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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-06-14
JOHN swEENBY's GOAT.

He Was Disappointed at Not Finding
Him on a Slab az the Morgue.
When Morgue Superintedent Mack ar
rived at his place of business at six
o'clock yesterday morning he found a
lone old man sitting on the front steps,
waiting for the doors to open.
What do you want?' asked Mr..
Mack.
Me name is John Sweeney" was the
reply. AN wants me goat"
Il lOsht me goa in tn storrum," eX-
plained Sweeney. Anyhow, he amt
been home since. l knows dang well
he must be dead, for had UNI goin' on
IS year. an he never stayed away from
home more than two nights TO wanst
befOOr"
Sweeney was taken inside and allow
ed to investigate therspository for the
dead in order that he might satisfy him
self that his goat was not occupying a
slab He carefully looked in every
nook and probed around out in the yard
and then sat down in the office discon-
solately.
BY gar" he said, that's daggon
funny"
Sweeney lives out on Tower Grove
avenue. He says his house never had a
number on it, and it cuts no ice what
| .he number was, anyhow, because there
| is no house there now. When the tor
nado came along he was out at work in
a quarry. The house was occupied by
! his sole companion. the goat. 1t was
| picked up bodily and blown out of sight.
| Sweeney has been searching for the goat
! ever since. As a last resort he went TO
! the Morgue.
Il amt done stroke sents the stor-
rum, wild tn way l did be luckn afther
| that goat" said Sweeney. Tn like of
UNI 1 never see. He was Is year old an
! both his eyes was different colors. He
/ had wan horn that was bint down an
/ another that was bint up and he had a
long tail on UNI that I'D do credit TO a
! horse. Sents ne was kid I had UNI.
| an I brought UNI up on fwusky an
| milk till he was old enough 10 go out an
| Craze. That goat had a dang sight more
| sinse than lots av min that's supposed
! to be sinsible an that's fwy I fought
| maybe I'd find UNI in the Marg. It's a
! hard blow TO ne that | losnt the house.
/ but / hope I'll be forgive for sayin' /
| feel a daggon sight sorrier about the
/ goat I'll thry an find UNI an give UNI
/ decent funerl. but I'D be no wondher
/ tub me if Ed Butler had UNI be this
time"
Slowly and sorrowfully over the
Twelfth street bridge John Sweeney
started out again on the search for his
I goat.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-06-14

lam asked what will be the next I'M
portant step in medicine, now that anu
foxine banishes diphtheria and the Pas-
Feur cure has settled hydropho0ia.
hesitate TO answer that question, De-
cause of a physicians great fear, sensa-
tionnIism. We believe things long pc
fore we speak them; and know them
months before we publish them. we
must follow our theories with cures ana
c,res with words. II we work IN an op-
nosite direction we lay ourselves open
TO the term quack; and tha' - / %oI"
that bows the head Of reputable phys
clan in shadow.
CURING TYPHOID.
"Rut here are experiments now going
IN and so far perfected that hey can o.
voiced. Wonderful things that would
fill the world with thanksgiving were II
not for the recent frequency Of great cis-
coveries things that are today more
cause for thankfulness snan was the
Jenner discovery IF smallpox virus.
Smallpox comes only as an epidemic AT
eyer-present source OF menace
THE discovery Of which ! am thinking
Is the new serum Tor the prevention q nj
healing of typhoid. For years interest
ing trials have been going on abroad TO
find If typhoid lever that dread OF ricb
anG poor alike, could not be taken in It's
first stages and :urei |. Being germ
disease. it must exist before it can be
cured. and there is no threatening
with IL. When doctor is called II IS
typhoid or it is not.
Typhoid. as every layman knows, Is
a fever that RACES for three weeks.
There is a crisls-and the patient dies.
If ne gets well he is at least dead TO the
world for three months. which is a
goodly portion of a mans life.
Now, with the typhoid serum an in
lection is made into the tissues and the
fever subsidies. In four days there is a
normal temperature. and, after a treat
ment Of tonics and care, the patient is
we'll again. So much is settled.
But in the discovery OF serum cures
the mere knowledge of thefact that GER
tain virus will counteract certain dis
ease is but a small thing. 1t is the cru
dest kind of confirmation. 1t is no more
than knowing that clay will build a
house. The construction OF the bricks,
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-06-14

