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The morning times., 1896-12-05
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specials-VaniIIa Waters. l. cents-Honey
Jumble,. l2 cents-G aham Waters, II cents
But,erscotch. u cents-ESg Biscuit, 10 cents
oyster Crackers. ) cents-Cream Crackers, .
cents-Ginger Snaps. cents.
The morning times., 1896-12-05

Either iOc sack of Lily Best Pat. Tlour or
8 5pounds of Best Granulated Sugar given free
today to each purchaser of one pound OF 5oc
The morning times., 1896-12-05

" nc IU-cehC EWctE
Oregon Prunes vii! lie thrown down as spe-
cial 10 half prices cents pound. California
Apricois, l0 cents pound. New Currants,
New Citron. New Dates, New Raisins. New
California Peaches, ell at special cut prices.
The morning times., 1896-12-05
IIce Soap
asc half dozen silver-plated tea

Sl'ophS --.'-- :---- .......-.. =. ----io
4Sc half-doZ- SilverP lated Table
sl1bbhN c
igc half-doZ. Silver Plated Forks. II
7sc half-doZ. Siiver-Plated Knives. E. 81
6Sc Silver-Plated Mugs =. E. =. :. 70
79c half-doZ. Knives and Forks . Sc
The morning times., 1896-12-05

29c clOth-bound Books. best au-
The morning times., 1896-12-05
Syndicate Purchasing Co..
4s7 7th ST. n, v,
The Sensation
OF the day is our great half-off marked
price sale House furnishings and toys at
half what other stores charge for same.
FREE
,c rnllc, rntrols. with ? horses. conn

to every purchaser of 75c. or more n beau
tiful vase or silver er-plated butter knife or
sugar SPOON
The morning times., 1896-12-05

73c japanese Rugs, 1Sx36 ...... nc
S2G5 Smyrna Rugs, 3Sx12 =. ...S1 IS
$500 Japanese Rugs. 36Xl0S =. So. 10
$500 Chenille PorticreS, per pair. 81. 80
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-10-06
DIRTY WORK.

The Inteligencer has considerable
gall 10 allude TO any alleged attempt OF
democrats 20 break up a Republican
meeting after the exhibition made by
tho wealthy sons" Of Yale and the 9TH
or exhibition. in which our neighbor par
ticinated. on Bryan Day in Wheeling last
Thursday.
Democrats have never in any way IN
terfered with a Republican meeting or
demonstration in this city. If the Re
publicans wished to have big day the
democrats have always been cont M to-
stand BY and look on and allow their
Republican friends to have it all TO
themselves. without interference, or
coun.er-demonstraJion of any kind. II
was not so with n other side, however,
On Bryan Day in this city.
The organ which is now complaining
Of some alleged disturbance at one of its
editors meetings down in the STATE. had
started its presses to work the day BE-
fore Bryan Day printing Sound Money
badges on yellow paper. 1t was a yell
low trick. even if it did not work. It.
or the Republican committee, sent men
with these badges from one end Of the
ci.y 10 the other distributing them and
urging Republicans to wear them and to
make all the show and demonstration
they could. The trick did not work,
however. Il was 100 Yellow 20 suit The
people. or. else. the people are nC- wear
ing that color this year. which is more
likely. During the parade in the even
ing gangs Of Republicans along the
streets attacked the marchers al several
points with missiles. while at
the meeting on the Fair Grounds
they did all they could TO create
disturbance. but me crowd was TOO big
for them to make any impression on it.
The less our esteemed contemporary
has to say about bad behavior Of the op-
position at political meetings the better
for the reputation Of the grand old party
Of high moral ideas.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-10-06

State. but ne could have done very much
more had the products of the mines
which he opened and the forests which
he entered and the farms whose pro-
ducts he transported commanded
better price in the markets 10 which he
carried them. To-day they are hardly
commanding living prices. They are
hardly commanding prices that warrant
their shipment to market, although the
marke. mere is close compared 10 tn
distance the farmer in the great West
has to have his products transported in
order to sell them.
We have no reflection 10 cast upon Mr..
ramden's Democracy. He is simply
mistaken in his views on this question.
He is a Democrat and, we believe, viii
strongly support the State ticket if he
do5s not the national. There is anc-d-
err man who has had considerable to
do with the development Of this SAFE
namely, Henry G. Davis whose interests
are large in railroads, mines and forests.
His interests are precisely the same az
those of Mr.. Camden. Like Mr.. Cam
den. ne has always been a Democrat. 1t
is rather odd thai in this campaign these
two men. with the same interests in the
same State hold Numerically opposite
views On the currency question. Both
have ben in the United States Senate,
both are men Of large experience and
both have the best facilities for getting
at the facts Of the situation It gees
10 show how opinions diner on ,hs vital
question of the campaign. We rus- be-
fore the end Of it that Mr.. Camden will
see the light and recognize the truth
and will support not only the State but
the national ticket of his party.
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DIED.

