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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-10-21
Exclusive Designs
Chenille POrtieres

are back again-prettier than ever,
Start at $3.50 pair. A dozen other
sorts up to 1920. Rope Portieres
$t.67 to $500.
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25c to $500.

Mems underwear. We are showing
by far the largest stock In the city,
and we know we can save you some
thing. no matter what grade OF uns
derwear you desire. Elegant grades at
&c and 4sc. Don't buy until you've
seen them.
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COMMITTEE.
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Patterns same-same ftuffiness, BIZ
they're only the finest sanitary cot.
ton filled Saline and Silkaline Com
forts-$1.39 to $3.50. Eiderdowr
Comforts also.
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Richness Of Color

and design, sure, in the new
Art DrapsrieS.- 'CretOnnes, Den
inns Wash Pushes, TinSeled Per.
sian Stripes, Yari.cOlOred Otto
mau Stripes, etc. l1l.h 10
Sis yard.
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Tub CORNER, FOURTEENTH AND MARKET STREETS.
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Electrically Purified

Feathers, odorIess, sanitary, zoe ID.
Cocoa Door Mats, four sizes, 69c
up. New shapes in Screens, SIC to
$3.95. Rug Fringes and Uphol-
stering Braids. All sorts Of Curtain
Fixtures. Grille Work.
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WHO MAKE THE COMPLAINTS.

The mobilization of our army had scarce
ly begun and the troops who were to do the
fighting were not yet settled in their various
camps, before the papers began to be filled
with complaints about the food. The ra-
tons were poor, they were inadequate, they
were not such food as the men had been &C
customed to, they would not sustain health
and strength, etc. After the changes had
been rung on this complaint for several
weeks it took the form of protests against
the hospital accommodations, treatment of
the sick, etc., until the country might have
supposed that the main desire of those who
had these matters in charge was to kill off
the soldiers Official investigations and
statements have shown that these charges
were grossly exaggerated if not wholly I'M
founded, but it is worth while to inquire
who made them. We believe it is safe to
say that in every instance they were made
by correspondents who had no personal ex-
perience of the matters complained of, and
who were more anxious to create sensa-
ton than to tell the truth. The complaints
have not come from the soldiers. AS a rule
soldiers are not kickers," at least, they do
not complain of what they recognize as the
natural and unavoidable hardships Of war.
They may complain among themselves, but
they do not make poor mouth before the
public or publicly censure their officers or
the military and medical authorities for
hardships which they know cannot be
wholly prevented, even when those in au-
thority are doing their best. The American
soldier knows that war involves hardships
and at times suffering, but seeing that they
are unpreventable he practices the soidierly
virtue of enduring and suffering without
complaint Not so the correspondent. He
does not suffer, but he complains. The sick
or wounded soldier who is sent to hospital
or comes home on leave longs for the time
when he will be able to go back to the hard
fare and rough treatment the correspond
ents talk about. One Of these, whose letter
was copied in the Journal few days ago,
writing from the hospital at Tampa, said:
Tell my friends am good for another bat
tic yet. commenced in fun, but am get
ting in EARNEST now" Another, whose state
ment appeared in the Journal yesterday,
says: How do / feel about going back
like leaving home to go away from the boys.
1 feel all the time I'd like to see EN- again.
The hospital at Tampa is conducted
as well as possible. considering the place is
crowded" No allusion here to bareback
and ''sow-belly." or to bad treatment in the
hospital. The hospital at Tampa is crowd
ed. but no person has seen complaining
letter from any wounded soldier there The
men who fought so bravely at Santiago with
empty stomachs and throata parched with
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sion that the men cashing their checks at
the saloons spent all their money there.
but rather that large part of the common
labor in large cities frequent such places.
the saloon being its club.
The deduction which may be made from
this interesting article is that the man who
is known to have convivial habits is de-
barred to a large extent, from the more
responsible and the most desirable employ
ments and that the tendency IN all employ
ments, even those in which skill is not re-
quired, is to employ the of temperate
habits, not as matter of sentiment, but of
economy. The statistics referred to go to
sustain the statement often made by the
Journal that the intelligent demand of the
most extensive employers of labor of all
kinds for sobriety is the most potent agent
now fighting intemperance
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SPAIN MUST GO.

