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The Meeker herald., 1896-05-16
HIS HoNoR's roorHAcHE.
He Proved to He More Than the Dem
tist Had Bargainsd For.

tist Had Bargainsd For.
4 good story is told of Judge w. D.
Gieer. a prominent lawyer Of Paducah,
says the Paducah Standard. Once dur
ing visit to st. Louis he had seysre
attack OF toothache. He sought dan
lists office and was met by a young
man who was scrupulously neat and
clean. The latter bowed suavely and
the judge began:
II believe you profess to be able to
extract teeth without pain?'
"Yes, SIR" was the reply, land If I
don't do 1t I'll refund your money"
The Judge was seated in thu operat-
ing chair and the last thing he remem-
bers was the dentist inserting small
tube in his mouth. He got dose of gas
and became unconscious. When lie came
to the young man was under . table,
HIS erstwhile spotless shirt and collar
covered with blood and his clothes torn
up almost beyond recognition. He was
desperately waving the judge OF. say
ing all the while: Get out OF here!
Get out of here!'
He seemed very anxious to have the
Judge get out but he couldn't I've in
dpced to leave his retreat unde' the
taple.
Why, young man. what's the mat
tey?" asked the judge. who didn't un-
dssstand the situation. in surprise. If
Tie done anything I'm willing to pay
70. it."
The young man obtruded his head
70, a moment. glanced reproachfully
about at the demolished furniture and
his own sorry plight, wavered for a
n.ment and then exclaimed: PAY! You
get out of here!
1t seemed that the judge under the
influence of the gas had cleaned out
ths establishment and the dentist
di.ln't get the tooth, either.
The Meeker herald., 1896-05-16
ONE WAS A TRAMP,
Pathetic Little soene y. Dying Man's
Side

Pathetic Little soone NJ Dying Man's
Side.
The way-train ahead of us had struck
two passengers were killed outright
and i've or six others more or less in
jurad. says the Detroit Free Press
Tbs killed and injured were lying on
the depot platform as our train came
up and among the latter was profess
sional tramp who had been stealing a
ride. After the doctor had looked him
over the vagabond, who had not lost
consciousness for moment. smiled
family and asked:
wall. pard, what's the verdict of the
tury?"
you are badly hurt" was the reply.
Il know that. I was right in the
squeeze when the two cars cum to-
gether. I'm as nat as pancake. Will
ever tramp agin?"
I'm afraid not"
Ar my legs off?"
"No: you are fatally injured, how
ever"
THAT means I'm a goner"
"Yes."
"Wall, I'd hev liked to got over this
and had sunthin' to talk about and brag
over, but Amt doin' no kickin'. Ny
pard was on the car ahead. Was he
hurt?"
"No; here he is"
At that moment ragged. unkempt
and typical vagabond came forward and
bent over the victim and asked:
wall. Jim, they say you hev to go?"
Yes"
"How ye fellin' over it,"
"Sorter. No use to kick, Tom
That's right; you never was no
kicker, nohow. Got any friends?"
NO"
Want word taken to anybody"
"No."
kin do anythin' for ye?"
The dying man gazed at him for a
moment in silence and then whispered:
tom, ye ar the only pardner ever
had AZ knowed the Lords prayer Jest
say 1t over to me-"
The old tramp pulled of his cap and
knelt down, and as the score Of us un-
covered and bowed our heads he re-
peated the prayer word for word and
with such feeling as astonished every
body. When he had finished he rose
up and said:
That's 1t, Jim, and kin do anythin'
more?'
Nothing more for him. answered
the doctor, as he looked down upon the
pale face. "Your partner is dead'
The Meeker herald., 1896-05-16
A Tfying Job.

