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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-06-26
John c. Wright

Having disposed of my mer-
chandise business, | wish 10
state that can still be found
at my Office in the old Pioneer
Grocery. l propose to devote
my time to the insurance bus
ness, and write policies IN the
best companies known. All
persons indebted TO me please
call and settle at once and
5 "a MI
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-09-25
ELKINs AND SECTION %

The 1ntelligencer did not say that the
placed there by Senator Elkins, but that,
with few changes, it was substantially
the same as the Senator's bill.-Intelli-
gencer.
No, Senator Elkins has saved his
laundering organ that trouble by ac-
knowledging the corn, which was the
easiest way out of the nasty hole. He
stated to the Associated Press that a
number of his colleagues had been in
terested with him in framing this
sneaked in amendment. All the peo-
pie are interested now in hearing from
Senator Elkins is how the dirty job
was done. How was this infamous
clause in the interest of American rail-
roads against the Canadian Pacific
slipped into" section % of the Ding
ley bill without anyone in Congress
knowing anything about it-not even
the Republican leaders on the floor of
the House and Senate-not even Speak
er Reed, himself, who damned the bill
through the House by brute force, be-
cause he thought he knew all about it
and that there was no use for discus
sion. Various surmises have been
made as to how Congress came to pass
this measure without knowing that this
infamous discriminating duty was in
it. 1t has been said that an engrossing
clerk was bribed to make the interpola-
ton, or to allow it to be made by the
railroad lobby. But now, Senator Elk
ings admits the authorship with a
number of his colleagues" of section
%, maybe he will explain how the
trick was done. The people are really
interested in knowing more about the
fine art of slipping in" legislation,
without the Congressional knowledge
or sanction. 1t is high time that the
peoples representatives were slipping
in" some clauses in the interest of the
people.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-09-25

When our neighbor gets angry enough
to indulge in mean personalities and
begins to abuse an opposition editor
as ignorant and dishonest &C., there
is but one conclusion for the public to
arrive at, which is that the argument
is at an end"
AS the esteemed Intelligencer has
become so angry as to accuse "an op-
position editor" of "untruthful asser-
tions,' and of writing a "mendacious
editorial" according to our more or
less accurate neighbours gauge in
these delicate matters, 'the argument
is at an end"
Really and truly, however, this is
the first intimation we have had that
the Fourteenth street Elkins organ and
defender Of sneak legislation, had en-
gagged in an argument on this point.
If it will not offend our neighbor's ex-
tremely delicate sensibilities, we would
suggest that it is inconsistency dis
putatious rather than argumentative.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-09-25
CA.STORIA.
TATTooING IS DYING OUT.
Missionaries Responsible for Decline of
This Custom Among Sayages.


Tattooing is not nearly as common
f1uence of missionaries began to be felt
Many of the natives of the South Pacific
Islands, however, still keep up the prac-
tice. Every native boy when he reaches
the age of years must submit to the nee
die. 1t is a peculiar fact that all Samoans
are tattooed alike. Devices representing
animals are never used. The tattoo
marks run from the waist to the knees
in intersecting lines resembling the small
checks sometimes seen in cloth fabrics.
The lines are so close together that at a
distance nude native appears to be clad
in pair of close-fitting knickerbockars.
The operation is intensely painful but
the natives have nerves of steel and even
the small boys do not whimper when it
is being performed
AS an illustration of the capacity of the
Samoan to endure pain, The following in
cident will suffice: A boy. IS years Old
named Mua. injured his foot on a jagged
piece of coral. Gangrene set in and he
realized that his leg would have to be cut
off to save his life. No surgeon was at
hand and the boy decided to perform the
operation of amputation himself. He tied
string around his leg tightly above the
knee, and, seating himself on the ground.
severed the member at the knee with an
ordinary sailors jack knife. The rude
flaps Of flesh were bound together, cover
ed with healing leaves. and, strange as it
may seem. the lad recovered. Samoans
regard any exhibition of the consciousness
Of pain as an evidence Of weakness.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-09-25
ELKINS IGNORED HIS CARD
G. A. X. Representative Tells of His Efforts
to see the Senator.