It did not take the United States nearly
as long to frame its reply to SPANS plea
for peace as it did the latter country to
decide upon making it. The terms offered
by the United States are hard and yet gen.
erous. Briefly stated, they include the alb
solute surrender and cession to the United
States of Porto Rico and all the Spanish
islands in the West Indies except Cuba; the
REIMBURSEMENT by Spain of all authority
and government in Cuba; the acquisition of
coaling stations in the Ladrone islands, and
the holding of the city. bay and harbor of
Manila by the United States, subject to
further negotiation regarding the Philip
pines
These terms are exacting in the respect in
which Spain is able to respond and generous
in the respect in which she is helpless They
exact considerable concessions of territory,
but no money indemnity. 1t is fortunate
for Spain that she is dealing with a victo-
rious foe who is making war for great prin-
ciples instead of mere lucre. ANY European
power under like circumstances would have
demanded large money as well as terri
torial indemnity. The United States is con-
tent with islands, with coaling stations and
with the extension of free government.
without trying to force Spain deeper into
bankruptcy.
The demand that Spain withdraw COM
pletely from the western hemisphere will be
cordially approved by the American peo-
pie. That means the independence of Cuba
under the protection of the United States
until stable government shall be established
there or the island be annexed to the United
States and the immediate cession to the
United States of Porto Rico and the Isle of
Pines, which is the only other important
Spanish possession in the West Indies The
latter is a small but picturesque and valua-
BILE island about fifty miles off the southern
coast Of Cuba
An important condition in the demand for
the independence of Cuba and the cession of
Porto Rico is that the United States shall
not assume any part of the existing debt Of
either island. These debts are the result of
Spanish misgovernment, and having been
created for the benefit of Spain should be
left to be settled between her and her cred
itors. The Cuban debt is upwards of
5000, 600, 900, the bonds being largely held in
France. The amount of the Porto Rican
debt is comparatively small. 1t is a sort Of
international law that revolution or change
of government abrogates existing debts, and
in this case the United States are under no
moral obligation to assume the debts of a
government which they are overturning by
war. If the French holders of Cuban bonds
do not like the prospect of losing their
mony let them appeal to Spain, who is re-
sponsible for the debt and the war. The
terms are such as Spain can easily comply
with and she ought to be glad they are no
harder.
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made as accurate as possible and kept con-
tinuaily under correction, and that 1t would
rot only be a thing of beauty, but stand
ard study
The valuable oceanographic researches OF
the Prince of Monaco began in 1885 with a
sailing schooner Of two hundred TONS for
which he afterward substituted steam ves-
sci of $50 tons. This has now been sup
planted by a second steam vessel of 1,4OO
tons. constituting splendidly equipped ma
rine laboratory. The earliest work included
study of the ocean currents. Floats. num-
bered and recorded, were cropped into diff
ferent parts of the North Atlantic. and 26
out Of total of 1,675 were returned by 1892
The travels of these floats proved the ex-
istence of an immense vortex, beginning at
the Gulf of Mexico. passing the banks OF
Newfoundland at a tangent. proceeding
eastward toward the European coasts, turn
ing southwark from the English channel to
Gibraltar, then westward, encircling the
Canary islands, and having center oscii-
lating near the Azores The drift in this
vortex ranged from SIS to l01l miles per
day. the mean for the North Atlantic being
4.4S miles. Great numbers of animals-many
representing new specieS-have been cap
tured by ingenious methods from every zone
of the ocean from the surface to the deep
est bottom. but great difficulty has been ex-
perienced in taking the more agile and sus-
picious creatures living in the middle depths,
and some of the rareSt specimens were Se-
cured only in the dying vomitings OF
sperm whale An interesting fact shown is
the enormous numbers of some animals ex-
listing in certain places one trap having
taken in twenty-four hours from depth of
seven hundred fathoms not less than LBS
individuals of q species that before was
known only from one or two Imperfect
specimens. OF great practical importance is
the finding almost everywhere in the. North
Atlantic of large funny fishes, which with
other species have liking for the shelter OF
floating logs and wreckage. and which might
often prove the salvation Of starving victims
nj DroCalitiOn taken
supplying ships boats with hooks, lines and
a fish smear
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thing. all Of Our men are physically AZ Ia.
contrast by lack Of gold and pipe clav Wy N
through the iiIferiority of their eo,s;yn,,saand
and uniform, ils made up to them in fba ',.eht
trooper sits his horse like clothesuin ssh s3sn
on line--the line may rise or sac 'ueK
swing in the wind but the clothespin 1ns, OF
straight, linbending and a thing r. ~. y
The American trooper. with his deem ss sal.
and long stirrup. swings with the hor saOo 70
a ship rides at anchor on the waves. -
makes line Of grace and strength and en-, no
pleness from the rake of his sombrero ~ y.
the toe of his hooded stirrup When 10 10
horse walks he sits ii erect and motionlstss
when 1t trots, he rises with it. but ns,sS,
leaves the saddle, and when it gallons bs
swings in unison with 1t. like a cowboy or =
cockswain In a racing shell. u
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AS an instance of how Uncle Sam neglects
his troops in the field, it may be stated that
the army in Manila. now. numbering nearly
10000 men, is eating beef every day that is
probably equal to that furnished to the best
hotels in this city, and this Notwithstanding
the fact that Manila is under a tropical
sun and nearly 1000 miles from San Fran
cisco. Our army there gets refrigerated
beef from Sydney, Australa-the only con-
tract for supplies, by the way, that has
been let outside of the United States. Elk
perts say there is no finer beef in the world
than Australian refrigerated beef, and the
troops at Manila get it seven days out of
ten at the rate of a pound and a quarter a
day per man. The boys are not starving.
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sHREDs AND PATCHES.

