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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-08-22

a good one he must pay more than he
would for a good horse or about the
same average in the animal world. You
can get, in these days of bicycle COM
petition, a very fine horse for 500.
On the other hand you will have to
take a donkey with many gray marks
on him and without many fine points
if s10e is all you want to pay.
AS you 90 higher the prices change.
The highest price you can pay for a
donkey is 81 ,000 This sum was
brought by a famous donkey stallion in
the auction rooms not long ago. The
finest horse will, of course, bring much
more. But up to a certain point don
key costs more than any other pleasure
animal.
The fashionable cart is fancy one.
They make little square wicker ones
with covers OF gay awning cloth.
These are favorite for late summer and
fall driving. Then there is the high
little trap that looks very smart with
the shining black steed in front OF 1t.
These come at all prices from S4S
upward, according to what you want
Many persons purchase secondhand
donkey carts, buying them from others
who have got tired of that particular
STYLE of vehicle. In buying donkey
cart remember that you are getting |,
for an animal that weights only about
600 pounds and that does not expect tc
stand over fourteen hands high. Mos
donkeys measure up twelve and thlr
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easy. We rode UP the corduroy road to
Browns lumber camp. See this gap in
my upper jaw where there used to be
three respectable. lsw-abidin teeth. Well,
that gap is souvenir Of the trip. The
teeth are reposin' in some Of the crevasses
of the corduroy road When I got home
my family physician was three weeks
gettin my limbs back to their original
places.
But speakin' Of fshin', III brooks n
rivers up that way amt celebrated for
their smoothness n lack of powders n
bushes: I lost six hooks in six bushes in
six seconds, n fell off tn top o. as many
rocks into the water, n wuz pulled out
by my friends when I wuzent assistin'
them in similar situations.
ave wuz in the wilderness a mile away
from tn lumber camp when It started 10
rain. l think II wuz a ud-burst, n
We wuz on the edge Of tn cloud. Then
we had to run back TO camp for cover
Crawford led the retreat. You orter seen
me pourin tn water outer my boots.
After tn rain we started right in fish,
in again. At $50 in ,--e afternoon got a
bite n il was so sudden like n surpris-
in that I fell into tn brook again =
tn fish got away six rods with my line
n pole. before 7 overhauled tn outfit
The fish hung onto the hook. I knew
them hooks wuz good ones. 1 played with
tn fish awhile n skillfully landed it,
Blamed II it wuzn't one OF them little
sunfsh what We keteh at Massabesic, n
it looked ike it wuz q hundred years old.
I found four hooks in it when I cut It up
for bait.
That's the only fish I caught all day.
I didn't have the nerve 20 bring il
home TO my wife er the neighbors But
Crawford said tn water wuz too high. or
muddy. or simethiD' else, but I think on
tn dead that he had EN- corralled up
in tn mountains fer his summer boarders.
Anyway he says II We come up there mex
fall he'll give Us sum good deer shootin.
n that's my great holt. "-Manchester
Union.
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WENT FISHING
Hooks for Trout We're Big Enough to
Catch WalruSeS.
Worms for Bait That Were From
Eight Inches to Two Feet Long.
Thus Equipped He Managed to
Finally Land a Little Suntish.

Talk about fishing, why you might
just as we'll so right out here to Mead
Uw Brook, or some other little stream,
and fish, as 10 so way OF a hun
dred miles or So. You'll have just as
much fishing, and ten to one you'll
catch just as many fish,, said he, as he
licked the ashes off a ten-cents-a-boX
cigar.
well. l guess mebbe you've been
fiishin' way OF somewhere yourself,
amt ye?" casually remarked the gen.
tleman with red hair and four or five
large terra Gotta freckles.
Well, mebbe.'
"Ketch anything?"
'Yaas; cold.
NO fish,"
Well, not worth mentionin'."
"Where'd We go?'
"T'moun'tinS."
Way up?"
