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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-07-28


Charles R1hlrs, another actor who
proposes TO take the stump for McKin-
ley this fall, already has made two or
three speeches in favor OF protection
and sound money. Mr.. Rohlfs Is the
husband OF Anna Katherine Green, who
writes such thrilling stories IA The
Leavenwnrth Case" and Hand and
Ring" One OF his chief successes on the
boards has been the presentation Of u
dramatized version Of the first named
OF these two works Of fiction. He lives
In Buffalo. and one day he called at
the Office OF one OF the newspapers there
and said that he could not understand
how the American people or any part
Of them could be led into voting for n
low tariff and cheap dollar. They had
wanted change In 1892. and they had
got 1t right quickly. This change had
been bitter one for almost all classes.
To the actor and the writer Il had been
slgnally disastrous.
Almost before the hard times set In at
all with other folk" said Mr.. Rohlrs.
I'VE began to suffer. The stage IL prob
ably the most sensitive OF I'LL business
barometcrS, and the booksellers shop
perhaps comes next The first thing
people cut off when they see trouble
coming Is amusements. They stop go
Ing to theatres md they stop buying
books for entertainment. Not only do
they cxpend less money In those direc-
tlons, but they enjoy what they do spend
much less than when everything Is go
inE we'll. You'd have been surprised II
you could have seen, M | saw, the
change In the tone Of theatrical audi
hn nf l.
son. As times got harder and harder
] observed In town after town. not only
that the audiences were smaller and
smaller, but that the people got hluer
and bluer: that they were less affected
by tho humorous situations; that they
became less absorbed In the serious pas
snScB; that their faces were never rH-
Taxed ne they used to be when times
were good: that III lines OF persistent
care were harder and harder TO smooth
out. II was not lOnEe before mad" M
my mind that there must be another
change at Washington before should
again see such large audiences, COM
posed OF such comfortable. contAnted
men and women. as ! was accustomed
to In the old days.
Nov, we seem to be threatened with
something Infinitely worse than we sur
fcrcd IN 1899. The very rich probably
would not be much affected by free
silver policy. Their property would de-
prcciatc. but they would stlll have
enough. They were not much affected
| by the change that came after The last
presidential election. But i would be as
It was in lSO2-thc adoption Of free
silver policy wond strike lta hardest
blow Mt the more Intelligent worlinR
| people and the great middle class those
| In the receipt OF modest Incomes, and
they are the theatres best standby
When they are doing we'll, the theatres
arc filled with npplaudlng crowds. when
| they are doing III. the theatres are neg
lected., in New York. where the richer
classes are more In evidence than any
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-07-28
SUMMER RESORTS.
LEE WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS

Hardy County. W. Va.
lFoTmcrly known as Towards LiCk).
Will open June %. The waters contain q
larger per cent OF soda than any other
sulphur springs known In the VlrGiniaB.
md no lime. Hot and cold sulphur baths.
Daily mail and connection by telephone
with the Western Union. Round trip tick
cts over TIE Baltimore & Ohio from
Wheeling: Pamphlets Gun BIO had At this
Office AIIrcsS
LEE WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS CO.
/. les Matthias. IIardy County. ". Va.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-07-28


Even Mr.. jefferson. understand,
who always has been and stiIl Is free
trader. Is dead against free silver. As
for myself. I hope to be able TO make
some speeches In favor of the
Ohio statesman. was an
Ohio boy myself. have
been studying up the questions OF the
day and feel fully satisfied that II we
want good theatrical business in fu-
turc We must have the kind OF govern
mcnt that Will be given 10 us with Ma
i1r Mckinley In the white house, and
Republican majority In both
branches OF Congress.
1T Is possible that I am selfish In
wishing to see the times good enough 10
enable the people 20 go TO the theatres
when they feel Ike II. but the Gratifi-
cation OF my kind OF selfshness viii be
a good thing for everybody. as well as
the actors. because IL Is only when pe0-
pie arc doing well, when they have
surpius after paying all necessary
expenses. that thye put out any mo-
ney for amuScments. don't know how
many other actors feel as do about II.
as regards making speeches, but there
are others, and II the material In the
way OF facs and figures. and tell us
where they would like 10 have us
speak, we will do all we can to bring In
protection again, to conserve the cause
Of sound money, and TO MI the empty
seats OF the DlayhouseE
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-07-28

