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Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-10-23
ONE or THESE DAYS.

Curied In the window seat.
Watching the leaves
Whlrhng. whilst rnindrops beat
Down on tho caves.
Dark seemed this world that day.
We two alone.
Changing to gold the gray.
Lived in our own.
Dreaming a. childhood dreams,
Life must be good.
Whispering OF nobler themes
Scarce understood.
Dreaming all love was true.
Eager with praise.
Smiling ut all we'd do
lone of these days.
Here 70 the window scat
Came you and l.
Whilst With his poiselcss feet
Time hurried Dy.
Here ~ In childish DAYS
Used w. TO dream.
Careless Of wiser ways.
Love was our theme.
Sometimes | wondered. dear,
How 10 should last.
But sho next moment. dear,
Doubts were all past
Past "a 70" answer me-,
Love never strays.
Happier still well be-
"One OK these days"
Now by the window soar
stand alone.
Whilst the wind drives tho siect
Making it, moan.
Clouds might obscure the sun.
Sometimes OF old.
But while Hopes sands do run.
Hearts ind the gold.
Love. when the angel band
Called you away.
When ia my clasp your hanl
Passively lay.
Family your whisper then
Answered my gaze.
Love. we shall meet again
one OF these days.
-Nella Parker. in Golden Hour
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-10-23

They say the future Duke OF
Marlborough has the face of Van
derbil:
And his father fondly hopes he viii
also have the figure of Vanderbilt
some day. Chicago Tribune.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-10-23

rreachin--prnyfn'
In the dast or light.
Always sAyins
'-if II ALI come right
Sprins-tim> glory.
Or the winters blight,
SINE Old story.
-lt'n all come right
Fortune fiyio'
When IL seemed in sighs.
Suli kept crytn':
It'll come al right
Song OF sighin'.
still his hope ~uz bright;
Livin'-dyin'
"t1l come all right -
Atlanta Constitution
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1897-10-23
S&oS9s5'5 e9e-eet5fS75Efs5'SfSk,0'Gao5s
{ SHE MADE IT Coop.
q NJ Ell NJ Els

. VI T. II VI Els a
Joke, conceived
with deliberation
and thought, and
executed with the
utmost care. re-
bounds in the most
unexpected way.
This Is the record
of such IN Incl
dent. and Incl
dentally the ex-
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-12-10
The Cats Friend Dead.

Lonely cats, deserted by their own.
ers or lured from their homes by
heartless boys, have lost good friend
in Miss Annie Mayhem, who died q
short time ago in England. This wo-
man was the founder OF cats home,
and her whole time and energies were
devoted to caring for deserted and
stray pussies, on whose behalf she was
constantly appealing to the kindly
hearted. Every summer she issued
an appeal through the press to persons
leaving town, begging them not TO
forget poor puss, leaving it to starve
in their absence. Miss Mayhem was
a firm believer in the theory that there
is a happy hunting ground for felines
in the future, and that human beings
and animals will somewhere meet
again in the great hereafter. 1t COM
forted her 10 think that IN some way
pussies who had suffered gross cruel
ties Of the hands of men and women
in this life might some day have their
compensation. New York Tribune
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-12-10
Parrot Adopts Chickens.

j. ID. Austin, merchant in Kansas
City, has large Brazilian parrot that
Is the proud possessor of five little
bantam chickens, which the big bird
watches over and cares for as if they
were her own brood. Some time ago
the parrot laid two eggs. These were
taken from her and half-dozen small
chicken eggs were placed in the nest.
roiiy comes forth regularly with her
little chickens peeping and scratching
about her, and many people stop to
view the strange sight. 1t is a very
unusual thing for the parrot to breed
away from its native land, even under
the most favorable circumstances. and
~ Is more remarkable that the parrot
should adopt the chickens as her OWE
offspring.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-12-10
A CLASSIFIED Tiger.

