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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-01-11
rHE BOND SYNDICATE,
A ,,sport T,,as Il Has Been Shaken rs
IylthtlrnNvhls,

CHICAGO. Jan. 1O.--A special from
Nov York says; "Thr Morgan bond
syndlcntc has nt last been shaken by
Tho withdrawal from Il OF the Chemi.
chi Sntiuhnf Bank. Il IS understood
lint inc Amount OF the banks sub.
s"Tintion IiaR $1,000 00O. 7; IL reported
thnt ire .tHy National and possibly
m" ITnitctl States Trust Company and
the Hanover National win follow.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-01-11

FRANKFORT. Ky, Jan. iO.-The
Democratic joint Legislative caucus to-
nirht nominated Senator j. c. $. Black
burn an the candidate OF that party to
succeed himself in tho United States
rcnntt. The deciding ballot resulted;
blackburn. 81; Mecrcary. 10; Brown, O.
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LoCRPoRT. n. V, Jan. lO.-Robert
Clapsnddie, a farmer OF Ransomville, a
small town about ten miles from here,
was fatally shot to-day by his son'in.
law, George II. Smith, who was pursued
by posge OF Villagers, eerRered ana
whom he made resistance, filled with
bullets, causing his death, One OF the
pursucrs also was shot.
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For West Virginia, generally fnir;
slowly rising temperature; llGht north
erly, shifting to southerly Winds,
For wcstern Pennsylvania md ONO.
partly cloudy, with snow flurries or
ilght showers near the lakes; slnVly
rising temperature; eGsterly, shifting
TO aouthcTly winds
TEMPERATURE YESTERDAY
az Furnished iy g. Schncpf, druEgle,, cor
Ecr Market aul Fourteenth streets;
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II m..,..,,. ..,.... SSlWeathcr-CiO0dy.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-01-11
rarAsuRER ROLLN ARRESTED.
omSnp'A DefaaiitpE ofseiai IN tho Hands
ofthc Law,

OMAHA, Neb.. Jan. 1o.-Ex-cIty
Treasurer BOlln was arrested tonight.
He was dcposed several months ago,
owing to rumors OF shortages in his Of
nee. Recently 1t developed that over
100000 Of city funds could not be nc-
counted for, His deputy. Jerome Eu-
gene Coulter. was nrrcsted recently for
taking $4,000 OF the money. but for
some reason Bolln escaped prosecution
until tonight,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-01-11
A BOLD DASH
BY the Cuban Leader Into the
Heart Of Plnar del Rio.
THE RICH TOBACCO DISTRICT
At the Mercy OF the Destroyers OF
the Great Crops.
SPANISH LEADERS SURPRISED

And Troops Itnrrlsaiy Dispatched TO re-
inforcs the Garrison -Rumor ofan Inn
portant Expedition Coming to the Aid
orths Insurgsnt FOrces-Diseovery OF a
Cuban Conspiracy IN Havana Causes
unsasiness In Spanish cireles-Arrest OF
some OF the Leaders.
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COLUMBUS. ohio. Jan. l0.--Iohn ].
Rnnia,;c. eN.nwiit@r of BeiawarS conn
ty, wuS sand-bnFgcd last night hy three
men near Marysvillr. robbed thrown
on railraad track, run oyer by - train
and will lose an arm and les, aud may
die.
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THE GLASS SHUT Down
II It Occur. wll Throw Out $4,000 slea
IN the Country.

MuNc1E, Ind. Jan. 1O.-There is now
some doubts as to whether or not the
window glass factories of the United
States will close tomorrow night as de-
cided by the Western Window GiasS
Manufacturers Association at their
meeting in Chicago ten days ago. MT.
T. L. Hart, president OF the association,
says that the shut down will occur to-
morrow night.
The shut down, II one occurs, viii
make idle 1900 men In Indiana, and
$4,000 in the United States,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-01-11
LONDON EXCITED
Over the Naval Preparations That
are Being Made.
SITUATION BETTER. HOWEVER.

