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The Monmouth inquirer., 1896-06-04
Call Them Wheelways.

There is need of good word for des-
ignating road from place to place ex.
clusively for bicycles. Bicycle path Is
the term commonly used. There are sew
eral reasons why this is not suitable
term.
In the first place, the word path prob
ably is derived from the Greek verb pa
tein Ito walk), and means footway.
Secondly, the expression is too long; it
has four syllables Thirdly, it is clumsy;
it has two accents Fourthly, it is not
euphonic.
Instead of bicycle path The Compan.
ion respectfully suggests wheelway.
This word is analogous in its formation
to driveway. The word has not been
used in any other sense except by one or
two writers incorrectly to designate
those parts of wagon road in WHICH
the wheels run Way means the entire
road, and not some part of 1t. Wheel
way is better than wheel road for the
same reason that driveway is better than
drive road II suggests recreation before
utility. Youths Companion.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1896-06-04
USES OF COLLEGE TRAINING.
Not to Mako Experts, but to Tit Men For
Large, Intelligent work.

Large, Intelligent Work.
ut is not entirely safe to claim that
every kind of success, even of legitimate
success, will be promoted by college
training. writes Rev. Charles Il. Park
hurst, d. D., in The Ladies' Home Jour-
nal. IF l had a boy for whom it was
my supreme ambition that he should be
come rich, should not send him to col
lege. So far from helping his prospects
in that direction it would probably dam
age them. Money making is trick.
The easy acquisition of it is knack. 1t
involves the condensation of interest
and faculty along particular Line, and
that a narrow line. There is nothing to
hinder very small man from being
very wealthy one. Shrewdness does not
imply bigmindedness. / might say
with a good deal of assurance that it
implies the contrary. And shrewdness
has more than anything else to do with
the acquisition of gain.
"There are great many things that
can be best done by the man who does
not know too much, or, at least, by the
man whose intelligence is concentrated
at single point or along single line.
The mechanic who has come to be
known among us as the wizard would,
perhaps, have been more of man If he
had gone to Harvard, but it would prob
ubly have spoiled him as q wizard.
Genius is presumably always species
of mania, and liable, therefore, to be-
come something very ordinary If sue
cessfully subjected to the processes of
the asylum. They had better be kept
away from college if the design is to
make them experts. College will be able
to give them character of all round
ness, but knife cannot be round and
sharp at the same time; neither can a
boy.
''If we are going to do large, intelli-
gent work the prime condition is the
possession of an intellect trained and
stocked in the same general and COM
prehensive way College training is
simply the process of intellectually get
ting ready, not getting ready for this,
that or the other specific mental service,
but simply getting ready - planting
down broad foundation Of preliminary
big enough to support any breadth or
height of superstructure that there may
be need or opportunity to put upon it.
The college course and the requisite
preparatory training cost about seven
years of the best and most possible peri
cd of mans life. But If young man
hopes to do large. solid work in the
world, work in which intelligence Of
a broad kind is to play any considerable
part, and there is no antecedent obsta
Gle in the way, he makes an irreversi-
BILE mistake if he considers seven years
too much to pay for a liberal education. !"
The Monmouth inquirer., 1896-06-04
EXERCISES FOB THE THROAT.
A Branch of Physical Culture Not Often
Touched ON.


