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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-05-29
SISTERSVILLE.

Sistersville. w. Va, May IS. ii.
Brown has leased 1000 acres Of land on
Elk Fork. in Tyler county. This ter
ri-orv is a mile and a half from the
Big Moses gas well. and half a mile
from the well that is being drilled by
L. G. Wilson ON Elk Fork. The men
who have been operating in that To-
c3liry think wei OF IT.
The Victor OH Co. S well on the Oil
vcr Lowell farm was shut down Two
or three days for lack of water, but be-
gan drilling again Monday at noon.
The well is ] 300 feet deep, and VIII be
finished this week
%. Nv. O. Hardaman and Attorney
G.. u. Smith. of MiddlebOurne, are IN
the city to-day ON business connected
with the proposed railroad from
Clarksburg via MiddleboWne TO SIS
rersviIe The road is one Of the pos
sibiI-ies of the future
The Capt. Jones We'll. on the BROOKS
farm. on Middle Island creek, is nearly
down. They got little black OIL in
the soft sand This well seems TO be
nm exact counterpart of the Hill well
and is confidently expected to be pro4
Queer
II is reported here that a well has
been located on the Frank Nissan farm
0ne-h3lf mile east of Shiloh, and that
+, viii be drilled at once.
Leasing has been very brisk on SUI
car Creek and NcEim Creek for the
last week or two. Everything in sight
has been put under lease az high hg-
q" 40
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SIS the suit.
Rv Rnvs- me near 14 to 19.

BY Boys, we mean "a to 49,.
Our values at ST, So, SO and
$40 in Mems Suits are the wonder
OF the Clothing business everywhere.
SIS OverCOatS for $40 is
one of the many money saving
chances in our Spring 0VerCOatS.
These are made of dark gray hard
twisted worsted Serge, lined with
serue. and sleeves satin lined. At
$40 they are the biggest bargains in
the department.
All kinds of OyerCOats and Top
Goats at $40, $12, SIS, $18 on up to
$32.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-05-29


To tIe Editor of the Register.
Su-l understand from several OF
our merchants that a movement has
been started by the statesmen in the
numerous clothing and furnishing
goods stores peJitioning them to close
their places Of business at g p. M, be
ginning ON the first day of June, and
ms q dry goods man l wish to say in
reference to same that the movement
is very c0mmendable, and should be
signed by every cl0thier and furnisher
I'm the city. without exception. As
was one of the dry goods men that op-
posed the early closing movement in
our business at the time. there is no
inGucemelt that could be offered me
to oDen my place after o'clock now,
and so I think it would be with the
clothfars and furnishers if they were
to- try the experiment once. /, for one,
hope that the statesmen viii succeed In
having these men give them their
evenings or.
DRY GOODS MERCHANT.
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JOS. HORNE 6 co.
PITTsBURG, PA.
SALESMEN WANTED.

statesmen WANTED.
EVERY COLORED FAMILY BUYS ON
eiebt. reliable man or woman i'm each
county wanted quick, "the hit OF the
tirnes": greatest success We ever struck;
money made easy, quick and honorable
salary, commission or noth. Write ~
STPH r. GAY. IS Fifth Ave, Chicago.
mNlElN Wol
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If the American people subscribe TO
plucky little Mrs. Pery I'na lot 1''7
rescue OF her adventurous husband VINO
is moukeyiug around the South Pole a1
present. win She promise 10 keep MN
az home hereafter
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The ghouls cannot let secretary
Gresham rest iu his shroud.
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North End &. a. A. Outing and ticnic nj
1rorort Pa~, Decoration Day Amusemeuts
of am kinds. Dancing from p. IN. 10 IL IN.
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3DBeelln9 3egl8IfF
WEST VIRGINIA PRINTING COMPANY,

The REGISTER. embracing us e'e' q.
sdi-oas. IS entered at the rosio---e D."
Wheeling. W.. Va. as secoud--l.t77 ---- 49,,
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M NV is the last day Of the Auction. All
lU-Uhl goods must 50.
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IS YOUR TIME VALUABLE a.?
FOR Observation-Disclosures.

