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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-10-23
LES NliSERABLES ACCEPTED.
An Abridged Edition for the PhiladeIphIa
Girrs II III Schools.

An Abridged Edition for the Philadelphia
Girls II IN Schools.
Philadelphia, October 22.-The con-
troversy over the use of Victor Hugo's
LES Miserables" in the girls high
school of this city, which has attracted
general attention, has been settled by
the placing of the work on the
eligible list of French books for the
school. At a secret meeting of the
committee having the matter in charge
the abridged edition of the famous
work, edited by Prof Ferdinand de
Sumichraste, of Harvard University,
was accepted.
This is the edition of lies Misera-
bies" that Miss Dalcourt, instructor of
French at the girls high school, rec
commended in the original list she asked
for at the last meeting of the committee
when that hook was denounced and
refused adps 7sion to the school. She
ssaid at the time she intended this edi-
ton to be used and no other, and pro-
nounced it very fit book and declared
the classical course in French could not
be taught properly without it.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-10-23
BENWOOD.

Daniel Kefer, of upper Benwood, went
constable in the place of Charles
Sprouts. who was elected at the last
election, but never qualified.
Mr. and Mrs. Cary, of Wheeling, are
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Evans.
Fred Stacks trial comes Up the first
of November. There will be several
important criminal cases heard at this
session of the county court.
McMechen people are circulating a
petition addressed to the McMechen
council asking them to grant the Ben
wood electric light company the privi-
lege OF extending their system into Nc
Mechen. The McMechen council has
heretofore demanded that the light COM
pany light up the streets of the town in
compensation for the privilege of SELL
Ing to private consumers.
Dr. L. Eskey has returned from a
visit to Pittsburg.
c. Evans and Henry Foster were at
the Glendale mines yesterday for the
purpose of having a conference with the
Glendale operators in regard to the
adoption of the Ohio screens for the
Glendale mines Mr.. Evans is mine
organizer from Ohio and Mr.. Foster is
a member of the local district board.
The Epworth League will give an en-
tertainment at the NJ. E. Caurch next
Monday evening
Tomorrow members of the German
Lutheran congregation will go to
Bridgeport to participate in Harvest
Home service in the Bridgeport Ger
man Lutheran Church. Rev. c. L..
Boicele. of Benwood, will make one of
the addresses.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-10-23
AsS MCPHERSON DISCHARGED.
No Evidence on Which to Convict Him o.,
Embezzlement.

No Evidence on Which to Convict Him o.,
Embezz!ement.
Chicago, October 22.-Short work has
been made by Judge Ewing of the
charges against Angus D. Mcpherson,
the Chicago manager for the New York
linen firm of o. Jaffa & Pinkus. Nc
Pherson was accused of embezzling
thousands of dollars. When the evil
dence of the prosecution was all in,
Judge Ewing instructed the jury to re-
turn verdict of not guilty. Accord
ing to the testimony the claim against
the defendant had dwindled to $1,000.
The judge said the evidence was entire
ly insufficient to support the charge
Mcpherson, On his discharge, was sur
rounded by friends and showered with
ngratulations.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-10-23
EUGENE FIELDS JOKE ON CARL
SCHURZ

Carl Schurz's appearance as a Citizens
Union orator recalls a story of an ex-
perience that the late Eugene Field and
Mr.. Schurz had in campaigning a doz-
en- years ago or more. Mr. Schurz was
making speeches in the West for the
Republican party at that time, and Eu-
gene Field was detailed by the Chicago
paper with which he was connected to
accompany Mr.. Schurz on the spell
binding expedition. and sent dispatches
to his paper describing it. When Mr..
Schurz reached small town in Michi-
gan half an hour before the time set
for the meeting no committee met him
at the train. Mr.. Schurz and Mr.. Field
found their way to the hall, where
motley crowd had collected to hear the
speaker. Everything was perfectly
regular about the meeting except that
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-10-23
MOUNDSyILLE.

