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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-09
ALWAYS IN GOOD ORDER.
Philadelphia Times.

Pnlladelpnla Times.
They were slipping chocolate at a
downtown fashionable cafe and talk
ing Of watches. And this is what was
said:
Il have carried my watch for ten
years, said the senior member of the
party, "and it has never cost me a pen
ny for repairs
Mercy" exclaimed another one.
How did you manage it?"
Il took care OF it. You know. men
are always making disagreeable re-
marks about women's watches. and
When my husband gave me mine ne
said 1t would probably be out of order
most OF the time. And | just made up
my mind to show him that there vas
one woman IN the world who knew how
TO take care OF watch
But have you never lost it or had II
stolen?'' =
Never. | dropped it several times at
nrst, out II did not show any marks"
But do the works never get cut of
order?" =
The what?'
The works inside Have you never
broken the mainspring2"
i never looked inside.
But how do you wind it?"
I don't wind it. That's how 7 take
care OF it and keep 1t NICE
They all stared for a moment. Then
they said: "Oh, you clever thiug," and
adjourned sine die.
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hNDREE G|yEN(pF()R LOST
The Placing Of Him and His Party in a
Wax Works Exhibition
That He is Gone-hun-
dreds Go to See Rim-He Stands
With Stringberg and FroenKei,
All Dressed as When They Left,
Just Six Months Away.

The placing of Andree in the Tussaud
wax works exhibit at Marylebone, Lon
don. is a signal that the explorer mas
been given up for good, and that MS
friends have accepted him for lost That
the nublic so regards him is shown by the
fee which they pay at all hours OF the
NIGHT and day to behold his counterfeit
presentment.
When Andree sailed away in his balloon
on July IL he expected to cross the pole
in a few hours and at most to be gone
not over three days. He took with MIN
no provision for long stay; and when
the DAYS heightened into weeks and the
weeks into months the world gave up all
hone of him. To a friend he said Ii
am gone six months. you may give me up
for 1 shall not survive as long as that IN
my balloon"
OF late even the most hopeful friends OF
Herr Andree have despaired and When
the Tussaud exhibition made preparations
to get him up in wax the public shook us
head and said. Hes gone"
In wax works exhibitions It is seldom
that a living person, outside the royal
family. is shown. The minute Carnot
was shot he became immortalized in wax,
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-09

a yearling calf made a lunge at me,
and when l Skinned up the nearest tree
he was shaking the most of my night
shirt into lint and ribbons. He made
such a yawping trying to get up where
| was that the old man was awakened
and in two minutes was dancing
around the yard with shotgun look
ing for something to kill. When l 10
Gated myself by bowling at him not 10
shoot he let go with both barrels and
blew most of the tree top from around
me-
Did he hit your"
mo such luck. But the gun kicked
him in the jaw harder than 1t ever
Numbered in San Domingo, and his
cries of 'murder! brought out the
whole shootin match except Grace. |
tried to make an explanatory speech
from my perch after they had sur
rounded me, but the old gentleman
swore that it was just another Of my
mad FRANKS, held me responsible for
the crack he got with the butt of the
gun, and gave out an ultimatum that
l leave the first thing afte breakfast.
l tried to have talk with Grace, but
she sent word that she had seen all Of
me she ever cared to, and | left with a
heart as sore as my skin.
Now, I'm just back from tho sea-
shore. Yesterday l swan out further
than usual, and hearing a wild scream
for help, went to the rescue with my
strongest stroke. The first desperate
grasp | made resulted in a ripping
sound and the bringing up of a bathing
suit that | flung to the outgoing tide.
Then I dove to fasten my fingers in
head of blond hair.
BY all the gods it was Grace, and
only pair of stockings better off than
mermaid. | never said boo about
washbowls, rose bushes, dogs, shotguns,
paternal cranks or girls too fastidious
to forgive a man for falling off roof
without dressing for the occasion |
just towed her tenderly to shallow wa
ter, and left her sitting there till could
send a girl friend to uer with another
outfit.
THAT evening I ventured: Well,
we've broke even, Grace"
Yes, and yet it's odd that a wash
bowl and the ocean should play the
same trick
Il started to say something about a
skin game, but che clapped her hands
over my mouth, and when she allowed
me to ask if the engagement was on
again her aswer was that there was no
other way out Of the middle. The
quicker we were married the better,
and meantime neither of us is to go
near the water save in a bathroom with
the door locked. New York World.
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WHAT A DREAM DID.
ON the Buffalo Enquirer.

