The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-03-11
HERB AND THERE

A visitor in Wheeling yesterday, was
Mr.. w. II. Sloan, of Cincinnati. In
the course of an interesting converse
ton with the Here and There" man,
Mr. Sloan, who was recently In Mexico,
told OF some Of the customs Of the peo-
pie Of the lesser Republic south Of us.
| II In interesting to quote his views OH
silver Before the election In the United
States. said Mr.. Sloan, silver was at 81
cents, but now It has decreased to ~
and he expects to gee II 10 down TO %
cents. Silver Is losing Its old time i'm
portance In the arts, Just as II Is losing
It's position as u money standard. Al
lumInum Ii fast taking the place OF sill
yer In hundreds OF articles. and OF
course as aluminium gets cheaper silver
Is bound to suffer,
Speaking OF MexieRns. Mr.. Sloan
says that all of the 100000 inhabl-
tants OF the republic, probably only
1000. 900 know what 1t Is 10 live as the
average American worklnHman lives.
] The lO,O0O,0O0 ara mostly half breed
"peons" who receive on the average OF
eighteen cents day for shOvellng dirt.
working In the fields or carrying silver
out OF the mines. And this eighteen
cents represents In the deprecated
Mexican silver standard currency, less
than nine cents In American money.
With flour at $40 barrel and ham at
dollar a pound, and other provisions
ut like high prices. It Is not necessary
TO add that the 'peon" doesn't indulge
IN such luxurles With crude hand
mill he brushes corn which Is made into
"A lIlFa article Of food costing
little. but quite palHtable even to
AmeTcans.
Mr. Sloan has great scheme" that
he hopes TO push through in the fu-
ture. In tho City OF Mexico there are
eight daily newspapers with circula-
lions agGregatlng $4,000 copies. Two
of these papers are In the English Lam
guage. and the others are In Spanish
In only two of the newspaper offices
Is steam power used. In the others
eighteen cent daV "Qeon" turns the
crank on the old-fashionpd cylinder
presses that are sometimes seen In
country offices In this country, And In
oil their methods these Mextcon newspa
per makers ara away behind the times.
Mr.. Sloan will introduce an injection OF
American enterprise II the Mexican
congress will make a concession he has
applied for.
HIS scheme Is something as follows:
There are five paper mills in the re-
public, and for these the government
has put into force prohlbltory tar
IN on paper. News paper that sells for
three cents a pound in the United
States. costs eighteen cents pound In
Old Mexico (nIne cents in American
money!. The paper Is inferior IN quail
~, and the kind that Is on rolls for use
in perfecting presses Is not made ut all,
import roll paper free OF duty. II this
concession IS granted he viii take two
fine perfecting presses to Mexico (they
have none there now, together with
thirty MerE.Lnthnler typesettInE ma
chimes and as many operators, and do
the mechanical work for the eight daily
papers III Mexico City. He can make
such Inducements that one daily paper,
THE Two Republics" can save $500
week, and the others will be enablN to
get out their papers cheaper In proper
ton. quite scheme, chi
AN urchIn OF tender years, but Of vast
experience in eluding Chief Bcnrett's
guardians OF the peace. met newspa-
per man yesterday and made an appeal
for space Ia this mornings Intelligent
GER 1t Is an appeal to boyhoOd memo
r!es and is directed to all Wheeling po-
lice officers. Here Il Is, Just as the
young scribe penned II:
Now Messrs. Policemen; when you
We're boys did the policemen ever
chase you from ore place TO another
and when ever they caught you did
they ever give you q whipping just be-
cause you played n little while on the
street corner after school was out, and
before supper was ready? And did you
like It.? And did you ever come so near
getting caught that you could feel the
air whi8tling around your ear made by
motion OF the polieceman's arm when
he grabbed at you? and did you Ike
that? II not, why don't you do to 9TH
ers as you would like to be done by?
A BOY.
At the launching of the Eunboat
wheeling" at San Francisco next
week. Il IL probable no Wheeling people
will be present. The local gunboat
committee has deferred Its trip TO the
coast until June, when the cabin SER
vice will be presented. after the gun
boat has received Its complete equip
ment The Marietta committee will be
In San Francisco next week 10 be pres"
cnt at the launching Of the Marietta"
the "WheellnGs" sister craft.
Artistic people the world over are
afflicted with an overdose Of the bump
Of contention. Musicians. more than
others, are usually addicted TO the habit
OF saying mean things about each other,
wheelIng's musical colony isn't without
this characteristic. In fact. visitor
said the other day that he had never
visited city In the entire country-and
he's a traVeier-where there Is so much
pickering as there In among Wheeling
musicians and musical people.
The proposed exhibition OF photograph.
lc work by Wheeling and over-the-rIver
amateurs this spring viii probably as
sumo definite shape very soon. The
idea has met with a hearty reception,
and as Wheellng's amateurs produce
a very high class OF work, some beautl-
full exhibits would surely be In evidence,
The Messrs Bullnrd. OF the BullRrd
Camera Company, will donate camera
as a prize, and other manufacturers will
contribute generously.
Shelf BROS. Jewelry Auction, $50
and 7:30 p. m.