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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-09-03
NlNERs Strike

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n Dsm0nstrNiiON.
PANA, ILL.,, Sept s,-Flfty-fouF q the
deputy sherlffs who have bean on guard
to-day at the sprlngslde coal mine,
made demonstration this Afternoon by
marching in a body through the prlnci-
pal streets of the city With loaded
Springfield rides and fixed baypnee to
city han park, where they rested on
their arms for half an hour. They were
In charge OF Mayor Penwell, and Chlet
Deputy William Baldwin. Later they
returned TO the Sprlngside mine.
All along the line OF march citlEens
hlssed the deputies and applied all
manner Of epIthets to them. but the
deputies coolly continued the march
Mayor Penwell said the deputies we're
brought to the city on orderB 0t Cover.
nor Tanner, but the state Beeetary OF
the labor bureau, David Ross, the gov
ernor's representative here, boxing IN
to the situation, denied the Statement Of
the deputies and operators. EenWell
said It was feared the lives Of the dep
uties and operators families were IN
danger. The demonstratlon created
great excitement.
The herald., 1898-02-02
AN ABSURD ORDER

Republican journals of high and low
degree ever indulge in an excess of
twaddle about the restoration of oul
merchant marine as if the exploiting
of Republican tariff theories was not
responsible for its destruction in the one
instance and a stumbling block in the
way of its restoration in the other. A
law was passed a few years ago provid-
ing that no merchandise shall be trans
ported, under penalty of forfeiture
thereof, from a port of the United States
to another port of the United States, in
a vessel belonging in whole or in part to
law, intended to encourage our merchant
marine. remained practically a dead let
ter UNTIL only a few days ago, the as
sistant secretary of the treasury con-
cluded to enforce it in the Alaskan trade,
to the great embarrassment of Klondike
pilgrims,
An order has been issued that Ameri-
can goods shipped in English bottoms
from Seattle to Skaguay are subject to
forfeiture, and this at a time when the
combined commercial fleets in the North
Pacific cannot begin to handle the
freight offered for points on the Yukon,
and when every old tub on the coast is
being fitted out for that trade. Ameri-
can vessels being unable to handle the
tonnage offered shippers will be forced
to patronize the Canadian Pacific rail-
way, reloading into Canadian bottoms ut
Vancouver, instead of finding a direct
outlet at one of the cities of the Sound
country. Complaint is not against the
law or its intent but rather against the
selection of this particular juncture for
its rigid enforcement.
1t is estimated that since the close of
the war this country has paid six billion
dollars in freights on American products
carried in English vessels and that We
are now paying at the rate of $500, 900, 900
a year. But these facts, rejecting, as
they do, upon the sagacity and business
sense of the American people, still do
not justify this spasmodic attempt to
execute dead statute under impossible
conditions
The herald., 1898-02-02
AN OBSERVATION

There isone thing that a careful observ-
er of men and things may easily note: A
newspa per that winks at fraud and hum
bug. condones law-breaking and stands
in with boodlers, finds smooth sailing and
lots of friends of certain kind. Such a
paper may forfeit the esteem and even
excite the contempt of t-thinking
people, but 1t never has libel suits to
fight. When libel suits begin to thicken
about a newspaper then you may know
that it has gone out to battle in dead
earnest for society, and that it is doing
effective work. If it did not make the
scallawags vince. they would not charge
back al it so fiercely. The wear and tear
and worry and expense of libel suits
constitute the penalty that about every
conscientious paper in the land has to
pay for serving the public. But then, on
the other hand, the public generally
chide lightly when ii comes to awarding
damages, and they make up the deficit
in the newspaper treasury an hundred
fold by increased patronage. The YER
dict, after all, is: "Well done, thou good
and faithful servant: hit 'ein againn'
The herald., 1898-02-02
One of the Candidates

