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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-08-24

Godey's Magazine for September con-
talns some special features of timely
interest. Among these may be men
toned the contributions of S. T. Willis,
who writes of women in Religious
Ministry" as development Of the past
half century; Joana Il. Nichols article
on 1.-The Necessity OF Cooperation be-
tween Seamen and surfmen In the Life
Saving Service" giving many points
ON shlpwrecks, with ample Illustration
from photographs and Calvin Dill Will
sons paper on THE Superstltlons OF
the Jews" which tells OF the queer side
beliefs of the Hebrews.
Esther Singleton contributes an In
terestlng article on "The Women Who
Influenced Byron" treating the subject
from a woman's point of view; and
Rev. Erwin II. Richards tells of Life
In Mozambique"
The illustrations of this autumn issue
are very plentiful and original and ap-
ply with pertlnence to the subjects of
the artlcles.-'The Cooley Company, La
fayette Place, New York,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-08-24

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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-08-24

Julien Gordon (Mrs, Van Rensselaer,
Cruger) has used for her last novel a
study OF New York, Newport and Bos-
ton life, which promises to be read with
wide interest by all who are interested
in American fashionable life, No one
knows the society OF these three CEN
tiers of fashion better than Mrs. Cruger
From her girlhood up she has had eV-
cry opportunity to observe and we have
had no American woman Of more brill
liant powers, not only of reading the
human heart, hut of putting her i'm
pressions in delightful fashion
A charmlngly fresh Massachusetts
girl is sacrificed in her youth to the am
bltion Of "rIch marriage" Deprived
OF love, she throws herself into the race
for social leadership, and we follow for
twenty years, with ever-increasing In
terest, the career of this able and beau
tifu woman as she captures outpost
after outpost, falling In Boston only to
change her base OF operations to Eng
land, and then attacking the main
works of the enemy at New York, and
so on to Newport, and finally beholds
the capltulation OF Boston itself. The
first chapters open in the September
Cosmopolitan. sHeN r'-a'. f
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-08-24

frhe iNTELLIGENcER. embracing its
several editions, is entered in the Post
office at Wheeling, W. Va. as second-class
matter.1
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-08-24
Decorate on

CITY OF WHEELING.
OFFICE OF THE MAYOR,
CITY HALL, August %, 1897.

To the People of Wheeling,
Wednesday is Merchants Day, and in
recognition OF the proprietlea OF the occa-
sion, ask all business men and citizens
OF Wheeling generally to decorate their
buildings on that day, in honor OF our In
vited guests.
Our out-of-town friends are our friends
by all our citizens.
Let everybody aid in making Wednesday
pleasant for our guests,
JOHN RANDOLPH BUTTS,
au2i Mayor OF Wheeling.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-08-24

Let me raise the wheat of the coun-
try. and care not who talks its poll
tics" is now the farmers motto,-Baltl-
more American.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-08-24
Pretty Dishes

. Are a mark OF refinement They
. make the plainest dinner taste bet
- ter They make the sugar sweeter'
- and the butter more golden, They
- make an artistic pleasure OF eating,
- We have very beautiful line OF
- crockery, China and Glassware,
- Everything In the store is pretty
. and dainty, The prices are varied.
. A few may interest you. Dinner
. Sets, Game Sets, etc.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-03

churned and mixed with the earth by
passing teams until the road becomes a
veritable slough of despond. Surface
coatings of gravel or broken stone are of
little use without ample surface and IN
der drainage for they are soon sunxen
out of sight and the soft and lighter
earth comes constantly to the top. With
good surface and under drainage and well
rounded top the road will nearly always
be dry and smooth. Then a surface
coating of gravel of finely broken stone
or vitrifed clay will make an excellent
and lasting roadway.
These seem to have been the principles
adopted by the government in the con-
struction of the old Cumberland road.
The initial act of congress made ample
drainage an important and leading feat
ure and provided that the road should be
built with stone, earth, gravel or sand.
And the wisdom of these provisions is at
tested in the enduring character of the
structure, for although cast off by the
general government half a century ago,
and turned over to the too often neglect
full care of local authorities, it is said to
still be good road throughout its entire
length from the state of Illinois to the
city of Washington.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-03
PEARL BRYAN TRAGEDY.
Well Remembered = Fake Memento
Sales Not Patronized.

