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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-08-01
FOR rHE GOLD FIELDS.
.Iondyke seems to Have Attractions for
Many Parke rs burgers.

s,Iondyke seems to Have Attractions for
Many Parkersburgers.
Special to the Register.
Parkersburg. w. Va, July S1.-Ihe
KIondvke gold fever has caught
great many of our people, and before
the expedition leaves here in August 1t
is believed it will be greatly enlarged.
I G. Ralphsnyder. who sought the
nomination for Governor Of this State
from tbe Democrats. is forming a COM
pany TO go to the klondyke nelds' ana
will in all probability go himself.
W. #. Parker, who left here Ior
Oklahoma after the Democrats lost the
state. writes here that he Will leave
for Alaska this week.
The expedition headed by the Cam
dens will leave here next week.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-08-01
DROWNED WHILE BATHING.
Special to the Register.

Special to the Register.
Point Pleasant. w Va. July 81
While bathing in the Ohio river to-day.
Elmer McCutcheon, bright and
clever young man seventeen years old.
was drowned a. Joseph Browns land
ing. MERGERS bottom, despite heroic ef-
forts made to rescue him The body
has not yet been recovered.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-08-01
GETTING HOT AGAIN.

Severe Weather in Missouri-I2O Register
ed In the sun-Crops Need Rain
ST Louis, Mo-, July 31.-With the
mercury registering 100 in the shade
and 120 in the sun, the heat was almost
unbearable to-day. The air is very dry
and crops need rain. A number of per-
sons were overcome by the heat. Two
cases may result fatally. the victims be-
ing Charles Gales and Frank White.
Many horses haTs succumbed to the
heat.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-08-01
DESFRTFD THE STEANTER

Port Townsend, Wash. July SIN
view Of the fact that the steamer Alli
from Alaska is past due. some Gre
dence is being placed in the statement
Of one Of the steamers crew while
the ship was here on the way north
thirteen days ago, At that time one
Of the crew remarked that il had been
arranged by the entire crew to desert
the Alki at Dyea and strike across
the summit for the Yukon valley and
the klondyke.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-08-01

Tot. :.1l11~ssl. ssl. g
80 UsIIindte. a
superintendent of
it's appearances wd
the same degree OF
the other ingots. HN
"Dr. Emmens claim
covered the substantial 81
two metals which cher
ways considered distinct
tells us OF results, but
close his processes. We
these circumstances subsS
claims.
There Is a trace OF gold
dollars as now minted. ! do
the ratio 20 silver IL Is probS1sz
as much as one in 1000 parts.
DIR. EMMENS EXPLAINS.
Or. Emmens later said:
Under my process ten ounces or
Mexican silver dollars will yield about
six ounces Of argentaurum gold. /
have "A profit OF between SO and 81 an
ounce on each of the ingots except the
first one which must have cost mo
more than 1000 an ounce. y repre-
sented numberless experiments by
which / arrived at the proper method. y
Dr. Emmens says his first ingot was
produced by hand. lie says he now
has a machine capable Of producing
a pressure OF 500 tons per square inch
TO do the work. He calls II force
engine
Dr. Emmens showed a letter which
he had received from man who Is
recognized as a leading physicist, and
who insisted that his name be not
made public. He asks DR.. Emmens
TO send him a sample OF his product,
with view 10 making an examination
Of its spectrum as compared with the
spectrum of ordinary gold in a chem
ically pure condition.
DR.. Emmens has had piece cut from
the last delivered at the assay ONCE to
be sent to his correspondent.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-08-01
GOLD SEEKERS INDIGNANT.
They Want Retslhtory Action Taken
Against Canada

Against Canada
Seattle. Wash, July 3l.-Prospective
gold seekers IN the north are aroused
over the action of the Canadian gov
ernment in collecting duty at Victoria
or Dyea on miners outfits from the
United States. A mass meeting mas
been called by the merchants and o!!!!s!s5 o2!!!5
action of Victoria is not taken in the
interest of collecting revenue. but TO try
TO compel parties to buy their outfits in
Victoria. The Secretary of the Treas
ury will be memoralized and requested
to withdraw his order making Dyea a
SUPPORT of entry 1t was so designat-
ed. it is claimed, for the purpose Of per-
hitting British steamers to land freight
and passengers there.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-08-01
HORSES FOR EUROPE.
Secretary Wilson WIN study the Resources
OF This Country for Raising Them.

