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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-06-19

Though summer cOrSets come now in
black. they seem dainder in white.
Grenadines are in revival and the
rags that exhibited for them several
years ago seems likely to be repeated.
Formerly they were mostly striped, but
this years sorts are plain. The dress
shown to-day was sketched in grena-
dine OF a pinkish violet hue. and made
very pretty costume that might pass
either as a jaunty street dress or as a
drsssy outing rig. Its jacket opened
over a vest Of white embroidered bat
Isle. and each front was cut in two
rsvs-s. each ornamented by a large
ch.sslled button. Similar buttons came
on the turned back batiste cuffs. which
were also garnished with embroidered
ba-is-e rufies. a narrower one trim
ming the collar.
Now that the hot weather has come
the women who took to painting last
winter don't know what 10 90. coat
of tan seems the only thing likely to
csyer up the harm the little touch Of
rogue" did. A trick Of the summer
grl ,ha, shows itself is in carrying
bunch Of flowers. 1t gives a sort of
cone-into-the-garden-Maud effect that
brshtens the path Of the street they
follow, ard makes them seem to have
just come from the sweet, cool fields
instead Of from the florists. BY the
time these same girls get into the fields,
where flowers are plentiful, they'll drop
this trick for the first newer one that
seems effective. FLORETTE.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-06-19
SENSIBLE SUMMER STAYS.

dealers in corsets are TO much pains
20 Nan summer stays. and every good
Ike gets out what may be called a
GUNNER edition, so the time has passed
vssn it was impossible to get any but
a cheap and badly shaped corset OF the
simmer pattern. They are now made
with a great many bones, which are
Connected with a flexible fibre that is
as cool as net and yet as serviceable
ss the heavy twill Of the Writer corset.
Many women wear the summer corset
~ the time. It is certain that the fig
rrs seems more flexible in them than
g, the usual corset. and it is plain that
.hey are more comfortable. Besides the
fibre does not take soil as does cotton.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-06-19
From wheeling to

Nortbwest System-Cleveland and Pitts
AVA burg Division.
Trains run daily except Sunday as fol-
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-06-19

Chamberlain's is the best of all. Vim
cent J. Bark, of Danbury. Iowa, has
used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
whenever in need of a medicine for
coughs and colds, for the past five years
and says: 1T always helps me out. If
anyone asks me what kind Of cough
medicine use. reply. Chamberlain's
that is the test OF all"
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10y PENNSYLVANIA STATIONS.
vIJGnnSy|vdnid LINES.
lxAINs kun OF .cNISAL Ilda
IKAINs kvn OF .llyIxAL Il.da

IkAlNS AIN OF ScNikAL lido
Ticket Office at Pennsylvania Station on
water ST.. Foot of Eleventh ST., Wheel
ing. at Mcclure House. Wheeling. and at
the Pennsylvania Station, Bridgeport.
Southwest System-Pan-Handle Route
~Daily Except Sunday.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-06-19

Arrivals and departures of trains on and
aIter March 10. 1856 Explanation of Refer
t ence Marks: DAILY; SUNDAY excepted;
tt@sonday excepted; Saturday excepted;
only: Eastern Standard Time. which is
one hour earlier than Central Time
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-06-19

tDaily except Sunday.
sunday church train will leave Elm
Grove al 9:43 a. m. and Wheeling at 12:I7
p m II. e. WEISGERBER.
General Manager
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-06-19
GOING NORTH.

Electric cars to Bridgeport.
Daily between points marked
SUNDAYS only between points marked
All other trains daily except Sunday.
For through tickets, or any Information
consult any agent, or address
NJ. G. CARREL. G.. p. A..
Cleveland, 0.
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OHIO RIVER RAILROAD co

On and after Sunday, May 8, 1896. Pass
enger Trains will run as follows: fDaily.
tDaily except Sunday. Eastern Time.
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THE STORY OF TWO CYNICs.-

