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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-07-14

HEAR H. spillman Riggs. the Wills
tier and singer, at Moundsyiue Camp
Grounds, Thursday evening, . O'CLOCK
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-07-14

UsBD Upright Piano In perfect eondi.
ton must be sold at once.
f. w. BANNER co.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-07-14

UPRIGHT PIANo-good as new-at
a bargain. p. W. BANNER co.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-07-14
10000.

10000.
We have fitted moro thnn twenty th6u.
sand pairs OF speCIaeleS, giving Us n rec.
ord and experience uneqWRll0d by any
other OptIciAn In West Virginia. SatiStAU.
ton guaranteed.
No. 1905 Market Street.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-07-14

July Is and 10, the Ohio River Rail-
road Will sell excursion tickets from
Wheeling to Cincinnati at rate OF 80 o.
for the round trip, good 20 return until
July 20, inclusive.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-17
OBITUARY.
Robert McLane, Minister to France
Under President Cleveland.

WASHINGTON. April 16.--A telegram re-
ceived by the State Department this morn
ing from Ambassador Porter stated that
the Hon. Robert M. McLane. former min
lister to France. died at Paris at s o'clock
this morning. He had been i'll for some
time, and passed quietly away
Robert Milligan McLane was born in Will
mington, Del. June %. 1915. His father
took part in the war of 1872 and his grand
father was celebrated fighter in the revo-
lutionsry war. His father, Louis McLane,
was twice minister to England, served in
the United States Senate, and was for years
president of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail
road. The subject of this sketch attended
college in this country and in Paris, after
wards entering the United States Military
Academy, where he graduated in 1887 and
was assigned to artillery duty He took
part in the Seminole war. and served later
under General Scott and General Taylor
against the Indians. He took part in the
survey of the great lakes, and was sent to
Europe in 1871 to inspect bikes and drainage
in Holland and Italy. He returned home.
left the army and began the practice of
law HiE home was in Baltimore, and in
1876 he was elected to Congress, being re-
elected twice After his three terms in
Congress he was appointed United States
commissioner to China, with power as min
lister being at the same time accredited to
Japan, Corea, Siam and Cochin-China. He
arrived in Hong Kong with a naval force
in 1854. and returned In two years, after
completing the OBJECT OF his mission. He
was prominent in Maryland politics during
Buehanans campaign. and was appointed
minister to Mexico. where he negotiated
treaty for protection 30 American citizens
and property. He returned home and took
a prominent part in the Maryland contest
that resulted IN that State deciding not 20
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-17
RAILWAY AFFAIRS.
The Alaskan Rate TroubIe-East-
Bound Freight Shipments.

CHICAGO, April 16.-It was intimated to-
day that no further effort would be made to
settle the controversy between the Canadian
Pacific and the American roads until w.
II. Newman sewers his CONNECTION with the
dency of the Lake Shore. 1t is the Great
Northern that stands in the way of a sub
mission of the questions in dispute to ar
bitration and Mr., Newman is understood to
be the author of that policy. His successor,
1t is thought may not maintain such an
unyielding position, and an agreement may
then be reached to refer the whole dispute
to the Interstate-commerce Commission as
arbitrafors.
Notice has been given by the Southern
Pacific road that it will cease for the sea-
son fast trains to Southern California over
the Sunset route. The last trip of the Sun
set limited in connection with this service
from Chicago over the Alton tracks will
leave here Tuesday, May g.
The sale of the Little Rock & Memphis
road under a foreclosure decree will take
place at Little Rock Monday afternoon
next. Tho Cotton Belt, the Kansas City,
Pittsburg & Gulf. the Illinois Central and
the Louisville & Nashville have all been
spoken of as possible purchasers.
East-bound freight shipments for the
week amounted TO 1905 tons, against liz, 235
Tor the week previous and 5e,974 last year,
divided among the different roads as fol-
lows: Lake Shore 14.165 tons; Michigan
Central, 6253; Wabash, 34T6; Fort Wayne,
ssh; Panhandle, $3.50; Baltimore & Ohio,
$40; Erie, 1059S; Big Four, ISIS. Lake lines
carried 1888 S33 tons
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-17
PECULIAR SCHOOL SYSTEM.
The Cleveland, o., Plan, Which Con-
centrates Responsibility.
Nauy
New England Magazin