The geological garden of Stuttgart,
Germany, is possessed of tiger with
a glass eye, probably the only one in
the world. Some time ago the tiger
was attacked with peculiar disease
which deprived it of the sight of one
of its eyes. 1t soon became so un-
slightly that the superintendent of tee
garden concluded to have the tiger
killed. At this juncture some one
proposed that glass eye might be
used to advantage and staff of sur
geons was called in to perform the
operation. The king of the jungle
was placed under the influence of
cocaine, and with the help of six or
eight men, all of whom could scarcely
hold the patient still, the afflicted eye
was removed and new glass one in
serted. For few days the tiger was
in wildly savage mood and tried his
best to claw the glass eye from its
place, but he finally grew accustomed
to it, and now looks out quite calmly
upon his admiring visitors, many of
whom never suspect that he is one
eyed monarch. Chicago Record.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-12-10
strange Land in Florida.

Payne's prairie, three miles south OF
this city, covers an area of fifty thou
sand acres. A large portion of the
prairie is now covered with water, but
there are thousands of acres around
the borders of the lake which has been
formed on which horses and cattle
Craze. There is no way of estimating
the number of cattle, but there are
many thousands, and they are in fine
condition. The prairie, or savanna,
which it really is, occasionally goes
dry, the water passing out through
subterranean passage called the sink.
been determined. When the sink is
open the lake goes dry, and when the
outlet becomes gorged or choked lake
from five to seven miles wide and about
eighteen miles long is formed. When
the waters of the lake suddenly leave
it thousands Of alligators, snakes, fish
and turtles are left with nothing but
mud for their places OF abode. The
fish and turtles perish, but the sau-
rians and reptiles seek and find other
quarters. For miles along the north
ern border of the lake there is sue
cession Of sinks, averaging in depth
all the way from % to 100 feet. Sub
terranean passages run in every direc-
ton, leaving the ground in the shape
of a honeycomb. The ground is liable
to give way at any time, creating q
new sink. -Gainesville Ella. Sun.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-12-10
DANIEL WEBSTER AS FARMER.
"Reminiscences OF Great Statesman Only
One who Recalls Him.

Some recent visitors to Daniel
Webster's old home in Marshheld,
Mass, found only one man in the
neghborhood who could talk from
personal knowledge about the states
man, and not n soul who bore his
name or claimed direct or indirect
descent from him. The exception was
an aged person named Wright, who
said that in the old days he had been
the superintendent of Webster's big
farm, and had known him well and
intimately for years, not as the great
orator and politician, of course, but
as the gentleman farmer, kindly en-
ployer and good neighbor. Mr..
Wright somewhat reluctantly adj
mitted that as an agriculturist his
famous friend was not q brilliant sue
cess in pecuniary way, but he says
that no one ever loved q quiet rural
life better, or took o keener, more
minute or more personal interest in
all that went on in the fields, woods
and barns. "He loved this place,
every tree and flower and living thing
on it. He knew every sod that was
turned, every COW that was MIXED,
every blade of grass that was moved
and his steers! There was man
who knew an ox!' And then Mr..
Wright told how Webster, when near
deaths door, had his favorite oxen
driven up before the window of the
manse that has now disappeared. II
was there and drove them up, two by
two, while Webster stood by the
window and watched them pass. 1t
was a sad day for that household, and
when he was gone everything began
to go down hill. At the end Of two
years the place was closed up and sold
piecemeal Some parts of II fetched
good prices. others almost nothing"
According to this authority Webster
never drank to excess. and "his only
trouble was the fact that he'did not
have as much money ashe needed"
Mr.. Wright is over 80 years old, but
he still works daily in his fields and
shows few signs Of extreme age
New York Times. fss aIN -sHtN
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-12-10
Effects OF Rare and OF Dense Air.

DIR. Won Liebig of the University
of Munich calls attention, in Science,
to some of the curious effects of rare
fed and condensed air on human res
piration. On high mountains some
persons experience distressing "short-
ness of BREATH" one result of which is
that they are unable to whistle. Pre-
cisely the same effect is sometimes
produced by the condensed air in
caissons aud diving bells. Laborers
working in compressed air frequently
find, however, that their powers OF
exertion are increased as long as the
atmospheric pressure is not more than
double that of ordinary air; but be-
yond that point unpleasant effects are
experienced after the menhave left the
working shafts and returned into the
open air. On the other hand high at
mospheric pressure in the case OF per-
sons not doing manual labor has been
found to act as q mental stimulus, in.
creasing the impulse to talk.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-12-10