Secretary Wilson VIII study the kes0urcos
OF This Country for Raising Them.
WASHINGTON July s1.-secretary WI
son. OF the Department OF Agriculture
will spend his vacation. which he win take
In August, IN travelling through Colorado.
Utah. Wyoming. the Dakoias and Nom
tana. with the object of studying the re-
sources Of these States for raising horses
suitable for the European armies.
The Secretary has written 70 United
States ministers. and has requested some
Americans travelling abroad. 70 give him
information regarding the exact dualinca-
tons demanded for the army horses or
Europe. and when this information IL re-
ceived a farmers bulletin Will be issued.
with a view 10 having this country do more
in supplying the demand than II has In
the past. The only objection 20 horses
raised on the plains of the west as army
horses for European countries, lies In the
fact that the animals are not large
enough. The Sioux pony possesses all thei
qualities Of hardness that could be desire1
and II IL believed that by proper fsedi1
and by the introduction OF heavier -
on the sire side, Il can be brought up q
required size.
Mr. WiIson believes that r. stocknl
farmers can grow the horses N
recruit the csfairy Of European
they will get 4 good price for 4
Secretary wilson win also lo9
States In whfch hs VIII sDens
ton. with view 10 seeing II f.
done FOR the development Of
dus;ry.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-08-01
ANOTHER BANK CLOSED.
The First National of AshevilIe Goes Into
Liquidation.

Liquidation.
Asheville, n. c., July 31.-The First
National Bank of this city did not open
this morning. A notice was posted on
the door stating that owing TO the in
ability to collect and the stringency Of
the times, the bank will go into vol
untary liquidation.
The last statement made, on May II,
showed: loans and discounts, S30S,
267.94; overdrafts, s10,323.23; deposits,
s76,S59S5; capital stock, 100000; sur
plus, $4,000.
The three other banks in the city
opened as usual. No run has been at
tempted and there is no excitement
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-08-01
ANOTHER SHTPLOAD
OF Men and Provisions Leaves Portland, for
the kiondyke.

tne htonoNke.
Portland Ore. July 3l.-The Oregon
Railway and Navigation Company's 5
steamer George w. Elder sailed for
Dyea at II o'clock last night with SSS
passengers, nearly all Of whom are
bound for the Klondyke. She carries
1900 tons Of freight, her full capacity.
IA horses and burros ard - dogs. All
along the dock people accumulated.
where the Elder was moored and at
night il was estimated that 10000 peo-
pie were on the bank or on the bridges
70 bid God speed 70 the gold hunters.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-08-01
A BAD ACCIDENT.
Wagon Demolished and One Nan Ser
iously Hurt Near SteubenvIlle.

iously Hurt Near steubenvIlle.
Special TO the Register.
Steubenville, O., July 31.--A serious
accident occurred on the Pewiky rail-
road crossing, across the river, this
evening, in which a wagon was hurled
from the track by sOuth-bound pas
senger train and demolished, and
Peter Kessler. a farmer OF Brooke
county. w Va, was hurled twenty
feet in the air, sustaining serious in
iuries
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-08-01
TAKE BOTH LAND and men.
An English Girl Says Both Are Being
Rapidly Bought Up.

Decadence Of Society in Great
Britain - Poor Members OF tile
Aristecracy Selling Themselves
10 American Girls Rather Than
Earn an Honest Living-A Negro
Poet Being Lionized In London.
Cleo De Merod as the Successor
of Anna Held.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-08-01
A NEW RIVAL OF KLONDYKE.
A Ststtn Island AlchemiSt Who Manu-
factursS His Own Gold.

DR.. s. H. Emmens Declares He Is
Able to Produce Six Ounces of
Pure Gold from Ten Ounces OF
Silver-fhe Process Includes the
Development of Great Pressure
and the Application OF Cold.
Claims to Have Found the Philoso-
pliers Stone-Claims a Profit Of
from SO to "a an Ounce by His
Process-The Gold Delivered TO
the United States Assay Office
and There Accepted as the Real
Thing.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-08-01
.A CIVIL SERVICE RULING.
Deputy United States MashalS Not
Permitted to Hold Over.

Comptroller Bowler Nullifies De-
cisions of Federal Judges-salary
Withheld from an Indiana De-
putty Vino Was Not Reappolnteo
and Administered a New Oatn'
Marshals' Subordinat=s' Terms
Expire With Those of Their
SuperiOrs.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-08-01

DEPUTY CONSUL APPOINTED.
Washington, July S1.-Waldemar P.
Leonhard, Of Cincinnati. has been ap-
pointed vice and deputy consul at
Hamburg, Germany.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-08-01
ABOUT LIFf ON The YUKON.
Three Springfield, Ohio, Young Men
Write Home of Experiences.