Mt Washington"
Ought ter caught some fish up
there" unused the freckles and red
whiskers. Il understan' there's some
mighty good brooks up that way"
20, the brooks are all right, but
there amt no fish. leastwise they want
none where 1 flshed."
HIN guess they must a-knowed you
was comm
Mop. that is the fish didn't. but
Crawford did. Know Crawford? Nope?
Halt your life's gone. Jolly sort.
Keeps a hotel up in tn highlands.
Knows how TO entertain all right.
Why, you know him. Was q member
Of Legislature; got a postofice, too.
in the general roundup. He's all
right, Crawford is"
= hadn't never been away from
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-08-22
II Is to Be Built in Russia With American
Dredges and Canal Machinery
27FFFTDEEP TO FLOAT THE BIG BATTLESHIPS.
pu+ Scheme of Every Car from the Time of Peter
The Great.
IWITnG RESULTS OF ELECTRIC EXPERIMENTS ON ERIE CANAL

for her iron and steel products, and
also a possible cheapening OF food pro-
ducts.
Unless Russia barbados the canal
and keeps out all foreign powers Ger
MANY will benefit almost equally with
il. And Russia's foreign policy has al
ways been most liberal.
With all Of the improved dredging
and canal machinery Of the United
States, it is believed that this country
ought to get in on the profits to be had
in the construction OF this canal The
vast superiority of American tools is
freely admitted abroad. The only OBJ
lection is their price.
The building of this canal will be
watched with much interest by those
who have canal projects in view for our
interior cross-cOuntry transportation
If the old scheme of the Cars" works
we'll the idea may be carried out here
with a finish that Russia would envy.
CLARENCE S. RUSSELL.
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New York. August 22.-For some
lime past employees Of the Russian gov.
eminent have been making inquiries OF
dredging contractors to get the 1gures
mon canal which Russia has had 10
mind for centuries, and which has been
under constant discussion since the days
of Peter the Great. o-,.,.a
This canal will connect the Baltic ana
the Black Seas. and will shorten pas
senger and shipping traffic by one-haf.
Resides having the Trans-SlDerlan
Railroad which is the longest railroad
in the world. Russia is planning to have
the longest and biggest canal In the
world. II is "the old scheme OF the
cars" and the life dream Of Peter the
Great to connect the Baltic with the
BLACK Sea. In one Of his messages TINS
monarch saws: Until sail from the
the Baltic TO the Black Sea shall feel
nv reign is incomplete"
A WARLIKE MOVE.
While the commercial Importance OF
this project will be immense, the STRAIT
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lgic importance will be beyond all cali
collation.. Russia has lOnged for way
70 get into her great sea on the south
without any interference from Turkey.
Now Ter dreams are about to be real
ICED. she can sail around herself al
most and protect every border-line with
her enormous navy.
IL is q greater scheme than ever De
Lesseps had in his Panama Canal, and
il will 90 through. for the Russian gov
eminent has money.
This canal, while nominally 1000
miles long. will really not be canal
for all that distance. Advantage will
be taken Of several rivers in the path,
and they will be improved and deep
ened. The canal viii connect Riga and
the Baltic, at the mouth Of the Dvina
river. with Cherson. on the Black Sea,
at the mouth of Dneiper From the
Dyina the canal will so by Dvinaburg
TO Lepel, and through the BereSlna and
Dneiper rivers to ChersOn. As the
canal is TO float the biggest battleships
OF the world. il will be 21S feet wide at
the surface and rs at the base, with a
depth Of over p feet.
Ships that hitherto went by way or
the Atlantic. Mediterranean and the
Sea Of Marmora, taking more than u
days. will make the passage through
this canal in only six days Basins are
built by the near Pinks and harbOrs at
ell important points along the lines.
PRESENT ESTIMATE OF COST,
S95.20O, 600.