"Riit soon after the election Of 1892 the
actors began TO receive bitter schooling.
II was costly as well as bitter. and they
had To take It whether they wished to
or not. Every theatre they played in
was schoOlhouse and the schoolmas-
ter was grim Hard Times. Tuition was
cxRctcd and II was much greater than
some actors could bear without Grum-
bling. Now they have been under this
dlsagreeable and expensive schoolmas-
ter almost four years, and they are
tired and sick OF the situation. They
want To BE- graduated from the hard
times school. asd a good many OF them
hay. thought enough upon the subject
:" see that graduation Is a long way
of, II to the folly OF a low tariff poll
icy IS 10 be added tn. policy OF free sill
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-07-28
ACTORS WILLSTUMP
For Mckinley. Sound Money and
Protection this Year. (.
DO NOT WAIT, FREE SILVER.
Theatrical Folks want 10 Graduhte from
the school ofiIard 'rime,-An Interview
with Lomls Aldrieh-SJoc Jefferson a
Democrat hut Dead Against Free silver.
: They are for Good Time. aud NJ, Honest
Dollar. saw

Nt,,,, >,nn1. ~, a. ~
VIEW 'SNn' 'u'y t"T--it Nh' uV'ots
nave their way the majority or the votes
cast next November will BIO for Me-
Ein,,,. rhn,oo,i,, ava s,,,, ,,ona,,
49, $50, fso'.s'V" "''u eS"'' ''p"v!'
a'ote Ihau that' NUMBER OF we'll
known men upon tho theatrical stage
proposp soon 10 tnkc 10 The polI,IcnI
M, ,t,,,, ~, A.. ,aW ~,
r""O' w "n' " WI, peop'u VIZ! 'heS
thVor Mckinley and the policies he
stands for. Among those who are
thInkInp ar ro,,c r,or ho s,nr,n 80,
e " So''s "po' t''V s'"''ip 'h's
sear are LOUIS Alar'cii' Charles RehIis,
whose work 81 1.-THE ieavcnwortlt
Case" "a Physician In Snl,e or HIM.
ss,f" %, ,ta....,, :, ,,n.I. - 49,,
''iS'''.' vi ''"''e' anu
number or other plays, has won favor.
able comment, md C. Il. Poue, the nc.
tor.mnn,r,nr AZ q ro,t,
~ ''C""
u ms way; SAID Mr., Asirichwho
VIZ, SEN IN oy rress reporter yesterday
~. n. va, u't,Tc oi Tue :Hctof una III west
t,Msnty-tisnth street the actors OF
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-24
HE DARED THE ENGINE
A Drummer Tells What He Saw In ,
Railroad Yard.

A Drummer Tells What He Saw In q
Railroad Yard.
"One Christmas was down watching
the yard geese or switchmen in the
yard at Ottumwa, a." said the drum
mer TO a San Antonio Express man.
"The whole crew were celebrating,
more or less, and had paid many visits
10 The Road. to He'll kept by old
Stormy Jordan, who bucked the prohi-
bition law SO long. A fellow in the
crew pulling pins tall lank, blue
nose from the eastern limit of Nova
Scotia, was always chewing the rag and
'rawhiding' with the eagle eye or engi-
neer on the yard engine Both were
pretty well tanked and got 70 bluffing
each other, and finally the blue nose
bet the engineer he could stand in the
middle of the track and get on the head
end of the engine as fast as she could
turn a wheel.
They put up s25 side, but that
wasn't all the stakes. Failure meant
certain death for the switchman and
a trial of the engineer for murder.
They went out into the yard 10 set
tie it. There stood the switch engine
all hot The ground was frozen and
slippery and the track full of hard
packed and frozen snow to the top of
the rail. Up TO then we thought they
were blufing, but when they took the
engine back a quarter for a start we
tried to get the fool off the track, but
he was armed with car pin and stood
us of.
THE engine came at full speed, 25 or
30 miles an hour easy; that fellow stood
staggering drunk in the center of the
track and never moved When the en-
CINE reached him he leaned way back,
set one foot up on the step and she
picked him up lake fash and never
even threw him up against the iron
hand rail! They went back 20 the sa-
loon and one more drink apiece put EN- |
both asleep"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-24
CoNQUERS A TEXAS TERROR
A Scientist Thoroughly ExpIodss the
''CucurAzza" Superstition

