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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-10-02
HER SUSPICIOUS AROUSED.

Cleveland Leader.
Here is an extract from a letter that
a Cleveland man wrote, not long ago,
to his wife, who was at an Eastern
summer resort:
You have been gone nearly two
weeks now, and have had just two let
tiers from you. I judge, therefore, that
you are having a splendid time. That
right. Enjoy yourself. | wish | were
there with you. But that, of course,
cannot be. Business is picking up
wonderfully. and it would be foolish or
even worse for me to neglect it now.
BY the way, my dear, you took the
key to the postbox with you. Please
send it back at once. | happened to
see the postman yesterday. and he said
there were several letters in the box
for me. | can't imagine why folks
should direct my letters to the house.
Don't neglect to send it at once"
But she didn't send it, She took the
first train home. She knew a thing or
two concerning the way other men had
acted while their wives were awey, and
was not disposed to be made a fool Of.
She didn't telegraph TO him that she
was coming, either. and so there was
nobody at the station to meet her; but
she didn't care
When she reached the house she had
her key all ready to jab into the door
Of the postbox.
After nervously unlocking it. she
took out two handfuls of bills for ice
cream, dry goods. mineral water and
other things that had been purchased
by her prior to her departure.
Electric fans are not needed TO keep
the temperature down in that house at
the present time.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-10-02
GETTING EVEN WITH THE LAND
LORD.

Down at Atlantic City, so a girl
fresh from there tells me, there is a
Washington family, the maternal head
Of which is locally famed for her thrift
Her young son one day at dinner de-
clined the walters offer Of a second
dish of ice cream.
Take 1t, said the mother.
81 don't want ii" said the boy.
Take it, l say persisted the
mother
Il don't want it," yelled the boy in
tone that suggested the prompting
Of a maternal pinch.
You take that ice cream" CAM
manded the mother in stage whisper
your fathers paying $l5 a week for
your board, and won't have Won TAX
ing only one dish Of cream. Take 1t,
say. "-Washington Post.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-10-02
FISHING FOR SPO,NGES.
How They Are Sighted and Brought Up
From the Water.


The sponges of commerce and the dried
specimens Of other species are not the
actual animals, but merely their skeletons
or framework That which constitutes
their vital parts il removed in preparing
them for market.
Sponges do not nave the power of mo-
ton possessed by most animals; they are
nearly always attached to submerged OBJ
jects. Since it is impossible for them to
go in search of food, they can grow only
in places where there is plenty Of food
such as they require.
They are more active in fresh than in
still water, ard die in a short time if ex-
posed to the air The surface of living
sponge is covered with minute pores,
through which water is inbibed, carrying
with it both the air and the organic par
ttcles necessary for the support of life.
Sponges are distributed through all
seas, and are classified. chiefly according
to the structure OF the skeleton. The
Mediterranean and the Red Seas are the
sponge grounds of the old world; the
grounds of the new world are the Beha-
mas, Southern and Western Florida, ana
parts of the West Indies.
The best sponge of commerce is found
in the Mediterranean, and is known as
Turkey or Smyrna, sponge. 1t is obtain
ed by divers, who go clad in armor when
diving.
Sponges are Usually obtained by fishing
for them. When a sponging vessel ar
riyes at the fishing ground in the Bahia
mas, it is anchored, and the crew imme-
diately get ready for work. The spong5r's
outfit consists of a small boat called a
''dingey" a long hook, and a water glass
The sponge nook is a three pronged iron
fork attached to the end of very long
pole; the water glass is simply a wooden
water bucket with a bottom of common
window glass.
To use It, the glass bottom is thrust into
the water, the fisherman puts the bail
around his neck, and then tsiries his head
deep in the bucket to exclude the light
There are always two men to each din
gey;;' one to act as ''sculler" and the 9th
er as hooker" While the sculler pro
pels the degey along very slowly, the
hooker, in a kneellng position. keeps his
head in the water glass, looking down in
the water. When a good sponge is sighted
the hooker gives signal and the dingey
stops.
Together the sculler and hooker thrust
the sponge nook down through the water
and run it under the sponge: the roots are
thus pulled loose from the rocks, and soon
the game isl in the dingy. Thus the work
goes on unfn a boatload is obtained, and
then they are taken ashore and placed III
crawls to bic cured. The crawls are built
by sticking pieces of brush or stakes into
the sand jtst out of the water, or where
it is very shollow.
They remain in the crawls while under
going macSration, and the refuse is car
ried away IN the ebb and flow of the tide
Usually thhy are left in the crawls for a
week; then the fisherman removes them
and give hem beating for the purpose
of removiF Zig all chance impurities After
the beatin g they ere thoroughly cleansed,
and are rbady for market
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-10-02
..MR. DooLEYn ON ANARCHISTS.