The cost Of the canal, measured in
dollars, is put down at about S95-2OO,-
coo. or course, before it is finished
the price Russia has paid will far eX-
cSed this, but Russia has money
enough. The canal is to be open for
frafic day and night and the speed to
be maintained is placed at seven miles
an hour. What the method Of prOpul-
sion will be is not yet decided.
Perhaps in five years, the time al
lowed for completion, America, the land
III daring experiments. will have dem
Bnstrated in her Erie canal that e,ec-
|tric propulsion with transmitted power
derived from Niagara Falls is wholly
practicable. Russia is waiting for this,
and her experts are watching the Nj
|Rgara experiment with interest.
arGRussia's next-doOr EeighbOr, Ger
is nightly interested in this
Cor she sees in it new market
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home to fish before, you know. n
rather laid myself out to ketcn
string worth ketchin'. / think told
my wife I'd bring home hall pusnel
or som one or two big ones sne
could stuff'n' put on the parlor mantei,
M 7 dunno but l might er mentioned
IN several neighbors t I'd remember
them with a few choice speckled beau
ties from the north country.
Here the narrator paushed and blew
= r;ro of cerulean smoke over into
the red whiskers.
eve forgot to buy fishlines before
we left home, but we got some at kel-
soe's. Kelsoe keeps store near CIaw>
ford's. We got some bang-up INES
all silk. and warranted to ketcn any
thing in the trout line from halr an
ounce I'D to half yard. Then we
hougbt some fish hooks. / might men
tom nv the way, that a fisherman
from Lancaster told us when we got
hack to Crawford's that those hooks
ives intended to ketch cod with, OF
wsIrusses. or some other thing.
"H'm must have been near slgnted
when We bought them hooks, WASH I
ye?"
"No. sir. them hooks wuz all right
They Just war'nt no fish, that's al.
Don't We s'pose 1 know what hooks
are? N worms, we'll, If they don !
grow the goldingedest worms UP tnaI
way that l ever see, then I'll treat.
Al the sound of the word treat inc
red vbiskers and freckles started per
ceptibly, but uselessly
"Wen. sir, them worms wuz all tn
way I'm eight inches to two foot long
reglar snakes-the red whiskers had
spasm here-'n' thinks 1, tn troutu JumI
! at 'em like er bull at er red silk waist Oh
a summer boarder.
1--WE had our choice Of brooks, but We
wuzn't particular. We knowed, or a
| least we'd been assured, that them hst
wuz lust a-lyin' waitin fur US, n so W.
! tackled the fust brook we come to. Their
we tackled the whole business.
But, by tn way,did We ever ride owe
| a corduroy road in blackboard? Neve
! did? Well. you orto once. anyway. IT,
great stuff. Say, if you've got girl o.
a creditor at you want to shake, just TAX
EN- TO ride on a corduroy road. Tall
about ridin' bronchos. Them animals i
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reliAes scattered abouE mediatcly
the Servants begin brinS & on the
broilsd Holsters. and soon ypu are az
worklupon the sayory dish. 'eating 4
from the shell with silver fork while
the attendant passes you the jug o.
melted butter and offers you salt crack
ers, lradishes aud celery.
That is Gladstone lunch.
BY your side lies a menu card which
you will take home with you as
treasure. II is q fac-simile recipe for
cooking broiled lobster. IL is in the
handwriting of William e. Gladstone
and is executed upon note paper pre-
cisely like his, in black ink. and with
these irregular margins for which he
is noted. Everything about the recipS
looks as il 1t were Just from the pen
of the Grand Old Man.
MKINLEY BREAKFASTS.
Another day you are invited to .
Mckinley breakfast" Here you find
the environment quite different. The
breakfast is served at the fashionable
second breakfast" hour, noon, and the
hostess meets you in her newest break
fast gown You are IN your shirt waist
and sailor hat You are greeted upon
a piazza and Immediately you adjourn
to the lawn, where you seat yourself TO
a shining coffee urn and a cloth that Is
richly embroidered with designs in snow
! white. There is peculiar appetizing
snowiness to the table; nothing Is in
colors.