David Teagarden, deputy sheriff. was
at Bellto1 on business yesterday.
Misses Nora and Mary Willard, OF
Cameron, were visitors in the city
yesterday.
"Hat" Shepherd was sent to Jail by
Justice Mann yesterday to serve 30
day sentence for stealing some eat
ables from John Kull, of the Third
WaId.
Will Hood and William Kidder are
home from Huntsville, where they at
tended the murder trial of Irwin
Brown this week.
Perry Stewart, who has blacksmith
SHOP on Third street, hurt his a*m
yesterday morning.
Mrs. J. E. Alklre, of Benwood June
ton. was in the city yesterday calling
On friends.
Dr. NJ A. Dowler, of McMechen,
was in the city on business yesterday.
w. G. Mann was at Wheeling on
business yesterday.
This evening Ralph Bingham, the
well known entertainer, will appear at
the W. c. T. U. hall and will render
! an entirely different programme from
the one he gave Thursday night.
A number of society gentlemen will
organize dancing club in this city
the first of the week. When the affair
| is started balls will be given once each
| month and on very elaborate scale
The Christian Endeavor Gociety OF
| the Presbyterian church met last even
ing, and as usual a great many Of the
| members were present. This organic.
alton, by the way, is increasing its
membership almost every month, and
it is likely an entertainment will be
given by them in the near future.
The funeral of Mrs. G. B. Manning
took place yesterday afternoon from
the home of her son, W. l.. Manning
on Tomlinson avenue The usual ser.
vices were held at the house, and the
remains were laid at rest in Brook
side cemetery.
Charles E. WOODBURY. will open a
branch grocery store in the South
block the first Of the week.
Last night the Ladies Aid Society OF
the Methodist church gave a very en-.
joyable supper in one of he vacant
rooms in the Smith building. Quite
a good crowd was present and neat
sum realized, which will be added tt
the society's treasury.
The Third ward is to have new
barber shop, and it is given out thai
| the party who will conduct the same
has secured The room adjoining D
Lewis store.
Circuit Court will convene again to-
| day, when a number of chancery cases
will be disposed of. Next week Coun-
| ty Court meets again, as the commits
sioners adjourned yesterday without
winding up the docket.
A trick bicycle rider arrived in the
city yesterday, and during the even
| ing amused our people on Seventh
street with several of his tricks.
| Prof. D. T. Williams is home from
Bellaire, where he attended a meeting
| of the Round Table.
Charles Kull has finished drilling ar
artesian well for a McMechen party
and has brought his machine back tc
this city.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-10-23
LINEN SPECIALS.

Fine Hemstitched Table Cloths.
broken sets. no napkins. full 21s yards
long, for $3.50; full three yards long
for $3.50 each.
Six dozen All-Linen Lunch Cloths
with drawn work, at $1.19, worth $175.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-10-23
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NEW COMPANY CHARTERED

Special to the Register.
Charleston, w. Va, October o.
The Secretary Of State has issued a
certificate of incorporation to the Hay
mond Oil and Gas Company, of Fair
view, Marion county, with an author
lied capital of $50 900. The incorpora-
tors are w. Hunter, Atha; J. w. P.
Jarvis and A. B. Bright, of Amos, W.
Va; R. c. Price, of Hoodsville, W. Va,
and G. S. Basnett. of Basnett, w. Va.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-10-23
A BOILER EXPLODED.

One Man Killed, One Fatally Injured and
Five Seriously Hurt in Detroit.
Detroit, Mich, October 22.-The
boiler in the Detroit Cabinet Compa-
ny's factory at Hancock avenue and
Rio Pelle ST in the northeastern
part of the city, exploded at 1880 this
morning with fatal effects. At least
two men were fatally injured, one of
whom has since died, and ten men
were more or less seriously injured.
Laurente Tunney, foreman in finish
ing room, died in Harper Hospital.
The dying are: Moses Peltier, engin-
eer, skull fractured; unconscious at
Harper's Hospital.
The seriously injured are: William H.
Becker, cuts in head; neck scalded bad
ly; Wilbur Krause, ribs broken, body
bruised, may be injured internally;
John Monninger, cabinet maker, legs
and breast cut, bad scalp wound; Her.
man Kreinberg, head packer, head cut,
badly bruised all over body, may die;
Carl May, cabinet maker, and Barney
Trombley, hand sawyer, were also hurt.
Both the front and rear ends of the
four-story building were blown out,
and the brick walls are in ruins. No
fire resulted from the explosion. The
conclusion was so great that the city
was shaken and many windows were
broken. The damaged building is a
brick structure $50 feet square, and four
tsories high. The floors were practi-
cally uninjured.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-10-23
POSTAL AFFAIRS.

Special TO the Register.
Washington. D. c., October ga
new postoffice has been established at
Flickersville. Monongalia county. with
Harley Thompson as postmaster.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-10-23
PENSIONS GRANTED.