The man who pardons easily courts in
jury-Corneille.
The best teacher one can have is neces-
sity.-Shakspeare.
Many a man who thinks he Is thinking is
merely digesting yesterdays newspaper.
Puck.
There are too many people who use their
friends as coaling Standardization (Kan.)
Globe.
Truth is stranger than fiction. and. there
fore. doesn't require such glazing headlines.
Puck.
The dollar you pay back looks twice as
large as the one you borrowed.-Feminine
Observer.
But few people impair their eyesight from
looking on the bright side of things.-Chi
cago News
There is hope for a nation while it can
fight without asking: for how much?'
Rams Horn.
Where life is more horrible than death it
is then the truest valor to dare to live.-Sir
Thomas Brown.
1t is not the place that maketh the per-
son. but the person that maketh the place
honorable.-Cicero.
Even intellectual women have an idea that
a thermometer helps keep a room warm.
Philadelphia Times
The setting of great hope is like the set
ting of the sun. The brightness of our life
is gone.-Longfellow
Riches remarked the woman, ARE rela
tive: poverty is cold. hard, undeniable
fact"-New York Evening Sun.
You cannot stop being educated, IL you
stop. going to school. The most you can do
is to select your teachers.-Ram's Horn.
His first love and his first shave are two
of the things that occur in the life of every
man which he never forgets. -Chcago News.
The woman whose hair is not naturally
curly takes pains to inform you how much
better looking she is in winter than in sum-
rl1ei.-Feufnine Observer.
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Ponce, the latest West Indian town to
come under American dominion, is pro-
nounced "Ponthay," according to the rules
laid down for pronunciation of the Spanish
language-c before and having the sound
of tn. Whether it is so pronounced by Porto
Ricans themselves is thing not certain at
this distance, considerable variation, it is
said, existing between the speech prevalent
in Cuba and nsighboring.slands and in Cen
trail and South America, and the pure Cas-
titan as it is spoken in Spain. This va
ration probably accounts for the differences
in pronunciation in lists of Cuban and Phil
ippine names and other Spanish words, as
they are set forth by so-called authorities in
newspapers since the beginning of the war.
One authority doubtless gives the Cuban
or South American dialect as he has learned
it from the natives of those countries. an
other knows only the original Spanish. For
some years past the desirability of learning
the Spanish language has been urged upon
the rising generation by those who foresaw
a closer commercial union between the
United States and South and Central Amer
lea and Mexico. Now that Cuba and Porto
Rico, with their Spanish-speaking popula-
ton, are to become a part of this country,
the need of an acquaintance with their
speech becomes apparent to every one. Gu
bans and Porto Ricans will no doubt see
the Importance of acquiring familiarity
with the English tongue, and in time, of
course, that will be the language in COM
mon use in the islands. just as it is In the
States. All the people under the jurisdic-
ton of our government will have but one
speech, the American, and Spanish will drop
into disuse where it is now the only Ian
guage, just as German, French, Norwegian
and all other tongues are forgotten when
those who once spoke them only become full
fiedged American citizens But the process
Of amalgamation in the case Of these new
wards of the country is likely to be slow,
and meanwhile it will be necessary for those
who go among them to be able to commune
cate with them in the language they now
understand Whether the emigrants from
the States to the islands will simply pick
study the language as it is known to the
educated classes in Spain depends upon
themselves; but inasmuch as many words
and phrases will be incorporated into our
own language while the Americanizing of
the Latin race is going on, the effort to ac-
quire only the correct Spanish speech seems
desirable
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A young volunteer, whose regiment
stopped at Honolulu on the way to the
Philippines, writes to his father a graphic
description of the reception given the troops
there, and says:
I speak the unanimous sentiment of all
the boys when l say Uncle Sam ought to
annex Honolulu at once. If he don't do it
right off we boys will annex it on our way
back from annexing the Philippines. Our
among the lot. s."
That is young America, and it indicates
new territorial problem. Many of the
young men who have gone to the Philip
pines. to Cuba and Porto Rico will remain
or return tllither, their friends will follow
them, and in time the islands will be
Americanized
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PricIxIy Heat.
Harper's Bazaar

