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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-09-08

What minis of money a girl can
spend in no time and for nothing at all.
Shopkeepers, like designing spiders.
fill up their windows with enticing
gimcracks and silky furbelows. And
along comes the shopper, who takes one
little peep at the fascinating window.
Then she thinks she'll 90 in lust to
look around, but not to buy'-and. like
the silly, unwise little fly, she's swept
into the web and lost. And she's lucky
if she has a nickle left with which to
pay car fare back home.
Every year seems to increase the cit
tie nothings" necessary to woman s
dress. And these same little moth
ings" whisk money away as sunshine
sips up dew. And how girls do dote on
those little luXuriesl What woman if
she had her choice, would take a new
gown in place Of a feather boa? She
would prefer the airy, fluffy string of
soft plumes every time, Then, those
chiffon collarettes and those muslin
blouse fronts keeps a girl in a torment
of grief until she possesses one, and
when she has one she isn't quite con-
tent until she has another It's the
same way with stick pins and cuff
links and belts and wells and gloves
and handkerchiefs. A girl can never
have enough of these things-and how
they do cost
No man less wealthy than doodle
alderman could keep his daughter half
supplied with little nOthings." II
takes a small fortune just to get feather
boas curled and white gloves cleaned.
Do you wonder that marriages are de-
creasing?
while on a journey recently" said
a young woman, Il had rather an anus
ing experience. ! was passing from
the dining car back TO the sleeping
coach, when a nice. frisky Minnesota
breeze sailed my hat straight down into
the blue and sparkling waters OF the
Mississippi. Perhaps you can imagine
my disguest. My first impulse was TO
Jump over after it, my second TO butt
nv head against a hard wall for my
stupidity.
There I was-with nothing but a
hand satchel. novel, and a brush and
comb TO console me. | went back 10
nv seat and sat down, feeling as help
less as if / had been suddenly dropped
in the Sahara desert or on top of an ice
berg. The porter was the only one who
witnessed the flight OF my venture
some hat. but he soon spread the
knowledge of my misery broadcast.
and nv fellow-po ssen~ors gathered
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-09-08

He ION the hotel
ectric lights are SCI.
She-Thats SO. ..o 20
wbas minute she
Life.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-09-08
An AMBITION

From the WashinetoH
Bliggin's wife Is
yes. She's high
and she's never COL.
ways trying TO get Dbl
already done
what has she un.
She's learning
which base ball is Oh
papers.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-09-08

'NIy darling was very fond of her
aunt and unwilling to hurt her, 50 we
said nothing of son S villany. But when
Pope and / got back 10 our ruinOus pal
ace he advised me to barricade the door
OF my room. However, L didn't think
it worth while. But at nightfall
stretched myself on the hide bed and
fell asleep, with q revolver close TO my
hand.
About midnight l was awakened by
a cut on the head which, luckily, did
lot stun me, or l shouldn't be spinning
this warn now. I started up, with the
blood streaming down my face.
Don Manuel stood over me, with my
revolver in one hand and an uplifted
machete in the other. There's the ma
chete
Now. you shall die. robert he
Kissed. and aimed another blow at me-
which / avoided. Shouting loudly for
Pepe, I grappled with him, and got hold
of his wrists. l was stronger, but loss
of blood had weakened me. He wrench
ed his right hand free and cut me across
the cheek The blow dazed mel stag
gered and fell on the bed
Before I could rise his knee was on
my chest. the machete at my throat
] felt the edge. With a last effort I flung
him from me. That instant the bed
heaved and tossed, the stout walls
shook. the sleeping city awoke with a
scream of terror. Dazed as I was.
knew what had happend. So did my
enemy.
The earthquake shall not save your
he yelled, and rushed at me over the
Guivering floor. But again the bed
heaved beneath me Something fell
from above. There was thud-a
scream of agony-and Don Manuel roll
ed over and lay still. leaving the ma,
chete across my neck. All! that was a
close shave.
It staggered TO my feet, and groped
my way through clouds Of dust TO the
street. which was full Of people, shrek
ing wailing. praying TO the saints. An
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-09-08
HER SENSE O.