From the Buffalo Enquirer.
Some sixty years ago Joseph Everest
came into the Warsaw valley from
Hume and bought farm three miles
from this village. One morning ne re-
faled a dream that he had the night pc
fore, and which he had dreamed Tor
three nights in succession, in when ha
had seen a vast treasure on his farm IN
the earth below. He was so moved py
the vision that, having selected spot
he removed the earth to the rock, ana
with Impoverished tools began drilllnG
with a spring pole. After going down
some eighty or hundred feet and md
ing nothing, he gave up the search, but
still persisted in his belief OF hidQen
treasure below up to his death, winch
occurred many years after.
His nephew, II. II. Everest, or tne
Vacuum Oil Company Of Rochester
some years ago, remembering his un,
eIe'sl dream which was a househoI1
word in the family, sunk well foi on
in that spot, but found twenty fooL
deposit Of salt instead Of gold, thereby
fully realizing the dream of his unclo
Joseph Of a hidden treasure. some wv
years thereafter a small set OF SAT-
works were built and from this sHa4
beginning sprang the immense SUIT
plants and the large output pI S .atson ~
Warsaw Valley, when mas fVGi "'i0
lied the salt business OF the WoI-u'
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-09

VINO had weakness for appearing in
thOse books of Prominent Americans
lie has figured as a prominent Ameri-
can several times to the tune of several
hundred dollars. He brides with
pleasure every time he receives a re-
quest for a sketch of your career. a
photograph, and your autograph
Always typewrite the sketch, and |
nave observed that as time passes, he
keeps adding qualifications which
didn't occur to him on his earlier ap-
peafances. Up to date, ne is an actor
OF great ability, an author of 'numer-
Gus publications. pnilanthropist, a
society leader, prominent political
power, and various other things. l
won't deny that he is the author Of
numerous publications. for l know how
many biographies Of himself he has
written
Yes" said the middle oracle, men
are a queer lot. People are always
talking about the training of typewrit-
ers. If anybody would open a school
For the training Of employers and
make them all take a diploma, there
wouldn't be so much trouble in the
pI OISSSICu
There are tiddledywink employ
ers,' said the youngest oracle, las well
as tiddledywink typewriters'
YES" said the oldest, land one Of
the queer things about it is that they
rarely go together You find the It'd
deldywink typewriter In the Office of
some grave reverend old duffer-I beg
your pardOn-who works harder him
self rather than set the sweet young
thing adrift. And you find the tiddle-
dywink employer paying first rate
wages to a competent girl, who has
sense enough to correct his errors
and to jolly him over the shaky senti-
mental spots without giving him bit
of encouragement ana without making
him angry"
''The fool is not known by the type
writer he keeps" said the youngest
oracle, sagely. There was another
three-cornered head-snaking and then
the meeting broke up.-New York
sun,
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businesslike and proper a form as a
could, but naturally | didn't always hit
it off right. Even if | did make no
mistakes, why there was always some
body writing to complain. You know
that happens everywhere. Whether it
wes my fault or not, got the blame.
No, stree. I'd rather have an employer
who would make a fool of himself and
take the consequences than one who
made me the scapegoat for all his ignor-
ance and shortcomings
tits generally a choice between
evils, as far as employers co. said
the Oldest oracle sadly, ''but if you've
never worked for man plus a graph
ophone Cor some kind of phone, I'm
not sure what kind, you don't know
what sorrow is"
"There'd be one good thing about
the phone" said the middle oracle
pensively.
Whats that?" skeptically, from the
Oldest
ct couldn't try to fiirt with you. 1t
wouldn't get sentimental and try to
hold your hands and"
Discharge you on the ground of in
competency when you snubbed it,"
finished the youngest oracle.
yes" sighed the oldest, men are
frail creatures
They pursed their lips into shape
for secrecy once more.
cot all the ills which typewriter
girls are heir to- said the youngest
oracle. "the worst is a sentimental en-
plover. I'd rather any day work for a
man who puts his feet on the desk,
wears his hat on the back Of his head
ana puffs smoke into my face than for
one who 'sympathizes' with me and and
wants to brighten the routine of my
work a little. Ugh!''
aft is particularly wearying when
thev quote poetry" said the middle
oracle, and they all sighed.
".O. little hands that all day
lone" began the youngest. That's
one of the favorites. They have so
1itt1e variety. too, the sentimental
ones. They begin with pity and move
on To ME. That is, they ask you to go
out to luncheon, so as to talk over bus
i,,ees matters. of course. Ninety-nine
Green girls out of 100 are afraid to re-
fuse because they fear to lose their
place. Poor things! There are some
that like to be coddled, and-tney know
how to get it. There are some that
know how to coddle their employers.
too anG they can keep position even
if they spell it with TWO SIS,
Eyes" said the Oldest oracle, that $
true. but one has to do little cod
ding almost always. Everybody has
some little vanities which need to be
humored. know had one employer
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-09
SLIGHT FAMILY JAR.
Caused by Little Girl Who Takes All in
Kench-She Has an Unq6enchabie Yearn-
ing to Eat ana Drink Good and BAD
Alike.