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rive you find yourself served with the
favorite dish of the one after whom
the feast is named, and cooked in his
;avorite way.
II you are invited to a Gladstone
luncheon" you know what to exepect.
The table is spread under the trees,
and. when you seat yourself there is
the snowy cloth before you and a few
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-08-22

a team of donkeys, with accommoda-
tions for two people in front and a iit-
tie groom up behind. IN
Men who have dealt In donkeys al
their lives say that the activity IN the
donkey market is unprecedented anu
can only account for it by the Superior
ity of the present supply of animals.
Meanwhile there is talk OF Donhsy
Show with all the best donkeys III Inc
country there to see and De seen.
HARVEY LINCOLN.
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THE SOUVENIR

teen hands, and even down to eleven
hands, but that is small.
The donkey cart used to be relocated
to the children and nursery maids with
their charges, but during the past sum-
mer so many fashionable people have
ridden in them at very high-toned
summer resorts that they have taken a
wonderful stride toward popularity.
The finest Of these carts are drawn by
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Souvenir TEA PARTIES.
Favors Are Cards Engraved With Re-
cipeS Written by Famous Hands
A Gladstone" Luncheon-1t Had
the Old Premier's Favorite Broh-
ed Lobster for the Principal Dish.
Feasts a la Depew. Mckinley,
Tesla.

Hyde Park, August 21.-lt Is all the
fashion here to give feasts out of doors
in the shape OF Il o'clock breakfasts,
8 o'clock luncheons and o'clock teas.
These feasts are named after some
one famous person. and when you ar
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WARRANTED TO CURE.

Patient-Doctor. I am very short Of
breath.
Doctor-oh. well, we'll soon stop
that.-Yale Record.
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you partake OF fruit
air OF expectancy. IN
! OF the feast beignZ
comes On installmeI
| breads are brought I'm.
the secret OF which was 4
ton. There are corn BIRD
you get in Virginia, and them
land mullins, with nothing
die and a faky outside. AID
you will get some Of th2 q.
gems OF Missouri that hay
them except graham nouI
water, yet melt like
mouth.
These hot breads arm
recipes OF the ladlS9 in O.
Doubtless you haze tasted tho
they are wells Known In Washine
1T a Mckinley breakfast they are all
i, brought out and the Presidents favor
lite stands In the centre. This IS tho
square pan OF corn bread, made ms they
can't make Il everywhere. The sow
enirs at this breakfast are fac simiiea
Of the handwriting Of the ladies' OF tho
Wilson, Gage, Alger, Sherman and Nc
kinley families
A DEPEW TEA.
A DepeW tea is oftenest given be-
cause IL is so easy 10 prepare. IL con-
sists OF fruit OF every kind, stony,
seedy, green and red, brown and purple
every kind OF summer fruit Tea Is
served with the fruit and all kinds OK
cake. And the souvenir card reads:
MY Dear Madam: Since you ask Nla
for my fayorite dish / must give Il.
although It has always been kept as a
confidential one with myself. / have
never told Il before. / like plum as
purple as the light In a girls eyes un-
der the moon. / like pear as golden az
the sun when Il shines upon a midsum-
mer day. Give me an apple az red az
the cheeks OF a child and a cherry IS
ripe as the lips of-well, Of the prettIess
gil you know. These, with oranges,
apricots and the other fruits OF the sea-
son, are my faYorlte dishes.
"CHAUNCEY VI. DEPEW."
This letter causes great deal %
Amusement in the reading and makes
the tee go of as merrily az though Mr..
Depew himself were there TO help Il
along
TESLA'S WEIRD FEAST.
A Tesla tea is the most remaTkabls
feagt OF all. It is held under the trees
at dusk and the table Is lighted from
small incaudescents hung IN the trees.