Gold Dust is the Currency Useo IN
the Far-Of North Country-One
of the Trio Says There Is No EX-
aggeration of the Amount Oh
wealth in That RegiOn-A Dan
gerous Trip Necessary to Reaon
the Gold Fields-Hardships, They
Saw. Are Largely Talk OF News
papers.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-08-01
TO SUCCEED FREDl

New York; July a.
has announc ! the appoi
George Moe Smith,
ninth regiY /. to sued
$;:,:; q, !: 81: ! +; s. ';RR nj
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-12-11
NEw ELEcTRlc LAME.
Ii a RevOlutionIze Present Meth
DDS Of illumination.

1t May RevOlutiOnI3e Present Meth
DDS OF illumination.
1t is prophesied that present methods
Of illumination are to be superseded by
q lamp nearly perfected by Puluj, Of
Vienna, one of the earlier experiment.
ers on cathode rays. For is years he
has been working upon it. Not only
does it generate intense Roentgen rays.
but it also transforms nearly all the
energy Of the electric current into light.
Prof. Ebert's experiments prove that
a single horsepower of electric energy
would be sufficient % operate 10000
PuIui lamps. Prof. Lodge, head of the
department of experimental physics
in Universal college. Liverpool, says
that IF mechanical energy can be con-
verted entirely into light alone one man
turning the crank of a suitable ma
chine could generate enough light for
a whole city" Puluj claims that his
lamp fuIflls this condition. Our pres
emit electric lighting system only util-
ICES from one to three per e of its
energy in light, the rest passes OF in
heat. Puluj's lamp is lighted by means
of an induction coil or a glass plate
electric machine. The state electricity
is the same as lightning. Puluj is in.
v~estigating 1.-THE development Of ether
cal light vibration by chemical MEANS
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-12-11

eral of these souvenirs of the greaa
ladies of old may be found suggest
i've.
An old book is bound in maroon vel
vet, with the royal arms of England,
the garter and the motto worked in
gold thread on a crimson ground. a
coronet or crown of gold is inwrought
with pearls. On the covers are roses
in red silk and gold, the edge finished
with a narrow border of FURNISHED
gold thread.
A book of prayers, said to be covered
by Queen Elizabeth herself when a girl,
has the anvas wrought all over in tent
stitch, with rich crimson silk and silver
thread intermixed with the letters III.
e." in blue.
Another royal book has Prince of
Wales feathers worked in gold thread
in the center; the three plumes are
bound together with large pearls and
wreathed with leaves and flowers.
Around the edge of the cover there is a
broader wreath, corner sprigs in gold
thread are thickly interspersed with
spangles and gold leaves.
This antique work has been revived OF
late, and some of the modern en-
broidered book covers are really beau
tiful. They a be made up at any
bookbinding establishment.
The design given is for a prayer-book,
and is a combination of white failIer
black velvet and gold. The cross OF
black velvet has the edges coveAed in re-
H sead bpllion, and is applied on
the white faiile, OVER which the sides
and corners d the NaaeA4Ilaid
the edges being all covered by ths
heavy bullion embroidery. The wheat
and the passion flowers are in silver,
the rest of the design being in gold
NJ " Tribune.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-12-11
pArENT MEoIclNE MANS CROP.


~
eams win . Ruah, nut 0nIy After =
long Walt.
ct was more than 20 years ago that
i decided the thing was ready to be
nut on the market said the inventor
Of a compound that has now passed out
81 the category Of patent medicines and
become well introduced. THE ques-
tion that bothered me was how to get
the stuff before the people and make
them personally acquainted with its
qualities SO that I might find out
whether or not my own faith anG con-
fdence in the article was justified.
But how was I to get it into peoples
hands? That was the question that
had to answer. I went to the whole
sale druggists and they said it would
be useless to put it OF their shelves,
as nobody would buy it. I sent It to
doctors, but that did very little toward
getting the article into the hands Of
the people. I gave it away at fairs,
and the result was that a small portion
Of the people there got nearly all the
stuff. while the others went without
any. Plainly, that would not do. But
/ didn't know yet what / would do.
sAfter awhile it occurred to me that
I would start a man in a buggy driving
in q certain direction. He was to dis
I tribute the stuff to everybody he met
in the road, and in that way the stuff
would get into the hands of the people
I was going to have relays enough to
stretch a line. almost across the conn
try. and start a man from the west to
come east through the territory the
other man could not reach. / was go
ing to send the stuff on ahead, SO thai
at different points on the road the mar
would be supplied with enough to give
away.
sThe fellow started on his long triI
and distributed thousands Of packages
Of the stuff. Other men started il
different directions, and there wert
only a few thinly populated and re
mote corners of the country that could
not have some personal experience O
my invention. The men finished theil
trips and / waited. But no response
came. The people whom 1 had eX
pected to answer with a cry for wha
had given them remained mute. !
year passed and every cen of availabi
capital had gone into the scheme
Thousands of dollars had gone and evi
IDENTIFY no more had been done towar'
creating a demand than if the stut
had been locked in a closet and lief
there. 1 strained hard, but I neve
could hear the voice of the public cal
Ding for my invention. The month
were miserable with suspense and dc
spair until suddenly the public, spea-
metaphorically, roared at me TIL
rush had started in a way 1 could neye
understand.s-N. Y. Sun.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-12-11