From the Chicago POI.
Il saw her in tasl
tire on the beach al
but she wore spec.a
"Of course. She
do you speak OF it n
"Becaus / was t.
ed by the fact that
the naked eye.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-09-08
WHAT LII

From the Wash.n-
Did you say !
player.
You bet I did.
well. ! ain't or'
Yes, you arc.
jOinder. You arc
And then the gam
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-09-08
THE GEORGIA Mt
a n

He is already u.
brance Of a coat M
shirt sleeves TO the s...
melon high enough
stump TO break the r...
ing it open. a watcu
cake; it should De- bIoh0
sorting his fingers iutl
pulls il open one ia'
paratively empty. all the
ing in the other side 90
half. which is practical"
melon, the cpicmc NOW d'
SELF
Setting 1T down upon
with its great crimson
upward, he plunges OH
side the rind on eth
the entire heart outiu
big as his head. LcaF.
i'm the rind for the
innies. he seats him
and bites from the roo.
as a boy would o1t p
one sueary moutlul aLt
ries delight to the inner
wealth of juice uic'ies
elbows. all earthly JUS nj
forgotten. and that Geo
haDpy.-Augusta Chroa
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-09-08
WHEN THE "PR0rEs.
From the Buffalo Exp s

An actorine and an
Main street yesterday.
ing first-class conversaUu
"Hullo, Gladysi"
"HOwdy. Lionel"
Amt seen you in n yea .
Mop. Been South with
company. Hall show.
stands; variety performar
drama"
What plays were you d..
"YOu guess.
Uncle Toms Cabin"
Right"
Ten Nights in q Bar 3o.
Correct"
"The Hidden Hauda'
You're Off there. Tl a
East Lynne now"
What did You hold l .
Little Eva in Ton
listers son. in Ten Ni
bel and Madame Vine u
and, OF course. / diH LE
turn in the concert
Cad. You always
most versatile W0u.ru
1t reminds me of OH. ...
out with a snap or .a
TO play Richelieu aH I
on alternate niglt-
What are you doing
You look prosperou
oh, I'm in great 'HD.
I'm tending soda-fIl .
store up the stree
leads with Henry
though"
Eyes, you do TCH u..to u
walton Marines. i'll
though. That is. I eat
at the dairy kitchen, WI
get through. I've writ
and ! think I'll be-
marches again next
Kiralfy will let me .
Fairy Queen. Well
If you get strapped H
the town, come mp r0 m
I'll stake you - q m
"Ta-ta, Glayds,
you're on the free li
tain for the rest OF ..
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-09-08

around me to offer sueee.,t.-
pretended TO be very s,rr,.'.-
it's my own private opir,,.-
found it interesting to qag..
man who hadn't sense or.....'
on TO her hat. I was nl.,.-
awkward situation.
self walking through tba ...s
trict of Chicago, with p, ..-.
one hand, a satchel In IN.
not SO much as a clotb r..,
head. The thought MAD.
cold and i'll. Unless ] o..,.
on the train l knew tb.t
obliged to make just ego,
OF myself. Well, everyi.1r-l
began to haul over and
luggage. Several of the r--
caps-those black, tight l..-.
made of cheap muslfn--,
very modestly offered n
rushed off to find the -s.
shortly rushed in with boz,
with tourist caps. an Of ,-.-.
large that they came down
and gave me a decidellr 9.
air.
Then a woman came ...
piece Of ribbon. which sr. ....
pm on my head ami r.
know but that it was a -....
BY that time an the set-.r..-.
crowded with hats and CAM.
sizes and conditions. .rf-1..
spectators stood I'm Oil.
me try on the varion
headgear. It was quite .-.
for l did look queer I'm
mats, but the whole afer,..
gedy to me- The news O..
tune extended the entire
received condoIauce from .r
conductors and walters.
porter came flying in the e.
sometime over his head.
ShIhg was o dark-bmo tour
some woman in another car f
1t in to me. It proved a MI
took several tuoEs n
beaten sides and Topped on
and when / saw thatI.o.
spectacle ] was avflIrI
fancy that l will no.
that way again very
in my right mind aul
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-11-07
WALKING FOR HEAIInH.

