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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-05-07

Joseph A. Arklc, past assistant adlu'
tant general. Department OF West VIZ
EInIa, was born June Is. lsil, Mt BurlIns-
TON. Belmont county, Ohio He came to
Wheeling when only six months old. re.
cciycd common school education ana
worked in the mills and mines OF Wheel.
ing. He learned the cooper trade ana
worked at II until March 2, 1868, when
he enlisted in the general mounted ser
vice OF tho United States for i've years,
Shortly after he was assigned 10 Com
pany I, Third United States Cavalry.
then stationed at Memphis. Tenn. 1t
dld duty until October 8, 1863. when the
regiment was attached 10 tho Fifteenth
corps as Shcrmnn's headquarters guard,
and was with Sherman through the
CHATTANOOGA campaign, and In March.
1884. was sent from Huntsville, Ala, TO
81. Louis. Mo, TO recruit After being
in ST. Louis two months and half the
regiment was sent to Little Rock. Ark.
where II did duty OF the hardest Kind
all over that part OF Arkansas until May
1. 1896. when II was sent to New Mexico,
marching across the plains from Fort
Smith through trnckleas waste illled
with large herds OF buffalo and inhab-
tied only by savage tribes OF indians,
The Third cavalry was scattered all
over the territory Of New Mcxlco. Com.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-05-07

WHEN the spring time comes. gen
tie Annie" like all other sensible per-
sons. will cleanse thc liver and reno
Vate the system with DeWitta Little
Early Risers, famous little pills for the
liver ana stomach MI the year round.
Charles r. Goethe. corner Market and
Twelfth streets. Bowie & Co. Bridge
mort. PGhbhdy & Son. BenMood.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-05-07

Be sure and use that old and wcll.tr!ed
remedy, Mrs, Winslow's Soothing Syrup.
for children tccthing. II soothes the
child. softcnB the gums, allaya all pain,
cures wind collie ana Is the best remedy
for diarrhoea. Twenty-Five cents q
bottle. mwf&w.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-05-07

The Ladies' OF the G. A. II, met in the
morning at MoLain's hall, on Market
street. with a large attendance Of dole
gates Mrs Carrie v. Sheriff.. OF Pitts
burgh, past national president Of the Or
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-05-07
Fob 9AbD.

FIRsT-cLASs INVESTMENTS.
shares Bank OF Wheeling.
% shares Riverside Iron Works.
shares Bloch Bros. Tobacco Company.
All these are 5 per cent stocks,
S2.e0q s per cent gold bonds, secured by
first mortgage on business property in this
city. interest payable semI-annuaily
$50 bond. secured by first mortgage on
one Of our large manufacturing plants.
6 per cent. semi-nnnunlly.
These are investments equal 10 govern.
ment bonds and pay twice the income,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-05-07
PROMINENT q. al R. MEN

Sketches Of Commander craEO, General
pnvAI aud OthSrU.
This morning the IntellIgcnccr pre-
scnts sketches and portraits OF Ave
prominent G. a. r. leaders, Past Com
mander Crago, OF this city; General l.
II. Duval. one Of the most brilliant SOL
diers of the war Of the rebellion; Cap
tain r. II. Lee. Major Lee Hammond,
OF clarksburg. and ex-AdJutant General
Joseph A. ArlIie. of Wheeling.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-05-07

Major Leo Raymond lives in Clarks-
burc and is cashier OF the Merchants
Rank OF that city. He took part IN the
rebellion as first lieutenant OF the IhlF9
west Virginia Cavalry. was appointed
captain IN the subsistence department oy
Inc president OF the United States lie
was the fret department COMMANDER
who attended national cncampment
OF the q. a. r. He has attended AL the
department eucampments and eight ma
tlGnnl encampments, During his ad'
minlstratlon as department COMMANDER
the increase in membership was 49,
the largest for any one year In the MS
tory OF the department He is an en-
thusiastIc Grand Army man and STANDS
high in the estimation OF his comEaues'
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-05-07

under treatment IOr
nervous troubles, and
changed climates fire.
quently without avail.
Last February / be-
gan taking DR.. Miles
Restorative NerViDe
and Nerve and Liver
pulls and since thea l
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-05-07

