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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-10-27

Mrs William Bates Wood, nee MISS
Belle McCabe, gave delightfully."- plan
ned reception yesterday afternoon, at
the residence OF her father, Mr.. Robert
a. McCabe. on South Penn street,
Island. This was one Of a series OF three
post-nuptial entertainments, and ems
braced the city friends only. Mrs. Wood
was charmingly assisted by her mother,
and sisters, Mrs. Wytie Irwin and Miss
Alice McCabe.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-10-27

Last evening there occurred the we'd
ding OF Mr.. CRrl GieseE and Miss Mary
limerick, at the home Of the brides par
ents. South Jacob street The groom
IS in the bakery business in the Eighth
ward.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-10-27
F1II oIoTHmo-nl dUFafAN %.
The Height Of Fashion.
Double Breasted Sack Suits.

Made 81 Heavy Weight Black and Blue Serge cheyos
and Fancy Worsteds
The length, the hang the lapes and the general makeup
are exactly and precisely right and SO ARE9FiE PRICES
showing extraordinary values throughout en-
tire line This fall and will pay look here before buying
elsewhere No matter law small your PURCHASE can save
you money.
A New Liae Of Top Coats Just Received
Values beyond competition in
Childreas Department
We still present your inspection the best line Of BOYS
SUITS in town. badly broken at the first cool weather. but
replenished now.
Autumn Neckwear
in new tnts and shapes
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-10-27

Mrs. W. W. Arnett handsomely en-
tertadned the wednesday, Afternoon
Whist Club between the hours Of two
and four, at her home, on Fourteenth
etraee
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-10-27

Mr.. and Mrs Louis Sutton, Of st.
ClairsvIe, were the guests Of DR., and
Mrs S. L. JepsOn during the week.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-24

Much has been written about the
usefulness of music in the treatment
of disease. That it has certain effect
is undoubted, and recent suggestion
is that pleasant-toned music box
would probably prove as effective as
sleeping potions with large class of
nervously deranged patients. The
use of music in the nightmare or
"night terrors" of children has been
subject of experiment. Cases pecu-
liarly obstinate to all other treatment
were at once benefited, and after a
pleasing airs played on an instrument
during the approach and first hour or
two of slumber
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-24

Lord Charles Beresford has been
making some plain speeches in Lon
don. He declared the other day that
the boys who robbed orchards and
were generally mischievous and bad
made the best soldiers when they
grew up, and later, at banquet, he
said that money was everything in
England. 1t would buy access to
what is known as the very best So
ciety; and let anybody go to England
with enough money, no matter whether
it had been gained honorably or dis
gracefully, there was no door which he
could not hope to enter. He prophe-
sled the ruin of the country unless the
dominion of money was overthrown.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-24

For the benefit of conductor who
had suffered an accident which en-
dangered his earning ability, the Con-
solidated Electric Railway Company
of Santa Barbara, Cal, gave the gross
receipts of its line for one day while
he was in the hospital. His case ap-
pealed to his fellow workmen and the
public, as he had been a faithful en-
ploye and was the sole support of his
mother. The other employees of the
company on the same day gave their
days earnings to him, and patrons OF
the road and conductors ring up sums
ranging as high as $40. The car re-
ceipts amounted to $327.05.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-24

Corn -four used in adulterating wheat
-four is made like wheat -four, explains
Farm News. The corn is crushed be
tween rolls, and the -four is busted
out as the meal runs over bolt. This
meal is crushed and rebolted several
times, until nearly all the starchy part
of the grain is in the form of fine
flour This corr flour is mixed with
and sold as wheat flolr. Consider
ing that corn costs the miller about
one-fourth as much as wheat, there is
a wide margin of profit in mixing the
fiours. How much mixed -four is now
put on the market is not known, but
the evil has grown to magnificent pro-
portions. This matter recently came
up before the National Board of Ira le,
at the meeting in Washington, in the
form of resolution, urging Congress
to impose tax upon the manufactur-
ers of mixed flours, and to require
that such Hour shall be plainly branded
''mixed -four" The New York Pro-
duce Exchange has taken an import
ant step toward correction of the evil
of mixed -four, by a very simple pro-
cedure, which we believe, if adopted
by all the other inspection markets,
will be more effective as to results de-
sired than the tax regulation plan.
The exchange at New York, through
its -four committee, has instructed the
inspector that flour containing any
foreign substance shall not be graded,
and that packages containing such
-four shall not receive the brand OF
that exchange. It is to be hoped that
other exchanges will act in the same
manner.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-24