The Cleveland system, which concentrates
power and responsibility in a higher degree
perhaps than any other school system in
the country, is peculiar in the place which
it gives to it's scholar director" who
elected by the people for q term of two
years. devoting all his time to the duties
of his office, with a salary of $4,000 year,
is the executive officer of the schools per-
forming all the duties usually assigned TO
the various executive committees of a
school board. The school board, which con-
sists of seven members, elected by the peo-
pie for a term of two years, four members
is purely legislative body like the trustees
of q collge. The director may veto any act
of the board. which then fails unless passed
by a two-thirds vote of the board The di-
rector appoints the superintendent of
schools, this appointment, however, requir-
ing the approval of the board The super
intendent serves during good behavior and
may be removed for cause by the director.
The superintendent has sole power to APP
point and discharge all assistants and teach
ers. All other employees of the board are
appointed by the director. The school board
is entirely independent of the city hall
financially, having sole control Of all money
raised for school purposes. 1t makes an
estimate each year of the amount OF money
required for the conduct of the schools and
certifies the same TO the proper county Off
GERS, who must levy and collect the full
amount required, provided IL does not ex-
ceed seven mills on the dollar of assessed
valuation
Such is the famous Cleveland system: and
this is substantially what is recommended
by President Draper and his associates on
the subcommittee of the committee of fif-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-17
MAY INVADE TEXAS.
HOt-Headed Spaniards In Mexico I'm
dertake Serious Proposition.

MEXICO CITY, April 16-The corre-
spondent of the Associated Press called to-
night on Minister of War General Berrio-
label, who says that so far from increasing
the troops on the border there are fewer
soldiers on the Rio Grande than for some
months. Troops have been moved about
lately and that probably gave rise to ru-
mors of increased military operations. The
minister OF war showed great interest in
the war news, and he requested to be fully
Informed on everything. Many hot-headed
and impetuous resident Spaniards fully be-
lieve that If they were allowed to enlist a
few regiments among their own country
men and invade Texas the Southern States
would welcome them and begin rebellion
against the federal government, and that
the southern leaders would agree to give
Mexico back her territory lost in the war
of the American Invasion. Some time ago
at a dinner at a Spanish club in this city
1t is reported that this quixotic plan was
Droached 10 general in the Mexican army,
q veteran of several wars who tried to rea-
son his Spanish hosts out of their absurd
notion, while they tried TO persuade him to
head a little army of invasion which they
would form. He fatly refused. but it was
boosted that the Spanish colony would
make rear attack Oh the United States
while war was In progress. Moderate and
sensible Spaniards here have discouraged
these absurd notions, but it is impossible
to convince majority of their fellow-coun-
trymen that the United States would not
be quickly whipped. They boast that within
three weeks the Spanish flag will float over
New Orleans Mobile, Charleston and Bos-
ton. The lower classes here bitterly hate
the Spaniards, and when war breaks out
there may be some trouble, but the gov
eminent will give ample protection to resi-
dent Spaniards A Mexican politician of
eminence said tonight that Spain had made
a tremendous blunder in not recognizing the
independence of Cuba before asked to do so
by the action of the United States.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-17
cENrENARrANs AND THEIR WAYS.
Not All of Them Lived Lives of SObri-
ETY. and Morality.

