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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-08-25

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Season vim u. & o., Thursday, August
81, 1900.
Round trip $40 and good twelve days.
with stop over privilege at Washington.
y. c., returning.
Trains leave Wheeling via Grafton Mt
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Pittsburgh nt i:66 n, M. and GAS y. III.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-08-25

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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-08-25

On Thursday Purkc Division 4. o. H..
assisted by the iaIlics auxiliary. will
hold their annual picnic and family re-
union at Wheeling park. and az a, social
success 1t bids fair TO surpass any OF its
predecessors. There will he smuse-
mcnt5 OF all kinds, including bowling,
dancing and various athletic contests.
The Opera House band and orchestra
has been engaged, wlloh IL II guarantee
that there will be good music.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-11-12
CHOICE EXTRACTS.

The cross of Jesus alone has been
able to attract and develop the thought,
the feeling and the will of mankind and
of men. Let us stand before it until our
manhood is complete.-Rev. F. w. Gun
saulus.
1t is the truth despised and rejected
of men that redeems the soul thrown
open to receive it. You will find when
you identify yourself with the despised
truth that God is close at hand.-Rev.
M. H. Marvin.
Religion is certainty, a fact. 1t
has transformed Europe and has given
to us our own proud civilization. And
as it has been Transforming civilization
it has been transforming the lives of
individual men.-Rev. w. A. Phillips.
The only real, the only permanent,
the only essential greatness open to
man is that of duty and of goodness;
and that is as open, is as free, is as pos
sible to any man as the sunlight that
shines on us, or as the sweet air we
breathe.-Chicago Interior.
There are dead languages;" they
are no longer spoken by the people,
The language of the Gospel never be-
comes dead. 1t never ceases to speak
to the heart, to awaken conscience, and
inspire hope through the gracious love
of God.-United Presbyterian.
Mans real happiness consists in
keeping alive his several faculties. The
incident man suffers his capacities to
slumber and unrest follows as natural
consequence. Rest follows labor and
the rest of the labor is sweet. The Wig
orous body, the vigorous mind and the
vigorous soul have become so by a vigor-
Gus exercise of the material as well as
OF the immaterial thing. The world
would be wretched without labor
Rev. l.. c. Shelp.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-11-12
THE CHIEFEST GOOD.
Solomon's Request Included the Two
Fundamental Principles of Success.

Solomon's Request Included the Two
Fundamental Principles of Success.
One wonders if Solomon realized that
his life was in its supreme crisis when,
being in Gideon, God challenged him
to ask a gift. 1t is easy to see now that
in the essence of it God was making this
young man declare his working theory
OF life. There is an old-time amuse-
ment which consists in each Of circle
declaring what he would do if he had
Aladdin's lamp, with the privilege of
one rub. Probably very few ever
declare the truth. The real desire above
all other desires of our hearts, the GEN.
trail object of ambition. is commonly
little meaner and more selfish than we
are quite ready to publish to our
friends. And yet nothing is surer than
that just that central object of desire
tells the story of what, stripped of all
subterfuges and petty hypocrisies, we
really are.
If every man would state frankly
his sumnum bonum we should at last
know each other. What an unmasking
it would be!
Now the serious fact is that as before
God we are always in that crisis, and
that God is dealing with us on the basis
of our secret choices. The prayer which
comes into actual consideration is the
desire of the heart. The lips may be
praying for the conversion Of the
heather. or a revival in the church,
while the depths of the heart cry out
dumbly for riches, or fame, or power, or
praise, or ease, or, alas, for the graft
fication of fleshly appetites. What we
suprcmely desire is not only the dis
closure Of our real selves, but it is the
only real prayer which we make. God
deals with actualities, not hypocrisies,
even unconscious ones.
Now Solomon hit upon the real sum-
mum bonum. The best thing in life,
the best thing for manhood, the best
thing for the world as we may affect
it, the best thing for eternity, is not
riches, nor fame, nor pleasure, nor even
happiness. Indeed, in the universal OBJ
servation of mankind, apart for the
moment from the bearing of these
things on destiny, they are more likely
to mar than make true manhood.
The chiefest good, then, first of all,
Is to be humble. To stand in the pres
ence of God and to say: 81 am but
little child; know not how to go out
or to come in" For that is true.
Measured against elemental forces,
against inherited tendencies. against
the mysteries of life and the possibili-
ties of infinite good or infinite harm,
it is a fool who does not utter Sol
onions cry: 80 Lord. my God. know
not" And the second part of the
chiefest good is: 'Give, therefore.
thy servant an understanding heart"
1t may please the Almighty to add
riches and honor, or to withhold them;
it matters not, the humble man with
an understanding heart is essentially
winner of life's biggest PRICE. I.
Schofield, in Men.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-11-12
POPULAR SCIENCE.
rUBERcULAR BAcILLi.
they Conta animate the Earth 1t Certain
so-Called Health Resorts.

