe, are very fair towards their young women. If girl objects to the youth who wants to marry her she has the right to challenge him to foot race which is conducted on such basis that she can easily escape, as the sym pathy of the crowd usually is with the maiden.
 But the material supplied by my in- formant is so voluminous that could fill column after column with interest ing details of primeval courtship; and l might as well close here and devote u few paragraphs to the symbolical customs in vogue in different lands.
 Not so very many years ago betroth- mcnt was recognized by the laws of most European countries. These en. actments, whose penalty was excom- munication, have, however, been re- pealed. Instead of being made Q social outcast the man who now re- fuses to marry girl after having plighted his troth becomes defendant in breach-of-promise suit.
 Betrothment in all civilized coun- tries has always been sealed by a pledge. In Turkey and other Moham. mcdan countries the groom-to-be sends to his prospective bride gold amulet which is worn around the ! neck. In China red cards are ex. changed in token of an engagement. The ancient Romans exchanged rings, custom which has been adopted by all civilized nations.
 Moldavia, province of the kingdom of Roumania, is the home of the time honored custom of throwing grain at rewly-married couples, which is equiv. alent to expressing a wish for their prosperity. Another custom prevail ing in that and adjoiningprovin conn pels the bride to sweep the hearth of her new home in the presence of the as. sembled guests to indicate that she is willing to assume the duties of q housewife.
 In the country towns of Germany the custom of throwing broken dishes
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fact, it has proved itself of great value, as it enables me to present to the readers of this paper facts in condensed form whose collection has cost many thousands of dollars.
 Marriage among primitive people, according to my informant, is purely a business transaction. The natives of southern Siberia, for instance, buy their wives from the parents, paying for them sums ranging from twenty to seventy five dollars, according to the physical attractiveness of the girls Among the Tartars the same custom prevails, but the brides are more valu- able, some commanding as much as one thousand dollars. A still more simple way of wooing is that of the Tchukt- ches, Siberian tribe, among whom the would-be groom serves his prospec. tive father-in-law for a certain mum. Der of years, according to agreement like Jacob served Leban in patriarchal times.
 A wedding in Corea is described as unique ceremony. The groom, clothed in @ gorgeous gown hired for the occasion, is preceded by his best man who carries goose in bis arms, The procession marches toward a small table before which the groom bows profoundly. Then he relieves his attendant of the goose, whose feet arc securely tied, and sits down. Soon afterward the bride, chaperoned by two elderly females, makes her appearance Her face is painted white, with ghastly red spots on the forehead, on each cheek and on the lips, and her eyes are sealed. She is led across n large mat in the center of the room. At the end of the apartment her attendants place white handkerchief over her clasped hands and lead her back to the mat. At this moment the bridegroom is supposed to appear at the other end of the mat. The bride salutes him by raising her arms to the level of her eyes and lowing three times. This greeting is returned in kind by the groom. Then they sit down at oppo. site ends of the mat, and the goose an emblem of fidelity-is released after having been fed by an old woman This completes tho ceremony and the twain are one.
 In Burmah the love-sick swain fol. lows his inamorata for several days at a respectful distance. If she is favorably disposed toward him she will smile at him on the third day, and the
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d-d shame to put that kid of in such

d-d shame to put that kid of in such a place!"
 In truth little about the place indi. cated railway station. There was a little closed sentry-box-looking affair beside the track, and fifty yards behind 1t the remains of an old dug.out. Not even trail showed where it was that any human being had visited the spot. And round was the dreary waste oi oillowy plains and the burning sun overhead
 In the rear of the sentry box its pro jecting roof had cast n little shade. and here the man sat down upon the ground with his child still in hts arms. Strange things, for him, came to his eyes-tears. The little one looked up at him in a puzzled way, and he hasti. ly brushed his hand across his face and left a broad smudge of railway soot upon his cheek. She clapped her hands and laughed with giee at his funny face.
 Then thirst came to them-that awful, torturing, unreasonlng thirst WuIcn the uesert alone can give. The child cried for water, and the father left her in the scanty shade and stepped out into the glaring sun. Neither in the sky nor in the parched ground was there drop of moisture, and he knew it. He returned and tried to comfort her, and then he sat down again, buried his face in his hands and tried to think. The evening was coming on when he rose to his feet with new resolve.
 Away far off in the west thin, al. most imperceptible streak of smoke told him that the east-bound train was approaching. Near the track he found dirty shred of flag hanging to a stick, and he placed it in the socket oi the upright post standing in front o.
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POINTS AND OPINIONS.