The retirement of the Rev. DR.. John
Hall from the active pastorate of the
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church has
excited widespread interest among
members of all the religious denomi-
nations, says the New York Sun.
cdr. Hall has long been regarded as
one of the conspicuously representa-
tive men of the metropolis. The quail
ties that have raised him to his pres
ent eminence are we'll known. Perhaps
the most distinguished one is his man
liness. Although he could not be de-
scribed as brilliant preacher, there
was always strong personality be-
hind his spoken word, aud this made
him effective at all times. Although
parson of the most democratic of
church bodies, DR.. Hall has taken
precedence over his brethren of the
Presbyterian ministry. There was a
real truth in the humorous descrip-
tion of him as the Presbyterian Bishop
of New York"
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-24

The Rev. Charles A. Berry reports
10 his British friends that during his
recent visit to this country he was
most impressed by the frank, manly,
reverent speech of American Chris
tians when discussing divine things,
their zeal for their own particular
church, minister, and denomination,
and the thorough efficiency of their
Sunday y-school work. He is reported
to have said that, on the whole, it
was well that the Olney-P -Pauncefote
arbitration treaty failed, for it would
not have been popular or had the
support of the masses. He believed
it better to wait for public sentiment
to gather force, so that it will reso-
lutely back up any treaty constructed
on similar lines.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-24

Says the New York Post: Medical
circles are inclined to pooh-pooh the
reported discovery of the sex secret
by DR.. Samuel Schenk, professor in
the Vienna university. Nevertheless
it is exciting wide interest, in view Of
DR.. Schenk's s position as an embryolo-
gist and the Importance attached to
the announcement even by the Aus
trian government. The professor, so
far, has only stated that for many
years his experiments were limited to
the lower animals, that by system Of
nourishing the female he produced a
disposition to bring into the world
male young only, but that recently,
by advising wives what food to take,
boys or girls had been born just as
desired. This disposition, however,
when established cannot be changed.
The offspring of the same parents
henceforth will be all males. Profess
sor Ohlshausen, the well know gyne-
cologist, thinks the whole thing
impossible, also Professor Virchow
holds to the same opinion.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-24
THE MESSAGE OF THE SEA.

stood beside the troubled sea,
In musing mood, one day,
The billows came and scoffed at me,
And, roaring, rushed away;
My heart was far across the blue,
/ wondered II my love were true,
And, wondering, turned away.
But, as turned, a fairy boat
Came bobbing DER the sea-
A dainty little wave.tossed note
Came floating unto me-
Then flashed the glad thought through my
mind:-
"In yonder wuif perchance I'll find
A word from her to me-"
"Ah welcome, little messenger"
In eager tones l cried,
"And do you bring me Joy cyom her
Across the toamy tide.
The roaring pillows seemed to say
"We bring you word from far away
Across the trackless tide"
picked the missive from the sand
Upon the beaten shore;
In haste opened it and scanned
The message that it bore:-
IA fool sends greeting DER the sea
To the fool who gets these lines from me-
That was the word 1t bore.
IS. E. Kiser, in Cleveland Leader.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-24
Where Martha Washington Died.

