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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-04-10
ABOUT a SOUTHERN MULE.

Barbed Wire Fences Reformed Him From
Before-the-Wa Manners.
I'm jest a-tellin' yo'. sab" said the
major. as we smoked our cigars on the
hotel veranda. I'm jest a-teldu' yo' that
the Southern mewl has changed about IN
a powerful way during these past twenty
vars. He amt no mo- ike he used to be
than day is like night"
and the change is for the better?' /
queried.
Eyes. 1ah-heaps better. Now yo' look
al that mewl hitched to the post out yam.
His ears are cooked up, his eyes are look
ing around. and there's a peartness about
him. He's ready to start right off on a
gait of five miles an hour and keep it up.
Same with all other mewels. Yo don't
find EN- head down, ears fappin', ard half
asleep Ike yo used to. just undergone a
complete change"
"And to what do you attribute 1t, ma
ior?''
comfy one cause. sah-barbed-wire
fences. Change begun jest as soon as we
introduced barbed-wire on our plantatohs,
and been going on till the mewl is ~ yo
find him to-day. That's what be was walt
ing for. and that's what's made him over
II we'd had barbed-Wire a hundred vars
agO the Southern mewl would have MADE
us all rich long ago. Twenty vars hence
the thoroughbred horse can't hold candle
10 him"
And what has barbed-wire to do with
Everything. sab Befo' the days Of
barbcd wire the newt had MS own way
about everything. Yo' might stick brad
avis into him-stir him up with a pttcn-
fOrk-lash nm with any sort or Whlp-
and he'd hump up his back and flap his
ears aud beat yo'r game. He'd never
found anything he couldn't buck against
and he never expected 10. When We got
the harbed wire fences 10 was the begin
ming Of The eud. He walked up 10 'em and
smell, Of EN-, and figured thar they
wouldn't last a week, but he got left He
WAS used 10 rubbing against sliVers, but
those nails took hold iu a different way.
a prod with a pitchfork just tckled nm:
Dut when he leaned up against hundred
sharp-pointed nails he was astonished.'
And he had TO give iu?"
Jest so. sab. Not right away. however
Tie was mean and obstinate and sulky
and onery. and he it that wire for five or
six vars befo' he'd give i'm. He left pa r
and blood on every yard Of fencing IN ihe
'augle hlsself up and he found decd hut
DE had TO come TO II at last Yes. sab. he d
found suthip' he couldn't chaw up nor rub
off nor break down and when he realized
81 a change sOt I'm and he was different
critter Can't say nothin' agin the meWl
no mo- All the meanness has gone out o.
him and the dav amt far OF when angels
aud nevis VIII appear together as en-
blems OF happiness and innocence"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-04-10
RERUKING A BRAGGART.

AT a time when the Athenians were
giving themselves TO muscular educa-
ton. a young athlete came TO Aristippus
and commenced boasting about his
muscle.
Il can tell you, sir - said the boastful
youth. II can swim further than any
man i'm Athens.
And so can a goose, said Aristip-
puS.
Yes. and I can dive deeper than any
man in Greece.
And so can a bull-frog," said Do
genes.
And more than that, l can kick
higher than any man in Athens, and"
so can any jackass, interrupted
Aristippus
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-04-10
COLORS FOR SPRING AND SUMMER

spring and summer c3lors are a
laeh. and anoful lot. and a number
of them are put together ON one dress.
I'm ae dress Of this sketch madeira
e1.h gives skirt and fred bodice,
While say Dresden silk is employed for
vest and sleeves. The bodice fronts
ara cut with overlapping straps that
e1 with fancy buttons. TWO smaller
0a-ous appearing on the tabs. This
u-Ion of shades is NOT too gay accord
ing t3 current rulings. as may De judg-
et from considering some of the new
color combinations Olive. green and
turquoise are used with facings Of del
.ca-e rose. String color and black are
seen ,aer. while always coming IN
narrow line between ,he string color
and he black. This is q great trick
of the skilled drcssmaker and one OF
Che WAYS whereby She manages to COM
lna SD many col0rs Without glaring
eT.c- She avoids the actual touching
If one color with another by the inter
eraon of some narrow line of neutral
.- h1rmniling shade. The line itself
hardly noticed. &c is NOS counted as
an effect. Dom. merely influences the eff
feet OF the other Two oolors. which it
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-04-10
TRAMP WAS MILKING THE COW.
Engineers Tale Illustrating the Non
chalance Of che American Hobo.