FOR SALE-MiSCELLANEOUS.
FOR SALE-ABOUT 2oo FEET or
heating pipe. Apply at this office
FOR SALE-SECOND HAND IR..
Apply at this office.
FOR SALE-TWO BARBER ...I.a.
win sell cheap. Address l.. I.
Martins Ferry, ..
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a LECTURE.

a l4ECl OiO1'
Mrs Scott. missionary from , llI.a,
1octured last evening at the WeSl .a,,
N D. Church. A large audience, wa. was
nresent to hear the lady auu1tSS'
which was appreciated by all present
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-05-29
ArrIIR NOTES.

Rarnev Stubbs would like 70 near e,
from the Carney Shoe SrlniseIs loI INC
p & o. grounds Sunday afternoon.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-03-28
WILD CATTLE IN MAINE.
once They Taste Freedom 1t Becomes
Difficult to Restrain Them.

There's no mistaking the fact that
the wild blood is still strong in all liv-
ing creatures, even those we regard
as the most domesticated," said a COM
mercial traveller. Take it in Maine.
for example. Every year farmers in
the back districts have more or less
trouble in the autumn in rounding I'D
TO the barnyaTd some obstreperous
steer or heifer that, having got a taste
of freedom from p%asturing at large all
summer, refuses to be driven or
cajoled. Not infrequently the animal
takes to the woods and ranges at
large, picking up its own living like
the deer and defying capture. Usually
with the coming of deep snow the
neighborhood of man, and hanging
about the barns and farm yards, where
it can sniff the hay, is enticed into
captivity. Sometimes, however, one
holds out to the end, preferring cold
and starvation to loss of freedom. In
such cases the owner to save his prop
erty, has to hunt in the woods and
shoot the creature wherever it can be
found. The animal has become to all
intentS and purposes a wild creature,
and it is interesting to note how read
lily it puts into practice its primitive
instincts of savage precaution and de-
Tense.
In a cas- that recently came under
my observation in PiscataquiS county.
Maine, Il valuable heifer had taken to
the woods in autumn, refused to be
caught and remained 1T large through
the cold and SHOWS until nearly the
close of December. Hunger at last
got the better of her independence,
and she approached her owners
premises and beloved about the barn
yard. At first she refused to enter
when the gate was left open and ran
away at the sight of any human be-
ing. Growing holder and hungrier, and
and becoming reaSSured by the sight
of the other cattle, she joined the herd
one day when they were turned out
and kept with them when toward night
they returned of their own accord to
the barn. The barnyard gate was
quietly closed on her. II the next
step was gently to separate her from
the other cattle by driving her into a
strongly-built, sheltered pen built
within the yard.
"After that the process of tanning
the heifer was quick and easy. She
took at once to comfortable surround
ings, eagerly ate the hay hat was fed
her, and became so quickly dOmesti-
Gated that within two Or three days
she was tied up. without difficulty to
her stanchion in the barn, and there
after was as tlactable as any animal
in the herd. At the time of her return
from the woods her winter coat Of
hair had grown uGcOmmOnly thick and
long, but, despite her hard commons
following the coming of the snow,
she was in fair conditiOn.'-New York
Sun.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-03-28
PENSIVE P~ENCILINGS.

If everybody lived up to his good
resolutions what would the overworked
ministers have left to do?
OF course there is such Il thing rs q
strictly honest lawyer. Are we not
told by the proverb makers that there
is an exception to every rule?
The way of the transgressor may be
hard toward the latter end, for for a
while it is easy enough to follow.
Some philosophers claim hat there
is poetry in everything, but where
is it in a swill-pail?'
The popular opinion is that most of
the rabid labor agitators are men
whom the very thought of labor agi-
tates.
Even when a girl is very particular
about the letter paper that she uses,
the young nan who gets letters from
her seldom stops to admire the sta
tiOnery they are written on.
Even the people who despise fiat
terry can't always identify it when it
is worked upon themselves.
A husband very seldom calls his
wife kitten" after she begins to
scratch.
Never strike a man when he is down.
It's ever so much easier to kick him.
An a~ccompanist at a concert should
always play softly, excepting, of
course, in the cases where it is merci-
full to drown out the sOloist.-Somer-
vile Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-03-28
PARIS