they Contaminate the Earth 1t Certain
so-Called Health Resorts.
The danger of health resorts Is just
now being actively discussed. It Is
shown that 40 years ago Mentone was a
happy village in France, where the
peasantry lived happily on their farms
in the superb physical condition in
duced by the climate. 1t was discovered
that the region was healing for con-
sumptives, and it became the Mecca for
the unfortunates of Europe so stricken.
The inhabitants abandoned their farms
to wait upon the strangers. The strorg,
healthy women forsook their diaries
and became the washerwomen of the
consumptives' clothes. No precautions
were taken. The disease was not then
understood as now, the theory of tuber-
Gle bacillus not having been discovered.
The place to-day is bacillus-ridden,
pest hole, death itself. The hitherto
strong inhabitants are emanciated, a
coughing, bleeding people, filled with
the germs of consumption. Both the
soil and the air are contaminated with
the tubercle bacilli. 1t is no longer a
health resort. The same fate awaits
many other localities unless actige
measures are taken to destroy all
germs. The state of Colorado, which
is much concerned about its rapidly in
creasing consumptive death rate, al
ready realizes this. At recent conven-
ton of physicians the people of Col
orado were warned that the towns most
+aI f,,I fror,,
abroad would suffer as certain places
on the northern shores of the Mediter-
ranean, in France and in Italy, have
suffered by reason of general tubercu-
lous infection, unless the natives, and
especially those employed in attendance
upon invalid visitors, should take all the
precautions which are indicated by
modern sanitary and meteorological
science. Now the people of California
are awakening to the fact that the same
grave danger is threatening them. The
death rate in that state from tubercu-
losis is increasing apace. Although it is
a state where the climate is supposed
to be peculiarly favorable to those af-
fected by lung troubles, more people
die annually from consumption in Cali
fornia than from any other single COM
plant. Carefully collected statistics
show that it is not only the already all
ing visitors that die, but that the native
population is becoming infected by the
invalids from the east. The people have
the remedy in their own hands. Ply
sicians and sanitary officers should dis
seminate instruction concerning the i'm
portance of preventive precautions
wherever consumptives are to be found.
Warning pamphlets should be issued,
and sanitary rules for the disposition
and disinfection of germ-laden material
must be rigidly Observation-Disclosures
Enquirer.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-11-12
NEW KIND OF THING.

work them up ON the spot. A small
hand machine, which a boy can manage,
presses the tiles into the proper shape,
and then they need to dry for three
days The plates are diamond shaped,
thin and light, and have the color of
slate; and the edges are grooved so as TO
interlock. 1t is claimed that alright
and watertight joints are made without
the use of any filling in the crevices.
Neither are nails required. The TRAN
gular notches left on the edges after the
main patchwork is complete are filled
by specially-shaped half-tile made in q
different mold. The condensed account
at hand, which is derived from a report
of the American consul at Chemnitz,
does not explain exactly how the ridge
is finished, but from one of the iIlustra-
tions furnished, it seems probable that
hollow half-round coping, of metal or
of the same composition as that of the
thing, is applied. BY the judicious in
PRODUCTION of coloring matter different
shades may be impaired to the tiles,
and any desired pattern cam be wrought
out in their arrangement just as in the
slate roofs.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-11-12