R. P. MCCARTHY, Manager
The midland journal., 1896-02-14
Learned In One Lesson.

A truly remarkable story of feline inz
telligence was lately told by corre-
spondent of the London Spectator. In
deed, it might fairly be called incredi-
BILE, only that the correspondent, as will
be seen, vouches for its truth.
I am induced to send you an account
of a remarkable instance of feline sa-
gacity which occurred in my house last
week.
About fortnight ago my black Per-
sian cat brought to the house a young
sparrow, and taking it to the front door
mat, began stripping it of its feathers.
The cook, not approving of the litter
made by the said feathers, doubled the
mat over and told the cat he must not
make such litter, but strew the feathers
ON the wrong side of the mat and not on
the top.
A fortnight afterward the cat brought
in another bird and, marvellous to say,
turned the mat-which was a heavy coir
mat over with his claws, and Uttered
the wrong side of it with the feathers,
precisely as the cook had told him to do.
This is absolutely true: and vii ;";,ii,nout
exaggeration.
The midland journal., 1896-02-14
CRANKY GUESTS.

Experience of Hotel Clerks In Dealing
With Some of Them.
ST cannot sleep in that room," said
guest at hotel in this city last evening
as he walked to the desk in the Office
and threw the key upon it.
"What is the matter with it?" asked
the clerk.
"There is nothing the matter with it
except that the bed is in the wrong
place." the guest replied. "For more
than 90 years l have slept in bed with
become such a habit with me that it
would be actually impossible for me to
sleep with the head in any other direc-
tion."
SIT will be impossible for me to give
you room containing bed with the
head in that direction" said the clerk.
"The hotel is we'll filled tonight, and I
have only two vacant rooms, but will
have the bed turned for you." Calling
a porter, the clerk instructed him to
turn the bed in the gentleman room SO
that the head would be to the north.
The guest followed the porter up stairs,
and as nothing further was heard from
him it is presumed that he retired and
slept peacefully.
"There is no accounting for tastes,' -
said the clerk, turning to the reporter
"and the funny experiences we have in
the hotel business would fill volume.
Before the night is over we may have
calls for beds with their heads turned to
every point of the compass, and Of
course we are obliged to accommodate
every one.
II remember an instance like this
several years ago. A man slightly in
ebriated came into the hotel one night,
and producing a pocket compass said
that he wished a room where the head
of the bed should be placed to the
northeast. We sent two boys with him,
and they turned the bed as requested.
The joke was that the compass was
furnished with little stop, which held
the indicator in certain position. 1t
SO happened that the gentleman's bed,
which had been carefully placed north
east according to the compass, was in
reality placed with the head to the
south. The man discovered his mistake
the next morning and was cured of the
fad. "-Philadelphia Bulletin.
The midland journal., 1896-02-14
Cremation Growing In Favor.

The movement in favor of cremation
as against earth burial is growing in
England. The other day Mr.. William
Rathhone. ex NJ. P, stated in public
that he had made provision for crema-
tion in his own case on principle and
with view to promoting the reform.
At this moment new erematorium is
almost ready for use at Liverpool. 1t is
a neat building of red sandstone, simple
and ehaste in design. The main door
opens into small chapel. From this
room the coffin will be carried after the
burial service is read into small apart
ment beyond and there placed upon an
iron frame running ON wheels and rails
in a line with the furnace and pushed
noiselessly into the abode of flames.
From the chapel the clergyman, fol-
lowed by the relatives of the DECEASED,
will ascend stair on the opposite side
from the door by which the coffin has
been removed into small gallery over
looking the door of the furnace. From
this gallery the service prescribed for
the grave will be read and the mourn
ers will take the last look Of the coffin
as it disappears within the furnace
The situation Of the crematorium at An
field is wisely chosen, being in the heart
Of pretty suburban neighborhood and
accessible from all parts of the city.
There is an office, with cottage for the
caretaker attached, at the entrance gate.
The crematorium will be opened for
public use not later than April L.
Westminster Gazette.
The midland journal., 1896-02-14
Her Little Ruse.