[ always rOs late, as a tourist does
bread good French bread never needs
butter) and a bowl of chocolate or
cafe au lait bought, in an occasional
fit of extravaganza, at a creamery for
five cents, -four for the drink and one
for the bread but generally of a
chOcOlate-WOman for three cents two
! for the drink and One for the bread
These chOcOlate-wOmen have regular
stands, in passage-ways and on street
corners, to which they come with the
dawn. About ten o'clock in the fore
noon they leave, to work in their
homes or attend to their other bust
ness. They provide wOrkingmen and
bourgeois with a marvellous combina-
t1Or. of nutrition. cheapness. and say
oriness, by the help of two chatting
irons, a small wooden table. a few
bowls, and a chair or two. For q
slight additional sum they will send
the bread and chocolate to your room;
though why any man should prefer
a lonesome room to the smiles and
bright talk of the chocolate-women I
cannot understand. Soup-women ap-
pear and disappear at the same time
as the chocolate-women. They also
have two chafing-irons,-for soup and
for hot water. "Frenchmen and souD,"
some one has said, ARE convertible
terms. Whenever a FreDchman is i'll
or exhausted or hungry or about to
take a long journey. he orders soup.
The first thing he orders when he gets
up in the morning is soup. The last
thing he takes at night before DOMINIC
his nightcap (all Frenchmen wear
night-caps) is soup" This is 4 little
exaggerated, and bears more direct
reference to thin bouillon than to the
soup of these soup-Women, thickened
to stiffness as it is with bread and
vegetables. Still, the latter is a fav-
orite with working-men, who take a
bowl Of it lat two cents on their way
to work in the morning and frequently
go out for anothe. bowl during the
forenoon. l tried this soup a number
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-03-28
HOW HE GETS EVEN.
\ Chicago Man who will not Talk
"Trilby' With any one.

Il have a way Of getting even with
any one who attempts to talk "Trilby'
to me-" said a South Side man.
When any n asks me if l have
read 'Trilby, l ask: Who is he, and
what did he write?'
Why, you know; it's a she-the
book called 'Trilby.'"
WHO wrote it,
"'Du Maurier.'
WHO is he, anyway? What's the
name Du-?"
"'Du Maurier-George Du Maurier.'
II don't believe | ever heard Of
him. Is he pretty good?'
20, p'shaw, you must have heard
about his 'Trilby!!' 1t has caused quit
Il sensation
Is it a detective story?
"'HeavenS, no! It's a novel;
Gould | get a copy at a book
store?
"'Certainly; the books had a big
sale
Its been translated. them
mo, certainly not. 1t was written
in English.
OH
And by that time the 'Trilby' en-
thusiast is i'll Il condition of profound
misery"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-03-28

teenth circuit. Senate bills were con-
CURED in: Appropriating to normal
school fund for 1S94-5 for current
expenses $4,000, for libraries $4,000.
for equipment S14, 700, for heating ap-
paratus S41 500 and providing for the
annual levy of a state tax of Is of
one mill for normal school purposes
and providing that until the seventh
normal school is established and put
in operation the sum of $4,000 shall
annually be returned to the general
fund.- requiring a United States flag
to be kept in every public school room
or displayed On the building: and MAX
ing the annual salary Of the state
superintendent $1,000 beginning in
1897. Mr.. Mohr introduced a bill al
lowing the county judge of Columbia
county to appoint a superintendent of
the poor to fill a vacancy. 1t was
passed. Mr.. Buckstaff introduced a
bill regulating express companies
Senate bills were passed: For the
ana relating to the warehousing and
inspecting of grain.
The fun and excitement of the ses
sion conferred in the proceedings ac
cOmpanying the disposal of the bill
legiSlating Jerre Dobbs out of office
The bill came up on its engrossment
and third reading and a season OF
filibustering ensued, but the bill fin
ally went to a third reading.
In the assembly there was a little
! skirmish on the bill to exempt wide
guage sieighs from taxation. but i
was finally passed. Senate bills con
Cured in We're: Requiring witnesse:
of wills to sign in each others pres
C and compelling trustees o.
chronic insane asylums to serve with
out pay.
Adjournment was taken till Monda!
night.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-03-28
FOREIGN.