SO. with some heartaches, deter
mined seriously and after mature de-
Liberation that should not marry at
all. was the only child, and it was
plainly my duty 10 remain with my
parents, to comfort TO their declining
years, and, inasmuch as such was to
be my fate, might as we'll begin inn
mediately; 80 L took TO drinking u
great deal Of ten, TO taking a very
great interest in household affairs and
TO sympathizing with and assisting
mamma among the poor and to being
extremely methodcal and precise.
Harry had not been to the house
since that last day, over three months
ago, and now mamma aud papa did
not mention him. I had never told
them the cause OF our quarrel, and
they soon ceased TO question me,
though could not help suspecting
that they knew.
At last, one day, Tom Dickerson
asked me, in a stupid, laundering sort
OF way, il 1 would be his wife; where
upon informed him, in a manner suf-
fciently positive, that / most assured
ly would not. His surprise was inn
mense, and he seemed to think / must
have made a mistake; wanted TO know
IL really meant it aud said that /
should have everything wanted. But
the more he insisted the more en-
phntic L became, and he at length
took leave, saying that il 1 should
change my mind I must let him know.
As soon as he was gone told NAM
ma all about it, and then she drew
from me the story, told with many
tears, OF Harry's declaration and how
/ had spurned ii and how miserable 1
had been ever spce, and now he was
engaged to sod Iebody else, and L
should never marry anybody. After
sobbing little while with my head in
her lap / felt great deal better and
that it would not be 30 hard to be an
old maid after oil. My only regret
was, that old as i might consider my
self, no one else could possibly con-
slider me 80 for ten years yet, and yet,
during all that time, l should be OBJ
liged to go into society.
A few days after this mamma aud
papa went out one afternoon to make
a call, and was sitting alone in the
parlor. Suddenlysome one pronounced
my name, and, looking up, l saw
Cousin Harry, who, when L sprang up
in dismay, caught me- in his arms.
But 1 shall not tell any more, save
that when papa and mamma came in
they found us sitting very cozily on
the sofa, where Harry held me fast,
though 1 tried hard to assume a more
dignitied position at distance when
l heard them coming.
There were great many explana-
tions to be made, and it finally APP
peased that l had been the victim of
conspiracy.
&ss rs s%s A bSs n sSai RsSsS
nothing certainly until my confession.
Papa had Immediately seen Harry and
had brought about the meeting.
As for the latter, his attentions to
Miss Knapp were intended solely to
bring me to my senses, il I had any,
as she was soon to be married to
gentleman who was then abroad.
We were married after very short
engagement, and though my short
married life has had some clouds, they
have resulted, generally, from my own
pettishness, and they are becoming
more rare. But Of this l am sure, that
l never was so happy before.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-12-10
Queer.

"Queer, isn't it?"
whats queer2" inquired another.
''That night falls"
eyes"
''But it doesn't break"
emo"
''The day breaks"
eyes"
''But il doesn't fall"
"No." y.
"Queer, isn't it?"
And he was gone.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-12-10

A iirm in Omaha, Neb., advertised
. o,aer Gay the most highly sensa.
tional bargain sale of fine shoes sincs
Adam went barefoot"
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-12-10
BE THYSELF.

rrws we'll said thou myself where
Unto myself, In
wrong,
o
n
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-04-27
LIVE STOCK.

CHICAGO April 26.-Trade in cattle was
active from the start. prices ruling steady
for the commOner lots, while the better
class were stronger TO Zoe higher than
during the latter part OF last week. Only
a few native beef steers sold at So S50i p.
The bulk of the beef cattle brOugh ia 40
as 90 and only a small percentage of the
offerings sold above s. co. StOckers and
feeders were largely 10dljc lower few GO
ing as high as 81 so. Veal calves were I'M
changed with only moderate offerings.
Texas cattle were in fair demand at steady
prices.
In hogs there was an active general de-
mand. prices ruling a 2i2c higher. The
supply was mostly taken. common to the
best selling at 50 coal TO- sales being large
ly at 81 050f 10.
Prices for sheep were barely steady.
Lambs were especially hard TO dispose of
aud prices were about 15c lower Sheep
sold at So 00d3 % for the poorest up 10
81 75N5 90 for good 10 choice. exporters be
ing good buyers at 81 50 and upward.
Lambs sold slowly at 50 500 30 for poor
est TO the best.
Receipts-Cattle. 400 head; hogs. 10000
head: sheep 5000 head.
EAST LIBERTY, April 26.-Cattle. slow
and lower prime. s. 00H5 20; common TO
good fat oxen. 50 OOd4 TO-
Hogs slow and lower: prime medium
weights. 81 l0Q4 IS; common 10 fair York
ers. 81 coal %; pigs, s. 90a4 90; good
heavy hogs, 81 15di 20; roughs, 81 15QS p.
Sheep. slow and lower; chopped sheep,
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-04-27
DEMOCRATS DO NOT AGREE