To the Editor of the Los Angeles Herald:
l see in today's Herald under the heading
of Political Gossip" it is stated that
Steele and Waldron proved to be unpopu-
| lar candidates; that the Seventy
and Seventy-f1fth districts are Democratic,
and II good men are nominated next fall
they will win. If 1 am not mistaken Mr..
Waldron made the best run of any of the
candidates coming from the Populist side,
considering the political complexion of the
district, while in the Seventy-second there
was Silver Democrat in the field for
whom SA Democrats voted. If "Scruta-
tor" will take the trouble to look at the
vote in the Seventy second district two
years before, he will find what he calls the
Democratic vote Is about equally divided
between the Democrats and Populists, and
even Mr.. Ardis could hardly be elected If
any great number of Populists should re-
fuse to vote for him. I refer to this mat
ter, not that I care for the reference to
myself by "Scrutator," but simply to re-
mind him and others that 1t might be well
to take some things into account while
We are counting unmatched political chick
ems.
"Scrutator" has slated Mr.. Ardis for the
legislature next fall. Mr.. Ardis is good
man. and if he is a candidate for any office
| hope it may be effected in way that
I can give him my hearty support; but l
don't quite see how his or any
other Democrats cause is strength
ened by an assault upon the judg-
ment of the Populists of his dis
trict for twice placing me in the field for
the legislature. Also, it might be well to
keep in mind that the candidate for United
States senator has much to do with the
results of campaigns. and 1 think no one
knows better than Mr.. Kenyon the force
of this statement
w. R. STEELE.
COMMON Ian 31
The herald., 1898-02-02
NoRDAU's DIRE PROPHECY

Dr. Max Simon Nordau, the eminent
ated world sensation by prophesy-
ing a repetition of the st. Bartholomew
massacre as an outcome of the Dreyfus
agitation in France. The promptness
and unanimity with which his startling
prophecy is discredited in Europe and
America, however, cannot but have a
quieting effect upon the public mind.
Setting aside the very natural protest
that is made. contemporaneously with
the publication of the sensational utter
ance of DIR. Nordau and the alleged in
timat tons thrown out by a Catholic or
gan in Paris, by the clerics of that
church in America from Legate Marti-
nelli to Archbishop Riordan, we have the
opinion Of no less a parsonage than Will
liam Seligman, recognized head of the
Hebrew colony in Paris, discrediting the
apprehensions of danger; while the rep
resentative Hebrews OF New York city,
which contains a quarter of a million of
llldI IdEt, are unanimous III IntlT Dellet
that there is no occasion for alarm. The
great banker quoted is a resident of the
French capital, to whom all of the av-
enues of news are open, and who is able
to discern the drift of sentiment in
France quite as intelligently as is Dr.
Nordau, and he says the agitation is
more political than religious, a view that
has already been expressed by this jour
nal
Wholly independent of the opinions OF
anybody concerning the matter, how
ever, is the element of extreme improb-
ability. There are in all France, Will
its thirty-five millions of people, but
siXty-five thousand Hebrews, and these
are scattered among dozen large cities
so that they hardly constitute a factor
in any municipality. There are more
than six times as many in the United
states, more than five timesas many in
the metropolis Of this country alone. l,
is thus seen that, whatever the prejudice
against the prosecuted race in France
ii is not in sufficient evidence anywhere
within the republic to justify fear OF
dominance in affairs, religious. political
or even commercial
Besides, religious intolerance no long
er has foothold in France, and in some
particulars the Jews have more privi-
ieges than in this country. No person
there can be molested or interfered with
on account of religious opinions, SO long
The herald., 1898-02-02
LOS tERAID WEDNESDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 1898

as the public peace is not menaced by a
manifestation of them. The clergy OF
the Roman Catholic, the Protestant and
the Jewish religions draw their pay d.
rectly from the government treasury
even the American church in Paris en-
joying a subsidy. Thirty out of every
thirty-five of the population of France
are Catholics and yet so tolerant are the
laws of the country respecting religious
beliefs and worship that funds are an
nually appropriated for the maintenance
Of Mohammedan churches In the Algeri-
an province.
AS we have heretofore pointed out,
there is large element of the population
and plunder. only waiting for a pretext
TO turn loose with cutlass and bludgeon.
1t is the element which took advantage
of the city's dire distress in the revolu-
tion Of 'sS, again in 1871, and that allied
itself with the Boulanger movement in
the SOS. 1t is given veneer of respecta-
bility at the present juncture by the al
lance with it of the SUPERFICIAL student
contingent; but we believe, and we are
glad to see that our views are quite uni
versally shared, there is no substantial
warrant for the alarming prophecy of
Or. Nordau. Although long resident,
he is not native. and it may not be un-
reasonable to suppose he draws his in
spirations from an atmosphere quite for
eign and as unreliable
In the present condition of European
affairs, growing out of the Oriental en-
tanglements and the Egyptian situation,
incendiary rumors such as are just now
coming from one of the principal capt.
tails, should be largely discounted. They
are the very natural growth, upon the
one side, of an overwrought condition of
the public mind. and of diplomatic in
trigue upon the other.
The herald., 1898-02-02
ODD ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE

A trained dog as watcher outside a
Lewiston, Me-, kitchen barroom is nov
city.
A prisoner in the Pittsfeld, Mass, jail
has made for himself an excellent vioiin
out of a cigar box. upon which ne piays
very skillfully. He was the star performer
at a concert recently given.
Henry Way, a Lyme, Conn, boy, shot
an eagle that was after chickens in MS
fathers coop recently. The plrd was
feet 10 inches from tip to tip.
The most disappointed boy in Falrneid,
Me-. over the present thaw is Uncle
Cyrus Bryant, over ~ years oio' anu 'he
champion skater in that town.
A Bath, Me-, cigar dealer has noticed
that whereas the fathers are content with
their scent cigars, none but the lO or To-
cent variety will do for the sons.
At a recent lecture delivered In Nuhl-
hansen, Germany, missionary named
Eichler read extracts from Chinese
book of the eleventh century, Whlch pre-
sents some striking points of resemblance
to DanteS Inferno.
The first clock in our sense of the word
seems to have been Qor 1t is not known
what clocks they were which, in S72, the
Venetians invented, of which they sent a
snecimen to Constantinople) one made in
1874 by Charles V of France.
The amount of liquid refreshments taken
by a man of 70 years would equal 1900
pints, and to hold this a pail IL feet high
and more than $500 times as large as All
ordinary pail would be required. The
weight of the liquid would be over AZ
tons.
William II. Cove of Salem, Mass, re-
Gently, in connection with the purchase of
his ancestral home at Seabrook, N. H.,
came into possession of several ancient
documents, one being pardon of Edward
Cove, who was confined in the Tower of
London for rebellion. The document is
The herald., 1898-02-02
Short and Pithv

Taste Is the secret of the appropriate;
Tact of the opportune.
Women never give love; they lend love
and they exast usurious interest 70 rtht
loan.
Mrs A. is an admirable woman; so guile
less: woman and water.
b. is born courier: he is one of ma
lures gentlemen's gentlemen.
All our society men and women now have
one foot on the stage, and ali our actors
and actresses have one foot in society
Our duchesses are amateur actresses; oui
actresses amateur duchesses.
mo man Is a hero to his valet;" many
a man, however, Is valet to his hero.
We are all literary now, especially the
illiterate.
The Reign of Terror closed last century
this will close the Reign of Error.
Formerly we were guided by the wisdom
of our ancestors; we are now hurried along
by the wisdom of our descendants.
Resignation is the poetry Of politics.
There is many an Englishman who makes
god of his stable.
Every man now has the properties of g
gentleman: few have the qualities.
The herald., 1898-02-02

dated 1855, and signed Sutherland, and
across the top are the words James r."
and the royal seal. 3
A vocal instructor in New York recently
put the photograph to an unusual use.
She had several pupils for whom she was
anxious to secure European experience,
and she had them sing into her phono-
graphic horn. She took the cylinder to
Berlin, where the voices were produced
for the German managers SO successfully
that engagements to sing in concert and
opera were obtained for two Of her pu.
pills.
The whole national bedt of the world 10
about $29 900 100000 The debt of the prin-
cipal nations is as follows: France, $6, 900.
900 900; Great Britain, 50 300 900, 900; AUS
tria Hungary. 5000 900 600; Russia, 50, ,S75, =
900 OO0 Italy $3.50, 900 ,O00 Spain, 81 1856 900.
600; United States, 1896 141 ,952; Germany,
1920 ,000,0 900. The annual interest on the ma
tional debt paid by each nhabitant Of the
various countries is as follows: France,
%.75; Great Britain, $3.15; Austria, $3.50;
Russia, $1.2O; Italy, $3.50; Spain, 1925;
United States, AZ cents; Germany, 80 cents.
The herald., 1898-02-02
Burning Questions at Pasadena