HarpeT's BAZAAR. j, hok
The mother whose children suffer IN nN ~
weather from prickly heat will be glavl
know that If she viii put baking-soda !. ia -
the water in which her children are pasp 1ne
she may do much towards preventing MA
arrival of the irritating malady. she slo she
adopts this simple means 10 stop its pFos..
ress but may all through the summer na -
soda added to the little ones bath Nas s'ss
In one family where this precautlon -, e "a ~
taken none Of the children was tron1 an
with prickly heat during the entire SELL
although every preceding year the ssesrsd
boys and girls had been literally psppr
With the distressing eruption.
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thirst. sleeping or trying to sleep at night
in trenches waist deep in water, have not
sent home a single letter Of complaint, but
the correspondents have loaded the mails
with them. Scores of letters have been pub
lished from men on board different ships in
SIMPSONS fleet describing, each in his
own graphic way, what he saw and the
part he and his ship took in the destruction
of Cervera's fleet. They all have praise for
their officers, their comrades and everybody
concerned without a word about hardships
or i'll treatment. The correspondents are
doing all the Kicking.
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A SWEEPING wAsHoUr.
How an Entire Railroad Disappeared
in a Night I'm Kansas.
New York Sun.

New York Sun.
'.Of the washouts that occurred IL my ten
years Of railroad building in the West the
most complete and sweeping was that OF
The McPhersan & Lyons Railroad in Kan
sas in $780, said civil engineer 1T was
while we were building this twenty-fve-mile
branch of the Atchison and / was division
engineer in charge of the western end. We
had begun work in March at the Mcpherson
end, and it was necessary that the road
should be completed, with the trains run
ming into Lyons, by the LIST of June or $5O.oU
months the weather was perfect for the
purpose, and the contractors did not lose a
day, so that the work fairly spun. Although
the grading was very heavy, with deep cuts
and long, high fills, the goth of May saw the
roadbed finished from one end to the other
and the track carried nearly to Lyons.
up to that time during all the construc~
ton not drop of rain had fallen, but on the
night of the 10Th a thunderstorm came IL
was not long one; it began at midnight
and was over before daybreak, but while Il
lasted 1t was as if the bottom of the SKY
had fallen out and let the water drop all AT
once But had no idea of how much water
really had fallen until on going out OF doors
in the morning saw that what had been
dry creek bed ever since my coming to Lyons
running like mill race. That set me Oh IA
hurry to look at the track-but there was
no track to be found. There were rails ana
ties where the track had been, but the
roadbed that had been beneath was gone
The prairie, after the long drought, had Pc
come as hard as a pavement, so that 1t look
up none of the rain that had fallen, ana the
rush of water from a great watershed coy
ering townships had come against the road
bed. The openings at pile bridges, one nun,
dred feet long. intended as waterways: nag
been as nothing to carry the water off ana
the roadbed had gone-simply melted away
1t was queer sight, the pile bridges stanIs-
ing forlorn and lonely, looking twice as 1lgl
as before, and seeming to wonder what nsa
become of the roadbed that had connecteu