Touched ON.
The chronic sore throat is not infre-
quently produced by the misuse of the
vocal organs. Very often that unruly
little member, the tongue, is accounta-
BILE for the difficulty, as it is for great
many otLer troubles in this transitory
life. Many people have habit when
talking Of pushing the tongue SO far
back against the delicate membranes
that line the throat that irritation more
or less painful is caused, and If it con-
tinues any length Of time ulcers win
form, and so will a doctors bill.
Control Of the tongue is excellent in
all senses Of the word. Physically this
organ may be managed by depressing it
into a hollow at point quarters
of an inch back of where the tip of it
comes when in natural position in the
mouth and at the same time singing
very light head tones. This exercise
requires some patience at first, but the
habit of keeping the tongue down is
soon acquired. In speaking or singing
it should not be allowed to hoop up and
fill the mouth, thus interfering with
the free passage Of the tones Of the voice
from the throat to the front Of the
mouth, where they should strike and
then escape clear as bell. This hoop
ing up of the tongue in the mouth Is the
cause of much Of the indistinct and
slovenly utterances to which we are too
often obliged to listen.
In many people we notice the line
49, 80 4t,o oL{,. 10 &1,o xxnrtr
is in the form Of right angle. In a
shapely throat this line forms curve
just as canary's does when the small
yellow artist is warbling his carols.
TO develop the throat and make this
angle curve, stand before mirror 50
that you may watch the throat swell
out. Now thrust your tongue out as far
as it win go, then draw it back quickly
and forcibly, at the same time bringing
it downward in the mouth as far as you
can. Place your thumb and forefnger
against the larynx commonly called
the Adam apple), and If you are MAX
ing the right movement you will feel
the larynx pass downward. For week
or two make the movements lightly
After that time put as much force into it
as you can. The exercise should be
practiced for few minutes several
times day to insure rapid and good
results.
To fill up the hollows Of the neck,
stand correctly, and then slowly I'LL the
lungs with air without eleyating your
shoulders. AS the air is forced upward
into the throat hold it there few Sec
onds and then expel slowly. This exer-
else is best performed soon after rising
in the morning and before retiring at
night New York Post
The Monmouth inquirer., 1896-06-04
Glass Comns.

Local undertakers are interested in
the proposition of an Indiana company
to manufacture glass coffins on large
scale George F. Kimball, the plate
glass manufacturer, states that the idea
is entirely practicable, and that coffins
can be made from glass much more
cheaply than from wood. Mr.. Kimball
thought that such coffins could be con-
structed in the cheaper grades for not
more than so cents a running foot. Cof-
fins made from glass would be much
more durable than metallic caskets, and
their extreme cheapness would cause
their adoption extensively in cases where
death is due to contagious diseases, in
which the law requires hermetically
sealed casket. A new method of manu-
featuring glass whereby it is made to re-
semble wood will enable the manufac-
turer to lend infinite variety to his prod
uct.-Chicago Chronicle.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1896-06-04
THE BLUEFisH BRIGADE.
What Happens When the Blues Make q
Charge Upon the Menhaden.

What Happens When the Blues Make q
Charge Upon the Menhaden.
when menhaden or herring are driv-
en- upon the beach by bluefsh, as they
often are. so that they can be carried off
by the cartload, . said fisherman,
''there is very seldom found among them
one of their pursuers, and if one is found
it is likely to be fish that is diseased
or that has been hurt in some way. The
bluefish follows to the very verge of the
water, but there it stops, and it is SO
close as it is, it still easily keeps clear
of the land. The menhaden or herring
are no mean swimmers. They could
come as close and keep off the shore as
easily as the bluefish do, but not when
the bluefish are after them. Then they
are like men pursued to the edge of a
precipice. 1t is almost certain death to
jump, but they must do that or turn
and take the chances of breaking
through the pursuing line.
when the bluefsh-there may be
8, 600 or A, 900 of them together-sight
a school of menhaden, they go for it
like brigade of heavy cavalry, cutting
and slashing, swapping and biting,
right and left. The menhaden are SIM
ply overborne by superior weight, and
there is nothing for them to do but flee.
If they are driven toward the shore, the
land is to them what the precipice
would be to the man. They must take
it or they must turn and try to fight
their way through. Many do turn and
try to swim under or over or around
the savage bluefish, and some escape in
this way, and some are snapped up, and
some are manned and then cast ashore,
and many Of them, crowding together,
are so closely pressed that they are prac-
tically forced ashore.
Sometimes fish that are not cast up
very far flop down into the water again.
A high wave may set some free. A fish
thus liberated may find its fins SO dam
aged that it can't swim, and it is cast
mp again. Weakened by its rough expe-
rience, it may fall prey to some Of the
bluefish yet lingering off shore. 1t may
escape. New York Sun.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1896-06-04
SCIENCE TOO SLOW.
Discovery of Cat Language Not Likely to
BE of Much Use.