Sage physicians who make profound
study of pathological symptoms ought
always to make due allowance for femi-
nine tricks and manners. In the progress
of prolonged typhoid fever case in
which the patient was clever young
woman local doctor expressed himself
as satisfied with the gradual improve
ment of the patient with the exception
that her tongue did not resume the clear
pink hue of healthy youth. The other
morning, however, the daily inspection
of that member as gracefully protruded
by the maiden pleased the medical man
very much.
"Ah," said he, rubbing his hands to-
gether in a gratified manner, your
tongue is looking much better, Miss
Biddy. You will soon be all right"
After the doctor had gone the mother
remarked: "Well, Biddy, you certainly
are better. Your tongue looks SO inn
proved"
"Yes'm." F." said the fair hoax, with a
weary sigh. ~ got tired hearing the
doctor talk about it, so just before he
came 1 scrubbed it we'll with my tooth
brush. "-Louisville Courier journal.
The midland journal., 1896-02-14
An Easier Way.

mo" said the elderly lady, II don t
think that woman is advancing the right
way, She is getting to point where she
Is liable to be imposed upon. -
'pon't you think she ought to vote?"
''Of course if she can't do any better.
But in my younger days woman made
up her mind how she wanted a vote east
and sent her husband to the polls to cast
it while she staid at home and busted
herself with whatever she thought prop
er. That's what I call woman's s right" !"
Washington Star,
The midland journal., 1896-02-14
She Was an c Illustrator.

The teacher of primary school in the
mission read "The Old Oaken Bucket"
to the little tots, and explained it to
them very carefully. Then she asked
them to copy the first stanza from the
blackboard and illustrate it as the artists
illustrate a story in the daily papers.
One little girl handed in her verse with
several little dots between two Of the
lines, circle, half dozen dots and
three buckets.
"Lizzie, I don't understand this, I"
said the teacher, "What is that circle?"
"oh, that's the well''
"And why have you three buckets?"
Zone is the oaken bucket, one is the
iron bound bucket and the other is the
bucket that hung in the WELL"
"Then what are all of those little
dots?''
"Why, those are the loved spots which
my infancy knew. San Francisco
Post.
The midland journal., 1896-02-14

A NeW Orleans letter to the Philadel-
phia Press contains ap account OF q
singular adventure that befell Louis.
lana boy, Peter Sykes by name, who
drives a milk cart for his father. He
was on the road about sunrise, pretty
dozy and perhaps sleeping little, when
a sudden jolt shook him wide awake.
Instantly he became aware of hor-
rible thing. By some anaeeeuntable
means big rattlesnake had found its
way into the cart, and was wrapped
about the neck of one of the large milk
cans. The fellow looked as if he were
all ready to strike. That was an awful
moment for Peter.
The cart was tight little box of Q
place. The two cans filled up the front,
and the drivers seat was we'll in the
rear. A covering of black oilcloth shut
the boy in. There was narrow door
space on either side, to be sure, but as
it happened Peter had fastened down
both the flaps to keep out the morning
chill.
1t wopld not do to stop the cart, lest
the sudden jar should hasten the snakes
movements. A flash of thought, like an
inspiration, came to the boy. With his
eye still fixed on the reptile. he drew
his knife from his pocket and whipped
the blade across the tight oiloloth be-
hind him, making q wide cash. Then
shouting "Whoap' to the horse, he let
go the reins and dropped headforemost
out of the cart.
Luckily the horse stopped, and po-
liceman who happened along at the mo-
ment helped Peter to kill the snake.
According to the story, the fellow meas
ared feet and carried ten rattles
The midland journal., 1896-02-14
The Mascot Worked.

Otto Feudner has been buying lottery
tickets for years and has never won SO
much as an approximation prize. He
concluded that he would have to get q
mascot. so on the advice of colored
friend he set box trap out in the ceme-
terry to catch a graveyard rabbit.
Feudner caught great big fellow the
first night and put him in big dry
goods box. 1t was the day before the
drawing, so to make sure that the mas
cot would work all right Feudner put
$25 worth of tickets in the box with the
rabbit. After the drawing he went to
see what he had won.
The mascot had worked. 1t had eaten
up all the lottery tickets. San Fran
cisco Post =
The midland journal., 1896-02-14