The room in Mount Vernon where
Washington died is the chief point of
interest in the old mansion to all
visitors. 1t is fair-sized apartment
on the second floor. with two wide
windows, thinly draped, between
which stands the bel. The four rather
slender bedposts reach almost to the
ceiling, supporting the frame of a
canopy, not now In place. The bed,
the table. the hair-covered trunk, the
surveyors tripod, cloak and chair in
this room are all originals, and have
suffered badly from the surreptitious
knives of relic hunters.
By the way, not even Washington's
biographer and namesake escapes this
fate. Washington Irving's gravestone
in the little Sleepy Hollow graveyard
OF Tarrytown was SO Clipped and
broken by vandal hands that q few
years ego it had to be replaced by %
new stone, fac-simile of the old one.
Martha Washington did not die in
the same room as her husband, but in
room in the garret, under whose
sloping roof the heat was insuferable
IN summer and the cold not slight in
winter, lighted only by dormer win
dow.
The lower corner of the door Of this
attic room is cut off This was done
for the convenience of the cat which
was Mrs. Washington's sole companion
in her lonely vigil of eighteen months
after the Generals death, a companion
which the old General himself had
often petted.
It was the custom of the family to
shut up for two years room in which
death had occurred, and this was
the reason why Martha and her cat
moved to the shabby and stuffy little
garrett.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-24

Ex-Governor Morrill, of Kansas once
said, that his ambition was to create
in Kansas the largest orchard in the
world and leave it as monument to
his memory. That hope is about to
be realized, as he has turned his farm
over to man with the stipulation
that 65, 900 fruit trees. mostly apples,
are to be planted there.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-24
The Moose and tbe Boat.

In the state of Maine there are q
number of beautiful lakes, some Of
them so large that small steamboats,
carry passengers from one end of the
lake to the other. Recently, while
crossing a lake, moose was seen
swimming in the same direction the
steamboat was going. The captain
got rope ready, and when alongside
the moose threw it over its head. The
moose naturally was frightened, and
swan faster, towing the boat. He
suddenly turned about and almost up
set it. The moose headed for the
woods on low point of land, and the
captain saw that if he did not cut the
rope the moose would wreck the boat.
The rope was cut, and the moose
freed from his burden, soon struck the
shore and disappeared iih the woods.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-24
wAsHINGToN's SEAL.

cnlld OF Augustine Washington, father
OF the President, who inherited the
seal from his father, Bushrod Wash
lngton, great-grand-nephew of the
General. History says that this seal
was used when George Washington
sent peremptory command to General
Lee to make the trip across the Del
aware. Not being able to lay his
hands at once upon the seal of the
office, General Washington tore his
private seal from his watch chain,
dipped it in molten tallow and made
the impression on the order.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-24
General washington,s Courtesy.

In the Century there is an article
by Martha Littlefeld Phillips, giving
"Recollections of Washington and
His Friends" The author is grand
daughter of the youngest daughter of
General Nathaniel Greene, and she
tells the following story in the words
of her grandmother, concerning a
visit of the latter to Washington at
Philadelphia:
lone incident which occurred dur
ing that visit was so comical in itself,
and so characteristic of Washington,
that ! recall it for your entertainment.
Early in bright December morning,
a droll- looking old countryman called
to see the President. In the midst of
their interview breakfast was an
nounced; and the President invited
the visitor. as was his hospitable wont
on such occasions, to seat beside
him at the table. The visitor
drank his coffee from his saucer; but
lest any grief should come to the
snowy damask, he laboriously scraped
the bottom of his cup on the saucer's
edge before setting it down on the
table cloth. He did it with such au-
dible vigor that it attracted my atten-
ton, and that of several young peo-
pie present, always on the alert for
occasions of laughter. We were SO
indiscreet as to allow our amusement
to become obvious. General Wash
ington took in the situation, and i'm
mediately adopted his visitors method
of drinking his coffee, making the
scrape even more pronounced than
the one he reproduced. Our dispo-
sition to laugh was quenched at
once"
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-24
HUMOROUS.