A Scientist Thoroughly ExpIodss the
''CucurAzza" Superstition
DR.. Schwarz, an expert attached TO
the bureau of entomology, has just re-
turned from a trip TO Texas, where he
went to investigate the sensational
stories about the deadly bite of an insect
known there as the "cucurazza" Its
bite was said 10 be certain death. All
through the southern part Of the Lone
Star state il is regarded as a terror, and
is usually killed on sight. DR.. Schwarz
was informed that the creature in 9ues-
ton was 300 swift to be shot, and that
amputation was of no avail. inasmnch
as the person bitten usually died before
a surgeon could be secured.
At San Diego, Tex, DIR. Schwarz In,
duced several young men 10 capture a
cucurazza- A crowd of people had as
sembled for the purpose of seeing the
learned bug hunter and the cucurazza
settle matters between them. DR.
SchwarZ, with some caution, removed
the cover of the box containing the
specimen. The terrible creature was
there. 1t was a beetle, about an inch
long and very pretty in color, polished
black with border of deep blue. To
the horror of all observers, the doctor
placed the insect on the back of his hand
and permitted it to pinch the skin with
its mandibles.
The cucurazza was nothing more or
less than a common species of ground
Enthusiastically harmless, incapable
biting, and actually beneficial to man
inasmuch as it devours caterpillars anf
DOtatO hugs
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-24
Heaven Enough.

An editor who died of starvation wal
being escorted to Heaven by an angel
who had been sent out for that purpose
May look at the other place before ".
ascend to eternal happiness?" Easily
said the angel. So they went below ane
skirmished around, taking in the sights
The angel lost track Of the editor anc
went around hades TO hunt him HI,
found him sitting by furnace tanning
himself and gazing with rapture upon
a lot OF people in the fire. There was 9
sign on the furnace which suid: "De-
hnquent Subscribers" GONE said
the angel. I'VE must be going" "You
go o." said the editor; I'm not com
ing. This Is heaven enough for me-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-24
CHAMPION HARD LUCK STORY.
Jseadvllls Gambler Recousts Tale Of
Woe of the Early Days.

IeadviNs Gambler Recousts Tale Of
Woe of the Early Days.
Talk about hard luck Stories" said
Z western gambler. 81 think 1 can dis
count anything you ever heard. 1t was
in the early days in Leadville, just about
this time of the year, and 1 tell you il
does get cold up in the hills along
about now. Well, / was broke, didn't
have copper, and had strolled into a
gambling house to get warm. There
were several games on, and when / had
thawed out little walked over TO the
faro layout where I went broke the
night before. As | said. il was a very
cold night. The snow had sifted
through the cracks and l could feel the
wind blowing in on my feet. l hap
pened 10 glance down at the floor,
where, by the side of my right foot, was
lying what | thought was a quarter.
q had been watching the game closely
snaking imaginary plays. I'll play 81
cents open on the ace said to the
dealer, and in moment more il won.
The dealer handed me two white chips.
= Piaytd again anu az AIN won. anu De-
fore the end of the deal l had a nice
stack Of chips. 1t seemed to me I
couldn't lose a bit, and in half an hour
j had a. couple of hundred dollars worth
of chips before me. I concluded to
cash IN and stacked my chips, pushing
them toward the dealer. He counted
them and, looking up at me. said:
Where's that quarter you made your
first bet ono l had forgotten all about
1t. L looked on the floor; the quarter
was, gone. l lit a match and saw that
what l supposed to be a silver quarter
was simply wet spot 1t was origin
ally bit of ice, but the heat from my
foot had melted il. OF course the deal
err properly refused to cash my chips
Chicago Times-Herald.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-24
Artificial Seeming of Fforer

Flowers that have lost something o..
their perfume are now scented arti-
sicially by watering them with an alco-
holic solution of essence, using q little
Elycerine TO fix the odor. Thus. for
iviolets, the liquid is composed of 100
grammes of giycer.ss and ter grammes
of essence Of violet. in many places.
while scented violets are very rare. tht
unscented kinds grow Wild in great pro
fusion These are now brought up in
large quantities. scented artificiallv and
put into the market in advantageous
competition with the perfumed violets
grown by the horticulturists. Cut
flowers which have wilted from time or
transportation are revived bv being
plunged into a weak solution Of sal am
moniac. Flowers which have little or
no scent are also perfumed for sale by
being put into box with ice, and then
saturated with Z current Of carbonic
acid charged with perfume.-London
Public ODipinD
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-24
THE FORTY-FIFTH STAR.
Facts About the Next State to Come Ints
the American Union.