Discovery of Cat Language Not Likely TO
BE of Much Use.
eve live and learn, said the ordina-
ry man. II always thought that cat
could either NEW or purr or spit or
leave it alone. 1t now seems that I've
done an injustice to the beasts yocabu-
larry. Professor Marvin Clark, I'm told,
has been studying the language of cats,
and has discovered 600 primitive
words. -
"Of which, . the mere boy said, "599
are either blasphemous or improper.
"The professor doesn't say so, and l
don see how you found it out. =
81 see this professor says that cat Ian
guage bears resemblance to Chinese.
It's rather rough to insult fallen and
vanquished nation that way.
"Well, if there's anything in it, = the
ordinary man remarked, lit would ac-
count for the Chino-J Japanese war in a
novel and perfectly satisfactory way.
But really, when one comes to think OF
it, it is much easier to believe that cats
talk than that monkeys talk. Cats and
owls both make sounds exactly like the
sound of a human voice. Given q
churchyard, dark night and q white
cat and you have all the materials OF a
ghost story.
tits a pity" the journalist said,
"that discoveries Of this kind cannot be
turned to some practical use. Why
don't they discover the language of the
horse? 1t would make driving much
easier if you could tell the gee exactly
what you wanted and explain to it YER
bally the perfectly innocuous character
of any object at which it might be like
! ly to shy. y
s'Ah!t said the eminent person. Be-
/ fore that discovery arrives we shall have
the autocars and no horses at all. -
Black and White.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1896-06-04

When baby comes to the house
real happiness comes. The care and
anxiety count for nothing against the
clinging touch of the little hands and
the sound of the little voice. The
highest function given to human be-
ings is bringing healthy, happy
children into the world. Over thirty
years ago the needs CT women appeal
cd to DIR. Pierce, now chief consult
ing physician to the Invallds' Hotel
and Surgical Institute, Of Buffalo, N.
Y. The result of his study improved
by thirty years of prcctice is embodi-
ed in DIR. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip-
tion. 1t strengthens, purifies and
makes healthy the organs distinctly
feminine. 1t gives weak women the
strength and health necessary for the
production of healthy children and it
makes the bearing of those children
easy. 1t is sure to cure any weakness
or arrangement peculiar to women;
stops paia soothes inflammation,
strsngthear purifes and invigo-
rates.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1896-06-04

hsen killed at the fair grounds, in the
western part Of the city, where the roof ol
the Grand stand was blown off while the
last race was being run, but it is now
known that the people at the track saw
the storm coming and took refuge in the
adjacent fields.
At the time the storm struck the town
and created such havoc the accompanying
noise was terrifying. People were picked
up in the streets and dashed to the ground
and against the buildings as though they
had been the merest straws.
One thing which aided the storm in
it's course of destruction was the valley
which separates north and south St. Louis.
along which the railroads entering the
city from the east and west have their
tracks and yards and through which they
have access to the Union station at Twen-
ty-first street. This depression is some 40
or 30 feet in depth, regular valley, in
fact, and had the tornado confined itself
to this channel the loss of life would not
have been so great But at this point the
streets slope down, thus affording means
of egress for the great destroyer.
A Partial List of Buildings Destroyed.
The following is list of some of the
more important buildings demolished:
In ST. Louis, women's part Of Jail.
Waters Pierce Oil works, destroyed by
wind and fire.
Cupple's BLOCK, partially destroyed.
Chappelie Chemical company
Schickle- Harrison Iron works.
St. Louis Refrigerator and Wooden Gut
ter company
United Elevator.
Leggett s. Myers new TOBACCO manu-
factufing plant partly built, the finest In
the west
In Hast St. Louis, vandalia freight
house, So dead.
National hotel at stock yards.
fremont House
Martelle House at Relay crossing.
De Wolfe cafe, directly across from the
Relay depot.
Hazel Milling company's mill.
The Horns Cooperage works.
Baltimore and Ohio roupdhouse.
Standard Oil works, East ST. Louis
brapch
East ST. Louis elevator.
CEescept elevator.
Ohio &f,d MissiS5ippi freighthouse.
LOUISVILLE and Nashville frsighthouse.
Chicago and Ait6b treighthouse.
East epd Of Eads bridge.
Relay depot.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1896-06-04
A sordid view Of 1t.

There's great difference between
Pfsher's two boys. He gave each OF
them $40, 900. Silas has invested his
money in real estate. Julius is spend
ing his in fine cloathes. y
Don't t.you worry about Julius. He's
spending his money in buying cut fow-
ers for the rich Miss Boodelle. It'll pay
him bigger interest some day than
ever Silas will get. y
p. SIT did. Chicago Tribune.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1896-06-04

Professor in English Ito young many
How would you punctuate the follow
ing: s.The beautiful girl. for such was
she, was passing down the street?"
Student think, professor, would
make dash after the beautiful girl
Strand Magazine.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1896-06-04
FaiIed to Account For Gold.