Tho War Display Not Thought to Do
wholly Due to the Condition of Rela-
lions with Germany-Enormous EI-
penditurs OF Money for Ammunition.
Briti.hcr, Admire President KrnEer's
Diplomacy, Regardless OF the Fact That
1t tntsrtsrea with Their Policy.
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BFcmen-IirRu RunRchwelg. New York.
LondoH-Brltish Queen Boston.
ha!uhurg-pntrlA. New York.
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this unknown tribe than to quote the

this unknown tribe than to quote the
following graphic description from
Prescott's Conquest of Peru:
The road over the great plateau was
conducted over painless sierras bound
with snow; galleries were cut for
leagues through the living rock; rivers
were crossed by means of bridges that
swung suspended in the air; precipices
We're scaled by stairways hewn out OF
the native bed; ravines of hideous
depth were filed with solid masonry;
III short, all the difficulties that beset a
Wild and mountainous region, and which
might appal the most courage engi-
neer of modern times, were encountered
and successfully overcome. The length
of the road, of which scattered frag-
mentS only remain, is variously esti-
mated from fifteen hundred to two thou
sand miles, and stone pillars in the man
ner of European milestones were
erected at stated intervals of somewhat
more than a league all along the line.
Its breadth scarcely exceeded twenty
feet. 1t was built of heavy flags of
freestone, and in some parts at least
covered with bituminous cement which
time has made harder than the stone it
self. In some places where the ravines
have been filled up with masonry the
mountain torrents, wearing on it for
ages, have gradually eaten a way and
left the superintendent mass-such is
the cohesion of the materiaIs-still
spanning the valley like an arch''
From this it may be seen that the
ancient Peruvians were familiar with
such uses of asphalt and bituminous
rock as are made at the present time
on the thoroughfares of our more pro-
gressive cities. Yet the utilization of
these materials for such purposes is
generally deemed a discovery of the
past, few years.
OF the road running along the base
of the Andes it is stated: 1.-THE cause
way was raised on a high embankment
of earth, defended on either side by a
parapet or wall of clay, and trees and
odoriferous shrubs were planted along
the margin, regaling the sense of the
traveller with their perfume and refresh
ing him by their shades, so grateful
under the burning sky of the tropics.
In the strips of sandy waste which oc-
casionally intervened, where the light
and volatile soil was incapable of sus-
tanning a road. huge piles, many OF
them to be seen to this day, were driven
into the ground to indicate the route
to the traveller. All along these high
ways caravansaries were erected at the
distance of ten or twelve miles from
each other. The care of the
great roads was committed to the dis
tr1cts through which they passed, and
large number Of hands were con-
stantly employed under the Incas to
keep them in repair. This was the more
easily done in a country where the mode
OF travel was altogether on foot, though
the roads are said to have been so nicely
constructed that a carriage might have
rolled over them as securely as on any
OF the great roads of Europe. Still, in a
region where the elements Of fire and
water are both actively at work in th2
business of destruction, they must.
without constant supervision, have
gradually gone to decay. Such has been
their fate under the Spanish conquerors.
who took no care to enforce the admir-
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(Written for the Record -Unfon.')
I have often thought that a psyche
logical consideration of the origin Of
what are generally designated as
Slogans" would be an interesting work,
With every movement having for its
object the accomplishment of some good
or the reform of some supposed evil
there seems to be inseparably asso-
ciated, even from the very earliest his
tory Of man, some cry, some term, some
appeIlation, of peculiar significance. The
history of our own country is replete
with instances. The ters free silver, .
tariff for revenue protection" and
hosts of others which will readily sug-
gest themselves to any reader illustrate
this fact. AS frequently terms of deri-
sion are invented and have their pecu-
liar effect. In a word it seems that men
naturally crave a name "to conjure
with" It would require no serious eff
fort to show that frequently these terms
which are originated in the hope of
proving detrimental to the interests or
advocacy of opponents have a reaction
ary effect on the inventors Men, or
groups of men, frequently take the term
which was applied derisively and utilize
it for the advancement of those very
interests against which contempt was
aimed When our Pilgrim Fathers
were ridiculed as ''puritans they
checked the effect of intended disre-
spect by assuming as their own the
weapon of the enemy.
Even SO has it been with the appar-
emily recent movement for Improvement
and reform in the highway conditions of
this country. Good roads has become
a term which stands for a distinct idea
1t represents a sentiment that has ne
cessarily the Endorsement of a certain
number of people. Just what that sen
timent is, just what it represents, how
it has grown, why it has grown, what
its prospects are, are some of the con-
siderations which the writer intends to
consider.
To carry out the analogy suggested
in the preceding paragraphs we at once
ask ourselves what the contemptuous
reference was that was applied to the
advocates Of this reform by those, not
necessarily opposed to it, but, perhaps,
incapable of realizing its importance
and effect, The term was not a strong
one, and it too has proved a boomerang
When men differ in their opinions, or
when they do not indorse the sentiment
of their fellowmen on some particular
topic, a peculiar disposition asserts it,
self to dub one another 'cranks." So
the advocates of improved highways
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were but q few years since termed in
contempt good roads cranks.' and yet
there are in the United States at this
day at least twenty million good roads
cranks' They number men in every
walk of life-the farmer, the statesman
the merchant, the bicyclist, the engi-
neer, the lover Of horseflesh, the me-
chanic, the scholar and even the tramp
professional or amateur. They have en-
rolled themselves under the banner Of
good roads," and are actively fighting
for their cause.
The questions naturally suggest
themselves then, What does this move
ment stand for? What does it repre-
sent? Wherein lies its peculiar attrac-