"Eddie" Farrell, a San Francisco
politician whose death was announced
this week, was at one time employed
10 the mint, "a suicide job" he called
Il, "at SS day" He would enter a
saloon. and, after a simulated spell Of
coughing, would put his hand to his
mouth and show the astonished by
ISLANDERS small gold nugget. He al
ways carried 1t with him. Then, with
: sigh. he would remark: "My lungs
are all coated with gold. from working
In that mint. It's a regular suicide
toh.
The Meeker herald., 1896-05-16

TWIT ME WITH MY PUG NOSE.
til got to be thirty, and then by de-
grees left off caring for 1t, and made
up my mind to be as happy as l could
all by myself. So, as my near rela-
tions were all dead, and had tolera-
bly, snug little sum to fall back upon.
1 took a pretty little cottage. and had
my niece, Edith Lonsdale. to live with
me, for Edith was pretty and penniless.
and felt as II Providence meant me to
stand in the place of mother to that
poor, motherless child.
She was seventeen, and as pretty as
the freshest rose in all my garden.
Tall and slim, with deep blue eyes. hair
like heavens sunshine, and complex
ion all pink and white. you loved to
look at her Just as you loved to look at
a flower or a statue. or any other beau
tiful thing.
You'll be married some Of these
days, Edith" said to her. "for you're
too pretty to be left long with the
lonely old maid. and then I shall be.
oh! 30 busy and 30 happy. helping you
to furnish your house. and make up
your pretty wedding things"
We were sitting on our little porch
in the summer evening twilight. my
niece and I, when a tall, straight ng-
ure came up the walk, and looked
wonderingly to see who 1t .ias. With
hair black rs q ravens wing. skin
bronzed by years Of sun and exposure.
features straight and clearly cut. and
eyes in whose dark, mirthful glimmer
there fingered q strangely familiar
light, he stood there smiling down into
my face.
"Is this Glen CottaseF he asked.
with the utmost gravity.
Yes, SIR" I answered. "but-
Don't you remember NE. Pea Lii
bavsn9 Don't you remember Roydoa
Grey?"
Ana then. sure enough. ala rsmem-
bsf the boy who had gone away
twenty odd years before.
Well. hs had made his fortuna ~
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LABOR NOTES.

Eight hundred Boston brewery work
era have left the X. Of L. and Joined
the A. F. of L.
The trades unionists of Los Angeles
CAL, are boycottingg the Chinese and
ia lanese restaurants.
Awitzerland. a pure democratic form
Of government, has had but 306 strikes
In thirty-five years. and Of these ten
wvAe lockouts.
she bindery girls employed At the
Roller printing office. Canton, O.. went
On q strike the past week for eight
ho,.rs, and after much arbitration the
girls won.
When they afiiliated with the Ameri-
cab Federation of Labor, last August,
tia American Agents association had
q membership Of 800; now they have
II. 900.
yhe American Federation of Labor
was organized in 1881, and now has q
membership of nearly 100000. which
is far above the high water mark of
the X. of L.
The Central Labor union Of Fort
Wayne. Ind. declared in favor Of .
municipal electric plant, and the effect
was that the lighting nrn which now
has the contract compelled its macAin-
istS to withdraw from tho union.
The Upholsters' union. Indianapolis,
\ only one month old and has 13s
AAmbers, . majority Of the trade in
tAs city. The BARRIERS. walters. and
hasnsssmaksrs are organising. and thu,
usiea movement Il mailing nvh 30
WP h tlsS w.
The Meeker herald., 1896-05-16
Tho Rock of Gibraltar

is not stcadler than n system liberated from
the shackles of chills and fever, bilious re-
mittent or dumb ngue by Hostetter's Stom.
ach Bitters; perfect nntldote TO malarial
amped remedy for bilious, rheumatic or KID.
ney complaints, dyspepsia and nervousness,
II Improves appetite and sleep and hastens
conralescencc.
The Meeker herald., 1896-05-16
oaspaesess.