When there is no organic weakness
which is aggravated by the eXertion,
it is the easiest and pleaSanteSt thing
to walk right into health. Of course,
there is no virtue in 4 daIwdling walk.
The slow and langruid draggi ING of one
foot after the other. which some peo-
pie call walking, would tire an ath-
lete; it utterly eNhaustS a weak per-
son, and that is the reason why many
delicate people think they cannot
walk To derive any benefit from the
exercise, it is necessary to walk with
a light, elastic step, which swings
the weight of the body so easily from
one leg to the other that its weight is
not felt, and which produces a healthy
glow, showing that the sluggish blood
is stirred to action in the most remote
veins. This sort of walking eNhilar-
ates the whole body, gives tone to the
nerves, and produces just that sort of
| healthful fatigue which encOurag eS
sound, restful Sleep.-Demorest's
Magazine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-11-07
THE FATHERS TEACHINGS.

The boy loves his mother probably
more than he does his father, but 50
far as relates to the affairS of life in
general and on its hard side, he has
ten times the confidence in his
fathers practical and available wis
dom than The has in that of his mother.
And if his father finds it necessary in
the conduct of business to strain one
or two of the comma ndmentS the boy
will keep ON repeating the command
mentS to his mother and commerce
breaking them with his father, and
that, too, without feeling THAT the
sinuOSity of the procedure involves
any great amount of inconsistency.
= The only thing that will save
the boy and hold him in such a way
true to the fixed pole of rectitude that
10 considerations of place or circum-
stance can defect him is that he be
under the domination OF father
whose life in the midst of the world
incarnates the principles learned from
the mother in the midst of the home.
The boy will believe i'm the feasibility
of his mothers doctrine of righteous
ness if {he sees his father take it out
and exemplify it under the stress of
business.
The fathers Life to this degree
measures the power of the mothers
tuition, and is as the hand of God
fastening OF postpOning the fulfill
ment of her maternal longings and
prayers for the children of the house
hOld.-CharleS H ParEhurSt, D. D.,
in Ladies' Home Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-11-07

\ little after ) George King, the Or
ganist of Emmanuel church, came to
practice his music. He went in at
the front door Of the church, and not
the side door, through which it was
c, ahmed Durrant and Blanche had en-
tered. As he went in King thought
he smelled gas. He sat down at the
piano in the main Sunday school
room. He had been seated a few min
utes when, through the open glass
folding doors that separated the Sun
day school room from the infants
school, he saw Durrant. The prison
er,S hat and coat We're off. He was
pale, excited and dishevelled King
was surprised TO see him there and
jumped UP and asked him: What is
the matter with you:' Durrant
answered: 4 have been up in the top
of the CHURCH fixing the electric wires
! and, the gas esca ping there. I was
overcome by it. I wish you would go
! and get me some medicine I feel
! faint and weak" King went to a
/ drug store, got some bromo-seItze1
! and Durrant drank it,
| On the evening Of the same day
there was a prayer meeting in the
! church. Blanche WAS in the habit OF
attending. Her aunt, Mrs. Noble
was alarmed when she did not come
home, but knowing that she always
attended the prayer meetings, SHIT
went there to look for her. She sai
down at the back of the church, an(
right in front of her sat Durrant. H,
turned and asked her: lis Blanch,
here tonight?" and she said: mo, sht
did not come" ''Well,' he said, 81 an
sorry. l have got a book that I wan
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-11-07