ton? What is the object at which it
aims? No better answer could be given
to these questions than to refer such
questions to Macauiay that far-seeing
genius who says, zoe al inventions, the
alphabet and printing press alone ex-
cepted, those inventions which abridge
distance have done most for the civil
zation of our species"
This, then, is the secret of the wonder
full strides that the good roads move
ment has taken in this country. Its
significance lies in the fact that it is so
completely associated with civilization
No nation can hope to be wealthy, no
nation can hope to prosper until she
reaches the highest perfection in the
methods of communication.
Three elements contribute. more ma
terially than all else to the development
Of a country's resources: her harbors,
her rivers and lakes, her highways Ma
ture calls the two former into being;
man creates the latter. With this latter
alone are these comments concerned.
With our earliest knowledge of man
as a civilized being is associated the
history of roads and the construction Of
roads Craven on the tombs Of the
shepherd kings of Egypt are scenes
which Psychologists tell us represent
road construction. We are told that the
children of Israel, wnen held in bondage
in Egypt, were compelled amongst
other onerous duties imposed upon
them, to assist in the construction of the
great highways Of the nation.
In the records of the early civilization
of Greece, we find the fact mentioned
that the roads We're inspected and cared
for under authority of the Senate. In
Lacedemonia, Thebes and other States
the construction anu maintenance Of
their roads are reported to have been
placed ia the hands OF their most emil
nent men Much OF this, however, is
shadoWy and traditionary.
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own days. For instance, the roads were
marked with milestones, and there were
itineraries Of travel indicating the dis
tances from point to point and the vari-
Gus stages and quarters for the NIGHT.
So that traveller to any point Of the
empire could exactly plan his journey
before hand. Imagine such a state of
affairs existing in California;
The most noted road, however, which
Rome ever constructed was the Appian
Way, one OF the seven Italian roads. Tt
was begun during the Samnite war. in
312 B. c., by the Censor Appius Clau-
dius, who may truly be said to have
been the first good roads crank" AL
though twenty-five centuries have
elapsed, his work endures to this day.
The life that once thronged it has passed
away; the tombs of the Caesars which
liEed its sides. erected to perpetuate
the memory of these rulers, lie in ruins.
part Of the land through which it runs
is now desolate and abandoned, but the
Appian Way remains in use to the pres
ent time. This road. first constructed
from Rome to Capua, was eventually
extended to BfundisiUm, the modern
Brindisi, the quick port to India.
Considering their construction from
a strictly scientific point of view. their
roads show many characteristics that
we might well emulate. They were laid
out ON lines as direct as circumstances
would permit, keeping over level and
valley land when possible, but not hes
italting to cut through hills, to fill ra-
vines and morasses, or to carry via
ducts over chasns and rivers. The ma
terials of which these roads were built
varied with local conditions The nat
uraI character of the soil was preserved
when OF a firm nature: but when of an
unstable character the bed of the road
was first slightly rounded, and then
paved with polygonal blocks of hewn
stsle.
In our hemisphere. Peru affords
notable illustration of anciently con-
structed roads of a permanent char
acter. The exact period Of their con-
struction is unknown. and there is equal
uncertainty as TO the builders Suffice
it to say that Pizarro found the Incas in
possession of the country at the time Of
his conquest, and the construction Of
the roads is generally attributed to
them. These roads traversed all parts
of the kingdom. Two of them are par
ticularly noteworthy. one Of them pass
ing over the great plateau, the other
along the lowland abutfing on the
coast The first was the much more
difficult Of onstrr.cttor. I know of no
better means OF explaining the work of
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In the matter of road construction
history omerges from & state Of fable to
fact under the Roman Empire, where
we find the earliest authentic accounts
Of the building of permanent highways
Contemporaneous sTith this, however,
may be said to be the road-building un-
dertaken by Romes great rival, Car
thage. in the history Of which are to be
found the first records Of the construc-
ton of q paved road Unfortunately
for Carthage, her efforts in this direc-
ton were only spasmodic, few roads
being constructed by her, and these
were of but short lengths. She seems to
have depended upon water communica-
tion for the preservation of her COM
rnercial and military power. Rome. on
the contrary, upon the completion of her
first conquests, at once commenced to
connect her annexed territory with the
Capital By two systems of roads-one
commercial, the other for military pur-
poses. These were built in the most
complete and perfect manner then
known, and it is a, striking fact that in
the two thousand Years which have
since elapsed man has improved but
little in the art of road building.
Particular stress was laid by Rome
on the construction of her military
highways. There were seven in Italy.
and they We're used to bind together all
parts of the empire and transport her
legions rapidly to menaced points AS
the territory of the empire was extended
beyond the confines of the Italian PEN
insula, roads were constructed into
Spain. OF these Saint Isidoro gives US
and exact account, telling us that there
were thirty -four, the mileage OF which,
including the commercial roads and
military highways, was approximately
1000. Houses were established at in
teryals of thirty miles on these roads,
and in these 'mansiones," as they were
called, We're stored the implements used
in the construction of the roads, and the
laborers who had charge of their main
tenance were housed. We also know
from other sources that the same class
of roads extended through France to
the English Channel, and on the island
OF Great Britain from its southern ex-
ternity across the Scottish border In
all Of these countries many of these old
roads are still Travelled.
Like the threads of a great spider
web they radiated from the capital.
linking to it all of its tributary terri
tory.
Many of the features of these roads
might be profftably observed in our
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A SERIOUS JAR.