Caused by a Little Girl Who Takes All in
Keacf-She Has an Unqdenchable Tearn-
ing to Eat and Drink Good and Bad
Alike.
There was great excitement in the
the other morning. The WildrlLhs live
in the fashionable part Of the city Of
course, and they have little girl who
is filled with an u1quenchaDle yearning
TO eat and drink everything that comes
within her reach. For things that any
child with grain of sense ought to
leave untaeited she seems 10 have an
especial desire, and so when her papa
left bottle Of aconite on the dressing
table, after taking a desc that the doc
tor had prescribed for a cold, she watch
ed her chance
Nobody knows Just how much she
took, but Mr.. Wildrith ventured the
opinion, when he glanced at the bottle,
after little Mildred had told her mama
about it, that the child had swallowed
enough to kill a horse
30, William shrieked Mrs. Wildrith.
run to the drug store and get an anec-
dote,''
Mr.. Wildrith put on his hat and gal
loped away. He thought Of his wife's
mistake, and laughed aloud as be was
rushing along, but he checked himself
when he remembered that perhaps his
darling Child was to be taken away from
him.
Ten minutes after little Mildred had
taken the aconite she wac being forced
to swallow something her. papa mad got
at the drug store, and half an hour later
the doctor, who had been telephoned for
burst upon the scene.
Stop crowding that stuff into her"
he commanded, ''Do YOU want to kim
the child? Why. She wouldn't have
minded il if she'd taken all the aconite
you mad left. made it so weak in the
nrst pace that there wasn't a respecta-
Die dose in the whole BOTTLE"
mnen William Wildrith nared up.
You didn't tone down your fee anv
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-09
TYPEWRITiSTS.

Buds Must he Prepared for Frost and
tire-Sage Advice of Three Prudent
MISUNDERSTANDING oracles.
They were three little maids from
school, but a good long way from school
we're they. Neither were they pert as
e school girl well may be, nor filled to
the brim with girlish glee. They were
not Japs they were typewriter girls.
Not of The species which desires to De
known as "typists,' but OF that rare
variety which is acquainted with conf
mas and knows how to spell
Perhaps they looked too much upon
The dark side of things. 1t is to be
hoped so. Net so much On. their own
dtcouat, for they seemed able TO take
care OF themselves but on account -of
other E5tle maids from school, tender
typewriter buds, so 10 speak, IF q sGc-
cepubility common to their kind.
According to these three, the type
writer buds must be prepared for b3th
most ana fire. OF the two, frost is, %
ne preferred, but one cannot always
chocs2. One can only try to be rdSdy
Tor anything. These three orac,es he
cared that the Alpha and the OmaGs
OF eve,y typewriter buds eG lcatioN
should lie: Say nothing AMI SAW
Wood" J
All OF this information, and MUCK
more, was the result Of a question
which the reporter put to the oldest
OF the three oraeles.
l suppose you have your trials?'
sad the reporter, invitingly.
Trials" exclaimed the trio in CON
cert.
Can you tell me some of your ex-
peMences?"
lhey opened their mouths witE, one
accord, then closed them withs an
clher Then they pursed up theft lips
mo an expression which plainly. said
mai they knew the time for saying
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-09
tell you at once the name and abode Of