"'My forty-eighth victim ar now
befo' me to be chawed. Speak up, Zeb
White, and tell me which ear ye'd ray
ther I'd begin on to git up my apper-
tite. Whoop! WhoopeeP"
''And about the fight?" asked as
Zeb was silent for several minutes
"It was full of surprises, he answer
ed. 'That varmint was only blow
hard arter all. The old woman walked
around him two or three times and then
sailed in. He hollered at the fust jump
and tried to git away, but she wouldn't t
let him. She scratched, kicked and
pulled ha'r, and when she finally let up
Oh him he wouldn't hev looked wuss if
half dozen bars had played with him.
I've seen heap of men wolloped, but
he was the wollopedest man of the hull
lot
"And didn It he know it was a wom-
amp l asked.
"Never knowed it till he got home
and his own wife examined the claw
marks and the bites. The story got
around purity soon, and he had to jest
pull up and move away. He had bin
licked by woman, and it was the wuss
lickin he ever got.
"And how did Mrs. White come out
of it?"
"She didn't git scratch, but I've
allus bin sorry about it.
"For what reason?'
"Waal," said Zeb as he turned his
face away from me, "befo' that fout
she was a mighty humble woman and
left all the bossin to me. Sence then
she's-she S.
"She's not so humber"
"Jest So Jest got the idea that she
kin wollop me same as she did him, and
thar ar days when she's all ready to
make try at it. Spiles woman to git
such noshuns into her head-of oc'se it
does. F."
And an hour after we got home that
evening l overheard her saying to him:
CHOW, Zeb White, ye git me up
leap o. firewood by the back door to-
morrer or take the consequences, and
I'm tellin ye that them same conse-
quences will make yer back ache fur
hull month to cum. IN. Quad in De-
troit Free Press.
The midland journal., 1896-02-14

rate routes and then to meet at the
edge of the forest, where they could put
ON their Sunday costume, which they
would bring with them tied up in a
bundle.
The two benighted old souls had
many good laugh at the clever way in
which they would fool their tormentors
The day finally arrived, and early in
the morning Johannes started out, car
rying with him his Sunday dress, tied
up in bundle Unfortunately he was
compelled to pass through the village
street, and here he was accosted with
the inquiry by one of the young fellows
of the village "where the postmaster
was going to SO early in the morning?"
"Oh," replied Johannes-and he tried
to look dignifed-" just peregrinating
terra firma" Johannes expected the big
words would astonish his tormentor,
but the boy stuck to him and succeeded
in discovering that Johannes Sunday
coat was in the bundle. The villagers
were at one informed of the fact, and
Johannes was followed at a distance by
one of the boys. Soon Fla was seen wad
ding through the village street, also
carrying a bundle, and the villagers
were now sure that something was about
to happen. Fla was followed, and was
seen to enter the forest. Here she met
Johannes, and both were busy taking off
their everyday dress when, with hor-
rible yell, the entire population of the
village was seen approaching. "Look
out for the wolves |" they cried. "They
are biting everybody" Fla and Jo-
hannes did not stand on ceremony. In
his flannel underwear, leaving his Sun
day dress behind, Johannes sprinted for
the village church, followed by Fla in
her red petticoat, with the villagers
running behind them, yelling "Wolfp'
The minister was baptizing Abolid
Kristina's child, when the door to the
sacristy was burst open and Fla, breath
ing like whale from her exertion, roll
ed in, followed by Johannes, bareheaded
and in his fannels
The minister and the baptizing party
were almost scared out of their wits.
"My friends My friends Have you es-
capped from highwaymen, or has the evil
spirit entered into you?''
''No," said Fla, with the little voice
she could command after her rapid run
ming. Begging the worthy PASTORS par
don, no other spirit has entered in us
but to come here and request the worthy
pastor to read the banns over me and
Johannes next Sunday. But the villagers
say the wolves were after them, and
have lost my Sunday dress, and Jo-
hannes sand here Fla had to stop for
lack of breath, and Johannes tried to
crawl under a table to hide himself.
The minister was pot slow to see the
joke and understand the situation. Re-
pressing as far as possible his inclination
to laugh, he requested Fla and Johannes
to approach his table, and addressed
them on the sanctity of matrimony.
When the pastor went home to his din,
ner, he and his sexton had good laugh
at probably the oldest pair of lovers ever
to appear before minister.
And as for the village people, they
yelled and cried and hurrahed until Jo-
hannes. as he later confided to Fla over
tumbler of something refreshing,
chad never i'll his life been so extempo-
raneously frustrated" and that he ex-
pected every minute "to be stricken with
obfuscation. From the Swedish.
The midland journal., 1896-02-14
FRANCISCO MIRANDA.
Held In Reverence In Venezuela as PiO-
neer of Liberty.