To Have the Tariff Bill Brought to the
ton,
Washington. April 26.-The Demo
cratic members of the Finance Com
miJtee have not yet made definite re-
ply TO the Republican members con-
corning the proposition to bring the
tariff bill directly into the Senate be-
fore submitting it to the committee as
a body, but a majority Of the Demo
Gratis have signified their opposition to
such a plan and will insist upon full
committee consideration. 1t is believed
that all Democratic members of the
committee will insist upon this plan.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-04-27

one completed well. which is now drilling
md about Geo feet deep
The pipe line company gauge of the
Douglass gusher on yesterday showed that
the well was making barrels per hour.
nearly 80 barrels per day. The great
amount of gas is reducing the oil produc-
ton rapidly.
NEW YORK. April 26.-Peuoleum.
Pennsylvania crude, steady: May. S7lsc
bid; sales. none
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-04-27
DRY GOODS.

NEW YORK. April 26.-No general de-
mand was remarked but there was a good
cottons such as bleached and brown cot
tons and wide sheeting. Blackstone IA
bleached and brown cottons are out of
stock and orders will be taken ~ value
only. and Rivals are advanced PIC. The
sharp advance of &c in cotton and nc at
New Orleans has stirred the market for
goods and some hustling is expected on
Wednesday. Wooden goods are active in
deliveries and duplicate orders of good
quantities are coming in Printing cloths
dull but steadier at 9-l6c.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-04-27
POOR PRICES OFFERED.

Yesterday AUctioneer Hervey offered
the Noah Zcne real estate at auction,
bur the prices bid were fearfully low,
and the whole matter was adjourned
until Monday morning at ten o'clock.
For lot No. 1. at the Zane residence,
bat 5000 was bid; for the new house
and lot but S2125; for the old house
and lot S1.226; for the lot back of the
old house 5000; and for the Eighth
ward property $1,O45. The naked
forum.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-04-27
AMONG THE POsTMAsTERs.

Special TO the Register.
Washington. D. c.. April CIV. G..
Swearingen was to-day appointed post
master at Red Greek, Tucker county,
w. Va; vice R. S. Raines. removed. {.
H. James was appointed postmaster at
Hendrysburg, Belmont county, ONO;
vice Z. I. blackburn. removed.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-04-27
WAGON OVERTURNED

While Crossing a swollen streH MT our
Persons Drowned.
Jackson. Mo, April 26.-An accident
occurred here last evening resulting in
the drowning Of four persons. Mr.. Joe
Johnson was coming to town in COW
cred wagon accompanied by Mrs. Bugg,
her son. five years old. and her baby,
and Miss Minnie Fraser Johnson at
tempted to ford the creek just east of
this city. which was much swollen,
when the wagon was overturned. john
son swan TO the bank but the re-
mainder of the party were drowned.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-04-27
SLAGLE & CO., BROKERS,

GPAIN, PROVISIONS, STOCKS Z UUTTUN'
1928 Market Street, Wheeling. w. Va.
Direct private wires to the Chicago Board
81 Trade and the New York Stock EN-
change. over which We receive continuous
markets and the latest news.
Long Distance Telephone 215.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-04-27
METAL MARKET.

NEW YORK. April 26.-Pig iron steady
southern, $40 COAL co; northern, SO 50Q
y 80.
Copper. weak: brokers. 81 1919.
Tin, easier; straits, Sl3 150l5 so; plates
dull
Spelter. quiet: domestic. "a 1OG4 %.
Lead dull; brokers, s. 1919; exchange,
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-04-27

choice. 81 4Gdi so: common. 50 0063 o.:
choice lambs, s. 1915 20; spring lambs s. 90
al 90.
Veal calves, 81 OOGf4 80.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-04-27
CLEVELAND, LORAIN AND

" WHEELING RAILROAD.
Time schedule OF Passenger Trains in eff
feet Sunday, January 3D.. 1891.
Cleveland Depot foot South Water street.
ARRIVE.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-04-27
MINING STOCKS.
PRODUCE

Slaele & Co.. the Market street brokers,
furnish the following quotations from the
Cbicaro grain and produce exchanges:
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-04-27
DEPART.