Cincinnati, June 3.-Some excitement
was caused in Cumminsville one day
last week by the advent of two young
men who were selling a book giving the
life and execution of Jackson and Wal
ling and offering as an extra inducement
to each purchaser a ribbon basket which
they declared had been made by the I'M
fortunate men in Jail.
Every person they approached had
kept pretty well posted in the Pearl Bry-
an tragedy. and while it was known that
Jackson and Walling had made a few
such baskets in jail. it was also known
that they had given them to their friends
chiefly, and at any event had made so
few of them that they could not be given
away with each cheap book sold. It was
believed that the young men were prac>
ticing an imposition and they were told
SO, whereupon they hastily departed for
other fields where there was a better
prospect for suckers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-03
DURRANT HANGING PARTY
900 Invitations Will be Issued for the
Event


San Francisco, June 3.-There will be
200 invitations issued for the execution of
Durrant. Warden Hale has fixed 10;30 a.
M, as the hour of execution. Twenty
five medical men will be permitted to wit
ness the tragedy. At the request of his
attorneys, Durrant yesterday made a for
NAL demand for release, claiming to be
unjustly imprisoned. This will be part
of the appeal to the supreme court and
is to cover the point which might be
made that by failing to protest and de-
mand his liberty he had lost the right to
complain.
The appeal raises point which, ac-
cording to the statement of Durrant's
counsel, has never been raised in this
state and must be decided before Durrant
can be hanged. The contention is Judge
Bahr's inflicted two penalties, imprison>
ment and death, while the law says one
or the other Counsel will hold that Dur
rants life in San Quentin is not deten-
ton, but imprisonment; that the position
of the attorney general is untenable, as
life in the county jail carries with it, no
shaving, stripes and no insignia, other
than detention. This statement will also
be heard in the federal court where it
is expected that the same action will be
taken as in the Worden case-that of
securing a writ of habeas corpus.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-03
COLLEGE PROF. WAR.
Secretary Gage Between the Fires OF
Two Schools of Politics

Washington, June 3.-Secretary Gage is
between the fires of the two schools of
political economy. He has received over
100 letters from as many college profess
sors. 1t seems probable that many more
will come, for nearly every mail adds to
the collection. The contention is over the
office of chief of the bureau of statistics.
Mr.. Gage did not realize how great was
the interest of the educational institu-
tons of the country in the figures OF
trade until these letters began to arrive.
The professors divide sharply on the tar
in issue. Those who are free traders in
theory got in their work earliest. They
preponderate in the New England col
leges They wrote in such numbers, urg-
ing the retention of the present head OF
the bureau, that the secretary was inn
pressed. They paid high tribute to the
worth of the statistical reports furnished
by the bureau. But more recently the
professors from institutions in protection
states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana
and Illinois have been writing. These tell
the secretary that the present manage
ment of the bureau is very unsatisfac-
tory. They do not exactly assert that
figures lie, but they insist that the re-
ports are worthless for the information
desired by the believers in the doctrine
of protection.
Mr.. Gage is taking good deal of inter-
est in the battle of the professors. He
has not yet attempted to weigh either
side. The present chief of the bureau.
in whose behalf the free trade econo~
mists have written, is Worthington Ford.
The grievance of the protectionists is
that Mr.. Ford during the four years he
has had the office has so arranged and
altered the statistical tables that they do
not make the benefits of that theory Of
political economy as distinct the fig
ures justify.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-03
STARSAND BARSTORN DOWN
Students at Northwestern University
Destroy an OfendIng Confed-
erafa Flag.