V The country is glad to know that President Cleveland was not assassi- mated, for several important reasons, of which Adlai Stevenson is one.- Kansas City Journal.
 cY-Cleveland seems to have conse- crated himself this year to the solemn duty of letting on that he doesn't know there are any democratic tickets in the field.-St. Louis be-Democrat
 B-It looks as if the republican con- gress would not have to devote much of its valuable time to the anticipated measures for the relief of the treasury on account of an insufficient revenue Buffalo Courier.
 eB-The treasury officials have diffl- cult problem before them. It is hard to figure out surplus for October with the deficit growing at the rate of moro than eight hundred thousand dollars day.-Troy Times.
 W-It is announced on behalf of the administration that more vigorous policy is to be enforced in Behring sea next year." It is always "next year" that this administrations vigorous pol- icics are going into operation. Some how they never catch up with it.-Bos- ton Journal.
 CBThe Ohio republicans are not yet willing to go on record with pre- diction as to the result of the approach ing election. There is still considers ble uncertainty whether the majority will be eighty-one thousand or one hundred and thirty-scven thousand or more.-Chicago Tribune.
 cBThe national debt is still piling up. It grows worse and worse. AZ the same time the average man is glad to make enough to keep himself ana those dependent on him alive. And still the democratic party seeks to talk of nothing but beer! beer!! Great heavensl Men are hungry, not thirssys Iowa s;ate Register.
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HELLO! WHERE ARE YOU GoINa?"

replied the unfortunate one, faltcring- ly, 'l think could raise the money"
 "Go through the train? Not much. Third-class passengers stay in this car. You get off at the next station," said the conductor, in voice of fierce warn. ing, as he passed on.
 In about an hour the conductor came into the car again and gave the bell rope vicious pull. The engine re- sponded with two short whistles, and gradually the train slackened its speed and stopped.
 Come. now, you get off here," said the conductor, roughly; ''we'ye behind time already, and you want to hurry up about it."
 Again the mans lip curled in an ugly way, but he made no answer, except to gather up the few paper bundles of bread and meat on the seat before him. Then, taking his child in his arms, he followed the conductor to the platform and stepped off the train. Before it was under way again, however, a hu- Fmane brakeman on the last step called out to him:
 Say, partner, ther ain't nothin' acre. This is only flag station. The eastbound'll be along in Q few hours. stop her and board her. The conduc- 'or on that tain'll ls. you on It's Q
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SOME ONE TAKE THIS CHILD, SHE HAS NO PARENTS.