.swho 10 this Prof. Roeptgen, the
discoverer o& x raysr'
"He is Q German scientist"
''Is he tie same man who induced
feeble minded people to write Xmas
eoe Ohristmee?'-Chtcsso Record.
The Meeker herald., 1896-05-16

John Burns proposes to have law passed
ployers to give domestic servants q a char
acter' on dismissal. Laws to that effect
have long been In force In France and Ger.
many.
The Meeker herald., 1896-05-16

Friends Of Fitzhuch Lee, the new consul
general to Cuba. declare that he com
pounded the first real mint julep that Pres
ident Cleveland ever drank.
The Meeker herald., 1896-05-16

Fi10-AliF Fits stopped free by DR.. X lines Great
Errye RestOrer. No FITS after the iirst uAy . use
Marvellous cures. Treatise s. trial bot tie fire.. T.
SIL cAAes bend to Dr. klines3l Arch ST.. fhilAsfA
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ID K$< on the third hnger
n H of my left hand.
&N should certainly
SN " think had been
asleep and dream
ing.
How did it ali
happen? That's an easy question to
hsk. but a hard one to answer.
People always used to say, from my
girlhood up. that Penny Lilhaven was
born to be an old maid. I wasn't q
pretty child. My eyes were too big.
and my hair grew too low on my fore
head, and there was n sallow look
about my skin. And then I had a way
Of always putting things away and
tidying up rooms after other people.
and my trunks and bureau drawers
were neat as wax, and couldn't bear to
ses anything in the way of careless
ness or disorder; SO the people would
look at me and laugh. and say:
"oh, she'll be an old maid, AZ sure as
fate.'
used TO cry sometimes to myself, all
about It: but no one else knew how
felt about the matter. Roydon Grey
was the most merciless tease of them
all. l was always afraid of him when
We went to Sunday school together, for
he used to hide behind the doors and
pounce out at me, and throw stones at
my pet kitten, and call me names. and
twit me with my pug nose and big
eyes. My unlucky name. too. was a
source Of aggravaN;on on his part.
You'll be an old maid, Pen." he
would say. Nobody with such a name
as Penelope ever got married"
hated Roy Grey. and yet there was
something about the boy couldn't help
liking. after all. could not forget
that when had the scarlet fever. and
lay at deaths door. Roydon sat under
my window. and l heard him say. the
first day sat up in big easy chair:
well. I'm not sorry that Pen is bet
ter. She's queer little concern. but
should have missed her if she had
died.
was Just fifteen when he went away
to Venezuela, and he told me the night
before he sailed. that "he did think
was the queerest girl of my age he had
seen-in fact, nothing less than a
fright" I burst out crying at the not
particularly courteous criticism.
Il am glad you are going away"
cried, impetuously.
so am L." said Roy. indifrerently.
There are monkeys there, and l dare
say they have got faces much like
yours"
That was our parting. Dear me. how
little we fancied then that 1t would be
twenty years before we saw each other
again.
l was an old maid in good earnest
when Roy came back. They say no
woman passes the age Of twenty-five
without receiving at least one offer of
marriage, but / believe i was an ex-
ception to that rule-I never had an
offer. All the girls who had grown up
at my side married. and became bloom
ing wives and happy mothers: but Pen
Lilhaven remained unsought and un-
wooed.
1t used to mortify me dreadfully un-
The Meeker herald., 1896-05-16

Mountnneer.-You won't catch anything
In that brook; there are no fish there
Preacher.-Why. then. Is this notice put uE
here .Fishing forbiddenT'
The Meeker herald., 1896-05-16

"Ef yoh arglfies wifi er smaht man." said
Uncle Eben, "you done git de wust oh 1t, an
II ,yoh argies wifi er fool you done vase
Hoh time"
The Meeker herald., 1896-05-16

Crimsonbeak-D you know Puckerton, the
cornetist? Yeast-Yes, he lives within gun
shot OF me. 'Well, you must be fright
fully bad shot
The Meeker herald., 1896-05-16

Julius Won Payer, whose mammoth paint
inls representing the loss of the Franklin
expedition have Just been put on exhibition
at the Grafton gallery in London. Is him.
self an ar.Ac explorer, having taken part
In three expeditions.
The Meeker herald., 1896-05-16

believe my prompt use of Piso's Cure
prevented quick consumption,-Mrs Lucy
Wallace, Marquette. Kans., Dec. IL. 1895.
The Meeker herald., 1896-05-16
Stockmen's Saddles and Harness,
Manufactured by the old, responsible firm Of
HERMANN II. HEISER.