HAZLFTT-October 5th. 1896, az !
o'clock q. m. William Russell son or
Lewis and Catharine Haziett, age d years
Funeral from the residence OF Philp
Marley. Union District, Marshall county
this Tuesday morning At o'clock. Inter
ment at Mount Calvary cemetery. Friends
OF the family invited to attend.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-10-06

Senator Johnson y. Camden has come
out plainly. manfully and emphaticaliy
with The statement that no employ un-
der him or with whom he is connect d
will he inundated in this campaign, or
need fear to lose his position because
he may talk as he pleases and vote as
his conscience dictates.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-10-06

Mr.. Charles Burdette Hart says taaI
Democrats broke up a meeting ne ana
CAPTAIN Jack Crawford wre addressing
down in the STATE. Now imagine any
Democrat wanting to break up a meet
ing at which Mr.. Hart was speaking!
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BUSINESS CHANCES

$50 INVESTED BY OUR BONA FIDE
system of speculation Will make $50 dur
ing September. Write SCHNEIDER q
co. 80 Lasale St, Chicago. se12edw
AtEA IF YOU HAVE $50 IDLE
GEJHI money send for free book on spec
nlau0n. STRIFFLER < CO., l55 Wash
ingtOn St, Chicago. se21edrV
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WANTED.

WANTED-A STATE MANAGER FOR
Life and Accident Insurance. Address
Manager care this office. oc6er
WANTED-AN ACTIVE MAN AT $500
weekly and expenses. No fortune hunter
wanted VIII guarantee permanent posi-
tiou II right. II Interested Address quickly
Manufacturer" I. 0. Box 5ouS., Boston.
Mass oc6edrf
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Statesmen WANTED.

WANTED - EXPERIENCED SALES
men 10 sell our High Grade Lubricatng
Oils and Greases. Liberal and satisfactory
terms will be made with good men. Equit-
able Refining Company, Cleveland, O.
se2ledeOdM
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MR.. CAMDEN, rnE GOLD STANDARD

,,R. CAMDEN. THE GOLD STANDARD
an vHE STATES X SOURCES
At the meeting Of the renegade Dem
,cra. and agen, Of Wall street, Bourke
Ic.,kr,n at Parkersburg the other day
ex-senator j. y. Camden presided.
'4fs speech is given in full in another
column from The original manuscript
furnished the Register. We regret
-vcsed.nelv the stand Senator
camden mas taken in this cam
7.fen We regret that he has cut
himself loose from his party and repu-
Ms.ed its time-honored docrine-the
| free coinage Of gold and silyer-th7 mon
ev prescribed for the United States by
lehe Constitution. We give Senator
| Candsn.s speech the benef, Of the Reg
listers wide circulation in order to show
.,ra exceeding weakness Of the argu-
nent on The gold standard side Of the
question. fer Mr.. Camden presents ID
las ably as we have yet seen it presented.
We will take the points Of his argu-
--...-;-,
,--.-..t,.. ..,..,,,, +,o sv.ar- Of his
-. - s.,,.,o-.,, tho C,a-e,s mag
- -. ~ -. ---..,.o.- ond .bo, nv his ner-
--'-'' i' - 49, - 10 r,eors Of
800 -. -'' 49,. ~. ~ 49, Co.. en- ooo o0o oq
- s,r tn,-.s,Dent in railroads
-.....'..,l s,-as.s a rsrga nqrr Of this
-, 80 co,o.or camden was
1,i5 - Incl lid and all of If in 100
o-~. 1ou,rs, And Senator Camden
s... NJ. r.,r- 10 nav either nrinciDal
~ $780, - mi. in 80 5anrecfa-ed dol
- ~ 10.
-, -. nod so,+t ord disbon-
est to DO So: and on The other hand. t.
v-1-i bs mpossl6ie' to these Enterprises
ara to that extent "00'u mean ICY OU'
Here wa have Mr.. Camden's fat
footed assertion tba, while this capital
w-s semi here in gold or in "10O-cenc
5,rsrso # would under free coinage OF
o,l5 and silver he paid back in so
e nj dollars which Mr. Camden uoes
Inc, wan, TO do, because 1t would De as
IHones-. 1t most certainly would De as
! hcnes- as Mr.. Camden says IL would H.
under free coinage OF gold ana silver
The American dollar would only be worth
$50 cents Mr. Camden brought these in
/ ves,men.s into the State in gold or in
! "1C0-cent dollars and ne wants TO pay
/ back i'm sold or in l10-cent dollars. Now
( Ter us ask Mr.. Camden II he thinks II
would be possible to pay this debt IN
| gold under the single gold standard
wi,hou, paying an immense premium
for the gold, or for 'Ae greenDacKs WIFE
which TO milk Uncle Sans treasury
reserve; and, second. Iej us ask the SEN
a,or why he thinks he COULD NOI pay
The deb, In gold under free coinage. He
REPLIES that free coinage will drive gold
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HERE WE ARE,