| Facts About the Next State to Come IEts
| the American Union.
| Except as TO few formalities which
are technically important but cannot
bong affect the position of Utah, that
territory is now a state. Its constitu-
ton has been framed and adopted in
accordance with the requirements of
the enabling act passed by congress.
Every condition has been met, and
there is no doubt that the president
will soon issue his official proclama-
ton making the commonwealth a state
of the American republic.
This fact renders the annual report
of the governor of the famous Nor
mon territory peculiarly interesting.
1t is careful and unusually complete
statement of the condition of Utah, its
resources and development, and many
facts are presented which must be graf
flying TO all Americans who desire 10
see healthy, strong and promising
states, instead OF weak and dubious
pnes, come into the union
It is shown that the growth of the
territory since the national census of
1890 has been steady and even, rather
than strikingly rapid. The popula-
dion of five years ago was 207. e05. Now
it is placed at 1924. These figures
are not estimated. They are the result
of an enumeration last summer, which
the governor thinks was the most COM
plete and careful ever made in Utah.
The rate of growth has been slightly
less thnn ii was between 1850 and 1890,
year Tor year, but the actual increase
has been larger than ever before III a
like period. That is exactly the con-
dition of things revealed in some of
the oldest states of the east-Massa-
chusetts, for MISTAKENLY enumera-
tons made this year.
In Utah the growth since 1890 has
been very well distributed Every
county in the territory has increased
in population. except two out of which
two additional counties have been or
gained. This is a remarkable show
ing in these days of dwindling indus
tries and decreasing population in
many rural districts throughout the
eastern and central states. 1t betokens
the fouTshing condition Of agriculture
in Utah. which Is shown by other sta
tistics bearing more directly upon that
industry.
Moreover. the growth has been Of the
lasting. home-building kind, as is
demonstrated by the nearly equal d.
vision between the sexes There are
126. 500 male and I2O.52l female resi- |
dents OF the territory. and the small /
excess OF men is distributed through 4
every county except three, where there /.
are a few more females than males 4
The males are in The ma joTity in - j
counties. Less than 1.400 Of the IN /
hsbitants are other than white. most /
of this little minority being Chimes
Almost $4,000 of the people of Utah 4
are native born. and about s.. 900 ere 4
Of foreign birth. This Is an unusually 4
large proportion OF native Americans
for such a section of tie west
One consequence OF the great pre-
ponderance of Americans II TIE terri
tory Is seen IL the adoption 81 a state
which limits the light u
20 citizens VI the United States
who nave be-n citizens al least % esys
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-24

hand. as are the products OF Chins
md Japan Ordinary tea Is from
leaves which are ten days old. and con
sequently larger. Mr.. Grairo IS In
position TO speak by the card as to how
10 make tea, and here is what he says:
Take teaspoonful OF tea and put
1t IN teapot. If you want one cup of
the beverage, pour on one cup of boil-
ing water and let &c stand one minute.
Stand where? Well. not on the stove
at all. In fact. lest the temperature be
TOO great, better keep the teapot out
OF the kitchen. This proportion VIII
make ordinarily strong tea Fo- two
cups let II stand two minutes. end
three cups three minutes. But don't
allow II 10 stand more than i've min
utes- II one cup is wanted triple
strength the same amount Of tea a
teaspoonful, il viii do it by letting it
stand three minutes. Additional quaa-
tity is obtained by putting in more
tea. or course, there are plenty OF
housewives who viii think they caa
improve on this way of making tea, but
this is the method of a man who
knows.
Without looking at the geography
You studied years ago, can you tell
where Ceylon is? The triangle OF India
doubtless is fairly well fixed in your
memory. Wen, Ceylon is an island just
south of India-of the apex Of the tri-
angle. It's people are Hindoos Of thu
great Aryan family. Meny are Bud6,
hists> and some, like Mr.. Grairu, arc
Theosophists. There are several rea-
so1s why tea grown in Ceylon Is su-
periOr TO others-that. let Us say. which
some American planters have tried 20
raise. Ceyion is surrounded by tho
Indian ocean, and the tea plantations
are IS or SO miles inland. 80 the bushes
are not affected by the sea breeze.
Then the plantations are from 5000 to
5000 feet above the sea level, and tha
higher the altitude the lezs the guam
tity. but the better the quality. Tho
temperature is IS IN IS degrees OH tho
year round. The country seldom in
without rain, and this Is conducive 20
the growth of fresh leaves. which arc
picked only when tender. Picking goes
on all the year round. Then, too. the
soil is very rich. These are some OF
the reasons why the Ceylon tea is o 80,
pxrior srticle.-Bufalo Courier.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-24
HORRORS OF THE SLUMS,
Prof. Huxley's Description of the Lowe
Part of London.