If Jem is the same as Jim,
And G. sounds the same as ],
Then between Gem and Jim and Jem,
What is the difference, pray?
We read about Gem Jars,
Jars made for holding jam.
Then are these Gem Jars Jim jam jars
(Be calm. my mind. be caln1)
Jim-jams is modified way
Of saying delirium trem.
And the jars of fit of the blues
Why, nothing can equal them.
So alter the name at once,
Lest discussion should wax hot.
And call the Gem Jam Jar, instead,
The James Preserving Pot
But if folks are opposed to this,
As many doubtless are,
Then let the jar have its name in full,
AS the Jim Jem Gem Jam Jar.
-PearSon'S Weekly
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able system for their preservation
adopted by the Incas. Yet, the broken
portions that still survive here and
there, like the fragments of the great
Roman roads scattered over Europe,
bear evidence to their primitive gran
deur, and have drawn forth the eulo-
gium from a discriminating traveller,
usually not too profuse in his panegyric,
that the roads of the Incas were among
the most useful and stupendous works
ever executed by man " (Humboldt,
Vues des Cordilleres.)
j. L. MAUDE, G. f.,
Commissioner State Bureau of High
ways.
Humboldt. vues des Cordilleres.
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Tulare Register: Just the moment
that rights to property are questioned.
however much one person or how lit
tie another may have, just at that mo-
ment is the fabric of social order at
tackled in a vital part. 1t may be that
this ought not to be so, but it is so, and
those who are preachers or the doctrine
OF hate are waging war against social
order. There has been too much Of
this IN this valley during the past five
years, and it has produced bitter fruit
SEND THE WEEKLY UNION TO YOUR
friends in the East.
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Jewish Passover.