of his studies of neurasthenia, or netN-
Gus exhaustion. He believes that mel
ancholia is the mental reflex of nerF"
GUS fatigue. In a great sorrow the brain
is violently overweight. There results
a slackening in the functions of all the
organs, a dimunition in the tensity OF
the muscles, a general weakening Of
which the brain becomes conscious
through the medium of the sensory
nerves. 1t is this consciousness to
which M. de Flenry gives the name of
melancholy. Despite a few excitable
outbursts, he has found neurastheniC
patients habitually sluggish of diges-
ton, feeble and weakened. The heart
sends a weak stream of pale blood
through the body. Lack of mental en-
ergy also exists, shown by restlessness.
INDIGESTION, sloth, lack of concentration
and hypochondria. On the other hand,
cerebral stimulus is shown by prides
faulty, anger, selashness and cruelty.
Administer a sedatiVe to one OF these
stimulated subjects. and he becomes
sud, passive, timid. Give a tonic to a
doWneast man, ana hSva4A hA~aHAs
gay or passionate. Herein lies the dam
ger in alcohol. A low pressure of blood
in the arteries causes apprehensiveness.
a slightly higher is only indicated by
melancholy and exhaustion, then in
progressive order timidity, gentleness.
Indifference, next cheeriness, rnirth, hi
larity. Greater pressure still brings
courage, ~tenacity and ardo- for work
Increasing pressure brings the dam
ger point again, as is indicated in turn
by excitability and irritable tendency
anger, fury and paroxysms-homicida
tendency. DR.. de Fleury seems con.
WINGED that by use of shower and sal
baths, massage, hypodermic injections
OF salt water and artificial serum, phys
ical fatigue and melancholy may b.
removed and a patient raised to a prop
Ell degree of normal excitation abov'
: the zone of indifference and below tina
of anger, that medicine car accustor
the brain in this state, and make j
, permanent.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-12-11
panaer b EIastie Rands.

A physician recently speaking on the
subject Of broad, tight elastic bands
worn to reduce adipose tissue, said that
the desired effect could be easily pro-
duced if the bandages were worn day
and night, but at a great cost; that "is
is a well-known fact that pressure on
any part of the system causes atrophy
and a considerable wasting Of tissue.
1t acts, in the first place, by shutting on
circulation through the pressure on the
small blood vessels, which bring nutrl-
tion to the parts" Air and light ara
shut out. The finger wastes where a
ring il constantly worn. An elastic
band worn around the waist reduces
the fat, but also injuries The internal
organs. producing indigestion and varI-
ous other ills.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-12-11
WOMAN AND HOME
sMEEr jar lNeELoM.
AZ an Authoreas she Ranked rs the
Peer of Mrs. Browning.

AZ an Authoress she Ranked rs the
Peer Of Mira. Brovvnins.
Miss Jean Ingelow, the distinguished
poet and novelist, died in London re-
Gently, in her seveaty-seventh year.
Jean Ingelow was more widely
known as a poet than as a novelist. Her
first work appeared in 1888 and imme-
diately created a furore in the literary
world, being ranked by many critics
Of the day above Longfellow's and Ten
nyson's work.
SIS was a matured oma at the
time, being above SO years old, and it
was noted that all her poems had a
quaint, tender note of sadness in them,
which Immediately raised the belief
that she had been disappointed in love
in her youth. However, whether the
tender passion ever held sway within
her heart was never known and by
some was never believed. They en-
planned that It was not love which die
tatcd the strain of sadness found
throughout her work, but the many
years of her childhood spent in the
quiet, International life of the Boston
home off the Lincolnshire coast. A
ballad, which was published early in
her career and which fascinated the
~literati of the time with its bizarre
meter and gentle tactfnl impulsiveness
| of description, was "High-Tide on the
| Coast of Lincolnshire." And this
! sounded the keynote 10 her character.
In 1887 she published a second vol
ume of poems, after which they came
at irregular periods, but always were
sought for with avidity by publishers.
Miss Ingelow was regarded as the peer
of Mrs. Browning, her fame resting
alone upon her poems. Her work as
a novelist attracted not so much at
tention, despite the fact that the pub
lication of her first novel, "of the
6kelligs,", was eagerly awaited.
During later years her verse was
kept afloat and before the public by
magazines and exchanges the World
over. 1t was not an uncommon thing
to find an occasional one of her early
efforts reprinted in any OF the metro
politan dailies. And a great deal of hel
work found it's way into the curriculum
of the schools, where it was regarde'
as classical.
Many of her verses have been set t.
music and her songs "Oh, Fair Dove
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-12-11
x.RAYs COMPOUND sMUocLERs