G. A. X. Representative Tells of His Efforts
to see the Senator.
Washington Post.
MOrgantOwn, W. Va, September "a
The G. A. R. and G. o. P. in this State
have FLASHED with tremendous shock,
and the results forecasts future disas-
ter and route to certain ambitious Re-
publican leaders The Grand Army
men are sorely disappointed that they
have not received a more liberal share
of the State and Federal patronage
and claim they have been shamefully
thrown down by the dispensing powers.
Just now they are in revengeful
mood and are handling these dispens-
ing powers without gloves.
The proceedings of the Reno Post,
at Grafton, have just been published,
and are being mailed to all of the Grand
Army posts of the State. The wrath
of the post is aimed especially toward
Senator Stephen B. Elkins, Congress-
man A. G. Dayton and Hon. Thomas
E. Davis, Second district leader, and
was oceasioned by the appointment Of
DR.. W. F. Vankirk on the Board Of
Pension Examiners at Grafton. The
report of the different meetings of
Reno Post to take action, as set out
in the published record, makes very
spicy reading. 1t first recites resolu-
tions declaring for the removed of VAN
kirk and appointing Alexander Leeds,
an influential member of the post, to
go to Washington for the purpose of
having this done. Mr.. Leeds report
then followed, and is a long tale of
woe. He recites the story of the des-
perate effort he made to get an au-
dience with Senator Elkins. He had
notified the Senator in advance of his
coming, and expected that he would
be at the station to meet him, so the
business could be transacted in an
hour or two. The Senator not only
failed to meet him at the station, but
was careful to avoid meeting him at
all during his stay in the Capital City.
Each morning, according to Mr..
Leeds own statement, he would repair
to the Capitol and hold down a bench
in the galleries until he could locate
Senator in his seat in the Senate Cham
Der. Then he would hasten down and
send in his visiting card to the Sem
ator, but the card invariably came
back with the reply that the Senator
was mot in This effort to catch the
Senator ''in' and doing business in the
Senator Chamber was kept up for a
week. The last afternoon Mr.. Leeds
card was sent in fifteen times and each
time Senator Elkins lodged into the
cloak rooms.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-09-25
DIED.,

MAHONEY-At his late residence. No.
112S Baltimore street, on Thursday, Sep
TENDER 23d, at 1870 o'clock d. m. Patr1cE
Mahoney, aged 73 years.
Mass at st. Joseph's Cathedral this (Sat-
urdaO morning at s o'clock. Funeral
Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock Friends
of the family respectfully invited to at
tend. Interment al Mt. Calvary cemetery.
DOWNS-At his late residence. No 1926
Market street, on Thursday. September
23d at o'clock a. M, Thomas J. Downs.
aged 70 years.
Funeral services this Saturday after
noon at o'clock. Friends of the family
respectfully invited to attend Interment
at Peninsula cemetery.
FELLER--Th September %. 1897.
at 1918 O'Clock a. m, August Teller, in
the ADD year of his age.
Funeral Sunday afternoon at O'Clock
from his late residence below Forty-eighth
street. Friends of the family invited to
attend. lnterment at Mt. Zion cemetery.
HAMILnON-At $40 a. M. Friday. sep-
temb u = 1881, at Windsor station Brooke
county, w. Va, Mrs. Narcissa A. Ham
llton, reiict of the late S. G. A. Hamilton.
aged IS years and 10 days.
Funeral from the Christian church.
Wheeling, Monday, September 81, at D.
m.
GILCHRIST-On Friday, September "a,
1877, at $50 p. m. Helen c.. wife of John
+. Gllchrist, in the 9th year of her age
Funeral notice hereafter.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-09-25

statistics, and II they are not there for
the year 1891, and for many years be-
fore that time, it is prima facia evil
dence that the statistics have been doc
tored to suit the exigencies of the Re-
publican party then in power. for any
rolling mill man will testify that these
products-heavy roofing tin and terne
plate, which come under the head OF
'tin and terne plate" and which is
nothing more than coated sheet iron
were made in the United States in
1891, and long before 1891.
The Intelligencer's statistics go to
prove the truth of that beautiful old
adage, that while figures don't lie,
liars sometimes figure"
The fact remains that what IS known
in political discussion as tinplate, that
is the fine, bright article used in can
ming and in making tin utensils, was
not made in the United States, except
experimentally and at a loss, under the
Mckinley bill, which put a too high
tax on block tin, the principal raw
material of this industry, and it never
made it's appearance in the American
market until after the passage of the
Wilson bill. These facts are beyond
dispute and they cannot be disproven
by any juggling of statistics. If our
neighbor wants to learn the truth, let
it interview the tin manufacturers in
our own immediate vicinity. 1t de-
clared the other day that these mills
made tinplate under the Mckinley bill,
when it is notorious that they did not
make a pound Of tinplate until after
the passage of the Wilson bill.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-09-25