ready to make your home more t.m.
Ike. your house more inviting a1. SOL.
family circle happier r.an ever
what's in the house tl makes D.. a.
our furniture display includes every
thing suitable 20 be .ntrIut.a. @. home
Our par'or SETS and OH pieces
grace any room. Our bed room our.
most gives one q mortgage Oh slice
a better appetite is assured Who
dining room is fitted up from ou
collection of dining tables and ,-.'
and sideboards.
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4 SSIGNFE'S NOTICE..

All persons having claims against Levi
Cassell will please file the same with the
undersigned without delay.
JOHN Is. WILSON. Assignee.
se26ra 400 Chapline Street.
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n,thc eternal. we win see who is going
ro r,f.. the money power or the people
Andrew jackson,
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To the Hanna organs: Lying about
-r situation went change 10 any.
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THE WHEELING REGISTER FOR TWO
CENTS.

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CENTS.
/ BEGINNING with Thursday, October lst'
the price of the Wheeling Register on
week DAYS will be two cents.
The sunday edition is five cents.
The Register will be delivered Sun
day excepted by carrier in the city for
ten cents week.
The Daily and Sunday editions will be
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week.
In reducing its price the Register does
no. claim a special desire to share its
profits with The people. II the people
mink they get their moneys worth when
.hey buy the Register, they will no
5osbt share as much as they could ask
or expect in the prosperity Of veeir favor
tie journal.
The Register recognizes the increas-
ing competition Of the metropolitan
press and in some measure proposes to
meet it.
The readers Of the Register need no
assurance that this reduction OF price
viii not involve any cessation Of the
enterprise and expenditure which have
made this newspaper the best. It will
continue to be thoroughly representative
and unexceIled in enterprise. In fine
The Register will be an even better paper
at TWO cents than it was at the old price
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FOR REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS-

First Distrfct-w. wv. ARNETT. Of Ohio.
secoud-W. e.. BROWN. Jr-. Of Preston
'rr.rI-E $751;. WILSON ~ Ea1awna.
Tnurrh-WNLTL hrNDLLlC-N' o.
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National Democratic Ticket.

William Jennings DI yd'l'
Cd. Nchr--.a.
FOR ri.-r PRESIDENTS
Arthur SeWal,
lt Maine.
Clect0rs-at-Loree.
j. W. ST. CLAIR. OF F4yet-e.
SAMUEL V. WOODS. OF Barbour
District Electors.
Firs--1L q. SPEBEN, OF HARRISON
seccrI-D ID. LUCAS OF jefferson.
Tu.I-DAEID y. JOHNSTON, OF Mer-
Fourth-D. E WILKINSON, OF Lincoln
The herald., 1896-12-27

extends loO feet along the middle part of
the snip, protecting engines. boilers.
magazines and shell rooms. Immediate,v
Iorward and aft of this belt the armor is
reduced in thickness to ten inches for !,
Instance of twenty feet and is further
reduced to thickness of six inches At
the ends of the ship.
The armor is strongly supported bv
wood backing and a system nf rieiI
frames and girders. The main deck is
covered by steel plating two inches
thick The ship will carry 45O tons Of
coal IN her protected bunkers.
monitors are not usually sought a flor
py naval officers, as they are such com
PieN nghting machines that the comfort
OF the crew is of the negative kind Tho
o1f1cers of the Puritan are proud of her
however. for they appreciate her nro,
disious capacity for dealing destr,Iction
Inese ofncers are Captain John r. Bart
lett, Lieutenant Commander J. r. Sell
Iridge, Lieutenants knight, Cook and
Whitteisey, Ensign G. NJ Stone. Chief
engineer George Cowie and Paymaster
r. Frazier. The crew will number 195
men.
Owing to the immense weight Of tho
guns carried by the Puritan it is Thought +
that she will roll terribly in rough sea.
AS her decks are only few feet above
the surface of the water, the waves will
sweep clear over her but for all that her
officers say that her equal oes not exist
the world over.
The herald., 1896-12-27
FRUITION OF HIS LABORs.