1928 and 30 Riakp Street nnnv.r ro,~-
Are unsurpassed In quality. Parties In need
of Saddles and Harness goods. will find the
above firm prompt and reliable In every re-
spect. Prices are the lowest In the state.
quality Of goods considered, Send for their
new Catalogue.
The Meeker herald., 1896-05-16

Young Duff never talk about thlngs
that do not understand. Old Run-Really.
you must be the most reticent young man In
tho
The Meeker herald., 1896-05-16

TAs world may kill Gods man, but It
~ wv ess abs q sst ~ tEssA.
The Meeker herald., 1896-05-16

If tho Baby I. Cutting Teeth,
BE sure and that old and vel-trcd remedy. MRS.
wIssLow's SOOTHING SYRUP for Children Teething
The Meeker herald., 1896-05-16

Halls Catarrh Cure
Is taken internally. Price, 75c.
The Meeker herald., 1896-05-16
NIB. ROYDON's BRIDE
By Nancy cayanakh.

CAN'T REALIZE
It! And. what's
more, l don't think
l ever shall. II it
wasn't for the ring
on the third finger
Of my left hand. I
should certainly
think I had been
asleep and dream
ing.
How did 1t ali
The Meeker herald., 1896-05-16

G. W. vALLERY. General Agent, Denver.
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crowd cheered. Mr.. TallInan was DEM
agogic. enough not 70 explain to his be-
nlghted hearers why a gold dollar piece
was so hard to get The government
stopped colning the gold dollar piece
long ago. and the coin 10 80 rare that 1t
Is curiosity. and Is bought and sold by
dealers In rare coins as a c,irio though
Mr.. Tallman might be accommodated
with one by some bank or at the treas
ury.
II Mr.. Tallman really wants to use
gold as an object lesson, why pot obtain
a Ave dollar gold piece. or some other
gold piece that thes government does
coin? Then he could hold up In one.
hand the five dollar piece and In the
other hand 1--WE silver dollars and. IL ne
is,truthful. inform his hearers that UNI
der our present gold standard, not with.
standing the silver dollars are intrin-
slcally worth a little more than half, they
Will buy Just as much In the market, pay
Just as much private or public debt.
and employ Just as much labor as the
five dollar piece. That would be the
acknowledgement way for Mr.. Tallman
TO give an object lesson. Z.
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r j
Labor, the smailness Of his Influence
when he seeks 10 control the actions OF
that great organization outside or hisi
Legitimate duties a. chief officer, has
been more than once demonstrateds 1t
was strlllngly demonstrated when, with
a great flourish some months ago, he
issued u manifesto against the national
banks, and suggested to the knights.
almost ordered them. in fact-to refuse
10 accept bank notes In payment for
their work, 1t Is not ofrecord that any
knight OF Labor In the country paid the
least attention to this rare piece OF folly,
nor would the knights be any more like
~ TO treat seriously an appeal TO them
to cast their votes for any particular
ticket. They might respect Mr.. soyer-
elgns Views as a citizen, but 1t Is not
within the province OF his official char
acter to control their votes.
Again, when Sovereign, during the
Debs strike, ordered the knights OF
Labor today down their tools and de-
cline TO take them up again until Debs
was victorious, the knights simply kept
at work and ridiculed Mr.. Sovereign's
attempt to involve them In strike In
which they had no grievance.
These incidents are merely referred TO
to show the absurdIty of the Bryan
managers claim that the fact that some
labor leaders are now on the Popocratlc
stump Is significant Of anything more
than that they are acting in their indl-
,vidual capacity. UT
The great mass of wage-workers in
this country will vote for Mckinley, not
because OF any mysterious Influence
within their organizations, but because
they have, as individual toilers, learned
by the lesson OF experlence that they
have been most prosperous under the
policies which he represents, and the
application of the doctrines OF which he
Is n chief exponent They want work at
living wages and they want to be paid
in dollars that are as good for them as
for their :employers-dollars worth 100
cents.
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= 10y = y. TH z 81
The workIngnan who wrote In yes
terday's Intelllgcncer regarding the at
5titude of organized labor in tn. present
political campaign "struck the nail on
Sthe head" in rcfutlng the claim made
I by the Bryanites that ninety-nlnc per
cent OF the labor organizations of the
country are for Bryan and will vote for
him.. These statements of the Popo