Engineers Tale Illustrating the Nom
chalance Of yhe American Hobo
From the Dallas News.
"I- was away back i'm the los said
an old engineer. Il was pulling the
limited cas-. from Council Bluffs 20
Chicago over the Rock Island. The
night was bitter cold. We had gone
about twenty miles out and had Stopped
at a night Office for orders, and had
started mp again. when the fireman
reached over and said: There is a
hobo on the pilC- saw him sc, on at
the depot Sure? I said. Go OUJ on
the running board and see if he's there
vet The fireman did as he had been
ordered TO do and returned with the in
Formation that the hobo was still there.
Well, said l. its a bitter cold night
and If ne can stand it out there l am
willing he should ride with me- And
on we went towards Chicago. with old
211' barking like sixty az the low joints
ahead. and forgetful of our 'head-end'
passenger on the pilO,. who had ceased
tO have any existence for us.
BY and by by the faint glimmering
of the headlight. I thought l saw ahead
what seemed 10 be a bunch of cattle on
the track. As we approached it the
bunch seemed 10 grow larger. Ii was
now too late 90 do anything, so I just
pulled her wide open, and old 211 hit
tina. bunch of cattle kl bin. To para
phrase the language of Tennyson who
glides into raptures of admiration over
the charge of the light bragade at Bal
akiava. there was just simply cattle to
the right of us. cattle TO the left of us
and cattle in the rear of us. bu, none
any more i'm front of us. After it was
an over our thoughts reverted to the
hobo on the pilot Go out and see if
he is still here, l said.
Well. said an old shack. under
whose feet the frosts of many winters
had cracked. as he wendell his way in
the dark over many a long train of box
cars and who had been listening TO the
story. Well said he. was he kill
ed?"
NO" replied the engineer. There
he sat as large as any hobo could sit
on the pilot with an oyster can milking
one Of those burned COWS.
And the old man went on his way.
venuring something as he left about
the life Of The average American hobo
being on a par with the proverbial nine
lives OF the feline we have all heard so
o-Jen about.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-04-10
ARRIVE
rRANs-oHIo DIVISION

For Columbus. Chicago and the West.
"a a M. daily and 3:45 D. m. daily.
Columbus. Cincinnati and ST. Louis, 1913
m. daily. and 11:40 p. m. except Satur-
day. and 2:iO a. m. Sunday only.
ST. Ciairsville accommodaton, lO;lo a. m.
and $3.50 p. m, except Sunday.
GAINESVILLE accommodation, $3.50 p. m,
daiIv except Sunday.
sandusky mail. l015 a. m, daily.
ARRIVE.
From Chicago. lis a. m. and II 30 a. m,
From St Louis. Cincinnati and Column
bus 4.50 a m. and $50 p. m. daily.
ST. CIaIrsville accommodation, 1850 a. m.
81 30 n m except Sunday
GAINESVILLE accommodation, 1880 a. m,
daily. except SUNDAY:
Sandusky mail SEQ p. m. daily.
CHAS. O. SCTLL.
General Passenger Agent.
r. LANE. T. Z. Agt., Wheeling, ". Va.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-04-10
LUKENs, REPUTATION.

A Prospective Hos Who Was Not
Easily Pleased, So the Neighbors
said.
] had been told that l could probably
get lodging with a mcuntaineer named
Lukeas. and Wen wihin TWO miles OF
mis- cabin [ me. a native on the figh-
way and asked him the distance, SAYS
"a wri-er i'm the Detroit Free Press. he
gave il and then inquired:
so yo' are swine to stop with jim
Lukens, eh?'
Yes. l was direc,ed Chere. You know
hfm. Perhaps
oh, yes.
Very nice man?"
Powerful good fellow, jim, but a lee
he Quare.
What is he queer abou,?' I asked.
wall. he'll be a-sittin' on log az
the gate an see yo' half a mile away.
If he likes yo'r looks, all right; if ne
don't. he'll set his dog on yO'. If yO'
Git away from the dawg, Jim will likely
hey a she, a, yo' with his rife.
Anything else?
AFTER yOYe reached MS caOln All
right and feel 10 home he may suddenly
cake yo' fur a revenoo spy. If he does
yo'r a goner. He'll shoot fusJ and 0X
queshuns afterwards.
Something more?'
Jim hainT got no more rehgun than
a bar. but he'll lead yO on to rip The
Rapists up the back. and jest as yO'
think yO'r gittin powerful solid with
him he'll riz up an throw yo' ont
deans
Us there anything else to guard
against
Some few things. stranger Fur in
sance Jim's a great hand TO wrassle.
If y0' don't take holt he'll break both
yO'r legs fur sure. He'll be SarJin to
invite yo' 90 drink. fur he keeps a jug
i'm the house. II yo go light he'll take
10 as an insult; if yO' gurgle her down
hell call yO a hog and turn yO' out
dOahs. May be sum C. her things, but
these will do. I reckon.
81 think l won't stop with Mr. Luz
kens I replied
Blu yo'd better. sab. I know he's
sorter 'spec,n' y1. an if yo pass him
by he'll think yo are stuck up an proud
an hev a shot at yo from behind a
rock. Don't yo' go pas, Jim Lukens'
cabin If yo wan, 20 git out this ken,ry
alive"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-04-10
LIVE STOCK.