Upon the table are wonderful digbes
OF which you do not know the names
The souvenir menu card reads:
Il never know what am eating.
TESLA"
Which was Oh . received by lady who
wrote To the artificial daylight" EIza~
ard 10 know upon what food he "a
To get his tsvorite recipe.
CLEVELAND LUNcHEd
Then there are Cleveland
cons" when all the family,
young. come sndAit down {
Of Smith College ger bIsa(
layer cake (whi1 -
made Washing 8
a "Cleyelznd II
This In a very VI
mer entertainm
women enjoy b
chance TO pay b
a new and mos ~ S
II might be al Z: i
has been verl
hostesses In
when asked
have been
Cleveland lur
GRAd
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Racing at New Orleans.

NEW ORLEANS. Dec. 10.-The heavy rain
which SGT In this morning continued all after
noon, with the result that the track was a soa
of mud. Despite tho unfavorable conditions
$500 persons were present. With the excep-
ton of the irst race the fields were strung out
at the end. j. A. Groy was q l to 4 shot In the
opening event, but he had all he could do to beat
Eleanor Holmes n nose on tho post. Balk Line
was the only other winning favorito. Sum-
maries:
First Race-siI furlongs.-J.A A: Grey, 100 Cscherrerr,
I to 1. won; Eleanor Holmes. 92 (Thompson), z to l.,
second; Al Lone. lod tcamrbe,p, sotol l, third. Time.
1884.
second Race--selung ak and q half furlongs-.Lady
1r ne. l06 (Thompsonl. y to b. won; French Gray, 100
Qjurns). . to o. second; Caddie G., 100 tNutth o to l.,
third. Time, 1:32.
Third Race-Selling; one mile and q quarter Man.
ME LIS Sister, VI %(Songer). o to 1. won; Ondague. 100
tBeauchampl. Z to 5. second; Charina. 92 (Burns). 8
to g, third. Time, 9;26.
Fourth Race-stx and o half furlonga.-Balk Line.
103 (Aker). 8 to 8. wont Trauby, 100 (Peterman). 10
70 l, second; Maggie s. (Barrett). 80 TO i. third.
Time. 1881.
Fifth Race-sellIng; one mile.-Swordsman. 103
(Shepardl. o 20 !. won; Bombardon. 1o3. CLAY. 2 to
Q. second; Floridas. 100 Combs. @ to 0. third.
Time, 1853.
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The match between the Knickerbocker Whist
Club OF New York and the Elizabeth Chess and
Whist Club. sixteen players a side. was played
at the st. Cloud Hotel on Thursday night. and
resulted in a victory for the New York players
by sixteen tricks. The best scores for New York
were made by Patton and Terrell. plus 8;
Rounds and Bayard. plus 8. The best scores
for Elizabeth were made by Saltonstan and
Weeks and Wheeler and Brown. both plus 4.
The first round OF the annual. interclub tour
nament at Brooklyn was played at the Irving
on Thursday night. Two natehss were decided.
The Union League defeated the Carletons by one
trick, and the Iryings downed the Knicker-
booker Field Club by thirteen tricks. The teams
were:
Union Lsague-E. A. Leslie. c. Z. Miller, C. A. Bar
csret'n.Dr. Thomas Wilde. H. n. Van Week. M. J..
iIyipgNR, RodrisueI. Walter Ferris. W. B Powell.
IKanicksr6ooisr-A. B. Trsmaino. y. H. HodEmAn. 4.
p. Camp. and Q. g. Fowler.
The next round will DO played at the Knickor
booker Field CLUB on Dec, %.
Tho m Whist Club entertained fifty
two guests at the Germnnia Club on Thurs
day night. The best score was made by Miss
Campbell and partner. II plus Mr.; and
Mrs. Tucker came next with 10, and Miss Worth
aud J. b. Elwell were third with 3.