Gratis arc offensive to all workingmen
who propose to vote forian honest dollar
and a chance 10 earn 1t, and our cores
4 pondent shows why they are.
The ,whole claim of the Bryan leaders
h Is rested on the fact that few labor
4 leaders, such as Sovereign. Hayes and
Gompers,g are advocating free silver
4 They have no assurance whatever that
these gentlemen speak for any one but
themselves in their capacity as private
citizens, and not MS the heads of partlcu-
Z lar organizations of workingmen. and
the assumption that they are the. spokes-
men OF the unions of which they are the
theads Is an, insult direct to every self
respecting workingman who belongs to
those organizations.
The actions of these men carry with
them 10 Influence or power applicable to
organized labor, and our correspondent
I. calls attention to the fact that,s"In labor
associations no right is more jealnusly
guarded than tho Independent choice
J, and control OF the rights of franchise.
4 Anyintimation to the contrary emblt-
tiers opposition, and the renectIoniof be-
Ing driven stings into resentment the
man who may be wavering between two
opinions, itheSeffect OF which may act as
z a boomerang to the Democracy" ,3..
There are eminent labor leaders who
/ are advocating the Republican cause,
but no Republican manager has had the
aud6city to claim that In consequence
they viii lead their organizations Ina
body to the polls to cast Republican
4 ballots They speak and write for thu.
cause, but only as American citizens,
and not as political bosses who have a
hnlter, about the netsss the men who
!; comprise the organizations to. which
\, they belong. # 81
In the. case % General Master Work
IMAM Sovereign, Of tho 4 knights OF
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Mr. Tallman in his speech in North
Wheeling Monday night told his audi
tors that free silver would mean higher
priced labor and said: 4
nut they ask how this Will benefit the
laborins man. u will make the dollar
cheaper. You can't make 1t cheaper with
out getting more for the products OF labor
A cheaper dollar means higher property
higher labor; and 1t means u less amount
OF products TO pay the bondhoder his
bondsa (Cheers) But, tliey say, prices
double, and wages double, how IL this
TO benefit the laborer7 Suppose you get
IN dollarla day. and you earn $3.50 n year.
Then say you remonetize silver and get
two dollars a day. You would get 500
But 1t costs you twice as much to live.
Under the gold standard. suppose 1t costs
you $500 to live: under the silver standard
5000 IL YOU have q mortgage, can't YOU
pay Off twice us much under The silver
standard as under the gold standard?
(Cheers.) 1ie'.is
That is about, the bnldeat declaration
for reputation we have yet seen, as
sumlng that the mortgage.was executed
before the silver standard went into
force. II you do not assume that then
there is no argument whatever:in the
point, for II the mortgage were executed
under a silver standard, how Is Mr.. Tall
man going to make one dollar pay two
dollars of Indebtedness?
II his proposition is to pay one hundred
dollars Indebtedness contracted under
the gold standard with one hundred
cheap (tifty-three cent? dollars under
the silver standard Che argues for q silver
standard, not bimetallism nor double
standard) then the sooner honest men
understand that this Is the scheme the
better for the honor of the country. Un-
less dishonesty Is rampant in this coun-
try Mr.. Tallman's proposition will never
prevail.
Assuming that Mr.. Tallman's propo-
sition that laborer receiving double
the wages he does now would be able,
under silver standard, to
pay twice as much on his mortgage, af-
ter paying double the present cost of
living. Is an honest one, isn't he Just
little Off In his premises? II values are
to be doubled would not property be also
doubled. and wouldn't the mortgage be
twice as much as now?
What sort of a theory is It that dou-i
bles the price of labor and everything
else in proportion except property? The
only way Mr.. Tallman can make logical
. his proposition that the laborer's profit
would pay twice as much on his mort.
gage Is now, is to assume that one-half
of the debt would be repudiated by pay
ing with a cheap dollar a debt contract
ed when dollars were good.
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If the correspondent at New Martins
Vile, signing himself Gold Bug" will
send his name, the Intelligence, will
publish his communication.
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For Presidential Electors.
STATE REPUBLICAN TICKET.