Herbert Spencer has completed his
Synthetic Philosophy, and the last
Dook OF the great life work will soon be
commonplace of the book stores. What
a strikingly dramatic and picturesuue
tning 1t Is to see the last book. The
Principles of Sociology, knowing how
at first In poverty and always in
III health the work has been done
Spencer is rs years old, and he has made
the ten books he planned embracing his
system of philosophy complete. He
has seen his work grow in his hands: he
has been obliged to add portions thar
were part of the original plan. But in
the development of science and the pres
sure of questioning life upon philosophv
this was inevitable. There is = profound
philosophy in the closing sentence of
Spencer's preface for the new book
Wnere he says: Though along with
other deterrents many relapses, now la ST :
ing Tor weeks now for months, and once
ior years, often made me despair of
reaching the end, yet the end is reached.
Doubtless in earlier days some exuIta-
tion would have resulted, but as age
creeps on feelings weaken, and now nv
chief pleasure is in my emancipation.
Still, there Is satisfaction in the con-
seriousness that losses, dfscourarement
and shattered health have not prevented
me from fulfilling the purpose Of NV
life. Boston Transcript
The herald., 1896-12-27

THE POET PRIEST
OF THE SOUTH ;
] like a church, like a cowl.
love a prophet of the soul.
-Ralph Waldo EmerSC

"St. Agnes Eve, 1885," remains date
unerased from the tablets of my memory
after the lapse of dozen years, for the
happy reason that upon that gentle
saints day met an angel unaware6
This fortunate experience came to me
In Wilmington. Ohio, town of modern
lied Quakers, where the advent of a ce-
lestial visitor was a thing one could
hardly account reasonable to expect; SO
that his coming must of necessity, per-
haps, have taken US all "unawares."
However, to be quite truthful. Will
mington's visitor did not actually come
post from Paradise-though he knew the
country, and alas! only a few months
afterward, was suddenly called thither
He came up out of the south, from Mo-
bile, Alabama, wandering minstrel,
with travelling priests commission
If not from the church, from the Master
and he walked the streets of our town
for while unknown, save to the resi-
dent priest, and was pointed out by the
small boy to his fellows as that man in
petticoats." because of his bundling
vestments. 1 met him upon Halloween,
as he walked, and was struck with his
head of flying hair and a benevolent,
other worldly look in his face, and won
dered who this man might be. Then,
upon a Sunday, 1t was bruited about
that Father Ryan, the poet-priest,"
had preached wonderful things at st.
The herald., 1896-12-27

breech-loadfng guns in two turrets; six
4-inch rapid fire guns. protected by ar
NOR shields and sponsons: two 6-pouEd-
er rapid fire guns on the bridge deck;
four 6-pounder rapid fire guns on the
superstructure deck, and two 1-pounder
rapid fire guns. which are mounted il
the military top loft.
There are two big turrets on the main
deck, one aft and one forward. and both
can be revolved easily by hydraulic
power, so that a rapid fire can be main
tained in almost any direction. The tur~
rets known as the Hitchborn turrets,
make 1t possible to raise the guns to a
height of 10 feet six inches above the
water line
These turrets do not project down
through the deck, as do those in the Mi
antonomah but the lower part or bar
bette, is secured to the deck, forming a
watertight wall around the base of the
turret to a height of 5h feet above the
deck.
The upper part of the turret contain
ing the guns is made to revolve above the
barbette just referred to, and has in
clined sides. which make it appear some
thing like gigantic rivet head. Both
the upper and lower parts of the turret
are we'll protected by heavy plates of
steel armor, the latter being fourteen
inches thick, while the inclined sides of
the upper part present but small tar
get and are very difficult of penetration
by the shot of an enemy.
FORTY-FIVE TON GUNS
The turret guns weigh -forty-five tons
each and can throw steel S50-pound
shell a istance Of fifteen miles. A 500
pound charge of powder is required to fire
each ball.
The hull itself is protected by an ar
NOR belt five feet seven inches Deep four
teen inches In thickness, to point below
the water line. from which it tapers to
six inches at the armor shelf. This belt
The herald., 1896-12-27