cOnVlnce tle man VINO smokes. And So
the farmer. after his toll and care, had
20 take medium prices
THE HOME WEED.
But an this is changed now. Weyler
allows Che mate-up Cigar 90 come into
this country bu- there is O slight mis-
understanding about the tobacco leaf,
and this is the farmers rejoicing.
The annual production of tobacco in
the United States has been growing
greater and greater for several years
past II has never been known as a to-
baCcO growing country because 10 has
not produced all The leaf it wanted. But
al who know our agricultural possibiu-
ties say there is no reason why a leaf OF
the imported tobacco should ever be
asked for here again.
In Pennsylvania the tobacco product
has been very large Last wear sixty
tour and half millions of pounds were
raised and sold in that Stale alone
Dealers received 30. and &c is slvlv limited
that many OF the excellent Havapas
were not 50 very different from the TO-
bacco OF Pennsylvania. This tobacco
sold in It's raw state for six cents psr
pound, AID was eagerly grabbed up bv
the makers
The popularity of PENNSYLVANIA To-
bacco is that /, is a SUNNY leaf The
fobaeco Leaf itself is the shane and s;ze
OF the rubber houSe-plant. II miqb+ 49,
lly be mistaken for &c. It srows abou.
four rec, high and bears a slender
veined leaf I'm the keystone State This
lear mas a close texture and a gummi-
ness that uudts it Cor wrappers bn+
makes it very fine for 6uer. II cou,9
BE- substituted. it is said. for the besf On
pan hi'er in the world without detection
by experts
since the prOhibi,ory notice % tbs
t'ena ieat this price has some ND. and
'As next bargains that are mads NH
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-06-14

Florida tobacco he could get, and was
rapidly cOrneriag the Slrket- on this
eXCllnt leaf.
I'm Connecticut il is claimed that there
is not single farmer who does not raise
tobacco. He has small crop, if no
more. This he can sell in the leaf for
enough TO supply himself with such to-
baCCO as he wants. But the farmers
they should. The Connecticut wrapper
is dry and tough. Il has moisture
enough TO keep the cigar in flavor. yet it
does not break. There is this peculiar
quality TO the leaf that makes it in such
demand for wrapping purposes. But it
is i'm the flavor that the Connecticut leaf
eNcelS. There is a rich taste that makes
all foreign tobacco lifelesS after one
good Connecticut leaf cigar. The farm
erS say they will grow it if the prices 20
up little higher to make the crop pay.
They openly thank Weyler for his edict.
They think that when il is removed the
domestic taste will be so cultivated that
the demand Will be for hone tobacco
without doubt BE that as il may. there
certainly is good tobacco near home.
There is a tobacco known as elm
AN~+- AZ - 81 wy Sbpu ucQtulU IOOaC-
CO. one liked for svery day smoking. Il
is nc, a brand. but rather condition.
Il is The medium. no. very gilt-edgsd no.
at all low class. just for regular every
day wear. This tobacco is raised IN
great quantities in Ohio, Wisconsin and
Massachusetts. They call it The "Sysn-
iSh cimmer."
Ia Ohio it brings eighteen cen.s per
pound. In Wisconsin it brings five cents
q pound. and in the other States about
the same. This tobacco the malatae-
Jurers handle with wink NJ You /. is
50 very much like the Spanish. they say.
said ore of them: Perhaps We DO not
say openly this is Spanish tobacco But
] II a man picks up oae Of the eimmer
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-06-14

is interesting to any mind tha. i'''
later-day medical science. Ihe 'Ni
ment is usually made upon a sl'.i
being a gentle and easily manage. ...
NAL. The animal IS made sick Wild NJ
disease by injecting the toxin o-
poison.
"Then the serum is placed in '0.
sues. Four or five different amin
treated az the same time. and "A'. 0
RECEIVERS quickly. note is taken q.
amount OF serum adminisll De
many cendgrammes Of serum
many pounds OF flesh is pu- down
established rule II a lamb "e-
twenty pounds can stand TN LA
grammes OF the typhoid serum -i
weighing forty pounds ought to- -,
twice as much. That is the sAI ,..
way in the method Of reas0n.h2. '
one experiment does not make
any more than one swallow H'.. ~,
summer. and we must keep on uN
doses are established as immu'a't
the laws of the Modes and Pe's-l
That has been done with smallpox 49,,
diphtheria. And IL will soon Da
with typhoid.
Another new disease we are go.--
cure is scarlet fever. There is q
that is checking that disease. an .- ,..-
a year It may be advertised 10 .a y,
stores as coming from the b az.
Health as anu-toxine is no" ~. -' .-s
ing these injections we boil the s.-s
and heat the needle In an a.colo. pan
TO destroy germs. Think o. l-1-' .....
who stick a needle in your race @7
fully as you pin your craYat.
"In these serums none are perm . ~.
but that is not expected. I3at s--
toxine. A person exposed 10 -.p-.l-, .,
can be injected with the serum A ia
escape the disease altoge DR.. ..-.
knows he has been exposed. "a.
tracts without knowing ID - '-- ......l
jected with the ani-toxine ol. .-..a
be in four or five days from ~ .t.s
already in the system. i is lo. .......
with any of the new serums 20 yl
permanently once and for ALL =. .s,r..
smallpox. or even for a term ~
They do not remain in me
SUMMER DISCOVERIES. err.
"You ask me how far medio'. 5,,.
will 20 this summer. TO iAa- ~
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-06-14