Secretary John Sherman will not
take the stump for Hanna in Ohio this
year, which bears out the supposition
CT those who know how Hanna and
Sherman love one another. The ven
cradle statesman, it appears, wrote out a
speech for delivery, but after his friends
had looked over it, they found that the
old man was inclined to tell too much
truth, and that it would be better for
Hanna's chances to keep him off the
stump entirely. SO Sherman will es-
cape the humility Of having to publicly
endorse the man whose brutal selfish
ness has caused Sherman the greatest
injury that ever befen him, namely
the public exhibition CT his falling
powers.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-09-25
THE ENGLISH FARMER QUITS,

An English contemporary published
in the west of England, publishes a
score or more of advertisements for
auction sales of farm stock and i'm
plements, each advertisement giving
the explanation that the owner is de
Ginning farming" The area within
which these twenty abandoned farms
lie is less than that of two average
West Virginia counties, and the adver-
tisements all appeared for the first
time in that issue of the paper. Such
a general abandonment of farming in
that part of England has never been
recorded.
For the last four or five years Eng
lish agricultural papers have been full
of complaints of agricultural depres-
sion. Landlords have reduced rents,
but the complaints continued. If rents
went down rates and taxes went up,
and the market was worse, year by
year. America, Argentina and Austria
liza sent wheat, cattle and refrigerated
meat; the continent of Europe sent
eggs and butter; there was nothing the
farmer produced but similar articles
could be sold in the great markets of
England for less than he could sell at
and live after paying his charges of all
kinds. Now it comes that many are
quitting the hopeless struggle, throw
ing up their farms, selling off their
stock. and leaving the country to try
their fortunes in some other part of
the world. The rise in the price of
wheat brings them no consolation. The
price has gene up because bad har-
vests leave them but little to sell. The
American farmer may profit, but the
English farmer loses again and he
throws up his hand and quits.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-09-25
SELF-CONVJCTED

In an unintelligible editorial article
fully justifying Attorney General Nc
Kenna in his decision knocking out the
sneak amendment of section % of the
Dingley bill, and at the same time seek
ing to justify the sneaked in, or, as
Speaker Reed said, the slipped in
amendment, itself, because it was 80
like Boss Elkins's shipping bill, the In
telligencer takes breath and SAYS:
The above is pretty long sent
ence. but we believe it answers the
que ions and untruthful assertions
contained in very lengthy and some
what mendaciousN editorial in the Bryan
organ
Two or three inches further down in
the me column. in an erticle on tin
plat lch iAebout as col uprehensibls
Intell( Aeer says:
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-09-25
YOUR LAST CHANCE.

September 26 the Cleveland, Lorain
& Wheeling Railway will run the last
Of the cheap Cleveland excursions for
this season. In order to give seven and
a half hours in Cleveland, the train will
leave Bridgeport at 7:05 a. m. city
time. Ticket sales limited to seating
capacity and two trains will be run if
necessary This will be the last and
best excursion of the season. Get your
tickets early. For full particulars and
tickets apply at office travelling passen-
ger agent, Mcclure House Block.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-09-25
GUNS FOR CANADA.

Birmingham. England, September
24.-The organ of Joseph Chamber
lain, secretary of state for the colonies,
the Birmingham Post, says the gov
eminent Of Canada, early in 1898, will
make large purchases of heavy field
batteries and number of defense
guns, the latter being for new scheme
for the defense of Montreal and the
river below that city.
Special instructions to this effect, the
Post adds, were issued Immediately af-
ter the return to Canada of Sir Wilfred
Laurier, the premier.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-09-25

John L. Sullivan has positively de-
clined to withdraw from the race for
Mayor Of Boston on a "free-and- easy"
platform. Whatever else may said
against the big bruiser, he has a de-
cided advantage Of most politicians in
at least one respect. No one ever ac-
cused John L. of not being square and
honest
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-09-25

The Central Labor Union, of New
York, will try to have indicted million
aires who commit perjury in swearing
Off taxes Hasn't the Central Labor
Union learned yet that it is impossible
to convict a millionaire Of anything in
New York?
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-09-25

The Duke of Tetuan denies having
received an ultimatum from Washing
ton. Of course not, Mr.. Mckinley is
holding that bombshell back SO as to
help his boss, Mr.. Hanna, by springing
it lust before the Ohio election.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-09-25
RIDS FOR COAL.