more plastically fne In tbs world.
OF other monuments erected 10 the
memory of great German poets the
Schiller monument, standing near tho
Royal theater. and the Leasing monu-
ncnt, in the Thiergarten, are no:e-
worthy. Most popular. though. and
also very beautiful. is the statue Of
Queen Louise, in the very heart Of the
Thiergarten (near the bronze effigy of
her husband, King Frederick William
III.), which every visitor in Berlin
never fails to see and which, on the
birthday of the martyred queen, be-
comes veritable bower of flowers.
The huge column of victory, near the
reichstag building, is fitting pendant
to the Vendome column in Paris or
the Nelson column in London. 1t is
made up entirely of cannons taken
by the Russians in their three victori-
Gus campaigns-1S64, 1866 and 1901
but the base and foundation are poll
ished granite. From the top, 135 feet
high, one enjoys fine view of the city.
A similar monument is the one on the
summit of the highest hill near Ber-
lin, the Krcugberg, which was erected
of bronze TO thankfully commemorate
dcliverance from the Napoleonic re-
girne in 1915.
Among the great men in whose honor
monuments are now erected in Berlin
are Frederick the Great, Frederick Will
liam Ill, the Great Elector, the two
Humboldts, Butcher, Stein, Dennewitz
and many others, and within the next
two years a number of great scientists,
like Helmholtz, Siemens, ETC., will be
similarly honored. Within the past Is
months three or four other large mon
uments have beer erected, such as the
symbolical one of Beroiina on Alexan-
der Platz, the large Luther monument
on Molken Market, and the two of AL
brecht the Bear and of Margravc
Waldemar near the Muhlendamm.
But of much greater magnitude will
be two large monumental enterprises
now in process of execution. The first
of these is the national monument u
Emperor William l., which is to be uu-
yelled on the centenary of his birth
March %, 1897. This will be, by all
odds, the largest and most expensive Of
all, and all over Germany men of every
station have contributed their mite
towards it, the number of subscribers
aggregating over 100000. 1t is being
placed near the old Schloss or Royal
Castle, and it will show the old hero,
surrounded by symbolical personages,
on horseback. The space covered by
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-11-12
THE FLOATING LIFE STATION.

ing great guns" as when it is nearly
calm. Hence the new scheme must he
regarded as an important experiment.
The floating station will be manned,
provisioned and anchored like light
ship, but it will differ from the latter n
shape as we'll as in it's service. The crew
will remain on board for weeks and
months at time, The vessel will haze
a broad and peculiar stern. An opening
therein, properly walled up on the in
side, will be provided so that lifeboat
can be launched there in comparatively
still water. OF course, a vessel riding 1t
anchor swings with its head to the wind.
The stern will afford shelter, conse-
quently, to a small boat either leaving
or arriving there. A ship of this design,
lately built at Noank, Conn, in con-
formity with plans furnished by the
superintendent of the United States life
saving service, Mr.. Kimball, has recent
ly been towed to its post of duty. near
Boston. The exact location is off Dor
chester, between City Point and Thomp-
sons island. 1t is queer-looking craft,
but great things are expected of it.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-11-12

of the town is brisk one, and rents paid
to reimburse in the total for all the
outlay, even if it runs high into the
millions.
Among the many things which the
Berlin of former days was deficient in,
monuments and public fountains may
be mentioned. Every tourist who visits
Faris and London notices that these
two clements of urban attractiveness-
monuments of great men and women
and large fountains of sculptural and
architectural beauty-play large part
in tho charms of those cities as, a whole
The Berlin people felt this after the
war with France, and they have gone
about to remedy the defect in their own
city. They have done as much as time
and means would permit within the
short space of 25 years, and they now
may truthfully boast that they have
succeeded artistically as we'll. Still Ber-
lin in this respect is good ways behind
the older capitals of France and Eng
fond, not to speak of Italy, that cradle
of modern art, where the very stones Of
the old cities proclaim their past great
ness. Yet, as / said, Berlin has done
wonderfully much for so brief time.
AS to the means needed these have
been furnished in all sorts of ways.
Voluntary subscriptions - in some
cases coming from the whole nation
have accomplished the largest part.
1t has been figured up that by such
subscriptions during the past 25 years
the pretty sum of 124,0O0,O00 marks
has been raised. One of these mon
uments, for instance-now going up
will swallow alone the tritie of ,000,-
tOG The city government has also
literally contributed, and in many
cases the state, too, has added amounts
not inconsiderable. Private requests
were likewise a source of revenue.
Altogether there are now standing in
Berlin streets, squares, public places
and in front of buildings some 235
monuments. brsts or other sculptural
works of the largcr kind. OF this num-
Der, however, but relatively few are
works of art of the first order. The
Goethe monument in the Thiergarten,
wholly Of Carrara marble, is by general
consent considered the finest of all
3Sllin monuments, and. lIdeed, one
maj SAY that there are few. If any,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-11-12
HEALTH FROM LIGHT.
Sitting Around in the Sun Absolutely
Nude Is the Latest Cure.