and continued rain Will stop the work |
of devastation.
Henry Mutchler, Jr., and Clinton
MUTT, members of a mob, We're killed
by guards III an attempt TO take
Leander J. Martin from the Jail in
Tiffin, o., to lynch him for the murder
of City Marshal Shultz.
Miss EsteIle Cotton, a pretty art
student, twenty-three years old, the
daughter Of DR.. Edward G. Cotton, a
dentist of Brooklyn, committed sui
eide at Piermont because she had
failed in an art examination.
In a letter received in the coroner's
office in San FrarciscO. Cal, an eX-
pUSure was made Of an alleged plot to
manufacture testimony to secure
Theodore Durrant's acquittal of the
! murder of Blanche Lamont.
While waiting the arrival Of the
train bearing Senator Blackburn, Lee
| S. Traafe, an enthusiastic young
| democrat and one Of the welcoming
committee, was run down by the cars
and killed at Sparta, Ky.
The Riverside Banking company, Of
Riverside, Cal, has been reported by
the state bank commissioner 10 the
attorney general as unSOund, and its
continuance lie business depends on
the decision of the latter official.
Thirty million bushels of coal are
ready for shipment from Pittsburg,
but cannot be moved owing to low
water. Epidemics of disease caused
| by Stagnant water are productive of
distress in western Pennsylvania.
The congress of free thinkers, rep
resenting more than 5000 members
Of organized societies in the United
States, adjourned their congress in
New York and pledged themselves tC
the abolition Of all Sunday laws.
The Commercial club, Kansas City's
most influential organization of bust
ness men, has adopted memorial tC
the executive committee of the demo
cratic and republican parties earnestly
urging a short presidential campaign
Fire destroyed the rotunda an(
other portions of the University o.
Virginia, founded by Thomas Jeffer
son. The loss is estimated at 100000
and the property burned included
many rare portraits, works of art ant
valuable books.
The M. p Steward furniture work
and planning mill at Sayre, Pa, wer
destroyed by fire. The loss is $4,000
Adler &. Calm of New York, whole
sale dealers in cloths and WoOlens
U failed Liabilities are $4,000 Asset
= are not known.
I J. IT. Deutsch, a private detective
was placed on trial in New York
/ charged with sending scurrilOuS am
e threatening letters to Edward NJ
/ Brown, vice president of the New
York Yacht club. Mr.. Browns so
Y had employed Deutsoh to waite
S Fanny Ward, an actress, with WHOM
: the young man was infatuated.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-11-07
Guadalupe is peculiarly interesting

Guadalupe is peculiarly interesting
and runs i'm this way:
On the ninth or twelfth day Of De
| cembeI, in the year 1881, Juan Diego
a converted Indian, was going up
Tepeyac, one of the mountains near
the City of Mexico. Passing the spot
where a chalybeate spring lis now, he
| heard the sound of sweet music and
beheId a rainbow, from which sudden
ly appeared to him a beautiful lady,
who told him THAT she was the blessed
bishop and inform him of what he
had seen and heard. This the Indian
did, but he made no impression upon
the bishop. -Four times the virgin APP
peared to Diego and always in the
same spot, and at the last meeting she
cured him of a serious malady by the
water of the chalybeate spring, which
suddenly burst up under her feet.
She then told the Indian to go up on
the mountain near the top and gather
some roses, which he must take to
the bishop with the message that they
came from her and that she desired
the bishop to ''build a church ON the
mountain and worship her there as
the virgin of Guatalupe.'
Nothing but pines and shrub grew
ON the mountain, as Juan Diego knew
full we'll, for he trayersed it daily.
But he did as he was told and found
roses on the very spot where now
n o1,o Il
plucked them and wrapped them In
his blanket and delivered them to the
bishop with the virgins last message.
As the bishop took the flowers from
the blanket, according to the legend,
there appeared painted ON the coarse
wool a beautiful Madonna. the very
picture of the virgin Of Guadalupe.
The flowers and the blanket We're
transferred to the church in whose
custody they now are, and our lady Of
Guadalupe became at once and has /
ever since been the guardian saint Of +
Mexico. Later the costly cathedral. a .
huge mass of domes and turretS. with .
the little chapel in which is the chaly-
beate spring, and further up the /
mountain a second and larger chapel |
were erected to Marie Santissima de
Considerable Importance attaches to
the name Guadalupe, the name by
which the virgin directed that the
picture Of herself should be called.
But she was talking to an Indian in
one Of the Nahua dialects. Scholars
affirm that the letters Cd and "g" do
not occur in those languages and that
the nearest an Aztec could come 20
saying Guadalupe would be Tecuata-
Iope.
The ancient name of the hill where
the apparftion is said to have taken +
place was Tepeyac. No certainly
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-11-07
HOW 10 LOSE FLESH.
The Testimony of One Who Has SUI
fered and Been Redeemed.

After much sturdy and looking about
she determined upon regimen. She
Instantly gave up sugar in tea or cOf-
fee, and milk at any time. For two
months she took for breakfast, lunch
con, and dinner only beefSteak and
toast, and NOW and then spinach and
lettuce; always oranges oranges in
plenty. She drank With this clear cot
fee or tea. Sometimes She took claret.
She limited the amount of water
taken through the day to one quart,
or at most three pints. Some of this
she drank hot before OF after meals.
Often she squeezed the juice of q
lemon in it. When the two months
were over and the flesh had begun TO
diminish she ate other vegetables and
fruit, corn, peaches, celery, but never
any vegetable that grew underground
potatoes, onions, parSnlpS, turnlpS,
or beets. She never ate-and this was
her most important rule-she never
ate anything fermenting in character,
any pears, plUms, grapes, or sweets.
Because bread has a fermenting quail
ity in it, she always toasted it dry.
Pudding she never touched, sauces
ROT cake. If any food led to fatu-
lency in any form she knew at once
it was a food to be avoided. Ry-and-
by. after a first few months, she al
lowed herself now and then an occa-
sional sweet or an ice, but never as a
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-11-07