Chicago, June 3-"Pul down the rebel
fag!' was the cry of excited students
which rang out over the campus at
Northwestern university in Evanston
yesterday afternoon.
The offending stars and bars Haunted
from the window of Freshman George
Washington S1nner-but not long.
The flag was pulled down by the en-
ragged students and torn to bits while
goods struggled with chrysanthemum-
haired youths for pieces of the bunting
as souvenirs.
Skinner is a student in Garrett Biblical
institute. He is southron, from Hall
fax, N. s., and cherishes the memory of
the war in which his father fought
Yesterday noon he flung a large con-
federate flag to the breeze, mailing the
staff to the sill of his third-story dor
mitory window. It's size dwarfed the
smaller STARS and Stripes in the win
dows of northern youths around.
For awhile the confederate bunting
tapped undisturbed, though students
passing to and from recitations gazed
wonderingly at the emblem their fathers
had fought to lower. But at 4 o'clock,
when the halls were crowded with col
Iegians, someone's patriotism found vent
in the shout:
Lets pull down the rebel fag!"
RUSH FOR THE FLAG.
A general rush for Hicks hall followed.
The students poured out of University
hall and across the campus to the Bib
dornitory in an ever-increasing, excited
host. Some picked up stones or sticks as
they ran, and, while others rushed into
the building, gathered ominousIy outside
and looked threateningly up at the de-
faint flag.
McCluskey, the foot ball player, led the
broke in SINNERS door. The big SOUTH
ron faced his threatening visitors un>
finchingly and demanded their errand.
I'VE want that flag DOWN. cried Nc
CIuskey.
''Well. it don't come down." was Skin
ner's defiant reply.
His words were the signal for rush.
Skinner squared himself before the vim
dow, and. great as the odds were, there
was a tough scrimmage in sight But the
students outside settled the matter before
any casualties happened.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-03
LUCKY BALDWIN's NEMESIS
The Woman Who Attempted His
Life Still Pursues Him.

San Francisco, June "a large audi
ence was at the auditorium to witness
the living picture exhibition in which
Lucky Baldwin has SO prominent a.
part.
The programme was unique, each pic
ture being furnished with a legend. In
the first an actor is dressed to person
ate Lucky" Baldwin kneeIing before
Miss Ashley He is made to say: 4
love you, Lillian! Oh, how I love you
In the second picture Baldwin is re-
fusing the appeals of the mother and
babe for aid, and saying: mo; not a
cent
The story throughout is told largely
in an categorical style after the manner
of the old mystery and miracle
plays
Speaking of her attempt to sell Bald
win tickets to the performance, Miss
Emma Ashley said today:
4 saw him and 1 rushed into the no.
tel to have an interview, for had been
! was going up street with Mrs Carrie
Clark Ward, on a Powell street car, SO
I got off and hurried into the hotel.
Baldwin was much excited when I APP
peared and he moved his hands like an
old woman, nervOusly urging me to
go This was great amusement for the
office boys and those assembled for
they had been accustomed to seeing me
make frequent trips through the hotel
IN search for my niece'S father, and
they were prepared for the fun, but the
old man would not put uD &. cent for
tickets and would not give any en-
enlargement, so I said: Wen have to
meet again, some day. CTOOd-by until
/ meet you alone some day, when we
can have q quiet conversation and
with that I left
Miss Ashley says she was approached
by a man who asked how much she
would take to cancel her enga cement at
the auditorium, and she replied that it
would be worth about 81, 600.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-03
LIBBY PRISON TO GO.
Famous Old Building Will Be Moved
to WashinPton.