tell you at once the name and abode Of
tne party wanted. On one occasion
this tracker was engaged to find a man
who had committee burglary of some
JeWelry. AS soon as he saw the track
he remarked: Its So-and-so. Go
straight to his house in FOUNDER vii
lage and you will find him there" They
did so, and there they found the man
they were looking for engaged in
breaking up the stolen properly.
A curious case Of tracking took place
in a frontier district, which shows the
native Police in no very creditable light.
Two sheep belonging TO the govern
ment officials were found to be missing.
The footprints were found to be those
of man employed to look after the
public gardens. and he was according
ly arrested. But on following up the
track, it was found to lead to a place
Just opposite the police barracks, where
the skins Of the sheep were discovered,
as we'll as traces of fire. This threw
suspicion on the police, as it seemed
very unlikely that the thief would
have killed the sheep under their very
eyes. 1t was afterward proved that the
sheep were taken by the police, and
that they had stolen the gardener
shoes to avoid detection.
In tracing stolen cattle the crackers
will tell you whether the beast is be-
ing ridden, whether it is laden, or if it
is simply being driven. Should the hind
footmarks Of the animal be more dis
tinct than those of the fore feet, it is
being ridden; and this they known from
the fact that natives do not sit in the
middle, as Europeans do, but at the
back, on the launches of the animal;
consequently deeper impressions will
be given by the hind feet
Should the animal be laden, they
know that it is so because the footsteps
are in that case shorter than they would
be if the animal were simply being
driven with no load on their backs
Chambers Journal
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did not want any more. because, as she
explained to her father and mother, ''If
there is anything in me it viii come out
by that time"
She recently renewed her contract with
this newspaper for 1898, because. as she
expressed it, Il like to draw pictures for
such nice people,
Miss Goodwin's main work abroad is
painting. Her speciality is children's por-
traits, and she has the rare knack of
making the faces look young and babyish
She gets the expression of innocence and
onubby faith as no other illustrator has
ever done. She is painting lovely group
for the June Salon, and is hopeful of be-
ing accepted in that most difficult of eX-
hibits, the new Salon.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-09
CRACKERS OF THE PUNJAB.
Extraordinarily Expert al Following Crimi-
mails and show Many Qualities of L eni-
more Cooper's Indians.

Extraordinarily Expert at Following Crimi-
nails and show Many Qualities of eni-
more Cooper's Indians.
In those parts Of the Punjab adjoin-
ing the Indus and other principal
rivers, where much cattle grazing is
carried on, there is a great deal Of
cattle lifting.
The cattle litter" of the 1unjab is
very cunning parsonage, and no one
is better versed than he in the art Of
making ones self scarce. If not fol-
lowed Immediately he soon succeeds
in making off to some out-of- the-Way
part of the country.
There is, however, a class of men
who are the terror Of the cattle lift
err" and, in fact, Of all criminals.
These men, called khoji, 'searcher,' or
"tracker," are from their youth up
ward trained to track criminals by
their footprints. A hrst-class track
err cannot only trace criminals by
their footprints, but in the event OF
shoes being worn can sometimes tell
from what part Of the country the
wearer comes; thus, should the i'm
preston be that CT d sandal, he knows
that the wearer is a hill man.
Many are the lodges resorted to by
the cattle filters and others TO escape
the lynx-eyed khoji.
First, he will, perhaps tie rags
around his feet, or he will put his
shoes on backward; then, after hav-
ing gone some distance, he will mount
a buffalo.
The cattle lifters who frequent the
banks Of the Indus aid ether rivers
have a clever way of eluding their
pursuers Having caught a buffalo,
the thief drives it into the river,
clings to its tail and guides wher
ever he wants it to go. By this means
he is quickly carried down by the
current, and so escapes without leay-
ing any telltale footprints behind
him
But it is very difficult to outwit a
really good tracker. Distance is moth
ing to him. A Kloji has tracked a
burglar yard by yard for 80 miles, IN
til he reached the lookup OF certain
village, and there found the man he
wanted. The police of that place had
observed a suspicious looking charac-
ter walking about with a small bundle,
and lad put him in the Lookup. On ex-
animation, the bundle was found to
contain several hundred rupees worth
of jewery.
A remarkable instance of perseyer-
ance in tracking occurred once when
certain criminal had been followed to
ferry on the banks of the Chenab, Here
the tracker was non plussed for q
while, as the deputy commissioner had
a Sort time before crossed with large
following of natives.
Among so many footprints the knojl
was unable to take up the tran. put
he was determined not to give up the
search so to impress the characters
tics of the track on his mind, ne re-
traced his tourney the way he had come
for two or three miles. He then re-
turned and eventually found the track
and caught the man, after having gone
over 100 miles.
Some of these crackers are also Ianeu
for their remarkable local knowieoge.
One man in particular, as soon as ne
saw the footprints. would sometimes
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-09
I'D GIRL OF 9S.
Il, Goodwin VIII Soon Have Her
Ready for the Readers
:, This Newspaper-Famous Girl
~. ,-ratOr-She Works in Paris,
,I,rand, Munich and Italy-"GlObe
rro.s" tor Types.