Prof. HuxIey's Description of the Lower
Part of London
Prof. Huxley was interested In an
especial London parish and wrote Of il
thus: "Over and above the physical
misery the impression has never died
out of my mind OF the supernatural
and entirely astonishing deafness and
dullness of these poor people. Over
that parish Dante's inscription, Leave
hope behind, all those who enter here,
might have been written. There was
no amusement to diversity the dull
round of life except the public house;
there was nothing 10 remind the PEG
pie of anything in the whole universe
beyond their miserable toll, rewarded
by slow starvation In my experience
of all kinds of savages all over the worlc
] found nothing worse, nothing more
degraded, nothing more helpless, moth
ing so intolerably dull and miserable "A
the life left behind ne in the east enc
of London. Nothing would please me
more than 10 contribute TO the better
ing of that state of things, which. un
less wise and benevolent men take IL
in hand, will tend TO become worse and
worse and TO create something worse
than savaRery-a great Serbonian bog
which. In the long run, Win swallow u
the surface crust of civilization"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-24
MADE FROM wALRus rusks,
Many False Teeth Come from the Mon.
Rrchs of the Arctic Regions.

1&oy E14sc Icetn Come from tnc HON.
srchs of the Arctic Regions
"Where do false teeth come FROM
said a well-known bone importer.
echoing question that Philadelphia
Times man had put TO him. ''Wouldn',
you like TO know? Most people. l i'm
agine. think that all false teeth are
made from ivory. That is quite mis-
taken idea, as the majority of false
teeth are now made from anything but
ivory. We import large quantities OF
walrus' tusks for no other purpose than
that they may be made into false teeth.
You go into some big dental establish
ment where teeth are made and YOU will
doubtless find the remains of walrus'
tusks lying around, and. indeed. high
~ polished tooth made from walrus
tusk is just as handsome, although not
so lasting, as an ivory one.
"A dentist once came 20 me for an ele-
plants tusk, from which a good set of
permanent teeth might be made for a
wealthy client of his. He was 10 spare
no expense. l found him a tusk, which.
being an especially good one. 1 sold for
$3.50 a pound, the usual price being
from $3.50 10 $3.50 per pound. 1 after
ward learned that the dentist made $500
out of that set of teeth.
''of course, it would De impossible for
dentists to sell teeth so cheaply as they
do now if the teeth were all made from
elephants tusks, AS matter of fact.
so many people are now wearing false
teeth that l doubt ii the ivory suitable
for this purpose would ever be found.
1 am told a good many false teeth are
being made from vegetable ivory, ivor-
Inc, etc. II so, the price of teeth must
naturally go down, and in time the
toothless one will probably be able TO
replenish his mouth for an absurdly low
sum. A set of teeth for S1.25." con-
cluded the dealer, laughing, would
create boom in false teeth"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-24
Boundary Disputes.

The Venezuela and Alaska boundary
disputes recall the fact that contro-
yersies of similar nature, though not,
of course, giving rise to international
complications and rumors of war, have
been of quite frequent occurrence in
the United States. There is even now
pending in the supreme court at Wash
ington a case of disputed boundary
between the state of Texas. in which a
territory 2.40O miles in extent is in
volved. Texas claims il as a county.
while the United States asserts its
ownership as a part of the territory OF
Oklahoma. Some of these boundary
disputes go back TO colonial times. no
tably the famous one settled by Lon
don surveyors, called Mason and Dix
on's line, which fixed the boundaries
between Pennsylvania on the north
and Maryland and Virginia on the
south, and subsequently became a sort
OF imaginary line between the two sec.
tons throughout the extent of the
union New York had a boundary con-
tention with Vermont that lasted for
nearly 100 hundred years; a similar
dispute with Connecticut was rot set
tied till 1880, and another with New
Jersey till 1854 Controversies of this
kind have also arisen between Virgins
and Maryland. Delaware and New Jer.
sey. Virginia and Tennessee. and Wis
consln and Illinois. In most OF these
cases, where the payment Of taxes was
involved, settlements have only beer
reached through decisions of the
United States supreme court-Bufal.
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