'Tis hard bein' King these days"
said Mr.. Do0ley. 'Manny's t. man on
a throne wishes his father'd brought
him up a cooper, what with wages
bein' dccked be parlymints an ragin'
anychists runnin wild with dinnymite
BOMBS under their arms an carvin'
knives in their pockets. 'Onaisy,' as
Hogan says, is tn head that wears a
crowen. They'se other heads that're
onaisy, too. but We dot hear iv thin.
But man grows up in wan iv thin
furrin' countnries an he's thrained FIR
to be a King. Hivin may've intinded
him f'r dooce or Jack at tn most,
but he has to follow tn same line as
his father.
"'Tis like pawnbrokin' that way. Ye
niver heerd iv pawnbroker's son doin'
anything else. Wanst a King, always
a King Other mems sons may pack
away shirt in thrunk amigo out into
tn worrubd brakin on a freight or
ladin' Indyanny bankers up to shell
game. But man that's headed FIR a
throne can't run away Hes got to
take tn job If he kicks they blind
fold him an back him in. Whin he
COS on watch he's cinched. He can t
ooh / HIS lHLut DIT III EMU Nv III WeSh
an lave. He pays himsilf. He can't
sthrike, because he'd have to ordher
out tn polls to subjoo himsilf He
can't go to tn boss an say: Me hours
is too long ans tn wurruk is tajious.
Give me ne pay check He has no
boss. A man can't be indipindint on
less be has boss. Ills thrue. So he
takes tn place. an tn chances ARE
hes tn biggest onladnon in tn MUIR
ruld, an known no more about runnin'
a country thin l know about ladi' an
orchestry. An if he don't do anything
he's crazy, an whin he does his fore
man says: Sure, 'tis tn divvules own
time and l had savin that basthoon
firm desthroyin' himsilf If it wasn't
FIR me TIL poor thing'd have closed the
wurruks an gone to tn farm long
ago.
"An' wan day, whin he's takin' tn
air, p'raps along comes an Eyetalyn,
an says he:
"'Ar-re We a lingo
That's my NAME says His Maj
esty.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-10-02
KNOlWIMDGE ENOUGH.
Why Should Boston Girl Bother With
Other Kinds Of Research!

Notwithstanding her nose turned up,
there were specs on it, and she was
from Boston, which may be considered
to be competent testimony that hered-
ity isn't everything.
She was visiting in Brooklyn before
the hot spell and the first young man
she met was one who prides himself on
his intellectuals. Whether any one else
does or not is another story.
'iAh, Miss Sophia" he said with a
soulful yearn of his gentle voice. II
presume you attend several of the num-
erous schools of philosophy in which
Boston is SO rich and Brooklyn is so
poor?"
I'm sorry" she hesitated, ''but
really Mr.. Blank, l do not attend any"
Indeed, and do you feel no interest
in any of the concepts OF modern phil
osophic thought?''
''None whatever, fear" and she real
ly seemed to be sorry to have been SO
careless CT her golden, glorious oppor-
tunities.
And does not the subject Of ideal
ism of existence in delightful Boston
profoundly affect the reality of your
ego?"
so far I have not observed that it
did" She said apologetically.
How can 1t be poss4ble?" he ex-
claimed. The sphere of your knowl-
edge must be far wider than it is with
US"
'NNo," she answered, measuring her
words carefully. 81 should say it was
not. Don't you know as long as We
Bostonians know beans when the bags
open we don't worry overnuch about
the rest Of it. Why shogG we? Isn't
that enough 80. Us TO know"
But he did not reply. He gasped for
breath, and the hostess, appearing at
that moment on the scene, detected the
line CT conversation.-New York Sun.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-10-02