With a string he placed the placard around the neck of the little girl. This done he took her in his arms, kissed her again and again, pointed to the smoke that was becoming blacker and longer. and told her that water was coming. When the rails began tc sing of the approach of the com ing train, he placed her near the track, and then ran and hid himself behind the dug-out. From bis hiding place he looked out and eagerly watched the child, while the rattle and clamor and thunder of the train grew louder in his ears. On it came with rush and a roar, and flew past the station ip gale of wind and dust. The mans heart died within him, and then it beat wildly again. The train had stopped several hundred yards past the station, and was coming back to the sentry box The engineer had seen the tattered flag.
 As the long train rolled slowly back. ward, curious and inquiring heads pro. truded from the car windows. The gold-emblazoned conductor stepped of and looked about him in wonder. No, for several moments did he discover the child. Immediately there was q crowd about it and the placard was passed from hand to hand. A white jacketed porter came out of Pullman car and placed wooden step on the ground before it. He was followed by lady in black, who descended from the car and joined the throng. A pair of yearning, eager, beseeching eyes watched it all from the dug-out. To the man hiding it seemed that the de. termination of his child's fate never would be reached. Finally he saw the lady in black take the child in her arms, kiss it, and reenter the car with it. The passengers scrambled back into the cars, the conductor waved his hand, and the train moved on.
 Then the father came forth and gazed longingly at the departing train -gazed at it until it became smaller and smaller-until it became dot in the plains-until it vanished-and he knew he was alone.
 The terrible sun rose the next day aud looked down upon him as it's vic- tim. He endeavored to eat some of the bread he had saved, but the dry crumbs were torture to his throat. One thing only was there to do-to follow the track until an inhabited station was reached. It might be fifty miles-it might be more-but there was no salva- tion away from the railroad.
 At noon, when resting for awhile, he heard the rattling of an approach ing freight train. Hope swelled up within him as he stood on the track and made frantic motions to stop the train. The trainmen merely laughed at him. He did not know he had em- ployed the favorite ruse of tramps Freight trains were not for the accom- mediation of such gentry. Nor was it u supposable case that a wayfarer in the desert was unprovided with food or drink, else why would he be there? After this his progress was very slow. On the third day he came to the end of his journey. He may have been deliri- ous or he may have been quite sane. A train stopped for him and took him on board. This they always do when they kill man.-San Francisco Argo- naut
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young man can begin his wooing in earnest. In China girls are betrothed at very early age, many brides being scarcely ten years of age. After mar riage the girl is taken to her husband's s home, where she becomes the virtual slave of her mother-in- law, whose every word is law. My informant ar gued from this that the stale mother in-law jokes of our period must have had their origin in the celestial em- pire.
 The most nonchalant method of counting of which we have authentic records is practiced in the Tonga is- lands and among some Australian tribes. When Q man happens to sec maiden who pleases his fancy he knocks her down with a club and car ries her to his hut. Among the Ben galis of India the maiden does the chas- ing. She pursues the youth of her choice in true foot-race style. When she has caught him he is carried to a river or creek by the girl and her friends and immersed with a ven- geance, a proceeding which always terminates in wedding.
 All of tue Mohammedan peoples and
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~The earth-almoSt the air - was white with the heat of the summer sun. All was vastness, immensity, si- ,eYce. loneliness; above, the tlawless blue; below, those seemingly illimita- ble plains of reddish yellow, streaked with alkali white, that swan back and forth before the eyes in parallel lines until far off they melted into lcrg, low stretch of shivering light, the mocking water mirage at the base of the mountain range hundreds of miles away. Encompassed within that hori- zon there was no thing of life except within that desultory moving train.
 Stocked in the emigrant or third-class car of the train was a crowd of tired, miserable and dirty people. They looked out listlessly at the passing landscape, or stupidly at each other, or twisted themselves into all sorts of uncomfortable positions on the hard wooden seats in vain efforts to secure little sleep. Perhaps the most un- prepossessing of them all was dark featured roughly-dressed man. Be- side him was very little girl in a blue dress. His lowering, repellant face had a scowl upon it which suggested the convict or the desperado, but he was neither. The scowl and the un- conscious sheer about his ugly mouth were born simply of long and thor oughly fruitless struggle with misfor- tune.
 Although pretty, it was easily to be seen that the little girl was his child.
 She was momentous factor in a mighty problem to the man whose arm was about her and whose knit brows and troubled face showed how hard it was he studied it. A crazy letter had come to him across the continent, and he had left the tenements of New York to try and reach the golden land of California. He had started with hardly sufficient money to take himself and child more than half the distance, but he had a confused sort of an idea that he would in some way reach his desti- nation. Better it was, at all events. than to remain in the noisome Hester street den. where, without work, or the prospect of any, his little sum of money would soon be gone.
 The station to which his scanty purse had nabled him to buy ticket for himself and child had been passed hours before, and he was wondering how soon the conductor of the train would discover the shameless impoS,- tion he was practicing upon the rail way company. He had not much longer to wait, for presently the auto crat of the train, in a hurried passage through the car, stopped suddenly be- fore him and glanced at the check in his hat.
 Hello! Where are you going?'
 The man looked up in what was in tended as humble, respectful and piteous appeal, but his lip curled up over his teeth, like that of a harried dog He could not help it. His voice was mild enough, though, as he said:
 "I am going to California, sir, with my little girl"
 The mans looks seemed to irritate the not-too-even temper of the railway officer:
 You are, eh? We'll, where's your ticket for the rest of the way?"
 "If you would please let me go through the train with my little girl, "
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Written for This Paper.

Writton Tor This Paper.
 There are fads and fads. Some are vicious, others lead to the loss of time and money, and still others are per- Eectly harmless. Not long ago met Ia long-haired gentleman who has devoted years of travel to the study of marriage customs in various parts of the world. He allowed his love for the subject to develop into an innocent fad and, according to his own testi- mony, spent thousands of dollars in the purchase of wedding gifts pecul- far to different countries. But in spite of this seeming extravagance his fad has remained perfectly harmless. In
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Absurd Democratic Tricks.

Democratic leaders naturally under value the intelligence of the American people. Long association with the rank and file of their own party is enough to account for that. There fore, it is not surprising that they should attempt absurd tricks, in the desperation of a hopeless campaign which must be fought out somehow. But aoes not the Carlisle-Cleveland scheme of doctoring the United States treasury accounts go a little beyond anything of the kind that should have been expected, even from democrats? Can it be that men of ability and ex- perience really belinve that they can make votes by giving the orators and editors of their party al opportunity to boast of a fictitious surplus in the month of September, which is sure to be followed by big def it in OctoberP Cleveland Leader.