CINCINNATI, April 9.-Hogs. active
ana higher az S. 55H3 90; receipts. $500
mead; shipments. LOCO head
CHICAGO. April 9.-Dressed beef and
shipping steers on a basis Of Sc 4Olf4 20 for
common 70 prime; the bulk of the cattle
sold nc SO 9004 S.
Hogs, common TO choice 50 50d3 90 sales
being largely a SO 1563 s..
Sheep, common to prime Sc 25TI4 90 the
Dulk cf the weSterners setting at So 60li2 So.
lambs were active a 81 OGd4 20.
keceipts-Cditle. LOCO head; hogs. r. 500
headi sheep, 500 head.
EAST LIBERTY, April 9-Catue. de-
mand fair; market unchanged.
Hogs. active; prime selected medium
s. e5q4 10; heavy 50 9Ca4 90; roughs 81 5G
3 80
Sheep, higher; prime 81 20G4 80: fair SEQ
as 80; common 50 25qS 6oYe9mmon to good
Veal calves 81 50G5 90.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-04-10
SOMEBODY LIKED ms SERMONS.

The wife OF a minister down in Cincin-
natl traded q barrel of his old sermons not
Ions ago for new bread pan. The next
spring the rag man came around again
and asked II she had any more sermons 10
SELL
"Why do YOU want sermons
Because I did So well with those l got
here a year ago. I got sick in the sum
mer and a preacher .u the country board
ed me and my horse three months for that
barrel of sermons and he has since got a
great reputation as a preacher up there.
I will give YOU Ave cents pound for all
You have got"-Ch!cago Record.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-04-10
SHEFPSKIN SAIEs

LONDON, April "a large number OF
buyers attended the opening of the sheen
skin sales to-day. There was a good de.
mand, especially for the finest Oueansland
combing which was a farthing up. Other
grades were unchanged at the close. Fol
lowing are the sales:
New South Wales-294 bales at 2d52,d.
QueenS'and-2,5l4 bales al 3i5d6isd
Nictoria-j57 bales at 25sGGkd
South AustraNa-l496 bales at 2dSisd.
Swan River-2i9 bales al 1ata5a,d.
Tasmania-l4S bales at 2lsdShd.
New Zealand-liS bales at 21sd1sd.
Punta Arenas-l23 bales at 3dEIsd.
Falkland lslands-63 bal-s al SID.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-04-10
FINANCE AND TRADE.

NOW YORK. April 9.-Money on call
firm at 3di per cent; last loan Sl9 per
cent: closed az 3i2 per cent.
Prime mercantile paper 5l2Q6R per cent;
S+eriine exchange. easier with actual
business IN bankers bills at 4s9 for demand
and AS aiNSi4 for 90 days. Posted rates
iSSisaiS9 ard 4S9l9Q4s). Commercial bills
Er. .-..a,s,,
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-04-10
DRY GOODS.

NEW YORK. April 9-Printing cloths
were dull al 2iac
FALL RIVER. April 9-Print cloths
quiet and steady at 2iac.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-04-10
WHEELING AND P1TTsBURG D1v1-

WHEELING AND PITTsBURG DIvI-
SION.
For Pittsburg. Washington, Baltimore.
Philadelphia and New York. 1855 a. m. and
SIS p. m. daily.
For Pittsbdrg, 40 A. m, daily
PittsbuLg express 3:2j p. m, except Sun
day.
ARRIVE.
From New York. Philadelphia. Balu
more. Washington and Pittsburg, 1910 a.
m. daily II 80 o. m. except Saturday. and
2:25 a. m. Sunday only
Pttsburg mall. 1000 a. m, except Sun
day, and 1900 %. m. daily.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-04-10
METAL. MARKET.