her swinging OF peach tree branch that
she was using a fly brush.
Don't you want 10 see him before he
goes?" l asked with much dramatic eff
feet, thinking I might move her that way.
she laughed q low, saw mill buzz kind
of laugh.
Law. Mr.. Barton she said YOU don't
think I'm a-bellievin' what you air sayin'
about Jim Short. do We? Well amt Do
you reckon I'D be green enough to think
that Teller that would spark gal for
four year and was too cowardly to even
try TO hug her on a summer night In the
full of the moon. had sand enough in his
craw TO jine the army? No, Stree. Jim
amt jined yit, and he amt a-goin' 20, TIL
his feelin's has underwent a considerable
change. er I'm no jedge NV a ducks nest
Have another silver NV the pier"
Il took another SILVER. "-Washlngton
Star.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-10-02

SHE KNEW jim TOO WE'LL.
Why Susan Did Not Believe a Rumor
That He Had Enlisted.

Just about the time the war with Spain
broke OUT" remarked the veteran drum
mer, Il started on trip through the
mountain towns Of West Virginia and
Kentucky. Great enthusiasm was mani
tested everywhere in that land where
there Is so little of the eventfuI, and what
struck me peculiarly was the nervous
anxiety Of the women, They were enthu-
slastic, of course. in a way, but they
wanted other womens men folks to go TO
war not their own. One of the mountain
girls / had known since my trip or last
season. and when l got back l expected
to find her married to the young fellow
who had been sparkling her for a long
time When I met her at her mothers
where l took dinner, ! thought l would
Jolly her bit on her sweetheart.
Z" BY the way, Susan. said l, 7 heard
down in Shutdown as l came through this
morning that Jim had enlisted and was
going to the front with the first COM
panies sent away"
is that so?" she replied in that pecu-
liarly Indifferent way common among rus
tics.
Yes, and there's a chance you won't
see him again as the company is ordered
to leave Immediately
rs that so?' and she never stopped
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-10-02

the dining room of a hotel in the Vir
ginia mountains. The Virginia noun
tans-that is to say, certain portions
Of them at least-are just now scratch
ing in the misery Of an acute attack
of fleas, and the Washington matron
is very attractive woman, even TO
fleas. 1t was at dinner one day that
she burst out with the remark which
Mortified everybody so. She was wear
ing a slightly decolette gown, and she
was Enthusiastically uneasy. The waiter
asked her if she would have a dozen or
so different things that she didn't
want.
NO" she said, finally; II don't want
any of those things, but I'll give you a
dollar if you'll just take this salt Gel
lar and pour it down my back
And She paid the dollar, too.-Wash-
ington Post.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-10-02

THE RAZOR SETTLED 1T

"Mistah Jones'" said the tail man,
after the dispute had continued for a
quarter Pf an hour, does l understand
yo' to declar' dat yo' am a gem LAMP"
"Of cofse yo' does-of cose," was the
indignant reply Of the short man.
Am NO. willin to let me put my han
in yo'r hind pocket, sah?"
"Of c b'se l am. Put it dar. Now,
den, VIII at yo' fin in dat hind pocket?'
Il find, sah,' replied the other as he
held it up to view-"I find de mos
overpoWerin' and pompatious proofs
dat yo' am a regular gem'lan. Nobody
but gem Ian ever carrier a razor in
his hind pocket-nobody but a GEM
Ian of de highest standin'."
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-10-02

hut sacrificed her to tis pride. It had
been only selfishnessI after all.
'tChristabel," he crYed brokenly, ano
the hunger of love (Fas in his voice,
"can you ever forgiJ me?'
Forgive your" sh asked In wonder
Then he told hel all. He did not
spare himself; the faction he at once
deemed noble re-dekpised as unworthy
now. But the woman whom he had
sacrificed read between the lines and
understood. In her faithful heart she
found no blame for him.
So that when at last he looked UP
into her face, thinking to meet there
the reproach he felt he deserved, he
saw only her eyes the love-light that
years ago should have been his hearts
best Decentralization.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-10-02
MUSTARD IN AN ARMY CAMP.
Ready on Demand at an Opportune
Time