DEv. d. P. sEAREY, pastor NJ h
church. buchanan, Ga. writes
A Dec. 10, 1895: "ln childhood was
afflicted with excessive nervousness. which,
almost developed Into st, Vitus dance,
LartIally recovered, but at college 1t gradu-
ally grew worse. Close study aggravated
tho trouble; any unusual c1ertlon caused
trembling all over. In 1870 had severe
attack Of La Grippe which brought on heart
weakness. / had been almost constantly
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-05-07

Capt. n n. Lee. Of ST. Adams, ". Va.
In a native OF Tennessee. whore he war
born about seventy years ago When
he Wns four years old hIs family moved
Ia Edgar county. Illinois, where his
mother died soon after their arrival.
At an carly age he was bound out 10 a
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-05-07

WHEN dizzy or drowsy take
BEECHAMs PILLS
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-05-07

Ground 100 feet square on Twenty.
seventh street, with buildings thereon,
No. 2207 Chaplin0 street, 1900.
Five-roomed house southeast corner Of
Real estate Of every description.
JAMES A. HENRY.
Real Estate Agen. Collector. Notary Pub.
lie and Pension Attorney, No. 1872 Main
street my6
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cause she has no heart. GermanyP Heart
to the core. And SO ii is that even her
great, clumsy, numbering language is
often teeming 10 the lips with poetry.
My love of Riley, a discovery, strange
or new? Bless you, Lowell was his Co
lumbus. and years ago. And Holmes
sailed into port right along after Lowell.
Says Holmes:
James Whitcomb Riley is nothing
short OF born poet and veritable genius
L think he is later Hosea Biglow, quite
as original as the latter and more versatile
in certain respects. l own a good deal of
enthusiasm for this latter product of In.
diana soil this delineator of lowly hu-
manity who sings with so much fervor,
pathoS, humor and grace" The above
estimates seem also to be the verdict of
the reading public. as over sixty thousand
of his volumes were sold last year, and
the publication Of q new book from him
has grown, therefore, to be a literary
event both in ENGLAND and America.
John Boyle o Reilly said long ago:
He is the poet of Nature, of Nature do
mesticaed, SO to speak, to be the back
ground of q simple human story, the SYM
pathetic accompaniment OF unsophisti-
Gated feeling and speech. The burns of
America"
And HowelIs said only the other day:
Without the poetry OF James Whit
comb Riley our literature would be so
much the poorer that it seems idle to
state the fact. He has more perfectly
mastered his instrument than any writer
of dialect verse since Lowell, and l do not
know why one should not frankly place
him with Lowell as equally master in that
kind.
What he hiss said of very common
aspects of life has endeared him; you
feel, in reading his verse, that there is
one OF the honestest souls that ever ut
tered itself in that way, and that he is
true to what We all know, because he has
known II, and not because be has just
verified it by close observation"
Yet am l in doubt if they all or any OF
them knew that this man Riley meant so
much as he really means. Maybe Riley
himself don't know.
May L intrude few lines to show what
l mean by brief, baby words in work?
Here IS something said at The grave OF
Burns quarter O. a century ago:
In men whom men condemn as Ill
find 30 much of goodness still;
In men whom men pronounce divine
lind so much of sin and blot,
hesitate TO draw liue
Between the two when God has not
The lines have lived and will live.
Why? Because the words are not bigger
than the thought, and the idea depends
on nothing but the simple truth. For
you must know that the purest truth is
the purest poetry.
The poem of all poems whether human
or divine, is ''The Sermon on the Mount"
There Is no debatable ground there The
words are the purest and simplest, and
yet the solioest, ever laid down in pave
ment for the feet of truth 10 pass over.
Riley is not a new American, as his
name might Imply. His iather was con-
spicuous Judge here in the apita of In
diana, and here Riley read law The OLD
homestead lies dozen or more miles ont
OF town, at the little city OF Greenfield.
Here is the home in which he was born.
and here he is, and has been since boy
hood, an idol. No other prophet was ever
more honored in his own land or in anv
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-25