Columbkill church that morning. And
SO called upon him at Father Dond-
nue's cottage and fingered long, because
mad met wise man and witty man,
who talked of high things and little
things, and threw a charm upon me such
as no other man had done, I think. /
went to see him every night and we talk
ed and smoked until the small hours.
sending fat Father John off to bed when
ne grew somnolent and aweary. (There
are priests and priests.) After that the
nights grew arabesque. Then I held
communion with kinder of the fancy
and "a prophet of the soul"
In just little time the people of the
town came to know him and to love him.
Protestants, who had never before set
root in Roman church, went to hear
father Ryan make plain the mysteries
ana We're almost persuaded" Women
thought they could distinctly discern
nimbus about his head.
He reverenced women, this militant
priest, VINO had sung and suffered and
tought for the south. He told me that
When child his father had taken him
upon his knee and said: MY son, you
should respect the shoes a little girl
wears. The children were devoted to
him. He stood once by the altar rail
about to speak, when small girl nut
out her hand and plucked his surplice
80 iCohc,i uoNH, eluf the little one said:
Amt you going to tiss me, Father
Ryan?' He reached over and lifting
her up before the congregation, smiled
and remarked, "Of such is the kingdom
of heaven"
How we'll he loved the south! He
knew her people-aristocrats DO white
trash,' negroes and all. He had even
penetrated the Tennessee mountains
and celebrated mass on a hillside
where they had never seen a priest in
his paraphernalia. "An old woman
watched me curiousiy" he said. "and
then came up and ventured the question.
Nse you Freemason p" She had once
witnessed Masonic funeral.
Father Ryan was delicate and much of
an invalid but smiled through his pain
and made no sign of distress. When he
had surcease of pain he could be CAV and
improvised music for songs of his own
at the piano. He liked a rigorous game
of whist, relaxing glass of wine and a
sweet pipe. (His sweetest pipe was. of
course, the reed pipe of the god Pan. but
he often declared that puff at the weed
pipe comforted his soul) He wrote i'm
promptu verses in the albums of MANY
of his feminine admirers, and some of
them were as clever and musical as any
in his published volume of poems-if we
except The Sword of Robert Lee. The
Conquered Banner The Song of the
Mystic, and Their Story Runneth Thus.
He gained good deal of remuneration
from his writings, but his hand was ever
open and he contributed to the education
of many orphans he had picked up here
and there. AS he had been fearless in
battle. 80 he waited death-ever i'm
The herald., 1896-12-27

shin is a pretty long time, but the pa
tielse of Uncle Sam has been rewarded
by the most complete coast defense ves-
sci in the world.
Not the mightiest battleship in the
vast navy of Great Britain would care
to enter a. duel against the Puritan, and
the second-rate vessels forming the
cream of Spain's navy would be the
merest playthngs for this warrior of the
seas.
Naval officers agree that with a score
of defensive vessels of the Puritan type
to patrol the thousands of miles of sea.
coast, this country would be invulner-
able against attack by the strongest
fleet that any nation could send across
the ocean.
DESIGNED BY ERICSSON.
John Ericsson, the inventor of the
monitor type of fighting machine, was
the designer of the Puritan. She was
ordered by the navy department when
the end of the late war seemed to be a.
long distance off, and her keel was laid
at Chester, Pa, in 1864. Since then there
nave been many changes in the archi-
lecture OF the boat, but that same keel
Is in the Puritab today, and the general
ideas OF Ericsson's design exist in this
newest and most formidable of war
ships.
Very little work gas done on the Puri-
tan after the close of the war until 1S75
when John Roach got the contract for
completing her. together with contracts
TOT TOUR other Warships. The work pro-
greSsed for short time and then. il
stopped, to be renewed later on at irreg-
ular intervals. In those days congress
was lndlsposed toward making naval
appropriations, and from 1877 to 1892 a
period or hve years, not a single davis
labor was put on the Puritan or the other
boats in Roach's ship yard.
CONDEMNED AS UNSEAWORTHy
During these five years several exam
ming boards Of naval officers made Of
ncial inspection of the Puritan, and thew
agreed quite unanimously that she wa
very fine ship, barring the fact that She
wouldn't float, owing to the mass of
neavy metal used in her construction.
In 1888 some little work was done on
her and she was launched. AS she float
ed very well the members of the various
examining boards were duly astonished.
After the Puritan reached the water
tnere was another long spell of idleness.
Finally, in 1889, she was toWed to the
. Brooklyn Navy Yard and appropria-
tions made to complete her. The pro-
gress in modern arning necessita to 4
many changes and additional appropri-
ations, and the work of finishing the
craft dragged accordingly. Today, how
ever, she Is complete and ready for sea
ms soon as she gets her full crew and the
necessary stores on board.
The Puritan is 2S6 feet 6 inches long
with 90 feet w inches greatest breadth
end draught of water of Is feet. Her
displacement is $3.50 tons.
1he Puritan carries four 12-iuch