The Jewish festival of Passover be-
gun at 6 o'clock last evening and will
continue during the week. It is a sea-
son of family reunions and pleasurabIe
"reminiscences OF the Jewish race and its
religion.
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"'Ello there, Yankee; soy, what's
that bioomin' Jump you ave on your
Ilback?"
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buffet covers, scarfs and doilies used
on mahogany dining tables and for
mats under handsome lamps. 1t is
used to border teacloths both of white
and colored linen
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City Finances.

City Finances.
Following is the report of City Auditor
Young for the week ending Saturday,
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Miss Ella Cohen of Atlanta holds the
position of Register of Vital Statistics
and Clerk for the Board of Health with
credit 20 herself and her sex She is
declared prompt and polite at the same
time, a combination keenly appreciated
by those with whom she is thrown in
contact. In addition to her popularity
as a woman Of business, Miss Cohen is
bright and attractive, and claims hosts
of friends
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A small girl taken to see Mrs. Cleve-
land was told she was going to see the
first lady in the land
Why, / thought Adam and Eve was
the first lady in the land!" said the
child, better yersed in religion than in
politics.
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When one considers that so much of
a child's first knowledge of the world
he lives in must come through contact
with objects around him, it seems a
pity to retard it by teaching it that it
is not right to lift and pinch and pound
its surroundings. How does it know that
china will break? One mother who be-
lieves she has the right method has
surrounded her babies in their play
room by things that are not easily in
jured The playthings are of rubber.
the cats, dogs and dolls of calico, the
picture books of linen, and the dishes
pewter. The nursery need not be de-
void of beauty with this theory. Good
pictures may be upon the walls and
plants and birds out of harms way at
the window.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-11-05
Motions In Writing

1t is il known fact that rapid writer
writes 80 words pgr minute lthas been
estimated that indoing 50 he must draw
his pen through the space Of i rod every
60 seconds He makes All average Of Id
curves Of the pen for every word written
Writing 30 words per minute he makes
s pen curves each second OF rs, 500 per
hour II lie works only five hours il day
he must daily give his pen Ia, ooo twists
and tlonrishes and if lie put il 500
days i year Iii makes not less than 49,
200, 600 curves and turns If the pen ii
that time st Louis Republic
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-11-05

fects In our financial system, and
that in turn led to a movement 70
change that system. The repeal Of
the Sherman law was "A disappoint-
ment In its results. 1t did not cure
the difficulty. In their distress, the
people were ready to grasp at any
offer OF relief. Democrats, accepting
the declaration Of their leaders that
their tariff tinkering was in no wise
responsible for the condition exist
ing, naturally assumed that II must
be the financial system that needed
correcting, and the only solution
offered being free and unlimited
coinage at rs TO j, its espousal by
democrats was inevitable. Cleve-
lands denunciation Of protection as
unconstitutional and a fraud, a
return to it had no promise Of relief
for democrats, and when they
cIutched at silver, 1t seemed to them
as the only thing to do. Having
started their party on the false road,
the cries Of party leaders calling the
column to halt when It approached
the precipice Of utter obstruction
were unheeded. For the misguided
voters who four years ago We're led
to enter the wong political path,
and who this year have wandered
further on the same line, we should
have sympathy and consideration.
The leaders who first deceived them
are most blameable.