Spanish from Ohio and says: That's g
good Havana, give it 10 me- why we are
| not the men 10 say that cigar has never
| been any further away than Ohio. Now.
are We? But 10 come 10 tho Point q IT,
/ | can't tell Ohio cimmer from Havana
ror Wisconsin from Cuba.
/ TIED UP TOBACCO.
There is very COCA supply CT Sran-
! ish tobacco now in This country, not yet
taken out of the custom house. Two
hundred thousand bales are there each
bale weighing 10 podn1s, which makes
something like twenty millions OF
pounds. It's custom duty is about 80
! cents per pound for filler and Size for
/ wrapper This seems dear buS the Gus
toms duty on tobacco is much more than
the first price per pound. 1t has been
slyly limited that if the feeling for do
nestle tobacco continues as it is this
will not be taken out of the custom
house, for the native tobacco will do as
we'll and be much cheaper.
The cry that cigars will go up price
may not be fulfilled. If the States re-
double their efforts TO raise tobacco. and
if the makers get promptly at work up
on il. cigars may go down instead of up.
If YOU can get good filler from Pennsyl-
vaf5.a, Ohio. Wisconsin and Massachu-
se;ts, and good wrapper from Connect
cut and Illinois, why it looks as though
cigars would be lower than ever and
better.
About the Illinois tobacco there is one
peculiar thing. II has wide range OF
excellence. Only little of it is grown,
as it has never paid the farmers of that
rich producing State to zeal in anything
rich producing STATED TO deal in anything
that went begging. But here both wrap
per and filler can be obtained in most
excellent state.
New York State raises very nice to-
bacco. 1t is principally done in the
town of Ginning, and there is quick ma
tive demand for ii. II has never been
offered on public market. Vermont to-
bacco is the same way. Very good in
quality but used up so quickly near by
that the dealers have had no chance to
test il.
UP GOES TOBACCO.
Tobacco leaf handlers say that there
are 100000 farmers actively engaged in
raising the tobacco plant, and that
$500. 600. 900 are invested in the native
leaf. Big capitalists are buying up farm
lands and starting farmers at the tobac-
co crop. 1t is an easy and interesting
crop. And farmers declare the soil TO
be ripe for it.
The direct result is that tobacco prices
have taken a jump, so far as the tiller
of the soil is concerned. Mortgages that
have stood for years are being raised,
and the price OF tobacco leaf has jumped
80 and 100 per cent. Extra Connecticut
wrapper that brought Is cents per pound
is now over 40 cents.
The jump in the native raising of to-
bacco is a surprise even to men who
have been interested in tobacco for life,
and their fathers before them. They de-
clare 1t is the most important unfore-
seen event that has happened to native
agriculture for hundred years. They
are tobacco kings all of a sudden. And
this IS a thing that will mark new era
of prosperity for this country, as well as
make this century notable for one more
of its many surprising things.
JAMES BARTON.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-06-14
GIRLS ARE NOT TO BE TRUSTED

GIRLS ARE NOT TO BE TRUSTED.
The dear girls are not 10 be trusted
when they swear to lead single lives for
sooner or later they break the vow and
go TO bookkeeping with one Of the alb
horred sex.
Only a short time ago a girls bach
s,or club. out N Michigan. had for pres
ident fair maiden who never spoke of
4 man except to belabor him with often
siye adjectTes. She marry? Not un-
til the stars should all come tumbling
down into her fathers potato patch.
A little later on she was missed. The
presidents chair was vacant The lit
tie man hater had eloped with young
ster who had red hair and pug nose.
New York sun.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-06-14
ICopyright. 1896. by Ryman Interview
SyndiCate)