It is long head that knows no
turning when pretty girl passes.
Money talks. Perhaps that's why
they put a woman's head on the silver
dollar.
Father am going to tan your
hide. Son-I don't like those ''skin'
games.
Age may not be garrulous, but it is
sure to tell on woman in the course
of time.
The city sidewalks are used by pc.
destrians, but the crab has sidewalk
of his own.
A stupid man compliments wom-
ans pretty teeth, but clever man
makes her laugh.
The belle in the choir often brings
more young men to church than the
bell in the steeple.
A man always tries to follow the
straight and narrow path when il
comes to shovelling snow.
The man with plenty of push is
usually successful, but he isn't in it
with the man who has pull.
Surprises are in store for young
married couples who think that they
understand one another thoroughly.
Laura-Pve learned one thing since
] got wheel. What's that +?
Laura-That beauty is only skin deep.
Martha = Speaking of Miss Mint
drop, hasn't she red head? Martin
She did have before she came into
her uncle's property.
Timmins-Every once in while l
find myself repeating one OF my jokes.
Simmons-That's queer. 1 never hear
any one else repeating them.
I'm sorry the critics were so Sc
we're on your play, Mr.. Thespis. u
"Oh, that doesn't hurt me- There
wasn't IN idea of my own in it"
Bill Il think your friend is
overworked. Jill-What makes you
think so? Bill-Why, l understand
every man in town has borrowed
money of him.
Penelope-Oh, there are lots of
good fish in the sea. Kathryn (who
came home from the season unen-
gaged)-Yes, but why don't they come
out on the beach?
Next time I'm coming out to Bev-
erly's I'm going to take a camp stool
with me-" ''What for?' Last time
| went l sat down on little thing
that turned out to be tea table.
Mamma, said little George, 81
don't think it was dove that Noah
says it was, dear" 81 know, but
think it means carrier pigeon"
Crimsonbeak-Y never hear any
one speak of the white horse and the
red-headed girl now. Yeast-No; l
guess the white horses have all died.
''Perhaps it's the girls who have
dyed
''You passed me yesterday without
word" he said reproachfully. "For-
give me, she murmured. "And have
you no word of explanation?" ''Two,"
she answered, "a borrowed wheel and
mouthful of gum"
She DO you believe there is any
thing In charms? He-Well, they say
there is a good deal of paint mixed up
in some of them; but 1 can see at a
glance that yours are genuine. May
l? She could only nod.
Tourist-What's the name of that
noble mountain? Native-Dunno as
it's got any. We call it ''the noun
tain. 7" Tourist No name for that
grand eminence? Native-Wot's the
use of its havin' name? It's the
only mountain here.
"Oh, papa" exclaimed the dear
girl, her sapphire eyes brimming with
unshed tears, chow can you say that
society is hollow?' 'Why shouldn' t
II" retorted pa, with coarse laugh,
"why shouldn't I, when have to pay
the bills for feeding the gang that you
have here at your blowouts?''
The Moose and the Boat.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-24
Hear the complaint of the Londol

Hear the complaint of the London
Graphic thus: "Our society seems to
have degenerated into what may be
defined as fortuitous concourse of
pretentious atoms. Pretty women
and rich men form combination
which is not rare, and great centre
Of civilization as London is should be
able to produce something more strik-
ing than that"
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-24
washipcton's Hand.

George Washington's hand was de-
scribed as that of giant. On the last
occasion of General Lafayette visit to
this country he remarked to Mr.. Gus
tbs when referring to former visit.
'sYou were holding to single finger
Of the good generals remarkable hand
the greatest feat you could perform
at that time"
Washington was the champion jumper
OF his day. In one match he covered
twenty-one feet three inches, easily
beating all competitors.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-24

The 5000, 900 pounds of tea inn
ported into the United States in ten
months had an average value of only
13 cents per pound. What lot of
refuse stuff there must be consider
ing the average price farmers are
obliged to pay over the retail counter,
exclaims the New England Home
stead.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-24

The delta of the Danube is about to
be drained and rescued for agricul-
tural purposes by the Roumanian
government. Nearly 750, 200 acres of
fertile land will be made available.
The enterprise is the greatest of its
kind ever undertaken, and at least five
years will be required to carry it to
completion.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-24
The Original Hackman.