All trains run daily except Sunday.
Poesengers between Wheeling. Martins
Ferry. BeUalre and Bridgeport, take Elec-
ri i}ailvay. NJ. O. CARREL.
49, General Passenger Agent.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-04-27

Cumberland accommodation. TBS p. m.
except Sunday.
Grafton accommodation. 1910 a. m.
daily.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-09
Platform Accidents.

The lesson OF the Bryan accident at
st Augustine is that too much weight on a
platform VIII break it down. This is
illustrated in the Overcrowding of gold
free traders, British commercial agents,
trusts, monopolies. Hawaiian and Cuban
sugar interests with Republican protec-
tionists on a party platform already occu-
pied 10y the autocrat of the House, who
alone is of sufficient weight to endanger
almost any structure in a constitutional
country AS result, the composite plat
form of decayed planks on which the Re
publicans stand today VIII give way, aud,
precipitating the party upon the hard, rocky
ground of national indignation, viii de-
stroy it.
The corollary of the foregoing is Oh
vious A Democratic platform always can
he built strong enough to carry any amount
of the live weight of true Democracy; tut
if it is loaded down with the dead weight
of things not democratic, il viii fan. The
party carpenters and joimers who VIII
construct the platform Of 1900 would DO
well to bear this in mind.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-09
RAN INTO BIG BERGS.
Incoming Atlantic Liners Report
Severe Gales ana lee Fields.

Incoming Atlantic Liners Report
Severe Gales ana lee Fields.
New York April 9-The steamer Zaan-
dam from Amsterdam, March 20, which ar
rived this morning, reports that on April 3
the vessel passed through a large field of
ice containing many large bergs. The
engines We're stopped for seven hours during
the night. At 8 O'Clock on the morning Of
April the steamer proceeded slowly and
for twelve hours passed through ice some
of the bergs being 200 feet high
During the entire voyage the vessel ex
perienced rough weather with strong gales
and high irregular seas.
The steamer Germanic from Liverpool
and Queenstown, which arrived this morn
ing with sc cabin and AIS Storage pas
sengers, also reports having, on April s.,
passed through large fields of ice, con-
tanning number of large bergs. She also
experienced heavy gales and high seas.
The North GeTma Lloyd steamer Hayel,
which arrived last night from Bremen and
Southampton, had rough passage. West
eriy and southwesterly gales, with high
head seas, prevailed nearly the whole
time, and thick weather last night com
PEELED the steamer to anchor in the lower
BAY On April /, 5 and 6, on the banks of
Newfoundland, the Havel was obliged to
dodge in and out among large icebergs and
field ice, but fortunately clear weather
prevailed, and all danger of collision was
averted
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-09

dency to see things on all sides. He is
never a fanatic or a statistical liar, and
these two people are two of the most
dangerous misinformants in existence.
The funny man does not even take him
self seriously. He does not regard his
own ideas as OF paramount Importance, and
he is never sure that he knows al about
a thing. There is always a time in the
life OF man in which dignities hold an inn
pOrtant place in his mind. There is really
no reason why half of the things which ale
seriously regarded by the mass of mankind
should cause fear and trembling; but they
do. The funny man has TO get past that
stage. Some people stay in it all their
lives And so, 10y his very nature, he must
see beneath tie surface, and so lie must
see more truly.
Think over the characters of the piofes-
sional humorists, or the men who
have made their first reputation as FUN
makers. There are the big four of America,
widely different in ability, but all head
and shoulders above their fellows-Eugene
Field, James whitcomb Riley, Mark vain
and Artemus Ward. Aren't their books full
OF wise bits Of philosophy, and much truth
amid much exaggeration Of humorous
nature? And since no enc can quite under
stand this world we live in, and the state
ments of all must be more or less imperfect,
isn't it as well that the imperfections
should be plainly labeled as humorous?