them. Wooden culverts were carried OF en-
tirely In the flood. Some of them we fouAu
off on the prairie, and some we never got
''Well, all this was a heartrending sight 70
engineers who, the day before had lcoReu
on their work on this road as finished. bus
the trains had to be running into Lyons ~
ten days or the $4,000 in bonds would 10
sacrificed, and we set to work to repair
damages. The Atchison road was behin1
the enterprise, so that we had the sinews
of war; the bridges were standing. the culs
in the roadbed made. and the contractors
gangs still al hand. ! won't say that II was
a very finely constructed road at that staSe,
but / rode out of Lyons on June ! on ,.s
first train. for we had got there after all
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The Kansas City Journal says of smoke
ordinance recently passed there that the
abatement of the smoke nuisance lis ques-
ton of only very short time, as the new
law is Immediately effective AS soon as
the nuisance is abated the Kansas City pa
per will confer a favor upon Indianapolis
by describing the smoke consumers that
brought this desirable contamination about.
Here the owners of smoke-producing CHM
neys declare that consumers do not con-
sumo
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How the Colorado canons Were Made.

T. NJ Prudden, in Harper.
The secret of the great denudation ana az
this wonderful achievement of the Colorauoo
in carving out of rock series OF canyons
about five hundred miles long and IN o ,as
place at least more than mile deep, WIN
a multitude of tributary chasms and gorseISs;
is very simple when you know it. me on
lake bed slowly rose. At first the ColoIauo
river and it's tributaries or some nameiess
monstrous ancestor of these, sweeping 1su a
the slowly rising surfaces, planed t mem
down in most relentless fashion ana the -
began wearing out broad shallow stTea ara
beds. But then the country rose nlosp
rapidly and the water had TO cut deepS PEI
channels in the rocks in order TO get oe
and away 10 sea. Owing in part TO the We We
Of the water ITSELF but more TO the ceas.a
less bombardment of the suspended san san
whichit bore from the up country or plcAS ~
up as 1t went along. and to the thuinp ~ ~
pebbles and powders which it swept on az ass
flood time the river kept cutting down .r &C
the strata rose. until finally when what w" IN
left OF our inland sea bottom got tnr 1u1sS ne
so that. towering far above its erstW dan
rocky shores, it had to be called pis .bsrn.
the Colorado and its auxiliaries founo t1nisssat
selves at the bottom of series or coioSs sSr
canyons and gorges. where they are to-ua''
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ferred TO Miss Erwin before the hrst Mrs.
Spaulding obtained her divorce. but the re-
.ceiver commended that she had no insurable
right to them and has for two years been
paying the premiums on them and counting
them as assets. A term in Jail seems not
to have destroyed any of the enterprising
Mr.. Spaulding's ..slickness.r
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Although Chicago papers spoke of the
marriage in Jail of defaulting Banker
spasIiding and his former stenographer.
Miss Erwin. as a romantic event. It appears
that it was not altogether romance that
torney for one OF spauIding's creditors
complains bitterly Of the marriage on ac-
coaat Of two life-insurance policies. amount
Ing to $4,000. which now become the prop
ertv Of the wife. These policies were trans