WASHINGTON, June a.-Tbe director Of
the mint has directed the dismissal from
the service of A. #. Sohanfrau. the weigh
clerk at the New Orleans mint, who feiied
20 account for a small amount Of gold In
his possession. The matter has also besn
placed in shs hands OF the United States
attorney
The Monmouth inquirer., 1896-06-04
GENERAL I.se Iaayes For Cuba.

LyNcHBURG, Va, June z. General Fitz
Hugh Lee consul general to Ouba. has
Lift here for his post Of duty, accompanied
by Fitz Hugh Lee Jr., and T. a. Jones'
his private secretary. His departure was
kept quiet and was rather unexpected. 40
left by the Southern railroad for Key
West and will there take steamer for
Havana.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1896-06-04

SENECA, Mo-, June "A tornado, ao-
companied by oloudburst Of rain, has
struck this place Twenty-Five buildings
were wrecked by the twistipg wind and .
dozen others were swept fEbrn their foun-
dations by the deldge OF Water. At least
90 lives were lost.
Every stream In the surrounding coun-
try has overfowed and n natp ber of bridges
on the St. Louis and San Francisco rail-
road have been swept away. At Neoho
the storm did great damage. Three bod
les were found lodged in driftwood at the
latter place, but are unidentified.
All the streams Of southwestern Mis-
souri, had been carrying their capacity of
water and this sudden surplus will ruin
thousands of acres of ripening grain.
Meagar reports received here from New
Baden, just over the line in Clinton coun-
by, indicate that that village has been
practically wiped out of existence, Only
three or four houses remaining. Twelve
people wereekilled.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1896-06-04
PROHIBITION PARTY.
The National Convention Held In Pitts
burg-Free Silver Faction Bolts.

The National Convention Held In Pitts
burg-Free Silver Faction Bolts.
PITTsBURG, May 29.--The national CON
vention of the Prohibition party placed in
nomination for president j. P. Leverinp
of Baltimore and adopted the gold stand
ard.
The argument on the money plank OF
the platform was spirited, but by rule OF
the convention speakers were limited to
ten minutes. It developed that the fight
was not SO much on gold versus silver as
1t was the narrow gauge faction against
the free silver advocates Several speakers
who opposed the plank expressed Them
selves as personally favorable to free ooin-
age.
After the applause had subsided the
convention proceeded to the confederation
OF the planks in the majority report refer
ring to Sabbath observance and against
appropriations for sectarian schools, These
were adopted. when the convention was
thrown INTO confusion by the action Of
r. P. Patton of Illinois. who presented q
substitute for the entire platform.
The platform as adopted excluded
everything but prohibition-eYen woman
suffrage--and was regarded as the narrow
est kind OF narrow gauge declaration.
The vote on the silver plank had shown
the strength of the nsrrows," /" but the
broad gauge people made strong fight
against the substitute. After sharp de-
bate, In which Mrs Helen NJ. Cougar
vainly attempted to save the woman sui.
frage plank, the substitute was adopted BY
a standing vote amid the widest confu-
sion.
Joshua P. Leyering of Maryland was
nominated for president by acclamation,
and the nomination Of Hale johnson ol
Illinois for vice president was made or
the first ballot
The Monmouth inquirer., 1896-06-04

WASHINGTON, juno 40. p Ess9s Of
Maine has bssn appoiptad ohieE u Pp-
pointmsnt aivisiop n w fopSth AsslBt-
hnb postmaster GsAsfAaf ofaM
The Monmouth inquirer., 1896-06-04

Matthew White, passed quietly
away at his home on Bovine avenue
Saturday May Both. 1896, aged 30
years month and 81 days, after a
six days illness of Pneumonia,
The Monmouth inquirer., 1896-06-04
A Plague Feared.