ICOpyright, 1896, by Ryman interview
Syndicate)
Whatever the cigarmaker or the cigar
seller might have thought Of Weyler 3
prohibition. one class OF American clti-
gems viewed IL with undisguised delight
At first they could not believe 1t true;
chen when they saw il was really a fact
their joy broke out Unresrained. In
many parts Of the country mass meet
ings were held and universal rejoicing
proclaimed.
The people who have so benefited 10y
the edict were the farmers. For years
these honest men have been raising
tobacco and offering it in the tobacco
markets. Their quality was superior,
Ehe curing perfect. their leaves uniform
in size, and their leaf without blemiSh.
But they could get little. The magic
word Havana" forbade the native in
dustry from being appreciated as it
khould have been. Tobacco manufac-
Eurers themselves knew the superiority
Of the native tobacco. but they could not
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-06-14
Many Doctors Now En- Route For Berlin to Investigate The
Experiments Just Made.
LAMBS AND GUINEA PIGS VICTIMS OF THE SERUN
Will Be Brought to This Country By Dr. Fischer, the Man Who
Brought Over AntitOxine
ROTENGEN GAVE HIN HIS FIRST X-RsY SHADONGRAPH

the placing of them, the knowledge o.
practical building, are all necessary. be-.
sides the finer arts of the archi,ec, aud
decorator.
$50 with newly discovered yrrs
Experiments must be made upon AL.
mails. experiment after experlmen, TIE
greatest care must be used in The clca
CT the animal. II must be one Jua- On
be taken as prototype Of the human
frame. Then the experiment must be
conducted painstakingly and cautiously
until the exact results are obtained.
Small profit would a new serum be fit
were to be used without eXacless
More patients would Gle form s
strength than recovered from its nel.
tralizing effect.
"The way Of conducting experiments
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-06-14

Copyright, 1896, by Ryman Interview
Syndicate)
DR.. Louis Fischer, the man who
brought anti-toxine TO this country, and
to whom Roentgen entrusted his first
shadowgraph, sat in his office with an
open letter before him.
Il go to Europe" said he, ito see the
writer of this letter. This tells me that
some fascinating experiments are being
made in the line of disease preventa-
tivesan I am going over TO investigate,
to study them. Not that more discover
les are made in the old world than are
generated in the new. but simply that,
from union of experiment and brains.
the world on both sides OF the water is
bound to benefit.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-06-14
DRAMA OF THE ETERNAL FEN
NINE

Woman-Oh, so you've come in. have
you? Pretty time in the night for you
10 appear, isn't it? (biff! biffD I'll teach
you swat,
Voice-Murdert She's killing mel
Lemme go, o.
Woman - Nice husband you arel
0bangD
Voice-Ouch! I'm not your husband!
I'm a burglar,
Woman staggering back)-Oh, A
burglar, Hep, Oh, what shall I do
On, (fGints away.
burglar escapesl.-New York Press.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-06-14
SMITHS LUCKY FSCAPF.

isn't that just wonderful how Mrs.
Smith fought that burglar last night?
He got q terrible thraShing."
Yes: but I understand it happened
by mistake She thought it was Smith,
for whom she had ben sitting up Ill
night. -Harper's Weekly.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-06-14

7 have always maintained that the
lucky man was the one who knew how
to smile at the right time, and who knew
how to hit at the right time, and when
he smiled he made everybody glad, and
when he hit be hit straight out form the
shoulder, and made a number Of people
sorry.
What shall you hit? All the mean
people, all the towards, all the liars, all
the sneaks. all the gossips, and all the
scandal-mon gers. and mean creatures
who say things about women, really all
those who, if they belonged to the ami
NAL world. would be treated as poison
Gus serpents, and VINO are in truth So
cial vampires.
What should YOU smile at? At all the
babies, at all the pretty and pleasant
women, at their flower-trimmed hats.
at their gay gowns, at every good story.
at every interesting book. and at the
man who gets in the White House.
Who will it be? Ask Mckinley, ask
Hanna ask Grover, but don't ask
Bah.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-06-14