For Governor,
G. W. ATKINSON,
Of Ohio county.
For Auditor,
LIN. LA FoLLETTA
of Taylor county:
= For Treasurer. =
N. a KENDALL.
OF Wood county.
For Attorney General.
E. P. RuCKER.
OF Mcdowell county.
For Superintendent OF Schools.
J. R. TRoTTER
OF upshur county.
Y For Judge Of Court Of Appeals,
H. C. McWHoRTER.
Of Kanawha county.
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First District Judicial Ticket
JOSEPH R. PAUL.,
Of Ohio county. &
II. C. HERYEY.
s OF Brooke county, s
Chic County Republican Ticket.

For Sheriff.
}E II..C. RICHARDS.
For Clerk Of County Court
RICHARD. ROBERTSON.
For Clerk OF Circuit Court.
! CHARLES H. .HENNING.
For Prosecuting Attorney.
& WILLIAM C. MEYER.
For Assessor City. =
ADDISON ISRAEL,
For Assessor Country, a
ROBERT ANDERSON.
FOR County Surveyor.
n ROBERT IAZLETT.
For House OF Delegates, y
H. +. BEHRENS.
W. II. BLOS. Z
T. NJ. GAREIN. e
W. H. c. CURTIS
For State Senator-First District
OLIVER S. MARSHALL.
OF Hancock County,
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MIR. I'nilman's oh eet Lesson. It'll NJ;
MI Tnllman complained TO his North
Wheeling audience that no could mot
obtain gold dollar piece for use as ar,
object 5lessonsln his sneschesi and tho
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-09-23

y DISEASE attacks the weak and de-
'bilitnted Keep yourself healthy and
strong by taking Hoods Sarsaparilla 10
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ust before our meeting al PIckens I.

Just before our meeting at Plckens I
had an interesting chat with Capt. II. II.
Lewis. OF Newton. a Union soldiercwlth a
rather remarkable record. On Septem-
Der s. 1861. he enlisted in Company "B,"
OF the 10th Virginia, General Harris reg
iment. He was In service three years,
three months and twenty-nine days, and
every day reported for duty. For thir-
ty-three months he commanded COM
pany. but never accepted n captain's
commission. He commanded on eighty.
five scouting expeditions and In thirty
three bushwhackins fights, He was
grazed by balls half a dozen times, but
the only time he was severely hurt was
when he fell under a load OF wood which
he was carrying. Captain Lewis is
now sixty-four years old and bears his
years remarkably well. James Pickens
one OF the foremost men OF Randolph
county, also served in the 10th, being at-
tached to Company "a" and men who
knew him In the army say there was no
better soldier. He hns taken an active
part In the development OF his section. g
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What a great pity It all was. wasn't II?
It's a long time ago and yet remember
It as well as though II had been yester-