with Their Aid FrencIR Omcaa1s
Found C-Ontraband I'm "a Out OF 80.
The experiments which have been
making for several weeks by the Gus
toms service of the government, re-
garding the examination of trunks and
packages by means of the X-rays, were
concluded the other day with a practi-
cal application upon 80 packages ar
irving by parcels-post. 1t took but
Is minutes to examine the entire lot
b ysthe new apparatus, the contents of
each being instantly and plainly dis
closed without untying a knoto or break
ing a seal.
The 80 persons to whom the pack
ages were addressed had not been
warned that their things were to be
looked into by the new process, and
each had declared solemnly that his
package contained nothing dutiable.
Yet contraband articles came to light
in Just 81 of them; and there was much
confusion in consequence, because the
French government does not look upon
smuggling as a joke, and supports a
good bit of les standing army on the
6nes it collects from people who like
to hoodwink it.
The nicely with which the dutiable
articles had been hidden to avoid Off
cial eye made it exceedingly interest,"
ing to see what the X-rays would fer
ret out, and that part Of the business
was as good as a cinematographic show
TO the inspectors. In one o fthe parcels
-..AL.-s.nI 9o17 hn1 Honn JnA&1.g ea4r
rounded by old hats in anotherwhich
was uectarru 20 CONTAIN fruit, z pair
Of woman's patent leather shoes was
buried in apricots and plums. In a
packet labeled articles de Paris were
chown a series of medallions and
watches. Other articles, supposed to
be out of sight and touch, were women's
oelts and silver buckles, carriers, hand
~kerchiefs, gloves and innumerable arti-
cles of jewelry, also two mandolins.
The last package examined had been
9erie without value The X-rays
showed that there was a very small col
lection of underclothing and a very
large consignment of Egyptian cigar.
cites and English matches. This was
such a fragrant case (because cigar
J cites and matches are a government mo
nopoly, and it is second to highway
} cobbery to bring into the country any
thing that you can smoke, and MATCHES
! that win really burn) that th'
inspectors hailed before them tn
consignee of the parcel ant
showed him the living image of hi
crime. This is the only case wher
something serious will happen. TIL
other consignees will merely pay duty
A very lively time is expected wheI
; the new method of examination is pu
Z to work at the. frontier customs sta
tions, which is promised for the nea
! future.-N. Y. Sun.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-12-11
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Prince Henry Of Prussia has
bought a 6ve-months-old Siberian bear
cub at Hamburg TO present. as a suit
able pet to the crew Of the Warship
KONG Wilhelm
-St James c~hurehyard, Penton-
VILE, in which were buried Joe Crime
adj, the clown and Tom Dibdin, the
nautical song writer, has been turned
into a public playground
Observation-Disclosures, short-sleeved
dresses and swimming baths are for
hidden to women Of Dulmen, in West
phalia, by authority Of their parish
priest, because they aredangerous to
morals.
Civil list pensions of $500 each have
been grantedto the widows of Anthony
Trollope and Charles Dickens the
younger, Gin consideration of the lit
erary merits Of their husbands and
their straitened circumstances"
Seven of it's small and obsolete
steamers have been sold by the Nord-
deutcher Lloyd to another Bremen
STEAMSHIP r1,25o,OOO marks
This sum means over $50 g ton, a high
price for old steamships.
"A Galician socialist candidate fol
the reichstag having proclaimed Of
the stump the unpleasant trutf
that the emperor Of Austris
cannot declare war without first con.
sulting the Rothschilds, has been sen
fenced to eight months hard labor, in
GLIDING a fast day once a fortnight, fol
lese majestic.