Special to the Register
Washington, D. c., October 22.-
These West Virginia pensions have
been granted:
Original Robert NJ Dougherty, Elm
Grove; Granville i. Fortney, Grange
vile.
Ipcrease john Rohan. wl~4lis-
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-10-23
DRY GOODS
DRY GOODS
BARGAINS.

One case of those extra large
Crochet Quilts at S5c, worth S1.25; the
last we will have.
80 pairs ATWOOD Country Blankets,
from back order, at $3.50 pair.
1000 yards Sc Canton Flannels, in
remnants, at Ga yard.
900 yards short length Percales, from
the mill, at SC a yard.
so dozen celebrated Star and Cres-
cent Bleached Bath Towels at Csc,
worth 35c.
$50 yards Atwood Embroidered
White Skirting Flannel at 44c, worth
75c.
Mems Unlaundried White Shirts.
with colored Percale fronts, at 29c,
worth SOC.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-10-23
SERVICE FIGURES.
Recommendations From the Report Of
Assistant Heath.

estimates for Next Year--A Plea
Made for the Purchase OF Stations
IN the Larger Cities-A Larger
Saving Will Be Effected Through
the Consolidation Of Offices
Within Greater New York Ter
ritory.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-03-03

The Eastern express and railroad
companies have adopted tho proper
method of discoursging train robbery
by offering a bonus of $500 for every
robber m aime d and 81, 900 for every
one killed. This may seem a cold
blooded scheme, but it is perfectly
legitimate, and We are sure that it will
do more to check train robberies than
offers of big rewards for the capture
OF the criminals after they have once
escaped with their booty. At any
rate, it gives employees some return for
risking their lives in defence of rail.
road or express property and furnishes
q stimulus to the purchase of the best
weapons ms well as to practice in using
them instantly and effectively.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-03-03
Products OF Hawaii.

Besides sugar and rice, the staple
products, coffee, bananas, oranges and
other fruits are largely grown. Food
products are abundant, especially OF
the kind suitable to hot climate, says
'Paradise of tho Pacific"
The native food consists largely OF
the taro plant, OF which the best va
rieties are grown in the shallow ponds
of fresh water. From this plant is
made the poi. which is the ordinary
food of the Kanaka.
The sweet potato grows even among
the rocks aud fourishes abundantly
in good soil, while the common pota-
to sometimes grows we'll, though it is
often injured by worms.
The quality of the coffee raised is
equal to the choicest.
The climate is also very favorable
to the growth of the long staple sea.
island cotton; but as this variety must
be picked by hnnd, tho high price of
labor in the islands renders its culture
Improbable.
Tropical fruits of nearly all kinds
grow in the richest abundance, the
orange, lemon. lime, mango, pine
apple, hirimoya, or custard apple, the
alligator pear, ,pomegranate and guava,
nll of which are exotic.
The banana is indigenous. and 10
the most abundant of all fruits; be.
sides il there are the ohia apple-a
fruit peculiar to the Pacific islands,
soft, juicy and mildly acid many
varieties of palms, the choicest trees OF
India, the caoutchouc, the papaya, the
travellers tree OF Madagascar aud
other foreign plants.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-03-03
History of Steam Power.

The power OF steam, says the st.
Louis Globe-Democrat, was known to
Hero OF Alexandria, who exhibited
what seems from the description to
have been a small steam engine to
Ptolemy Philadelphus and his court,
about l50 B. C. Pliny describes u
small boat, built by "magician" of
Rome, which moved by means of a
wheel, "driyen by pot OF hot water"
Watts invention OF n rotary steam
engine was patented in 1863. The
first railway locomotive was built by
Trevithick, in 1904 ; tho first pract ioal
locomotive was perfected by Stephen
son in 1929. As early rs 17l7 Denys
Papin built u model OF q steamboat,
which was destroyed by. mob OF
boatmen. The first practical steam
boat was built by William Symington
in 1902. IN 1903 Robert Fulton, in
connection Chancellor Livings-
ton, built a steamboat, which was
tried on the Srine, y In 1907 the
Cleromont began trips from Now York
to Albany. pt h'f F
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-03-03
A Poor Mans idea.