MARY" said the elderly farmer, q
'spect you better have the doctor in and
have me blei. or sumh'm.'
What is the matter with you, ST.
las?"
II think | am about due to buy an
other gold brick. I sorter feel il comm
on, -IndianapoEs Journal.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-06-14
CAPITALISTS HAVE PUT 900 MILLIONS
Weyer's Edic Has Turned Up Something for Them Better
a Gold Mine.
QUEER LITTLE TOBACCO CENTRE IN Mg YORK SIAEE'

show it from so to 10 cents per pound.
That is for the present. until the toDac-
co production gets we'll going in this
country: then il must. OF course, come
down. This viii not be for some time,
because tobacco is a slow crop. After II
is grown it must be dried a season in the
sun. and the long curing process eats up
more than a year from the time the lear
isgathered.
FLORIDA TOBACCO.
The Florida tobacco production is
sons:hing of which every tobacco man
ufacturer is proud. it is so very fine.
The most careless growers can get 40
cents a pound for it, But the trouble Is
that there is 50 very little Of the crop.
II grows luxuriouSly enough, but with
che foreign competitor so near them, the
'FloridS growers have lost heart. Many
have refused to sort their leaves, send
ing them heller SHELTER in running
lots" but even this way very nice
price is obtained Last week a certain
dealer offered 81 per pound for all the
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-01-04
REBELS GAINING.
No Question That the Insurreetion Is Ac-
quiring Strength.

Havana, June 3-There is no doubt
that the insurrection is gaining strength
daily. and that the rebels are obtaining
assistance from sources hitherto thought
loyal to the government.
Tie success of Gomez and Macao, in
passing the hitherto invulnerable Trocha
the military line that in.previous insur-
reotious kept the rebels in the province of
Santiago de Cuba, and their dash across
the province of Santa Clara into Matan-
zas. led many men and youths who were
wavering in the allegiance to the crown,
to cast lots with the insurgents. The
whole island is in state of war. Rest
lessneSs in the provinces of Havana and
Pinar del Rio, two westernmost polft1-
cal divisions of the island, has caused the
government officials to adopt measures to
prevent the risings there. Heretofore the
leading papers have had correspondents
with the army who sent reports Of the
various engagements which, after icing
80 prepared, as to meet the views OF the
oensoTs, have been published. These par
eFs will now not be pemi tied to publish
eyen the news of thisc haraoter, an old 81
lagirg been issued that the.anewspapers
lhaI print no news concerning the in
surrection except such as is contained in
bhe inform alton officially furnished them
by the government
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-01-04

lands in Europe by the injustice and op-
preston of tyrants. were not afraid to
seek new homes in the furthesJ extremity
of the Dark Continent and who proved
their ability to subjugate the fearful
wilderness and subdue the formidable
array of savage men and beasts that in
b abited it, could not fail to possess q
character of the most stalwart and yigor-
GUS nature. At about the same period,
when the Hollanders occupied Manhattan
Island and built the Bowery and the rest
Of New Amsterdam, others Of their
country men sailed to South Africa and
esta ablished a settlement at the Cape Of
Good Hope. They were joined afterwards
by number Of French Hugenots who
were expelled from France by the revoca-
tion of the asdict of Nantes, whereby
Louis XIV. forbade freedom of conscience
in that country. These two bands of
exfles united and developed character
in which the leading traits of both their
races were blended AS the Hollanders
were in the majority the Language of the
"Boers' or "F Farmers' remained Dutch,
though many OF Gnelr Surnames are
French, such as that Of Joubert, their
present military commandant. Even in
che remote corner of the globe, where
they had sought refuge the brave exiles
could not escape the aggressions of
enemies who begrudged them their liberty
and coveted their possessions. Their suo-
cessi We retreats before the forces of the
English government, from Cape Colony.
and from Natal are matters of history. A
large body composed of the most resolute
and independent men among the Beers,
in 1s4s, finally 'strekked'' northward
over the "veldt'' or prairie and settled in
the country across tho Vaal river, where
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-01-04

they hoped to be secure from the inter.
ference OF their enemies, and founded
there the South African Republic of the
Iransyaal, the rights of which were
recognized by the British. This territory
consists largely of "veldt" or prairie.
which is fine land for farming and stock
raising, and is surrounded by mountains
flch III minerals and precious stones.
uaine abounds in it to an extent hardly
credible even to those familiar with the
hunting grounds of America Every kind
OF wild beast from the elephant and
giraffe to the lion and baboon may be
round In it. Vast herds of deer of
olHerent species, ranging from the size OF
an OK to that of a hare. roam over the
veldt," and supply the Beers with the
sport which has developed the wonderful
marksmanship among them which they
nave used with such positive effect upon
the Au1us and the British on different
occasions. With the Zulus they waged a
long and desperate struggle for existence;
and generally defeated the headlong rush
OF the swarming legions of these military
savages by formingstheir wagons into d
square or 'laager' or else by circling on
horseback round their 'timpi" OF army
and decemating it by constant and un-
erring rifle fire. The Kafirs gradually
grew tired of attacking such dangerous
foes; and entered into their service as