1t was in the army. The boys had a
meal OF beef that had been corned by a
bath in a salt-horse barrel. 1t was
quite a treat. They all thought so I'M
til one Of the party remarked, "A little
mustard wouldn't go bad"
'+That reminds me-" said another.
you just wait few minutes"
A quarter OF an hour later he return
ed, and, producing a screw of paper, he
said, "Ch, yes; here's that mustard"
where did you get it," said the 9th
ers in chorus.
up at the surgeons. The sick call,
you remember, sounded as we were
talking about the mustard. 1t occurred
to me that little mustard for my lame
back would be just the thing"
But you haven't got any lame back"
But have got the mustard. Dos
ton Transcript
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-10-02
WOMEN FIRE FIGHTERS.

IN the little town Of Nasso. in Sweden.
the firemen Happen 70 be women. how
ever paradoxical that sounds. The place
lis only little village. and four enormous
tubs constitute the twaterworks' One
hundred and fifty women make up the fire
department, and one Of their duties con-
sists in always keeping the tubs filled
with water. The women are fine work
ers, it is said. ana know how to handle a
fire with as little Illusion as possible.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-10-02
A GREAT QUEEN.

Upon a beautiful obelisk in temple
at Karnak. Egypt, are inscribed the
name and cartouche OF Queen Hat
shepsu. daughter Of Thothmes l. (B. c.
5000. the woman who raised Egypt TO
the pinnacle Of it's highest greatness
and made Thebes as a capital more glo-
rious than Babylon or Nineveh. Her
reign lasted q years and was memora-
bic for the energy of her administration
and the prosperity of her people.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-10-02
HIT rNGERsOLL HARD

Bob Ingersoll recently was taking With
an old colored woman in Washington upon
religious matters. DO you really be-
lieve, aunty." SAID he, that people are
says dey is. and so L b'lieyes f." But
what is done in wet weather, when there
is nothing but mud?" Den s'pects dey
make inhduls an SIGH truck. Exchanges.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-10-02
PROFITS IN A WHALE

The profit from single whale that
is captured is very large. One about
50 feet long weighs 100000 pounds and
will give $4,000 pounds of blubber,
from which $4,000 pounds of train oil
and 3lNC0 pounds of whalebone may be
obtained.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-10-02
SLENDER SUPPORT.

TIN willing TO stand on my merits"
exclaimed Willie Washington
Miss Cayenne looked at him thought
fully, and then exclaimed: ''Mr. WISH
ington. have you ever had any experience
as a tight rope walker? -Washlngton Star.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-10-02
THE SOLDIERS JOY.

John, aren't you glad to be at home
again
Glad? Ny dear, even your angel
cake tastes heavenly to me. Detroit
Free Press
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-10-02
FELT 1T WAS WORTH IT.

The woman who overheard the re-
mark is telling with such horror of an
objectionable something a Washington
matron said right before everybody in
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-10-02
Fong went aboard

long went aboard
Dick Turvil the
istabel, he acted
Ation Of his life
bnfronted him, he
\e grimly satisfied
1 taken.
kgation was ended,
! Dick had given
Mas the thorn that
! proud heart for
stood aside re-
years, for Dick!
feelings, manlike,
ore truly, he mis-
Dreaming but that
(e, versatile, and
only Mark knew,
ome substitute for
wronged Christa-
st earnest and far
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-12
ON THE VERGE OF REVOLUTION.