10 the Editor of the Los Angeles Herald:
The. editor of the Pasadena Star made a
frantic attack last week upon such Pasa-
dena Republicans as have shown dispo-
sition to cut loose from strict party lines
| In choosing municipal officers at the COM
ing election. He threatens the direst ven-
geance or the g.. o. p. upon such recalci-
trants and presumes to deal political dam
nation round the land" on those whom
the aforesaid editor judges to be the foes
of the party.
The reason of this sounding of the slo-
gan Is the fact that there will be several
burning issues which the city council may
De called upon to decide, and which the
editor of the Star believes to be insepara-
bly, connected with national politics. One
OF these is whether the city shall provide
dumping ground for garbage and a
burial place for dead horses.
1t certainly would be an unfortunate
state of things II somebody should get into
the city council to decide this question who
ala not agree with Secretary Gage upon
the retirement Of the greenbacks.
Another question which threatens to con-
vulse the town is whether the sewer farm
shall be devoted more to the raising of
pigs and less to the raising of pumpkins
IT Is therefore imperative that in settling
this question the theory of a high pro-
tective tariff on frozen herring shall be
kept constantly IN view, and that the diff
ference between the Wilson tariff and the
Dingley tariff on umbrellas shall not be
lost sight of.
Still another question is the building of
new lookup. and how can anybody be
FAMILIAR with the proper construction of
Jails who is not in full sympathy with
Mark Hanna and his management of po-
litical campaign.
And so the Star very properly sounds
the hewgag to call the faithful braves to
the supports Of "pie and straight politics"
ONE OF THE ELECT.
Pasadena, Jan. 80, 1885,
The herald., 1898-02-02
PLATFORM

y. The Herald believes that the city of
Los Angeles should own and control a
complete system of waterworks.
;. The Herald believes that the city
should acquire such system at the
earliest date possible and on the most
= advantag geous terms possible. consistent
with contract obligations and fair deal
ing.
The Herald believes that the con-
tract with the Los Angeles City Water
company should be enforced to the let
ter, and that, at the conclusion of the
pending lease. the plant should be taken
over in accordance with the provisions
OF that contract.
The herald., 1898-02-02
OVER-INSURANCE

The Pico Heights school building re-
Gently destroyed by fire, appears to have
been insured for a sum aggregating
S1339.54, in excess of what the insurance
adjusters now claim it will cost to re-
store it, material and labor not being
essentially lower now than when the risk
was placed. The policy of over insuring
perishable property is scarcely dehata-
bic. In the case of private ownership it
would be a reflection upon the honesty
of the insured. In the case of dishonest
persons it would seem to place a prem
ium upon the commission of one of the
worst crimes in the catalogue. 1t can
therefore not be justified in the case of
municipal corporation. The city can
not expect to recover a sum of money
in excess of what destroyed buildings
can be reproduced for, and it should not
be mulcted for premiums upon insur-
ance that is uncollectible. Los Angeles
owns about forty school buildings of
greater or less value, and if all are over
insured, the aggregate unnecessary an
nual premiums would be considera BILE
The adjustment of the loss upon the
Pico Heights schoolhouse should not
close the incident. The board of educa-
ton should look further into the matter,
in the interests of economy and legiti-
mate business methods
The herald., 1898-02-02
The Schoolboy Kicked the Prince

Don Jaime, the son Of Don Carlos, and
In Carlist eyes prince of the Asturias and
heir to the Spanish crown, is serving as a
lieutenant in a Russian cavalry regiment.
1t was lately reported that his father in
tended to "abdicate' his claims in the
young mans favor, but this is now denied
by the Carlist papers. Jaime received an
English education, spending most of his
school time at Beaumont college, near
Windsor. One day an English boy was
seen kicking the young fellow, and he
was asked by one of the masters what
Jaime had done to merit such treatment.
Nothing, SIR" was the characteristic
schoolboy reply, but you see he may come
to be king of Spain some day, and should
like to be able to say that 1 once kicked the
king of Spain. n."--London Chronicle.
The herald., 1898-02-02

complicate matters so that the city will
be unable-lto get possession of its own
when the contract expires without long
and costly delay. The city's interests
are in -greater-danger from the pol
icy, actions and wild demands of the
minority of the city council than they
are from any action that has been taken
by the water company itself.
The herald., 1898-02-02
Sowing the Wind

The crownng idiocy of the tariff is that
we are laying up trouble for ourselves
When the United States becomes the fore
most manufacturing nation other nations
are going to retaliate by restricting the
importation of our manufactures as they
now restrict our grain and meats. Already
South America is striking at our growing
manufactures. Europe will not long de-
lay. In keeping with the Internal policy
of protecting" the trusts, we are sowing
the wind 1t is inevitable that we shall
have to reap the whirlwind.-Kansas City
Times.
The herald., 1898-02-02