NEW YORK, April 9.-Pig iron, steady
Copper. steady
Lead. steady.
Tin. easy: spelter firm.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-04-10

Through connections and through tick
cts to all points. Call on our agents or
address
NJ. G. CARRELL. Gen. Pass. Agent.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-04-10
OHIO RIVER RAILROAD co

on and after Sunday. December Is, 1895.
Passenger Trains will run as follows:
.Da,ly. daily except Sunday. Eastern
Time.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-04-10
WHEELING & ELM GROVE
RAILROAD. -
Leave Elm Grow

rsi an Sno .,i Sf;er Saturday. February 2d 1915
Jams Will run as follows, city time: -''''
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-04-10
GOING NORTH.

GOING NORIH.
Electric cars between Wheeling. Mar
tins Ferry and c., L. e W. Depot in
Bridgeport
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-04-10

a. m. and 500 p. m, except Sunday an,
1.:CO p. m, Saturday only
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-04-10

A Prospective Hos, Who Was Not
Easily Pleased, So the Neighbors
Said.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-28
Lbe Daily Itebt.
FRIDAY, AUGUST IS, 1896.
COL. BILL SNORTLETS.
From the Texas Sifter.l


From the Texas Sifter.l
What the average candidate holds
in regard to the A. p. A. is his tongue.
When the air brakes will not work
the stump speaker is apt to go too far.
1t would be very interesting to know
just what Bryan thinks about Tam
many.
If the pictures of the presidential
candidates are correct, why are not
their legs longer?
In the brigth legion of Bryan there
is no such word as "chestnut"-but
there ought to be.
If Dave Hill is still in the ring, wont
he please, as an evidence of good
faith, rap three times.
England and Venezuela will prob
ably settle their difficulties by asking
each other to take something.
There is a peculiar blink in the eye
of the Tammany tiger when Bryan's
name is mentioned in his presence.
1t. must be little hard on Cleveland
who has become accustomed to a
wild duck diet, to go back to a crow
feast.
Tom Ochiltree says that he is no
prohibitionist. Nobody who has seen
Tom pour out drink ever supposed
that he was.
1t is to be hoped that Mr.. Lease
is running that drug store all right,
now that his wife is kept so busy in
the political field.
Talk about the tail wagging the dog
some of the southern Populists who
love Watson believe that the ticket
nominated by the Pops is all tail.
Just now the most fiourishing indus
try is knocking music out of that an
Gent instrument known as the welkin.
1t is done with a musical voice.
In order to bring out all the blemish-
es in mans record, let him run for
office, and then the opposition will
ink.
There is always something pathetic
in the sight of a candidates wife try
ing to get comfort out of the fact that
worse men than her husband have
gotten office.
Il supposed it was wicked to bet
on elections" cooed Washington girl
but it's awful nice. If l win he gives
me a box of caramels. If loose he
gives me too"
Bryan should make a statement to
the effect that he is really only human
that is if he, himself, is of that opin-
ion. Idolators have created the i'm
preston that he is something more.
Bryan has lost his voice lately; but
the newspapers should keep quiet
about it, and not advertise the loss,
lest it should lead to the return of the
missing property before election day.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-28
BILL SNORTLETS.

From the Texas Sitter
Pride is the summer of character, as
it goes before a fall.
Hogg is spelling for a fight, and
fighting for the spoils.
Hills massive cinch-like silence
is making material Impression.
1t is entirely superfiuous to intimate
that Bryan can do his own talking.
Some men are so unlucky that they
have tOOthache in their false teeth.
When Tammany gave itself away
to Bryan, it forgot to remove the price
tag.
While most people are out for the
stuff, a majority of them are usually
out of it.
The foOl-killer should be an ex-
officiO member of every Democratic
campaign club.
Chicago papers have a fine picture
of Altgeld. 1t is pity he is not as
good as he looks.
Governor Culberson is always ex.
pected to strike keynote, but some
how he never does it.
A headless boy has been born in
Kansas. Who says that the Demo-
cratic party is dying out?
Hang our thermometers on the outer
wall where the shade is. The cry is
still 1T is as hot as hades!
May be the French editor who call
ed Cleveland an ardent friend Of Bry-
an is humorist in disguise.
We shall begin to be seriously
alarmed if Governor Hogg does not
say something to the point pretty
soon.
The Chicago newspapers publish
editorials on "Chicago as a Summer
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-28