Langdon Kahn, NJ. D., in North American
Review.
Not all the centenarians were paragons
of all the virtues. Thomas Wilmington, for
habtual drunkard drinking. only London
gin, of which he consumed from pint to
a pint and q half daily. Philip Laroque
went to bed drunk at least two nights in
the week until he was one hundred: At
ninety-two he cut four new teeth. John De
la Sonnet, $50 years old, was an lnyeterate
smoker. Several famous old people were
extremely addicated to matrimony.. owen
Duffy, who lived to be 122, married his third
wife at s by ra wn0m H h had sSe
was five times married and was the father
of forty-nine children. At the age of one
hundred his white hair fell out and new
crop of the original color came it. At the age
of liz he had two new teeth. Margaret
Krasiowna, q Pole, married her third nus
sons and a daughter, as proved by the
parish register" Margaret MEDIEVAL 1O6
years old, married and survived thirteen
husbands Among the recorded centenarlanS
are two dwarfs-Mary Jones, one hundred
years, who was two feet eight inches in
height and terribly deformed, and Elspeth
nine inches in height. Among the most
agile were Mrs. Barrett, who, at the age
of 116, climbed ladder to repair the roof
of her cottage; and Elizabeth Alexander
who was particular about her dress at los,
and was used to a daily walk of two miles.
Several had peculiar habits. Mrs. Lewson,
III years old, never washed her face for
fear of taking cold, but creased it with
hogs lard. John Hussey, 116 years. drank
only balm tea as a beverage. John Wilson.
the same age. supped always off roasted
turnips. Judith Banister, one hundred. lived
entirely biscuit, bread and apples dur
ing the last sixty years of her life. Old
Lord Scarsdale and Lord Combermere. both
of whom lived to a ripe age, thought the
wearing of a tight belt habitually about the
waist had much to do with their excellent
health. Macklin, the centenarian actor
abandoned regular hours of eating in the
last sixty-seven years of his life. taking food
when he was hungry. Two interesting mar
ried couples are reported. Mr.. and Mrs. Cot
terrell aged respectively 12O and lis years,
were married ninety-eght years and never
had a quarrel They died within a few
hours of each other. John Rovin, Hun
garian and his wife, aged 172 and 164 years
lived together 14S years. AT the time of the
husbands death the youngest son was 116
wears old
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-17
How to Publish.
A1,7rouf Toy

Andrew Lang.
THE young author who seriously aims
at fame and pelf should first cultivate
serious frame of mind. This is indispensa-
BILE. Then he may practice writing tracts.
The Bad Squire Saved How / Became an
Agnostic, and so forth. Then he may rise
to higher things, and rant, through 500
pages, about society in which he never
moved, and subjects of which he is exhaus-
lively ignorant. Any medical student will
tell him what life is like, and he can
scarcely be too squalid if he steadily avoids
being amusing But this is advice as to
how to write successful hook, not advice
as to how to publish Having achieved
the initial labor of writing a book, the
search for q publisher offers no difficulty.
Even very dull person can see that
Messrs. Bacon never publish books about
domestic legislation of the Decalogue while
Messrs. Bungay never publish anything
else. Some firms deluge the town with
third-rate ladies' novels: others abstain
But. if our authors own soaring intelligence
cannot master these facts. he may give
his MS to an authors agent, who will hawk
it about. The hawker must be paid for
doing this we presume, but he saves a
great deal of trouble. To a young author
under the domestic roof the constant reap
pearance of a MS. is trial. Brothers are
unfeeing wretches. especially, and do not
spare their idle chaff.' Introductions' are
all nonsense Bacon will net publish your
book because he knows a man who has met
your cousin at a garden party. Personal
visits TO publishers only irritate, IL the visi-
tor has not been invited to call, and is not
SuperlatiVely beautiful
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-17

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No living physician has a wider practical
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His great Icoo-page illustrated book, The
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-17
The blonde Got Even.
Chicago Post.