Chicago, June 3.-Libby prison will soon
be closed. The Appomattox table, the
first oil portrait of Grant, and all the
other pictures, documents, cannon, RI
fes, shot and shell forming the collec-
ton of American war relics, probably
will find a resting place in Washington.
D. c. The Chicago prison building will
return to its original condition a
warehouse, unless the owners should
change their plans and remove it to am
other part of the city.
Financial considerations are RESPONSE
BILE for the contemplated change. Ac>
cording to Charles F. Gunther, who man
ages the property for the company own
ing it, the prison has attracted compare
lively few visitors lately, while the
ground on which it stands has become too
valuable for its present use. The site oc-
cupies a frontage of 2S5 feet on the east
side of Wabash avenue, near Fifteenth
street. The company has a ninety-nine>
year lease, of which ninety-three years
are unexpired. Mr.. Gunther claims that
the lease is worth $1,000 a foot frontage.
the land being the largest available plat
within such short distance of the business
center of the city.
The original Libby prison at Richmond,
Va, was purchased by a syndicate OF
Chicagoans in 1890, prominent among the
nasse, w. H. Gray, I. L. Gould, Stewart
Spalding and Charles E. Kremer. Plans
and photographs of the building as it
stood were taken and it was then care
fully taken apart, placed on special trains
and brought to Chicago, and as carefully
rebuilt on the present site. The work
was completed in 1892. During the
Worlds fair it was visited by many
thousands of people and the owners
netted during the season more than $780,
900. Since that time the number of Wis
itors has been very small and confined
almost entirely to out-of-town people.
Mr. Gunther says that thousands of
Chicagoans are not aware that the city
possesses the only historical war collec-
ton in the country. He believes that
Washington is the proper location for the
exhibition and says that the owners will
probably build home for it there. 1t is
just possible that the prison may be
moved to a less valuable site, in which
case the collection of relics will remain
in the city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-03
MRS. BUKNETT'S NOVEL.
She Expects to Have the Book Com
pIeted in Ninety DAYS,

pleted in Ninety Days.
Washington, June 3.-Mrs. Frances
Hodgson Burnett is writing a new nine
ty-day novel. It is to be delivered to the
printers by the first of August, and will
be published in the late autumn.
At the present time only the first chap
ter has been written, but Mrs. Burnett
is a rapid writer and rarely changes her
manuscript. It goes to the printers just
as she writes it down each day.
The new novel is to be called ''The
Duke of Osmonde.'' 1t is to be a sequel
to the now famous "a Lady of Quality
though not by any means a continuation
of that story.
1.-The Duke of Osmonde' will be a char
acter study after the manner of "A Lady
of Quality" and will begin with the
birth of his grace as the loved child of
distinguished parents, who welcome his ap-
pearance in life by feasting among the
tenantry, the ringing of bells and blazing
of bonfires. The environments that go to
make up his sterling worth of character
are to form the motif of the novel.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-03
Rheumatism Cured in a Dav.

Mystic Cure for rheumatism and
Neuralgia radically cures in l to 3 days
It's action upon the system is remark
able and mysterious. It removes al
once the cause and the disease imme-
diately disappears. The first dose great
ly benefits T. F. Anthony, ex-post-
master of Promise City, Iowa, says: II
bought one bottle of Mystic Cure" for
rheumatism, and two doses of it did
me more good than any medicine ever
took" Sold by Swift & Holiday, drug
Eists. 523 Kansas avenue. Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-03
Apples and Watermelons "Ripe."

Chicago, June 3-The two latest pill
grims welcomed to the arms of the local
congregated fruit family were water.
melons from Florida and new apples
from Crystal Springs, Miss. The melons
were small, but sold readily at fancy
prices The apples brough 81 per fiat
case containing four baskets. Green veg
etables were in light supply, nor was
much stock wanted by the trade.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-03
COTTON FIRM FAILS.
One of the Largest Concerns in Ar
kansas in the Hands of a Receiver.

Little Rock, Ark, June 3.-The FAX
in Store company at Washington, Ark,
one of the largest plantation supply
firms in Arkansas, has gone into the
hands of D. G. Hart as receiver on ap-
pIication of W. p. Eakin, president of
the company. No statement has yet
been filed. but it is known that the LA
bilities will largely exceed the assets.
Heavy losses in cotton for the last
five years caused the failure. Owing to
the shrinkage of property values the
firm will hardly be able to pay so cents
on the dollar. if is said
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-03

We take special pains in laundering
ladies' shirt waists. Peerless Steam
Laundry, 112 and ia West Sth st.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-03

We do nending and sew on buttons
free of charge. Peerless Steam Laundry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-03

Health and happiness abide with
those whose medicine is Ayers Sarsa-
parilla-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-03

had a constant flutter-
ing of tine heart and
severe palpitation and
pain in the left side.
She took three bottles
OF DR.. Miles New Heart
Cure and was Complete
ly restored to health,
and has NOT taken a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-03

Shirts, collars and cuffs Iaundered
to look like new by Peerless Steam
Laundry 112 and ia West Sth St.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-03

Crescent Bicycles. Kitchen & Marburg.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-10-01
Birds Puzzled by Kites.