uaced connection can be made out.
but it is a fact of great significance
that Spain had her own lady of
Guadalupe before tne conquest. Ac-
cOrdfng to the His olian SalaZar, a
virgin by that name was the object
OF worship in a small village of An
dalUsia. The historian goes on to
say that Herman Cortez was much
given to the worship of this saint
and that he had placed in her shrine
a silver lamp and an enlerald-incrust-
ed scorpion of gold. Mexican history
reveals no connection between Cortez
and the Mexican virgin of Guadalupe,
yet it is supposed that one existed of
which all trace has been lost.
The hill of Tepeyac had long been
the scene of pagan rites of great re
hgiOuS importance. The Indians re
garded the place as sacred long be
fore they We're taught to yenerate il
by the Spanish priests. Sahagun re
lateS that bhe temple to the virgin but
succeeds an Older one of the AztecS II
the same locality. The same Catholic
historian says that just as the In
dams now gather from all parts O
the country to share in the festival O
Guadalupe day, Dec. i, so in earlie
times multitudeS were wont to as
semble yearly in the same place t.
john in the greatest of healthier feaSts
The deity worShtpped on the spo
where the virgin is now held IN sucl
vene1atiOn was known as Tonantzin
That word is variously translated
mother of the gods or queen of TIL,
virgins" Thus no violent wrench il
the religious ideas of the natives wa
required in their transition from ON
faith to another.
1t was not until 1857, more THAI
two hundred years after the appar
tion, that the holy see granted the re
quests of the MeXicans and gave pen
mission for the religious celebratio
Of Guadalupe day, assigning tn
proper prayers and offices. IN the dc
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-11-07
AFFAIRS lA,BRO AID.

Russia denies that she has received
concessions from China.
The French cabinet was upset by
socialists and the Southern railway
scandal.
"A dispatch from Shanghai says that
fifteen Russian war ships are an
chored at Port Arthur.
Latin-American republics are mov-
ing anew for a continental union to
resist European aggression.
Two thousand Cuban insurgents are
reported to have been defeated in an
effort to penetrate into Matanzas.
Gen. Campos has ordered the cessl-
ton of MILITARY operations in eastern
Cuba until after the rainy season.
The trial was begun in Bourges,
France, of the Marquis de Nayves on
the charge Of numbering his Wife's
illegidinrate son.
Religious fanatics in Mexico burned
a woman and two children to death.
Ilucheng commission returned to
FoochOw, all safe and sound.
In a special dispatch from Seoul
Colonel COcke1'lll says that the arrest
in Japan of former Minister Miura is
justified by facts known in Corea.
Gen. Mluiia, who was Japanese min
lister to COrea at the time of the re-
cent massacre in the kings palace,
has been placed on trial for murder at
Toxic
a. dispatch from Havana, Cuba,
states that an English correspondent
has been sent to La Guayra, Vene-
Duela, in anticipation of a naval
demonstration by England.
An expedition i'm aid of Cuban in
SITrgents sailed from the Canadian
coast and banded in Cuba without in
reference. The commander of the eX-
pedition was Carlos NJ. Cespedes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-11-07
TYPES OF BEAUTY.

1t is said that when artists are seek
ing for models, the palm for beauty
and symmetry of figure is given to
the girls of Spain, while the daugh-
ters of rural Ireland are a good sec
ond. The pretty faces and graceful
throats are found among English
maidenS. A model for a perfect arm
would be sought for among Grecian
ladies, While a lady of the Turkish
harem would be regarded as the pos
SCISSOR Of 4 daintily commendable
hand. Italians are usually good in
figure. and some Of the most beautiful
models, perfectly proportional, are
derived from the women of sunny
Italy French-women, as a rule. are
not in request. being too thin and
viyacious for the purpose, while the
face and limbs of a German frau are
too commonplace for artistic work.