If it is true that the Spanish fleet has re-
turned to Cadiz it is fair to assume that
whatever Spanish government there is has
practically abandoned Cuba and Porto Rico
to their fate. This may be prudent, but it is
not logical procedure if Spain intends to
contend for its colonies in the West Indies.
The war is for possession of Cuba. If Spain
retires from the arena of conflict the powers
should compel her to negotiate peace upon
the basis of the surrender of Cuba and
Porto Rico. AS for the Philippine islands,
they are already lost to Spain. In fact,
Spain itself appears to be in the throes of
dissolution. 1t is kingdom to-day; it may
be military government tomorrow, or
the Carlists may be in control. Martial law
has been declared in the larger cities and
general dissatisfaction and lawlessness ex-
ist. At the present time three strong ele-
ments are seeking to overthrow the present
government-those of Don Carlos, Weyler
and the Republicans. 1t is evident that the
situation in Spain is attracting most of the
attention of Spaniards. When the reigning
dynasty is in danger Of overthrow by in
colonial possessions. When Spanish soldiers
in Spain, with their officers, are locked in
their barracks to prevent their joining the
mobs hostile to the government, it is evil
dent that Spain is about to fall into pos
session of its old master, the army. On the
verge of revolution, Spain could not prose-
cute war vigorously, even if it had more
Nd fho ~
attack from the outside upon most any other
nation than Spain would have brought the
different factions together to repel a COM
mon enemy In Spain foreign war is made
the occasion to plot the overthrow of the
government. This alone makes the cause Of
Spain hopeless. These conditions have evil
IDENTIFY influenced the authorities at Wash
ington to hasten their preparations to seize
Cuba while Spain is in the throes Of revo-
luton.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-12

A notable feature of the mobilization of
troops now taking place is the evident pur-
pose of the government authorities to make
it distinctly national movement. This
appears in the wide distribution Of quotas,
embracing every State in the Union, the
prompt mastering of state volunteers into
the service Of the government, thus nation
alizing them as soon as possible, and in
sending different regiments of different
States to different points of rendezvous,
BY the latter plan the troops from Indiana
and Massachusetts, will be sandwiched with
those of Texas and Virginia, and regiments
from the Dakotas may be brigaded with
those from the Carolinas. 1t is quite likely
that the assignments of commanders will
be such that ex-Confederate generals will
command some Northern regiments and ex-
Union generals some Southern ones. All
this will tend to the obliteration of old sec
tional lines and the development of a new
national feeling.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-12
TwEEDLEDUM AND TwEEDLEDEE.
Awful Question of Who's Who and
What's What at Camp.

The fact as to who is in command at
Camp Mount is one that is worrying several
of the officers there and provoked a serious
discussion among all hands. Several off,
GERS have claimed all the time that as soon
as the men were mustered into the federal
service General McKee's authority over
them ceased, while another lot claimed
that the articles of war expressly stated
that in such cases the ranking officer in any
branch of the service, no matter whether
of the militia, marines or regulars, was in
command. 1t was even stated that in case
regiment of regulars should be assigned
ders Of General Mckee.
Among the members Of the militia the
opinion seemed to be that the above con-
struction OF the law was correct In order,
however, to test the matter a retired army
officer of extensive experience was asked
his opinion in the matter, and his reply
was very much to the point in the follow
ing language: Does General Mckee COM
mand United States troops. and if so. by
what authority? Certainly not by the au-
tbority OF the President of the United
States, and you know that the Governor
of Indiana has no right to give such au-
thority over federal troops The moment
those men were mustered into the federal
service they passd from the control in any
way OF General Mckee.
The passage in the articles of war re-
ferred TO does not figure in such con-
ungency as this one, being merely framed
TO determine the rights In the matter as
between two officers in the same service OF
equal rank, and are as follows:
Article 122. If upon marches. guards or
in quarters different corps of the army hap
pen to join or do duty together, the officer
highest In rank OF the line of the army,
marine corps or militia by commission.
there on duty or in quarters shall command
the whole and give orders for what is need
full to the service unless otherwise specially
directed by the President. according to the
nature OF the case"
The construction placed on this is the
subject of all the dispute, but the highest
military authorities in camp unite in the
opinion that there is nothing in the article
to warrant the assumption that General
Mckee had any authority over the troops
already mustered into the federal service.
At any rate. late last night, when the GUS
tomary reports from the different regiments
We're turned In. Il was found that those for
the Second and Third Regiments. with Bat~
terry A, were missing. These reports came
to Colonel May. and, SO far as these men