Sitting Around in the Sun Absolutely
Nude Is the Latest Cure.
Some one in one of the lower prov
that light is the great health-giving and
life-preserving agent, and that all that
is necessary to cure most diseases is to
expose the body to it's action. He has
accordingly founded an establishment
where this remedy can be applied with
out contravening the rules of society.
The institution is open during the sum-
closures, divided by high wall, so as to
separate the sexes.
The method involves the exposure of
the absolutely naked body to sunlight
and air, irrespective of atmospheric
vicissitudes. The patients are enjoined
to pass the greater part of the day in
state of nudity, and little by little they
are expected to develop such a measure
of resistance as will enable them to
stand all changes of temperature and
humidity.
When the sun is high the patients lie
around on the dry turf or on planks
exposed to the full force of the summer
sun for periods varying from fifteen
minutes to an hour. One effect OF the
exposure is to provoke profuse per-
spiration, but in newcomers more or
less superficial inflammation of the
skin not infrequently follows. 1t is not
only the sunlight that is employed, for
the treatment involves exposure to ram
and wind as well.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-11-12
TILES FOR ROOFING.
A New Kind That Ii Both Rlrsproof and
Waterproof.

Kew Kind That Ii Both Rlrsproof and
Waterproof.
The two principal materials employed
in making freproof roofs ore tin and
slate. Both Of these, like the infiam-
mable shingle, need to be suppored by
boards. A new style of roof lately in
vented in Saxony. Germany, consists of
thing, which costs less than either tin
or slate, and is held up by light strips Of
wood scarcely more substantial than
lath. These run from rafter to rafter,
horizontally. Whether the new materi-
al is as cheap as shingles is not stated.
but it is far more durable and by using
it one saves something on the underly-
ing woodwork.
The thing, which was devised by
man named Kohler, living in Limbach,
is made of combination of sand and
cement, three parts of the former to
one of the latter, with just enough
water to mix into paste having the
consistency of mortar. One can buy
these tiles already made, but it is pro-
posed to send the ingredients to the
place where the building stands and
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-11-12

this monument, with it's foundations
whole block OF houses on. AS to it's
artistic beauty opinions differ greatly.
The grandson of William l., the present
emperor, himself selected the model
from among those submitted to him,
and, as the young emperor is undoubt-
eddy man of fine taste and artistic in
stlncts, it may be that his choice will
q" Endorsed by posterity.
1t is likewise the present emperor
Tho is now, out of his own pocket, car
rying out the vastest sculptural pro-
gramme probably ever undertaken by
single ruler. 1t is nothing less than
an ancestral gallery in marble AMI
bronze. This will be placed along the
so-called Sieges-Allee, i. e., the avenue
running down in Il straight line from
the column of victory to the ThiergAr-
ten. and the gallery will consist of "a
iohenzollern rulers more or less en-
Titled to posthumous fame, together
With As men who distinguished them
selves during their reigns. Each of the
"a, in fact. will be thanked by two
paladins. The last man IN this gallery
will be, of course, William |. Four OF
these groups are already near compile.
ton, and the whole enterprise is to Se
concluded within ten years.
Among The public fountains of Be,-
lin three are particularly fine, the
Echlossbrunner, the Wrangel-Brunner
and the one in Victoria park, the latter
being really ii waterfall Of some magni-
tude. The enormous fountain near the
Schloss was executed by Begas. and is
Of oXidized bronze, with Neptune j.,
the center and whole brood of nymphs
and tritons and mermaids around him,
sporting in the pellucid waves. The
project is now to put to other foun-
tains of similar size near this one, for
the square on which it is placed Is
large enough for the purpose.
But in the matter of public foun-
tains Berlin has still much to do, for q
score of them could he advantageous
~. placed in different parts of the city.
In this, as in other things that tend &C.
Eeautify the city, the motto is, how,
ever: mo rest" And thus it will be seen
that, ten years hence, much will have
TO be included in the sketch like the
sbove, which now, for Obvious rcasons
| had to be omitted.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-11-12
FOR SUNDAY READING.
AS a MOTHER.