o.. ~ the most remarkable figures
g- illustrators to-day is Caroline
Goodwin, the creator of The Good
c.rls." and the first woman artist to
life like girl for newspaper use
O,r.. Goodwin is at present at work
IS girl" which will before long
the columns of this newspaper
rr,. wear she changes her ideals, ito
,..-.oHd with the times" she says, and
81 d9v IN the year sees fresh illustra-
Inns FROM her pen. She is the most vol
i~ous worker of all the women artists,
te.n turn out. on a rush, enough pic
- for a Sunday supplement in night.
u-- sri this year will be graceful, tall
.ri wayy-baired."
or,s the New York Herald commission
-r.v. picture of the people as they sat
p. their boxes.
The telegram was delayed until nearly
# o'clock at night, and when Miss Good
al, 60. it she saw, to her CONSERVATION,
,asI tile grand opera was nearly over.
Getting into a cable car, she was whisk-
ID no tile Metropolitan Opera House Just
h, time 10 hear the closing notes of Mig
rlu.'
win rapid pencil she sketched the cell
aarit!es sitting high in the boxes all
around her, and when the curtain was
r.rg down in ten minutes later she had
tae satisfaction of seeing her sketch COM
rte
1t was nearly u when she arrived at the
herald office, but from that time until
g45 she worked at her drawing as
though her life depended upon it. The
white shirt fronts of the men bothered
M most" she said. 81 painted them in
until they all danced before my eyes"
Next morning when the Herald came
out with a half page picture of the open
lrg Of the grand opera season everybody
looked a the work and pronounced the
portraits excellent. That was her quick
est time
once she was on the point of going to
Harpers with three "wash" drawings,
FIR which they were in a special hurry.
While she was putting on her hat the
maid accidentally knocked over pail of
water with which she was washing win
dows and when Miss Goodwin opened the
drawings it was to find them all spoiled
The substance in the soapy water had de-
stroyed her indelible ink. This time there
was only an hour to replace her work, but
she got it done and won a compliment
from the head of the Harper firm.
Miss Goodwin came to New York from
Savannah, Ca, five years ago. with mon
ey enough to live on for one year. She
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-09
AFTER THE PROPER DIMENSIONS

While sherman vas "out in the .; at[
sometimes got a little short: but 6 5ns
d dav an nsr of CERT found soldier eating and
persimmon that he haa pi oat Int: it's
cried out to him; 'D on, e ~-, eatin' il
rot good IL for .3 yal was the il reply; I'm
tryin to pucker up my syoi Uncle Billy
to fit the size Of the ratlon5s Chicago
sherman's a-givin' US
News. -A--
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But don't ever tell him that l said 90,
will you, sweetheart"
And the innocent child promlsed-
Cleveland Leader.
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but had been even so great during his life
he would never have seen his presentment
in the wax statue gallery.