Many amusing experiences have been
the lot of the scientists who have been
kites for scientific pur-
poses. Large birds are always interest
ed in the strange devices floating in the
air and cannot quite make out what
they are. Prompted by sharp curiosity.
they hover around the floating kites
and subject themselves to the danger Of
becoming entangled in the silken string
and being dragged down to earth.
No bird, however, has ever alighted
on a kite or attacked one, says the Chi
cago News. While one scientist was
flying a train Of Ave kites couple Of
years ago a large silver-tipped eagle
came suddenly out Of the higher air
and swooped round and round the first
kite, looking against the sunset sky
like huge silver ball. As the train OF
kites was pulled in the eagle followed,
visiting one kite and then another
seeming uncertain just what to do. In
a few minutes when he seemed to have
decided that they were not good to eat
and he knew nothing about them any
way, he Indignantly few of and wal
lost to view.
Another experience was had with Z
stork that came from the New Jerse!
side Of the Hudson and flew straigh
for the queer object in the air. He ap
parently had made up his mind to g
straight through 1t, but changed ant
dived underneath it. He went aroun'
and above it, and through a glass
could be seen that he cooked his eye a
the intruder in a most comical manner
He started away few hundred feet
changed his mind and came swOOpin
back. He finally reluctantly went away
mystified over this queer addition t
the inha bitants of the air.
While kites were high in the air on
March fiocks of geese flying in the '
wedge flew over. They invariabl
stopped, broke up and lowered abor
the queer object, and at last slowly n
formed and few away. While the larl
er birds all come from heights abov
the kites, the small birds OF the air wi
alight on the string holding the XII
and sway to and fro.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-10-01
THE MoNEyLess MAN.


uafdships Of IN xxoeri1eatal ana
Amateur Trsnp.
1t was nearing noon, and I was very
hungry. The question Of earning q
meal was no longer an interesting spec
ulation, but a pressing necessity. I
turned all my attention to that. A
large Iron gateway leading into ce,ne-
terry attracted me. Several ragged. tow
headed children were playing about the
lodge. One Of them told me that his
father was inside, and he indicated the
general direction of the tombstOnes. l
found the digger sweating freely In a
half-hnished grave, and instantly offer
ed my help as a means Of earning a
dinner. The grave-d:gger was an Irish
man. He leaned at ease upon his spade,
and sOberly looked me over. and then
declined my offer. He was polite, but
not at all a communicative man, and
he met my advances with the one re-
mark that his "old woman" was not at
home.
A little farther ON l saw three women
In pursuit Of hen. eagerly volunteer
ed my help. and asked for a dinner in
payment. They quit the chase, and
stood confronting me with serious
faces. while eloquently pleaded my
readiness to help them. Nothing In the
situation seemed to strike them as
strange or irregular. but they touched
upon 1t with short, grave speech. until
l had the feeling Of something mOmen-
tous, and accepted their refusal with
sense Of relief.
At last In the outskirts Of the village
of Westport l found a man moving
his lawn, and he was willing to give
me dinner for completing the work
My final success in getting an odd jolt
was a splendid stimulus. l urged the
mower over the lawn with vigOr that
surprised me, and the dinner which
ate In the dim corner Of an immaculate
kitchen was liberal return for the
labor.
All that long summer afternoon
went from house to house, asking sub
scriptiOns for the magazine. The racl
would have been easier upon my feel
ings, but was eager to discover som,
ready way Of approaching people. No
even the loafers at the station were II
the least inclined to share their com
pany with me. At nightfall earned, b.
saving wood for an hour. a supper an,
the right to sleep in an unused barn.
Scribner's.