From the least of the least of all singers, to the
last of the Mighty Dead
Greeting, and love, and due reverence. for all
you have written and said
oh, had the treasures you garnered of wor DIS
and the meanings they hold,
would crown you with jewels of utterance,
and wrap you in verses of gold!
For Allah, who sent you, was weary; he
yearned for your speech and your song;
His banquets without you were burdens, his
hours had missed you too long;
So they set you a couch by Firdusi; great Omar
Will crown you with glory;
Once more they'll be happy in heaven, as you
tell them some magical story.
He breaks into tumultuous u.terance on
hearing that Golab, the Thanadars
daughter, is still unwedded when he re-
turns to Aligunj:
Go, frolic Winds and these my kisses bear
To where,
In some cool, dark retreat
Withdrawn from midnoon heat,
My mistress wreaths her hair
With marigold and jessamine,
NAnd in its jetty twine
The rose enfolds. Oh! that were mine
Your unfelt privilege to kiss her feet,
To fan her face, and minge with her breath,
Hear all she saith,
And from her neck unfurl
And lift each dainty curl.
But do not rufle her with wantonness,
Or with too rude caress
Her virgin thought distress.
And-listl
When you her lips have kissed
Then swift return to me,
With usury,
These kisses that send to her by We.
He had never seen the face of his be-
loved, and this is how his fancy plays
about it:
AS falls the dew upon the rose
Unfolded to the night,
And on each leaf gem bestows
That beauties the light,
So fall my though upon thy face
And on thy sleeping eyes.
And elothe thee with a houris grace,
Who blooms in paradise.
The supreme moment having arrived
when he should unveil his brides face,
she, fearful lest he should be disappointed
with her, tries TO persuade him to leave
her yelled, and be contented with sight
only of her eyes, whion alone he had
looked upon.
"For answer" he says, ~ put forth my
hand and slowly uncovered the face of
AlIah's most beautiful houri, whom he
had bestowed upon me because loved
his wonderful works, and was a hadji,
and because the bard within me had ever
sought to find paradise in this world of
bea uty."
The manuscript finishes with q prayer
that there should be no unchasre thoughts
in the minds of its readers! What would
some of our women writers who are pro-
ducing novels with purpose" say to the
am btion OF this "heathen in his blind
ness,'' Who keeps his own mind perfectly
pure. as set forth in his ''short and simple
annals? ]. LAIRD.
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frugal scrivener with simple tas'es
At this iuncture, and when his lucky
star seemed to be IN the ascendant, the
pestiferous vanity which affects all poets,
more or less, and is part of the poetical
temperament, led him to fall in love with
the daughter OF the Thanadar (the chief
OF police) of Aligunj. whose pride was
greatly affron;ed by the presum ption of
the scrivener and bard. Achmets ''bub-
bic reputation" soon collapsed in his
native village and lie was on the verge of
starvation, when he attracted the atten-
ton of a kindly Yankee who was tour
ing India in search of the secrets of
Hindoo magic.
BY the wandering American he was
made acquainted with the fascinating, but
forbidden, savors of swine's flesh and
strong waters, thereby becoming ian
alien TO his mothers children" and from
this period many of his poems were of a
bacchanalian character. He rapidly de-
veloped into an Epicurean like his great
prototype. Omar Khayyam, with whose
noble poem he was well acquainted, and
on whose preserves he unconsciously en-
croaches in the manuscripts before me.
By his newly fonnd friend he was taken
to San Francisco. and during the voyage
his irrepressible bardic temperament led
him to fall in love with a native daughter
of the Golden West, who mus have had
great deal of fun with him according to his
ow1 naive confession.
While in San Francisco he won con-
siderable prize in lottery, which en-
abIed HIM TO return TO Aligunj by way of
Mecca. The pilgrimage thus performed
made him Hadii; and, thus white
washed, with money in his purse, he was
welcomed with open arms to his native
village, where he was adopted by the
Jemadar, and was recently accepted by
the Thanadar as suitor for his daughters
hand.
On the death of his adopted father he
became the Jemadar of Aiigunj j, position
that he still enjoys.
Whatever may be the fate of his verses
done into English they have already
made him famous in his native province.
although they are Of sort that does not
appeal to such popular taste as we nave
in this country, which is caught by the
careless songs of Eugene Field and James
Whitcomb Riley. The Oriental has far
finer instincts in matters pertaining to
art than we OF the Occident. with all our