WHEELING, w. Va, Sept. %. 1897.
Office of Clerk of Board of Education,
No. 45 Fourteenth street
Bids will be received at the office of the
Clerk of the Board of Education until
Wednesday, September %, at II m, for
furnishing clean coal and also slack for
the public schools of the city of Wheeling
for the ensuing school year.
Bids Will be received Tor furnishing coal
Tor all the schools as well as to each sub
district separately. The contract will be-
awarded TO the lowest responsible bidder
employing union labor. The board re-
serves the right to reject any or all bids.
se24et WALTER II. HALL, Clerk.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-09-25

A man in Toronto is said to be laugh
ing himself to death. Maybe he has
been reading some of Secretary Cages
prosperity talk.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-09-25
DLEsASE bear in mind the fact

pLEAsE bear in mind the fact
that the chest or the
standard in all lines COM
mands fair price. See list of
the brands Of Pure White Lead
which are the standard. They
are the best. Avoid those brands
said to be "just as good offered
tor "less money and of g 50
called White Lead"
EDEE By using National Lead CO... Lead Tn.ing COL
1 desired
H. valuable information and card showing coo free:
intending to paint. - ~FF - 'Ao's
NATIONAL LEAD CO., CINCINNATI BRANCH.
Cor 9TH St and Freeman Ave-. Cincinnati O.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-09-25
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

FOR SALE OR RENT-Nice properties
on the motor line, near the city. J. c..
HERVEY, 1926 Market street. se24e&dh
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-09-25
4 GREAT OPPORTUNITY

to secure a good paying business.
On account of i'll health. grocery and
notion store doing a cash business OF
about $1,000 a month, can be bought for
cost of stock. VIII invoice about 1880.
Stock IN nice condition. Rent low. ADJ
dress LOCK BOX 2S7
sep20 Washington. Pa.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-09-25
For SALE.
OIL LEASE RENTAL BLANKS.
Specially prepared so as to cover all emer-
gences.
REGISTER OFFICE.
GENERAL NOTICES.
NOTICE..

NOTICE.
The undersigned corporators OF the cor
poration known as THE Country Club,
Wheeling" have appointed Saturday.
September 18th, 1897, at o'clock .. m.,. as
the time, and the room of the Chamber
of Commerce. corner of Market and
Fourteenth streets, Wheeling, w. Va. as
the place for holding general meeting
of the stockholders of said corporation to
elect a board Of directors. make bylaws,
and transact any other business which
may lawfully be done by the said stock
holders in general meeting.
GUSTAVE A. ASCHMAN,
HOWARD HAZLETT
SAMUEL S. BLOCH.
EDWARD b. FRANZHEIM,
BIRNEY KENNARD NJ MECHEN,
Corporators.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-09-25
LEE.
I IST OF LETTERS

Remaining in the postoffice at Wheeling.
Ohio County w. Va, Saturday, Septem-
Der 25 To obtain any of the following tho
applicant must ask for advertised letters.
Swing date of list:
LADIES' LIST.
Core Mrs. Annah Lamp. Mrs. Rosa
Cunningham, Miss Moore, Miss Elsie
Annie Mouis, Mrs. Jennie
Evans, Miss Gertie Perry Miss Lille
Hervey, Miss Doro- Rector. Miss Mary
thy p l..
Harper. Miss Laura Smith, Miss Cora
Hutchison, Miss Err Squires. Mrs. y, o.
ME Thomas. Mrs. NJ u.
James, Mrs. 0. d. Walker. Mrs. Alice
GENTLEMEN LIST
Anderson. Carey Hopkins, S. G..
Alexander, Taylor Henderson, j. NJ.
Brown. William Helms. James
Browning, VIM. Hills. jay G.
Backenstee. willard Lorraine, Mike
Cambell. Joseph Mercer. j. w.
Cannal. A Mccoy A. c.
Duff, T.. Miles Montgomery, G.. w.
Doyle. Chas Riger, T. w.
English, William Reed. Ben
Fell, q. r.. Stricklin w w
Fry. -nomas Wash Shoemaker AL.
ington Spriggs, John NJ.
Gray. J. u. White Charles l..
Humes, John Willard, Bert
FOREIGN.
Gut Frek Mike sunjak
Peti Domenico III Vincenzo
FIRMS.
Standard Encyclopedia Co.
NJ. J. o'KANE. p. NJ.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-09-25
wbtelin9 Re9ister
CHARLES H. TANEY, General Manager.
DELIVERED BY CARRIERS.