Small as was Lord Chesterfeld's opinion
of womau's understanding and social adroit-
ness, he would have smiled guardedly but
with Zest at an encounter recently witt
messed. A sallow little blonde entered an
electric car and sat down effuSively by Il
very handsome blonde with brown eyes.
20 Harriet! 1 am so glad to see you! I've
had so many engagements lately that see
nothing of you. How have you been?'
Much as USUAL answered the brown
Are you going to the IS little lenten
da !l%e 3.
"You aren't! Why everybody is going.'
ut will be very popuious dance"
but why aren't you going?'
a shade of annoyance passed over the
brown-eyed blondes face, but she answered
simply, Because I'm not invited
''Oh, that's too bad! I'm so sorry you
were left out. And they seemed to have
gone into the highways and hedges, too
from what / can hear. Midlent will allow
some very pretty dresses I'm going to wear
violet silk"
II think you might wear violet silk said
the brown-eyed blonde gently but distinctly,
turning a searching gaze upon her COM
panion's complexion, IF you put on plenty
of powder. You are determined to wear
violet silk? %
II thought think stammered the
other woman reddening through her sallow-
ness.
and put on plenty of powder-yes, l think
in that case you might venture to wear
violet silk
The sallow blonde did not say another
word. but sat over ostentatiously and gave a
newcomer seat. Perhaps she had not
meant to be rude, with her sorrow and her
highways and hedges. But people were
smiling around her, secretly glad, as we
pat with which a skilled fencer drops
registering and bullying antagonist.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-17
AmiabIe Mr.. Hope.
The Criterion.

The CrIteriOn
Robert Barr, who has just arrived in New
York from London, says that the stories
paper fabrications of the year, which is GER
tainly putting the assertion in a strong
form. Hope-as his friends call him. just
as if it were his name-is so perpetslaIly
amiable in action and conversation that
the thing is a joke among his acquaintan-
trapped by an INSCRIPTIONS person who had
put up money on the result--into saying
that he thought DR.. Jameson, in the mat
ter of the famous raid was indiscreet: this
was considered such a strong piece of de-
traction, when coming from Hope, that tho
man who had bet he could not be made to
attack anyone paid ON the nail.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-17

". L. Alden, in New York Times.
The spring promises we'll for novel writ
ers and publishers Of novels, for we are now
in the thick of an epidemic of influenza.
and the influenza always gives FLIP to
The sale of novels. This does not mean that
when mans brain Is weakened by illness
he instinctively buys The Christian or
.'Quo Vadis, but II does mean that thou
sands of men ard women who have little
time to read when they are well beguile
the weary hours of lying in bed and waiting
Tor the influenza to release its grip by read
ing novels. The really astute author who
wishes for large sale of his new book
would do we'll TO wait for an influenza cpl
demt1, and then publish il at once. 1t is
safe to say that the present epidemic will
he North the sale af thousands of novels
that would have remained unsold II the In
fuenza had not listed US. So far. as can be
ascertained influenza p the only disease
that promotes the sale OF novels. Con-
sumption probably stimulates the sale of
semf-rehgious stories. and II is possible that
prolonged Indigestion, accompanied by
nausea, tempts people OF the homeopathic
faith to read Nine. Sarah Grand's physio-
logical novels. but rs an aid to the spread
Of general novel reading there Is nothing to
bs compared TO influenza.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-17

NEW YORK, April 16.-Arrived: Nomadic
and Campania, from Liverpool; st. Paul,
from Southampton; Patria, from Hamburg.
cogne, for Havre; Saale, for Bremen; OBJ
dam, for Rotterdam; Aller. for Naples:
Ethiopia, for Glasgow; Pretoria, for HAM
for London.
SOUTHAMPTON, April IL. - Arrived:
Friedrich der Crosse, from New York, for
Bremen. Sailed: st. Louis and New York,
for New York.
LIVERPOOL, April 16.--Arrived: Tauric,
from New York. Sailed: Bowie, for New
York.
HAMBURG, April 16.-Arfived: Augusta
Victoria, from New York
PHILADELPHIA, April 16. - Arrived:
Kensington, from London.
PHILADELPHIA, April 16.-Sailed: Penn
land, for Liverpool.
HAVRE. April 16.-Sailed La Normandie,
for New York
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-17
Interesting but Doubtful.