There are many geniuses and in
vcntors hard at work today on devices
for saving time and money, and one
might say that daily the product of
their thought is placed before the
world in machines that seem almost
human in their workings. The chief
essential in saving time is to acquire
n system, and operators placed before
new mechanical invention quickly
establish systematic method of work
ing it, and eventually find way of
improving on it. These men sci.
dom profit by such little im-
provements, bnt their adopted sys-
tens suggest valuable idens to the out
slider, upon which he realizes. This is
evidenced by the following:
Years ago, in the cotton mills, the
bobbins of the looms used to catch the
filaments of cotton and clog the ma
chinery, necessitating n stoppage of
the works to clean up. This was
loss OF both time and money. One
man. however, u seemingly dull fell
low, found way to keep his bobbin
free. and his loom never had to shut
down. The owner of the mills, Mr..
Peel, father Of Sir Robert Peel, no.
ticed this, and obtained from the man
his secret for an agreement which,
financially, amounted to next to moth
ing. He simply chalked the bobbin,
thus preventing the threads from
sticking. Peel adopted this idea, and
invented machinery for the sole pur-
pose of chalking the bobbins, and pa
tented it. He realizeda fortune from
it, and gave the original inventor
handsome pension. -Harper's Round
Table.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-03-03
Hunting In Dreams.

james Bolton, q New Yorker who
visits the Adirondacks every year to
hunt deer, has lean-to camp on n
a stream in Northern Herkimer coun-
ty, where he entertains his friends.
He sees things and does things some-
times In his dreams that make him q
source OF anxiety to his friends and
his guides.
Inst fall Sam Cooley, one Of Mr..
Bottoms guides, was lying in the
guides shelter half awake. when he
saw some one slip out of the owners
camp with rifle in his hands. What
was more serious, the figure was slip
ping 3S.calibre shells into the maya
zine. Cooley OWNED tho situation
instantly. and started toward the man.
whom he recognized as Bolton, but
Bolton got beyond the freight before
the guide could reach him, and then
stopped and seemed to be steering off
into the woods.
Up came the rife, aud seven shots
were fired, each sounding like can
mons ronr in the perfect night quiet
of the woods. Everybody except Boil
ton woke up, and the dogs let out
howls of wonderment. Meantime
Cooley had grabbed water pail half
full of water and thrown the contents
over Bolton just rs he was about to fire
again. 1t wns Bottoms turn to howl
then. The cold water woke him up,
and he was inclined to swear at the
guide before he realized tho danger he
had been in. He had been shooting,
he thought, ut a buck deer. All the
bullets were found next day in hem
lock stump, and they could have been
covered with Init.
Mr.. Bolton once went still hunting,
little after midnight, and was not
found until 7 a. m. He had awakened
once during his trip, but bad been nu-
able to make his way back to camp.
A fisherman fell nslcep while fishing
for black bass at Philadelphia, N. Y,
one day and dreamed he had bite.
Ho yanked his pole up and one
pound bass swung into his face. On
waking up lie found that he had pulled
up his pole, but instead OF bass, q
tin can swung against his cheek. -
New York Sun.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-03-03
The TeredO and the Cable.

An Atlantic cable has. fortu-
nately, few animal enemies, al.
though in the English Channel,
the Irish Sea, and the North Sea
the teredo, the special cable pest of
the Mediterranean, does some mis-
chief. This miserable little mollusk, F"
as the cable men call it, first made
itself reputation by eating up
wooden ship hulks. until builders
took to plating them with iron,
and by burrowing into the dikes in
Holland until the whole country was
threatened with inundation. When
the cable came, it took to it at once.
II wriggles its way in between the
steel wires Of the most tightly wrapped
core, and eats away iute aud guttaper-
cha until there is nothing but wire
skeleton left. Happily, however, as
already indicated, our own particular
cable has little to fear from the tere-
do; and the best wish We can give it.
as it lies at the bottom OF the Atlan-
tic, is that it may never have his
tory, and that the time may be long
before the "Faraday" sees it again. =
Henry Muir in McClure's
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-03-03

Instead of diminishing from year
to year the fatalities incident to min
ing in this country seem to be stead
lily increasing. The reports from eight
mining districts of Pennsylvania for
the year ending December l, 1895,
show no less than 1904 accidents, of
which 497 proved fatal Besides re-
sulting in the death OF these miners,
the various disasters of the year pro.
duced 57l orphans aud 225 widows.
In 1895 the accidents numbered only
l,543, of which 39l ended fatally.
The widows numbered lS9 and the
orphans 5l5. In 1894 the records
disclosed only l,433 accidents, with
439 fatalities, ZIG widows and 66G
orphans. These figures show that our
mining laws are seriously defective,
and that something must be done to
check the constantly increasing num-
ber Of fatalities, declares the Atlanta
Constitution. With proper vigilance
on the part Of mine owners there Is
no reason why such tragic accidents
should occur.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-03-03
Measuring Starlight.