Resort" They belong rightfully, in
the funny column.
Governor Altgeld said long ago
that we have only about fifty anarch-
lists in America. He ought to furnish
list of the names of the other forty
nine.
Any attempt to induce Ex-Governor
HOgg, of Texas, to release his hold
on the senatorial toga will require
more muscle than Potiphar's wife pos
sessed.
Silver is commodity and not a
standard. 1t is the height of folly to
attempt to bolster up a commodity
which the whole world produces and
trades in.
The young ladies who wear red
jackets should go to the seaside, in
stead of the country, for their health.
Sea-cows don't chase women who
wear red jackets.
Until the figures of the check which
Cleveland sent Bryan's campaign
fund are known it will be suspected
that Grover objects to having the fat
fried out of him.
Pathetic appeals are being made to
Tom Watson to withdraw from the
canvass. Tommy is too much fas-
to follow any such advice as that.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-28
CHARLES HENRY STILES DEAD

CHARLES HENRY STILES DEAD.
Wheaton, ILL.,, Aug. 2S.-Charles Hen
ry Stiles, a prominent stock breeder
and business man of Wheaton, and
proprietor of the famous Stiles stock
farm, is dead from malignant diphthe-
ria, after an illness of three days. Mr..
Stiles was born at Cazenovia, N. Y,
in 1S49. He was the youngest soldier
who saw two years of active service
in the civil war, he having enlisted in
the 18th New York cavalry, and served
under Generals Sigel, Hunter and
Sheridan. He was a member of the
G. A. r. and a member and stock
holder Of the Northwestern Breeders
Association and the posesssor of some
of the finest bred horses and fastest
trotters in this country.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-28
WHAT A PROMINENT INsUR-
ANCE NAN SAYS.

Fl. NJ. Blossom, senior member of
II. M. Blossom & Co., PIT N. Bird St.,
st. Louis, writes: 1 had been left
with a very distressing cough, the
result Of influenza, which nothing
seemed to relieve, until 1 took Bal
lard's Horehound Syrup. One bottle
completely cured me. I sent one bot
tie to my sister, who had a severe
cough, and she experienced immediate
relief. 1 always recommend this
syrup to my friends.
John Cranston. 908 Hampshire
street, Quincy, Ills, writes: have
found Billiards. Horehound Syrup SUI
perior to any cough medicine I have
ever known. 1t never di5appoints.
Price SOC.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-28
FRUSTRATED BY LIGHTNING.

FRUSTRATED BY LIGHTNING.
Pittsburg, Pa, August 2S.-The case
of Robert Murdoch, a middle aged
farmer, living on the West Merton
road, three miles from Bell Vernon, is
a peculiar one. Sixteen years ago Muir
dock was struck by lightning. He
was paralyZed. In the course of
time he recovered his power,and is
apparently strong. However, every
time there is a storm, Murdoch is af-
fected by the lightning. Wherever he
is the lightning prostrates him. Muir
dock always tells his family before
leaving home, in what particular
field he will be working. Whenever
a storm comes on, specially constru-
cted sled, hauled by a horse which is
kept constantly harnessed, is taken
out to the field and Murdock's appar-
emily lifeless body is hauled to the
house. In his room, he has an insu-
lated bed, containing two heavy feath-
er ticks, He is placed between the
ticks and in about twenty-four hours
is as vigorous as ever He feels ill
effects from his prostration, and has
become so accustomed to it he pays
but little attention to he attacks.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-28
GORED TO DEATH.

Durango, Mex, Aug. 2S.-Carlos To-
PEI, a well-known and daring mata-
dor, was giving a bull fight perfor-
nance here, when one of the vicious
bulls gored him to death in the arena.
A large crowd of enthusiastic men and
women witnessed the sickening spec
tacle.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-28
FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has
been used for children teething. 1t
soothes the child, softens the gums,
allays all pain, cures wind collie, and
is the best remedy for diarrhoea. %
cents bottle. 9 81 1yr-eod