EAST ST. LOUIS, June 2.-The plague
is coming too. Physicians fear 1t. The
streets are covered with carcasses of
horses, hogs and cattle Decomposition
has set in, and the odor is almost unbear-
able Still the people are forced to remain
there and inhale the poison. Already sew
eral cases of diphtheria are reported.
Front street along the leyee Is covered
with dead horses Mulligan avenue has
the appearance of slaughter house. There
are no means at present to remove these
caroasses. Mayor Bader is busy attending
to the wants of the poor and burial of their
dead relatives.
'sIf we don't get assistance socn we
shall all de-" Is the cry ON the island.
The only offer Of outside aid to East ST..
Louis has come from Chicago. Marshall
Field & Co have telegraphed 1000. Re-
ceipts for the relief fund from all sources
are less than s4,00o-s4. 900 for nearly
5000 families Most of the residents OF
the island are sleeping in the open air.
About 200 families have found shelter in
freight cars.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1896-06-04
Broad Gauge People Bolt.

PITTsBURG, May 29.--The broad gauge
element left the convention hall and or
ganized rump convention in another
hall. Eleven state chairmen were among
the boilers. and "a states were represented.
Among the prominent boilers are Helen
NJ. Cougar OF Illinois, John P. st. John,
II. s. Thompson Of Ohio, editor OF Ths
Era; John L. Lloyd Thomas of New
York and /. P. Logan of Ohio.
The new party has been named the Ma.
tional party, and Its motto 10 Home Pro
tectioD." State delegates have been author.
lied to appoint two members from each
state to form national central COMMITTEES.
Rsy. @. E. Bentley was nominated fou
president
The Monmouth inquirer., 1896-06-04

Albert Polhemus and his daughter,
A AlDers eEranz ! Hance, spent Sunday
th M+S, Daniei Robinson at Keansburg'
N" Mrs Daniel /. schanck and dangntf 4s n
Mls UoLndel were the guests OF
Ier. Isrs u 4nke Hance on Sunday.
M NJ. :, and Mrs. William Morris OF
cSifibnra Mf; @Te were guests of Joseph A.
Golden on Sunday wli;am
n Foster died last week
- charles V. Scobey has a new Di-
cYele.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1896-06-04

cent houses in Rutgers street.
The ruin was so complete that the police
volunteers did not know where to begin
the work of clearing away the debris.
At the storms height, when the rotunda
of the Laclede hotel was crowded with
terror stricken people who had sought
refuge from the wind fury, panic was
almost precipitated by the falling Of a
chimney down over the rotunda through
the skylight just west of the clerks desk
By miracle no one was under the falling
bricks. The frenzied men made dash
for the doors on the Chestnut street side
but their efforts to open them were fruit
less. The force of the wind was stronger
than the combined strength of a dozen
men. This threw the already panic stricken
crowd into a frenzy of fear which lasted
until the sounds Of falling bricks ceased,
but no one was seriously hurt in the crush.
The Eads Bridge Ruined.
The wagon way of the Eads bridge on
the East st. Louis side is a crumbling
mass of mortar and stone and parts of the
tower and pier were also torn away.
Thousands of dollars will not cover the
wreckage.
An outbound accommodation train on
the Chicago and Alton was wrecked by q
broken rail, but fortunately nobody among
the so passengers was hurt.
The roof Of the Republican hall was
blown of, and 20 foot section OF the
western wall of the city Jail was demol-
ished, exposing the interior. 1t was dur
ing exercise hours, and 200 prisoners exer-
cising in the building were panic stricken.
They were too badly frightened to try to
escape.
Il was at fipt thought shat SCORES ha1
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-08-16

Looking up with choiSed utterance. no re-
piled: Captain, what Is left or II VIII TO
form at tho cd wagon camp. Go back
and do what you can to get the men To-
gether" I left him 10 do. as far as 1
could. what he had commanded. but du-
ring the period OF thirty not altogether
uncventful years. the picture or tna'
scenc has fingered In my memory win
touching pathoA The noble |irginian,
the gallant commander Of the immortal
division sleeps his last secp' beneath
the soil OF his loved Virginia, under the
''shade near the trees" near the capital
city: the marble shaft marks the spot
where he lies in a metropolis OF heroes,
and like the twelve stones which joshua
erected in the Jordan, shall tel our chill
dren OF the virtues and heroism or the
man whose mortal remains rest beneath
the stately column. But not until the
last tap OF the drum has called the last
survivor OF Picketts Division to answer
the last roil-call will Picketts memory
need the monumental shaft 10 preserve
and perpetuate the virtues Of the man
and soldier.
Sleep on, brave, generous, tender-heart-
ed commander. ARTHUR s. SEGAR