German manufacturers have formed
a commission to invade America and
fight for a larger share of trade.
All was quiet in Madrid. Canovas
will probably be the next Spanish
premier.
The revolt in Colombia is reported
to have been crushed. The rebel army
has surrendered.
j The warship which fired on the Al
lianca has been identified as the Span
ish cruiser Condo de Venadido.
Victor l.. Ochoa, an intimate friend
of Cara, the Mexican bandit, denies
the story of the latter'S death.
Prince Komatsu, commander-in-chief
of the armies of Japan, has decided tC
establish headquarters at Port Arthur
The duchess of LeinsGer, widow of
the fifth duke of Leinster, is dead at
Mentone. She was accounted the
most beautiful woman 10 the united
kingdom.
SPANS readiness tosapologize to the
United States for the Alliance affair
is because of domestic troubles. The
country is on the verge of a revolu-
ton.
All doubt as to the fate of Spanish
cruiser Reina Regente was set ARREST
by discovery of the wreck near Bajo
A%ccitanos.
| No confirmation has been received of
the reported sinking of the American
schooner Irene by the Spanish war
ship Infanta Isabella.
Great Britain has sem an ultimatum
to Nicaragua demanding $4,000 be-
cause of the expulsion of Minister
Hatch. Other damages are claimed.
Dispatches from Berlin announce the
death of Prince Waldemar, of Lippe
Oetmold), aged II. He leaves no is
sue.
A plot to make Antonio Ezeta presi-
dent of Salvador was discovered last
month; many arrests were made and
a large number of executions ordered.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-03-28
THE CANCELLED STAMP HABIT

The Cancelled stamp habit seems to
possess all Of the pernicious qualities
of the opium habit, with none of the
latter's temporary soothing effects.
1t takes possession of the poor victims
mind until he loses interest in life
and living. HIS day and his night are
merely so many hours of torture.
Waking he thinks and sleeping he
dreams Of how he can increase his
stock of cancelled stamps. He plots
and he plans to get hold of envelopes:
he abstracts them in secret: he spends
hours in hunting through waste bask-
cts. He throws enviOuS and suspicious
chances at the ash barrels, and the
sight of a postman brings thoughts
of assassination and ROBBERY. He
writes letters simply for the sake of
getting the Cancelled stamp Upon the
reply, and he hangs about the post
office in a state of fascination. There
should be a Kelley institute started
for the cure of the Cancelled stamp
habit before it reaches the asylum
stage.-New York Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-03-28
OLD-FASHIONED GOWNS TRANS
FORMED.

Since the revived popularity of chine
and Powered silks and satins, owners
of those beautiful Old-fashioned fabrics
are indeed in a fortunate position. 4
beautiful shot pink and blue silk has
been employed to make a handsome
theater jacket, being brought up to
date by the addition of important and
ample sleeves of ruby velvet and soft
killings of chiffon. A dinner gown of
eminence satin is also a brilliant ex-
ample of the art of the renovator. The
skirt of this has been brought up to
the requirements of modern fashion
by inserted panels of black satin COW
cred with f1ounces of chiffon and
points Of jet embroidery, and the
smart little bodice is trimmed to cor
respond. Another pretty gown is Of
pale blue satin, trimmed with founces
of old lace, brought from hip to knee
and arranged in vandykes round the
hem.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-03-28

Evanston, Wyo., March 21.-An eX-
piosion Of gas occurred in the Rocky
Mountain Coal and Iron company's
mine No. ), at Red Canon, with ter
rible results. James B. Bruce, the
mine foreman and eX-county commits
siOner OF Uintah county, We're instantly
killed by the flying timbers, as also
four others. As found the others are:
William Sellers, Jr., rope runner; j.
Clark; Edward Coach, head carpenter.
and another man not identified. All
were killed by flying timbers.
There were from twenty-five to fifty
men in the mine at the time of the
explosion. At this writing they are
not rescued, and are certainly dead.
o. B. Maltby, Andrew Mason and ].
Crawford were badly injured. Among
those in the mine thought to be dead
are: William Brown, John Fern, Sam.
uel Thomas and son, Old Mr.. Burton,
Samuel Hutchinson, William Sayere,
ST., and son. The covering of the
slope and the building at the mouth
were blown to atoms. The mine was
considered one Of the safest in the
state.
Later-O. B. Malty, superintendent
Of motive power, has since died. also
the boy, Jerre Crawford.
Eight men have po-A brought GU OF
the mine so burned as to be past iden.
LITIGATION with the exception of John
Lamb. All hope of rescuing anybody
alive has been given up. The death
teen.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-03-28
COD LIVER OIL AND BEAUTY.