science and boasted civilization.
In the following metrical translations /
have aitem pted to render the spirit of
Achmet's muse rather than his mere
words. l need hardly say that much of
the bloom of his verses is lost in the rough
handling of translation:
The following dithyrambics were de-
claimed directly after his first introduc-
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tion to Bourbon and light wine, proba-
bly, hook, which be said twas sweeter than
the waters of Zem-Zem and surpassed the
sherbets of Shiras'':
Oh, sweet is the breath of the houri in Para
disc smiling and waiting.
With kohlln her eyes, and kenna staining the
nails of her feet;
With languishing looks, and caresses. and
hand-c.asps that thrill without sating.
But sweeter, my lord, TO the hungry is the
steam OF savory meat
How precious the color of amber! the roses
soft petals how gay!
How refreshing the sound of the brook as it
LAUGHS DER lis murmuring taski
But yet is more precious the rose-red Wine
wi III its wit and is play:
AND fresher, my lord. 10 the thirsty is the
gurgling OF long necked flask.
Lo! Hunger ana Thirst are kind demons. ap-
peased with meat and with wine;
And healthy appetite's, surely, the only
admissible priest
To make due sacrifice. and l1bations to pour at
their shrines;
But hearken, my lord, in your ear-"To-
baccos the croVn Of the teastf"
The following has quaint flavor about
1t OF Herrick and Horace:
God gave the gifts of youth and wine,
And irolic thoughts and love divine,
Then, spurn them not.
Before the clouds of old age lower,
oh, let US warm us for an hour,
Whilst youth is hot
Come, kiss the wine.cup while you may;
The fire of youth lasts but day;
Too soon we're old:
The light goes out, the fagot burns,
And soon 10 dust and ashes turns,
And all Is cold.
The following verses were sung as he
sailed out of the Hoogli, with no hope of
returning 10 his native land:
o Aligunj, o Aligunj,
Thee and thy lovely daughters,
Stiu IN my memory shall bear
Beyond these painless waters.
The tinkIe of returning fiocks,
The lowings of thy kline,
Seem with the setting sun TO come
Across these leagues of brine.
'Tis now the hour when crickets chirp
Their first uneasy strains,
And leng thening shades the cattle throw
Athwart the dusty plains;
The nigh muezzin's call is heard,
The faithful turn their eyes
ward Mecca, soon as on the ear
Auah-ii-oollah!" dies.
The wild fowls flying wedge is seen,
Seeking its sedgy nest:
The birds their clamorous conclaves hold
Ere they retire to rest;
The sun mas set. the pleasant eve
Now lays her dewy hand,
y Aligunj, upon thy brow,
And on thy weary land.
He visited Stevenson at Vailima, and
fell under the spell of the mighty
master. The following tribute was writ
ten on hearing of the great authors
death, and is not any worse than SO much
OF the verse that has been written about
him:
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was much given to ventilating the opinion
OF the bard who stirred within him''-to
use his own expression-on every possible
occasion.
The people of Aligunj seemed to have
entertained half-amused contempt for
Achmet, which was not to be wondered
at in community of bucolics; but in
Difference to the popularity and fame that
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face was sad ana his voice trem ed as he
tried to speak. Men cheered and women
waved handkerchiefs, but he could not be
heard and soon fell into a seat beside the
Speaker. Then l knew why he had sworn
never again to appear in public. Only
those who have suffered from stage fright
can guess how lie felt.
Let's get out" he whispered. 81 think
five minutes more of this will kill me.'
They dragged US across the hall from
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mean much of themselves as to this one
man. but they signify that right here is
rich country and generous people and a
refined country and a land where civiliza-
ton has set foot firmly in the Indians
path of old. Hereabout stand four great
cities Cincinnati, Columbus, Indian
apolis and Louisville. These four cities
astonish one with their fine carriages,
t n elr refinement, propriety in dress, good
breeding, broad, heart life. These four
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and better than in Boston. TIE finest
monument to soldiers in the Union is
here; ever so much more stately and
splendid than those 10 Nelson and We'll
lington in Trafalgar square, London.
But to get on with Riley. He was pale
when met him and seemed frightened.
Whats the trouble, Jim?'
'Why, you see, the Governors sent for
us; Legislature in session; let's go out to
my old place and let them 60, 60 to -"
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Discovery Of a New Indian Poet