I woke In the dark and was sore afraid:
Outside was the wind and the rush Of
rain:
A nameless shape OF the shadows made
Crept by the edge Of my counterpart.
A cry! She came who was ever near,
Sleeping or waking. to soothe and bless:
With mothers magic my fears were laid,
While she comforted me with q long
caress,
And walled me In with her tenderness.
I woke in the awful night Of doubt.
Beleagured by shapes of a chill despair;
The heavens above were blotted out.
And horror poised in the turbid air!
A cry! He came who is never far,
And His smile illumined the voids Of
death;
His arms encompassed-His loving arms'
Then ! remembered the words He saith !:
"As one whom his mother comforteth"
Emma Herrick Weed, in N. Y. Inde-
pendent.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-11-12

WATERFALL IN VICTORIA PARK.
lin for 25 years would not recognize
her, for what he sees to-day is virtually
a new city. The whole belt of we'll
built, airy, broad, shaded avenues
around the old town proper is of recent
construction. All those fine, fashiona-
BILE quarters, like the Hansa quarter,
the Moafit, the Bellevue, the Potsdam,
the Thiergarten quarters, are new.
Even the old town is gradually being
replaced and rebuilt. Whole streets,
dingy. narrow. made up of low, shal<y
houses are purchased of the owners by
the city and are reconstructed-spa-
cious. magnificent. And every one of
these municipal enterprises has so far
turned out paying one. as the demand
for fine business quarters in the heart
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-11-12
THE OIL IN PAINT,
What Becomes of 1t When the Paint Ha
Dried.


Dried.
Oils exposed to the air absorb oxv-
gen freely, and those containing lineolic
acid, known as drying oils, of which
linseed oil is the type, thereby harden
into a solid translucent semi-elastic
body, property of the greatest value
in the arts" When oil paint is used the
paint after short time becomes what
is called painters dry" that is, the
coating will no longer take an impress
sion from the finger. But the change
is not due to the evaporation of any
volatile liquid, but to the ABSORPTION of
oxygen from the air. This is easily
proved. If three boards are painted
with white lead paint, and one of them
be placed in q vessel containing oxygen,
the second in vessel containing air
and the third is left in the open air, the
first will dry three times faster than
either Of the others. Thus a quick
drying paint is one that absorbs oxy-
gen from the air rapidly. Paint "dries"
more quickly at high temperature than
at a low one; that is, oxidation proceeds
more rapidly at SO degrees Fahrenheit
than at GO degrees Fahrenheit, and this
is why painters vary the amount Of
drying OIL which they add to their
paint according to the season of the
wear
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-11-12
Manhood.

What is Christianity? 1t is not so
much creed as character. The one is
a theory, the other demonstration.
What is Christianity? It's edited man
hood. And what is edited manhood? 1t
is manhood forever becoming more like
the archetypal man, Jesus Christ, broad
ening in the love of our fellowmen,
mounting ever higher in spiritual kim
ship ana likeness 20 God, the Father AL
mig hty.- Rev W. W. Landrum.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-11-12
Divine Faith.

1t is faith that has made life worth
the living and robbed death of its sting.
Divine faith is still Gods choicest gift
to man, and until the worlds consum-
nation will still be SO. Nothing can take
its place in regard to mans moral up
rightness or the worlds true greatness.
Men have toiled and toiled for prin-
ciple outside of religion that could up
hold morality, but failed. Nothing can
supply the place of divine faith.-Rev.
j. c. Monahan.