A Detroit man seeks to test the valid
silver In satisfaction of a mortgage, the
case to go to the supreme court upon an
agreed statement of facts. We fear
nothing will come of it. Judge Merrick
Of Colorado made an abortive attempt
along much the same lines, a number of
years ago, by rendering silver bullion to
the Philadelphia mint for coinage. under
the provision of the law in question. He
had his trouble for his pains, the courts
refusing. under one pretext or another,
to pass upon the points raised by the
controversy.
The herald., 1898-02-02
Inconsistent Annexationists

When Senator Lodge and Senator Fair
banks favor a bill to keep out some eau
casian immigrants who cannot read the
constitution of the United States and at
the same time favor treaty to bring in
thousands of Mongolians, Polynesians and
cannbals, it Is difficult to account for so
violent a contradiction. This is one of the
Inconsistencies for which there is probably
no rational xplanation.-Philadelp
Record
The herald., 1898-02-02

The statement in our dispatches this
morning that the state department now
intends to press with more vigor the
claim for indemnity in the Ruiz case, is
not without a vein of humor since the
aforesaid inane department has had no
communication with the Spanish gov
ernment regarding the claim since it
was first filed. More vigor" is, diplo-
maticaTly, an uncertain quantity.
The herald., 1898-02-02

The old complaint against the equality
of states In the senate was again raised
in the house debate upon the Teller reso,
luton, and 1.-The rotten borough Of Ne
vada" came in for it's calumny. Moth
ing was said about the state of Wyom-
ing, with the same number of electoral
votes as Nevada, and half of whose
vote in the upper house was cast gainst
the same resolution. That was an
other OK
The herald., 1898-02-02
WOMAN'S WAY

II was her very first love letter.
with an exception or two)
She wrote half day or better
Before she said 'twoutd do"
Note after note-she wrote, rewrote,
And finally wrote anew.
Twas done at last-a tedious task
To clear away the waste.
What wrote she? What need to ask?
Figure yourself so placed.
Thus finished she: "P. S.-Pardon me
For writing in such haste"
Washington Post.
The herald., 1898-02-02

Councilman Hutchison explains that
he did not vote for the adoption of the
report of the water supply committee
Monday evening, and, incidentally
calls The Herald liar for saying that
the report was adopted unanimously.
The Herald simply refused to let Coun-
Gilman Hutchison fix up the record after
the event. If he had voted mo" on the
report why should the chairman have
declared 1t unanimously carried? Re
torting in kind, we will simply say that
Councilman Hutchison is a gentleman.
Now, let him begin his libel suit!
The herald., 1898-02-02
Wavs of the Protectionist

All protectionists are free traders when
they want to buy, and are only protection
lists when they have something to SELL
They squeal like pigs when foreign nations
shut out their products by tariffs, as like
wise when their own government refuses
to shut out competing foreign goods in the
same manner.-Grand Rapids Democrat.
The herald., 1898-02-02
Comprehensive and Creditable

Sundays Los Angeles Herald contained
a long article on Pomona by r. H. Hewitt
editor of the Saturday Beacon. The arti-
Gle was comprehensive and very creditable
setting forth in a fair manner the facts re-
garding Pomona's growth and general ad-
vantages. Mr.. Hewitt is well versed on
Southern California matters, and one
would think from the way he writes of Po-
mona that he had always lived here.-Po-
mona Progress
The herald., 1898-02-02
Ohio's Blasphemous Boss

Hannas blasphemous message was a
coarse plagiarism of President Garfield 8
famous speech, which was called forth by
a terrible panic. There was nothing sacri-
legious in the latter's inspired assertion
Of a relation between our glorious govern
ment and our God. 1t was left to a vul-
gar boss, exulting over a narrow escape
from defeat, to suggest a connection be-
tween Gods reign and the survival of a
corrupt political party.-Kansas City
Times
The herald., 1898-02-02
Making Short Work of an Assassin

The murderer of William Terriss was
adjudged insane by the English jury, but
he will not be set free. as is often done in
this country in similar instances. He will
be put in an asylum where insane people
are supposed to be sent The trial was
completed in one day! How long would 1t
have fingered in this country ?-Indianap-
oils News.
The herald., 1898-02-02
THE PUBLIC PULSE

(The Herald under this heading prints
communications, but does not assume re-
sponsibility for the sentiments expressed
correspondents are requested to cultivate
brevity as far as Is consistent with the
proper expression of their views.)
The herald., 1898-02-02
w cary Round

Literary Aspirant-What steps are nee
essary when you want to get out a book ?
Borus (who has had some experienced
Several thousand steps will be necessary
If it takes you as long to find a publisher
as t generally takes me.-Chicago Tribune