A few years ago, while rambling about
in the northwestern corner of Oudh, I
came into possession OF certain bundles
OF manuscript written by one Achmet
Fazl-ood-deen, Jeradar of Aliguni one of
the villages of Oudh. which nestles in a
clearing of the Terai-the great Jungle
that skirts the foothills of the H Himalavas.
The MS, which was written IN flowing
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his verses had begun to acquire in the
metropolitan city of Lucknow, they gave
him rather more than the modicum of
support that a prophet obtains in his own
country, and at one time, when he sud
denly blazed into an exhibition of cour ge
that was hardly to be expected from a
mere poet, he was in fair way of earn
ing the munificent sum of 5 rupees
month-more tEan competence for a
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Shagist (the Urdu caligraphy used by men
OF clerkly attainments), proved on exam
ipation TO be the journal of the said
Achmet, who began his career as hum
BILE acoIyte of the village mosque. the
Moolah of which taught him Urdu and
Persian and Arabic. He early developed
faculty for writing verse, some three
score specimens of which are scattered
through the Ms. in my possession, for he
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-25

cities are tied together by the "Big Four"
name that sounds like one of Harte's or
Hays OF old. 1t unites these four. big,
rich cities OF this rich heart of the Union.
Ii you want to go from one of these big
towns to any one of these cities you tele-
phone 10 big Four for tickets. All
things by telephone, and with flowers in
the windows of the palatial farmhouses
ali along. Publishers? Bigger publishers
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But had to talk that night and had a
manager. And SO we were soon on the
Senate floor and Riley pale as ghost. L
took his hand to lead him up beside the
Lieutenant Governor and it was like ic,.
He was frightened almost to death, here
in his own town, with those who had
known him from boyhood. and every
man and woman in that densely packed
gallery or on the floor his friend. His
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land from the very first than Riley has
been in his, and in this Indiana entirely
and most bravely honors herself.
But Riley did not like Blackstone. He
ran away from his father and his books
and fell in love with big dream and mar
ried it, and was glad.
Riley is a rich man, rides in a carriage
and dresses with the care and daintiness
of Bret Harte. These things don't
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The Queen's Jubilee.


Queens Jubilee will
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its of
read
Seas frs a f12andf
Sea OF andfI
on s 75ands1OO.
and
ca o IN f2tos5,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-20

krHn usual number of nonsensieal Els are now being introduced in Hs Legislatures. A Kansas legis- or has made an ass of himself by Producing a measure which pro Hes that "Whosoever, by words, s,ns or gestures, provolses another commit an assault or battery lon him, is guilty of a criminal zovocation, and upon conviction |ereof, shall be fined not exceeding E5. Arkdnsds Gdsette.
 I've are surprised that the en- ',htened Gazette should call the a nonsensical measure. If |e Gosettc would consult it's attor- |y it would be told that the pro- bsed Kansas law is merely a statu- Dry enactment of what is, and has
 bon, the common law for centuries, Id is yet the law of Arkansas, un-
 ss it has been lately modified by
 atute. But opinions must change
 ], die What learned lawyers have lid for five hundred years of the 5mmon law--calling it "the perfec-
 oa of reason'- now an error, lnce the Gaxc.te has so declared.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-20
SUNDAY SCHOOL CHAMPION
Only Two Sundays Missed In Nine Years,
 Eight Months and Two Weeks.

Eight Months and Two Weeks.
 A 13-year- old boy in Danville, Ky, thinks he is entitled to the world $ championship for Sunday school attend, ance. He has been in his seat at the Methodist Church South on every Sun. day morning except two for g years, months and 9 weeks ending Sunday, Jan. 10. On one of the two exceptions he was down with the measles and on the other day he was unavoidably de- tained. More than this, he has now been in bis class on sos consecutive Sundays, and he says he is going to keep it up until he has LOGO straight Sundays to his credit
 The boys name is John O. Eastland, Jr. He joined. the Sunday school in May, 1887, when he was but little more than years old, and he has been going ever since What makes this reg ularity of attendance the more remark able is that until few months ago the Eastlands lived six miles out in the country and had to drive to town before 9 o'clock every Sunday morning Much of the time John has had to come through all sorts of disagreeable wealth CT, and very frequently by himself. Sometimes he has come through blind ing rain and blizzards, when other chil- dren who lived within stene's throw of the church have staid away.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-20

is so because the genius of the Southern mind is emphatically dar- ing and being trained from youth to habits of command, it will go to the front when it pleases to do so. Be- sides the Southerner is a lover of theory in science no less than in politics, and the future will prove, as opportunity offers, that Southern industrial education will not only be equal to, but in advance of Southern
 industrial demand.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-20

TIE Houston Post of a recent date says that Ia distinguished South |ern Governor recently remarked that Southern men of means have ceased to believe that their sons must engage either in agriculture or enter the professions, and that many wealthy young men in the South are now preparing themselves for the management of industrial establishments.'
 The above paragraph would seem 10 indicate that it is but recently 'that any attention has been given in tho South to technical industrial We presume that the
 kst is spsaking for it's own local