Francisco Miranda was type of the
reckless fighter and adventurer always
dear to the hero worshiper, and he was
SO closely identified with the inception
of Venezuela s revolution against Spain
that he will always be held as nation
al hero.
He was born in Caracas in 1856 and
entered the Spanish military service
when he was II. He served i'll the Unit
ed States in 1880 and later in Cuba. He
was forced to leave Cuba for 19ie illegal
transaction, and for several years led an
adventurous life in Russia, Turkey,
England and Germany. He went into
the French service at the outbreak of the
revolution and by brilliant service reach
ed the rank of major general His name
is on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris,
as one Of the great captains OF the revo-
luton. His reckless and adventurous
spirit apparently kept him in constant
conflict with sober law, for in 1897 he
was condemned by the directory, but es-
capped to England. Receiving no aid in
England, he came to the United States.
Here he put into motion his scheme
of freeing his native country from the
Spanish rule. He found means to equip
two small vessels, and with 200 volun-
teers he sailed for Venezuela. He landed
early in 1906 and was attacked by
superior Spanish force, losing many of
his men. The Spanish captain burned
Miranda in efigy and offered $4,000
for his capture. He recouped his forces,
and few months later took Spanish
town, but did not succeed in arousing
the people to revolution.
1t was some time later that he met
Bolivar and with him went to Europe to
secure aid for their enterprise.
When they returned in December,
1910, Miranda organized the first repub-
lican government, which was made pos
sible by the uprising of the people in
April, 1910. He was vice president Of
congress and signed the constitution and
the act of independence He was COM
mander of the army and won several
victories over the Spanish, but his disre-
gard for all proprieties finally got him
into trouble. His fellow officers among
the revolutionists turned against him,
he was accused of being traitor to the
cause, and in 1912 he was taken prisoner
by his own party.
He was allowed to fall into the hands
of the Spanish authorities, who sent him
to Cadiz in 1918 as political prisoner.
Three years later, on July IA, 1916, he
died. New York Mail and Express.
The midland journal., 1896-02-14
HER FAN.

Tlutter of feathers and perfume Of laceA
Carved sticks of ivory, daintily whitei
Plump little Cupids, with mischievous faces
All, could but read your expression arighti
Say, do you know, are you wholly unfeeling,
AS you pelt one another with roses so sweetp
Do you not know that my heart she is stealing,
To trample it under her pearly shod feetP
Almost think you exult in the glances
Your owner bestows when she seeks to en-
slave.
Know you no cure for wounds from loves
lances?
Have you no power her victims to saver
Swiftly she whirls in the maze of the dances;
Slyly you laugh you peep from each fold
And thus one more victim of coquetry's fancies
Questions in vain-his fate is untold.
Lucy Mayo Warner in Boston Budget.
The midland journal., 1896-02-14
What "Mslieiops" Meana,

4 prospective juror, wearing long
hair and wealth of whiskers, caused
much laughter in Judge Dunne's court
"Do you understand the meaning of
the word 'malicious?' asked the attor-
ney for the defense.
"Of course do" promptly replied
the man in the jury box.
''Well. now, what does it mean?"
"Soldiers," answered the bewhiskerv
ed juror. Then he looked surprised
while the court told him he was excused
from further service.
He afterward said he thought that
the lawyer asked him the meaning Of
the word militia. '-Exchange
The midland journal., 1896-02-14
THE EVE OF THE HEART.
"I'd know him-aye, know him mid th
sands" she Said,

"I'd know him-aye, know him mid thou
sands she said,
"Although these poor eyes cannot see,
The sound of his voice and the lilt of his tread
Would alike be sweet music to me-"
So all day she sat by the door of her cot
While she dreamed of her lad far away,
And she never bemoaned her poor, pitiful lot,
For her hope bloomed anew day by day.
The roses had faded for many year;
They told her the boy Of her heart
Had long since forgotten the mother once dear,
But neer would his image depart
81 know he will come" )" she would murmur,
''dear lad,
He would never forsake me, not he.
And my poor waiting heart once again will be
glad
When my laddie comes over the sea-
stranger walked up to her cottage one day.
Said he: 81 bring news from your son.
He rests in his grave, out at sea, far away"
She smiled ere his words were half done.
sIt's wise ye may be- she exclaimed, as she
rose
And clasped him with transports of Joy;
"No mother so blind, laddie, all the world
knows,
AS not know her own darling boyl''
Monroe H. Rosenfeld in New York Sun.