Among the current inventions res
corded in the scientific papers is that
of nm instrument by an English in
ventor for accurately measuring the
quantity of light given out by a star,
stars being designated us of the first
down to the twentieth magnitude, NC.
cording to tho intensity of the light
from them. BY this new device the
rough designation of magnitude is
represented by numbers. which give
the exact ratio of one star to another
in light-givingpower, the star Arc
turus, for example, being estim ated
by this means to give rs "a times the
light of Regulus. The amount of light
which reaches the earth from the
stars varies according to the state OF
the atmosphere, and it is claimed that
this instrument will be OF valuable
service not only in astronomy. but in
meteorology also. Do
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-03-03
Sweet Content

Art thou poor, yet hast thou golden slum-
bers2
q sweet content
Art thou rich, yet In thy mind pcrplexcd ?
o punishment
Dost thou laugh to see how fools are
vexed?
To add to golden numbers, golden num-
bers2
o sweet content o sweet content!
Can'st drink the waters of the crispcd
spring2
q sweet content
swimmest thou In wealth yct sinkcth in
thine tears2
punishment
Then he that patiently wants burden
bears,
No burden bears, but ia king, n king
D sweet content D sweet content!
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-03-03
PEARLS or THOUGHT.

Sense shines with double lustre
when set in humility. Penn.
Kindness is wisdom there is mono
in life but needs it, and may learn
Bailey.
Look ut IL this way: The world and
everything in IL is yours to help you
make truo man Of yourself. Rams
Horn.
A religious man making money fast
is just man in n cloud Of dust; it
will fill his eyes II he be not careful.
&C. ii. Spurgeon.
Much of the trouble in this world
is caused by the man with the beam in
his eye trying to point out tho mote
In his brothers eye.
Euter into the business or trade
that you like best and for which ma
ture seems to have fitted you, pro-
vided it is honorable.
Work. The world is not going to
pay you for nothing. Ninety per cent
of what men call talent is only a
genius for hard work.
BE honest. Dishonesty seldom
makes one rich. and when it does
riches are a curse. There is no such
thing as dishonest success. The South
West.
A beautiful and chaste woman is tho
perfect workmanship of God, the true
glory of angels, the rare miracle of
earth, and the sole wonder of the
world. .-Hermes
We can never see this world in its
true light unless we consider our life
in it as state of discipline, a condi-
tion through which we ure passing to
prepare MS for another state beyond.
j. w. Alexander.
The secret of success is concentra-
life or n great work that has gone be-
fore. Taste everything n little, but
live for one thing. Anything is
possible to man who knows his end,
and moves straight for it, and for it
alone. Olive Schreiuer.
Forgiveness of sin is the greatest
boon to the human heart. Other
blessings follow richly in its train.
1t is the keystone of the arch binding
together Gods covenant. 1t is tho
open door through which come troop.
ing the blessings of divine love. Get
this. and you get the key to the store
house. Rev. George Cooper.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-03-03
Farms in England are selling at q

Farms in England are selling at q
ruinous reduction of their former
value, and in many cases cannot he
sold at all Many properties within
two hours ride of London are de-
serted. Recently at the sale OF Lang.
don Abbey 639 acres of land, Will
farmhouse. stabling. homestead and
seven modern cottages, only realized
$2S, 500, or less than $B per acre.
Fifteen years ago the property wa,
valued at over $l00. 600. and foul
years ago it was mortgaged at $40, 900.
In Essex County, within days walk
of the Bank of England, farm which
in 1875 rented for 81. 600. has for the
last five years rented for s. per annum,
the occupant paying the taxes, amount
ing to about $3.50. In many case,
farms have been sold for less than
one-tenth of their value twenty years
ago. Well-tO-do farmers are aban.
doning the business and GO.
ing to the colonies or tc
cities to start life anew. Nor does
there seem to be any hopeful outlook
for the industry in the future. Al.
though the situation is grievous, there
may be some consolation in the fact
that it is worse on the Continent aud
seems to be equally irremediable. We
have not yet suffered SO severely in
this country, adds the New York Trib.
une, but have by no means escaped
the depressing influences which seem
to have fallen on agriculture every
where.