.sWhy don't you branch out?" asked
little George of the cherry tree.
''I wood leave this place" answered
the cherry tree" if had some way to
move my trunk.
'.If that's ell that detains you, said
the embryo father of his country,
"I'll see that you get hack" And
he went over to the woodshed IN
search of his little hatchet. Chicago
NawS
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-24

The general impression that women
have only recently been employed in
business houses is not correct. Miss
Emeline E. Woodbury., who has just
died, was for nearly fifty years the
6ookkeeper in Boston business
house, and she succeeded another
woman who had held the same place.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-24
century, and it was erected by William
james. Bishop of Durham.

CVUtUTy, UIIU tt WIS UT6CltU UJ W IIIIUUI
James, Bishop of Durham.
1t is of stone, having mullioned
windows and boldly projecting
porches. A large outstanding chin
ney is at one end of the house. The
building is now fast falling into ruin.
The Washington family occupied the
old manor for five centuries before
the hall was built.
William D. Wessington's name ap-
pears as witness to the charters of
the Bishop of Durham between 1860
and 1874, and Washington Irving
has traced to the Wessingtons, Of
Durham, George Washington's an
cestfy
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-24

small note of children, and the only
recollection that comes to me of her in
that first interview is that she was
handsome, of dignified carriage, and
was dressed in a rich figured silk,
with an embroidered apron around
her waist, and dainty kerchief folded
about her neck and shoulders.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-24

Murder seems to be decreasing in
France, simply from the fact that it is
not paying industry. Statistics from
Paris show that for twenty-one mur-
ders the perpetrators only averaged
BIG each.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-24
washington's Ancestral Home.

Washington Hall, in Durham
County, England, which was lately
sold under the hammer, with the ad-
joining grounds, for $2025 was the
ear'y home of the ancestors of George
Washington. The building dates
from the early part of the seventeenth
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-24

Everything points to q continuance
of our excellent export trade in beef
cattle, with England, our best buyer,
requiring greater numbers each year.
notes the American Agriculturist.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-24
242.2S1,

Russia has the most rapidly increas-
ing population of any country in the
world. The, growth during the last
hundred years has been fraction less
than 1000, 600 annually.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-24

Sweden has it's Klondike, with a
similar forbidding climate. The dis
covery in the northern part of the state
of new gold fields is announced. At
the Bommelinsel there is already an
English company with nearly 100
minars
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-24
An Example of virtuou. Power.

To George Washington nearly alone
in modern times had it been given to
accomplish wonderful revolution and
vet to remain to all future time the
theme of peoples gratitude and an
example of virtuous and beneficent
power.-Lord John Russell.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-24
Naturally.

George Washington's opinion al.
ways carried great weight" remarked
the philosopher.
No one making any reply to this, he
went on as follows:
THAT is not strange, however, see-
ing that a single syllable of his name
was whole tom
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-24

A recent writer says regarding the
notorious maelstrom that the inhabi-
tants of the Lofodens are not in the
least afraid of it, but fish right in the
middle of it,
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-24
England produced five new novels
for every day of 1897.

In 1890, according to the census,
the foreign-born of the United States
were: Germans, 2,784, 894; Irish, L.
81, 500; English, 10000 Scotch,
o42 2S1
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-24
GEORGE wAsAlNcToN's SEAL.
Valuable Relic Owned by q Chicago
Mau.

A Chicago house painter owns the
identical seal with which George
Washington signed Major Andres
death warrant. The fortunate posses
sor of this valuable relic is Bushrod
D. Washington, direct descendant
from Augustine Washington, third
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-24

London loses more inhabitants by
fire every year than Paris or Berlin
together. The London fremen save
on an average about 100 lives every
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-24
Warrington.

WaehlngtOn.
Brightest on history's page,
OF any cline or age,
AS chieftain, man and sage,
Stands Washington
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-02-24

An Oklahoma lawyer named Crank
has petitioned the court ito change his
name.