DELIVERED BY CARRIERS.
Daily, per week, to be paid weekly. Ice
Daily, per month. ....................... 44c
Daily and Sunday, per week............ 1oc
Daily and Sunday, per monta.......... CSC
Single copies of Daily, &c; Sunday. sc
Weekly, &c.
DAILY AND SUNDAY BY MAIL, POST
AGE PREPAID.
Daily, including Sunday. per year.....$S 90
Daily, including Sunday. six months. %
Daily, including Sunday, one month. 70
Daily, six days in the week, per year.. w
Daily, six montEs...... ............-.... D w
Daily, three months .....-............... gu
Daily, one month ..........e............. on
Daily. three days in the week, per year on
Daily, two days in the week, PEI year. 2 80
Daily, one day in the week, per year. 70
Sunday only, per year. .................. w
Sunday only, for six months. .......... W
Weekly, per year. in advance. ......... W
Tributes of Respect and Obituary NO
tees five cents per line.
Stamps Of the denomination OF TWO
cents and less accepted Tor amounts less
than one dollar.
Correspondence containing important
news solicited from every part OF the sur
rounding country.
Rejected communications will not be re-
turned unless accompanied by sufficient
postage.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-09-25

The REGISTER, embracing its several
editions, is entered at the Postofhce at
Wheeling. w. Va. as second-class matter.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-09-25
THOSE WORN OUT STATISTICS

In futile effort to prove it's unten-
able position that tinplate (not heavy
roofing tin or terne plate) was made
in this country commercially, or other
than eXperimentally, under the Nc
Kinley bill, the Inteligencer has de-
cended to the trick of taking United
States statistics of the production of
'tin and terne plate" under which
head comes a finer quality of coated
sheet iron, used chiefly for roofing,
which was manufactured in the United
States, as we have pointed out fire.
quently, long before the Mckinley bill
or its author were thought of. Here
are the statistics and comment of our
neighbor on this point to show that
the tinplate industry was established
by and under the Mckinley bill:
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-09-25

Our friend will note that there are no
figures given for 1891. this being a able
showing the production since the tin plate
tariff went into operation and before
which time there was no tin plate indus
try in the United States.
Does our neighbor mean to say that
no roofing tin or terne plate was made
in the United States in 1891 and for
many years before that time? These
products come under the head of "tin
and terne plate in the government
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-09-25

No trouble 10 coax II you have one 4
the Warren Ranger Il ig truly a gem IA
ii IS no trouble to ct II 10 the right heal
and keep IL there. Then, Ii Is SO hand
s0rne that you can't help falling in low
with ( at first sight. GEO. W. JOHN
SONS SONS. 1910 Main street.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-09-25
WANTED.

WANTED-Girl to do general homework.
Must have good recommen dations. Apply
a 140o Chapline stre5t se24e&dh
WANTED-Boarders. Apply at 31o5 Nc
Colloch street. se22etdq
WANTED-Two girls to do general house,
work. Apply at 1044 Market street.
sep14e&dh
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-09-25
AGENTS WANTED

AGENTS WANTED
RELIABLE man to handle agents for
Telephone Tablet and Specialties. Pays
5000 a year. Enclose stamp. VICTORY
MFG. Co., Cleveland, o. apr3eowt
WANTED-AGENTS. $40 TO $50 A Week
sure to workers. No capital needed. New
Goods. New Plan. Sells at sight. Every
family needs it. HOUSEHOLD SPE-
CIALTY CO., Box 424. Cincinnati, Ohio.
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