A doctor is authority for the follow
ing statement: He declares that he
knew, Ice upon a time, a delicate
woman who began rubbing her neck
and chest with cod liver oil for some
weakness there, and that she not only
cured herself of the trouble by the
remedy, but that she developed a
beautiful round throat instead of her
old-time prominent collar bone while
doing it. 1t was not permanent, but
it was so quickly accomplished that it
shows the possibilities for the woman
who wants to, for instance, wear an
evening gown, if she begins some few
weeks ahead.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-03-28
AN ELABORATE PROJECT.

yes" said the ~heavy-set, ~conspicu-
ously dressed man, "luck's been
against me for some time past. But
| think I've struck a scheme with
money in it,
What is it,"
rO-cfInIiipO'dxTo- ?vavc.R dd:f1 !. :hen.o
I'm going to see if 1 can't get up
a race track near Philadelphia
Isn't that a little rapid for the
people there?'
"No. My idea is to give purses for
the horses that can run slowest."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-03-28
WISE OR

Economy may be as unwise as ex-
travagance.
Time is but a freckle on the face
of eternity.
Never accuse a man of ~insobriety
when he slips on your orange peel.
Never talk back. 1t shows a lack
of knowledge of human nature.
Because a trusts a man is
Ito sign that he should be trusted.
A nickel makes more noise in the
contribution box than a dollar bill.
a man may win a woman on moon
SHINE, but he can't maintain her on it.
A man never learns how to step
on the tack of advCrsity with comfort
t I'm self.
Endeavor so to live that when you
come to die even the undertaken will
be sorry.
Many a man who is waiting for a
chance has been standing on the
wrong corner.
Cupid is a brave little footpad who
never attempts to "hold-up" one vic
tim only.
Truth is mighty and will prevail
unless superior inducements are of
fered the other way.
Do you suppose that the world would
be as wicked as it is if Satan was
so incident in doing evil as many
Christians are in doing good?
If we thought of ourselves as others
think of us, we would sit up nights
Folly is joy that is destitute of wis
DOM" but a delinquent subscriber
causeth suffering in the house of a
newspaper maker.
Hartford Religious Herald.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-03-28
CREAM SAUCE FOR FISH.

In New York, where salmon is
dressed to perfection, cream sauce is
a frequent accompaniment. The
cream is made very hot, but not
brought quite to the boil, seasoned to
taste, sometimes with shrimp or an
chovy essence, sometimes with
chopped parsley. If for baked salmon
the liquor from the tin is strained and
stirred into it. 1t requires no thicken-
ing. 1t will be found an admirable
for fish of almost every kind.
Capers chopped and added will be ex-
cellent with codfsh-a thoroughly
French combination.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-03-28
WRONG END UP.

An aged, stubborn man was he
With head of silvern glow;
And thus, in croaking tones to me
He said, 81 love the snow"
So kindly nature helped me, then,
To fill his perverse cup
For when 1 looked ON him again,
1 saw him wrong end up.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-03-28
HE STRETCHED THE TRUTH.
Even Though he was an Artist il
Describing Cold Weather.

At a prominent hotel on a cold night
last week there was held an adjourned
meeting of the Ananias club, at which
the following stories were told.
The speaker was a little man, but
his p~ropensities for eXaggeratiHN were
colossal. He said:
Talk about cold weather and snow.
Last New Years a party of us found
ourselves in the far West, not many
miles from Kansas City. We hs d no
tents to shelter us, so we laid down
on the cold ground by the side of our
camp fire and resigned ourselves to
sleep.
Il was the first to wake and when
l did you'll believe me when | tell
you | "a startled.
Il looked about me; on every side
was q while wall gIistening like so
MANY diamonds. | looked above me
some two hundred feet. where, in the
roof of our cave, as it were, was a
small aperture. AS the snow had fall
len the fire had kept it away from us,
and gradually as it went to the top
it closed in, the heat of the fire alone
leaving an opening.
Il aroused my companions and their
establishment eQualed mine.
well, we We're there seven days
before the snow commenced to melt.
and three days longer before it had
melted so we could get our of our
ave. When we did, it was the middle
of February, and, as near as l can
calculate, we were asleep in that cave
t~hirty-five days"
\ deep silence had fallen about the
narrator, and when he looked up, after
finishing, he was alone. The night
bell was ringing violently, and the
bell-bOyS found that the man in 13
had had a chill.-Cincinnati Tribune.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-03-28
THE STORY OF MEDUSA.

Wickwire-'It would be an interest
ing thing to know how the legend of
Medusa originated. She was the god
dess whose hair was composed OF
snakes and whose glance turned men
to stone, you know"
Lushforth-"My idea is that the
story was started by some fellow
whose wife met him at the door when
he was trying to sneak in after a night
out with the boys"