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The inspectors Of rife practice Of the Second
Brigade met at the armory of tho Twenty-third
Regiment. Brooklyn. on Thursday night and
made all arrangements for the third annual team
rifle shooting championship. The trophy has
been won twice in succession by tho Twenty.
third Regiment. The schedule for this year
follows:
Jan. 2a-Thirteenth vs.. Twenty third. at the Thir
teenths srmory; Forty-seventh Va. Fourteenth, NJ
the Forty.seyenth's armory.
Feb. 5-Forty.seventh vs.. Thirteenth. at tho Forty.
seventies armory; Fourteenth va. Twenty.tnird. 10
the Fourteenth's armory.
Feb. l9-Thirteenth vs.. Fourteenth, at the Thir.
teenth's arInory Twenty-third VS.. Forty seventh. al
the Twenty. thirds armory.
March 6-Twenty.third VI. Thirteenth. at the
Twenty. thirds armory; Fourteenth Va. Forty seventh,
at the Fourtheenth's armory.
March Ia-Thirternth VS.. Forty-seventh. 1T the
Thirteenth's armory Twenty third VI. Fourteenth. -
the Twenty.third's armory.
April 2-Forrteenth va. Thirteenth. at tho Four.
teenth's armory; Forty seventh vs.. Twenty.third. -
the Forty-seventhsA rmory. ~
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baseball.

CAMBRIDGE. Dec. 1o.-Capt. w. H.. Rand Of
the Harvard baseball nine will not issue a call
for candidates until after the Christmas vaca-
ton. In the meantime work on the new base
ball cage on Soldiers Field is being rapidly
pushed, and it Is expected that the building will
Be finished by the first of March at the latest.
Manager Curtis of the nine completed the
schedule for next season some time ago: Owing
to the poor climatic condition of the carly spring
at Cambridge the team will take an extended
Southern trip during the Easter vacation, which
will embrace many leading colleges. Tho full
schedule follows:
April o. TUFTS at Cambridge; 10. University Of North
Carolina at Greensboro; IL. Washington and Lee
University at Lynchburs; 10. University OF virgini,
at Charlottesville; go, Georgetown Universty az
Washington. d. O.; 2l. University OF Maryland Of Bal
timore proyisio1all; &C. annapolis s,; Naval A Ssr
York: ~ and as. Dartmouth at Cambridge
80, williams at Williamstown; May 8. Lafay'
ette at Cambridge; 4. Brown Mt Cambridge
cambridge; II, Princeton at PRINCETON; II; Exeter at
Cambridge; 10. Williams at Cambridge; II. uniVer'
sity OF Pennsylvania at philadelphia; -; Newton A;
A. at Cambridge; 2S, Princeton at CambridRe; June
I: Amherst at Amherst; :. Brown at Camoridgs; =.
vania at Cambridge; lb. Brown at Providsnce; 10.
Holy Cross at Cambridge. Tho Yale games arc un'
deciued.
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PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 1O.-In the presence of
several hundred racquet enthusiasts Peter
Latham. the worlds champion, and Percy Ash
worth. ex.amatour champion OF England, gave
an exhibition this afternoon at tho courts Of the
Philadelphia Racquet Club. Latham gave seven
aces to Ashworth IN each game. Their play,
which lasted an hour. was the fastest and the
prettiest ever seen in this city. The contest re-
suited In a victory for Latham by winning four
out of seven games. Tho champions service
was remarkably severe. but Ash worth put up a
very good game. his all. round play being strong;
Both loft the city tonight for New York, and
tomorrow they will go home on the Campania.
The scores to-day follow:
Ashworth-t7 aces). 10 10 8 10 10 10 ll-S4
Latham. .....,.. o 10 is 7 10 1888
Latham has issued a challenge for n match at
court tennis against the Boston professional,
Tom Pettitt. Tho def is made 80 that Latham
may go on record as being open to defend his
ing to wager n stake of from $50 up. The
games are to DO played at London. under the
regular articles governing such championship
contests.