New York Evening Sun.
The news that Paul Dunbar James Whit
comb Riley and Will Cook, of Washington,
are writing negro comic opera is inter-
esJlng. Properly produced. this opera, If it
proves to be worth its salt at all. ought to
make y success. Young Mr.. Dunbar, in
speaking of this matter on Saturday. said:
/ want to have the opera played entirely
by colored singers. Whether, under those
circumstances. it would be taken seriously
or not don't know but then, you know, 1t
is just we'll for the authors when a comic
opera Is not taken too seriously. However,
our opera tells legitimate story and les
songs are taken from those sung by the
Southern people and have nothing in COM
mon with the fake negro songs which one
hears so much of in the music halls just
now.
The heroine is the daughter of a waiter
who has become SO rich from the tips which
he has received at winter hotel in st.
Augustine that he determines to go North
and introduce his daughter TO colored So
ciety in New York
THE first act takes place in the court
yard of the hotel and will make a very
pretty spectacle. The other act is laid in
THOMPSON street, where the heroine meets
an African King who is travelling incog-
nito. Now that the public has grown tired
Of Chinese and Japanese operas. i really
think that the negro opera ought to have
its day.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-17

How an ObIiging Agent Sold n Ger
man-EngIish Telephone.

Milwaukee Telephone.
J. G. Nolen, who is an old-timer in the
electrical construction business, tells a
story on Val Blatz, the millionaire brew
er of Milwaukee.
Our company had had some CORE
spondence with Mr.. Blatz regarding the
putting in of d telephone plant in his big
brewery establishment and was sent up
to try to close a deal.
Il took a couple of our phones with me
in order to make a practical delnonstra-
ton should one be required, and l went
with the intention of making sale.
Il got to talking with Mr.. Blatz and
showed him the advantage OF putting in
our intercommunicative system throughout
his establishment. He listened attentively
and finally said:
Yes. that is all so; very true. But
and he spoke with the CONVICTION of one
who was putting u poser, nut my men
down in the malthouse and the warehouses
and cold storage are all Dutchmen.
L myself, though German and grad
uate of Leipsic and Heidelburg, can speak
English, but what would your telephones
be to my Dutch workmen. who cannot talk
English at all?
well, / saw how the land lay. Old Val
could not get it through his mead that the
telephone would transmit anything but the
language or America. | was Dound 70 make
the deal, as l said before, soI remarked to
Mr. Blatz:
: I can put on some German receivers if
you so desire. L have some with me-
II connected up the phones made
show of changing the receivers, ana IN half
an hour Mr.. Blatz was talking to one of
was delighted.
You may put them in he said, and l
shall want one German one in the malt
house, one German one in each warehouse,
English ones in my Office and the business
office and a German one in the cold stor
age house.
I'VE closed the deal and Mr. Blatz was
glad TO pay " extra for each German enun-
ciator we put in. When the phones were
shipped from the factory had them labeled
German and English, respectively, and the
big brewer was perfectly satisfied.
1T was 1--WE years before l saw BlatZ
again, concluded MIR. Nolen, He recog-
nized me at once. and said with a hearty
.ng gentleman who put in the German and
a good one
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-17

LAREDO, Tex, April 16.--In view of the
impending war between the United States
and Spain the Mexican government has or
dered the Eleventh Regiment of Infantry
and one regiment of cavalry to proceed to
the United States border to be stationed at
Matamoras, Nueva Laredo, Porfirio Diaz
and Juarez to prevent any uprising in Mex
leo against the United States.
DR.. Marti the Spanish leader of plan to
invade Texas, is still confined with several
accomplices in Jail in Neuva Laredo. Most
of his followers now under arrest are Mex
leans, and this fact has caused some appre-
henson lest many ignorant MeXicans on
this side of the Rio Grande might forcibly
aid the Spaniards in case of an invasion,
although many MeXlcans who have eX-
pressed an opinion will support the Amer
leans