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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-29
CHARLES II. TAME, GENERAL MANAGER
Delivered 10y Carriers.

at, tributes o. Respect and Obitf AIRY NO.
ices five cents per lire.
stamps of the denomination of two GEMS
one dollar
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-29
FOR sALE-MlscELLANEOUS

FOR SALE-A complete drug stock and
fixtures cheap. Must sell at once. A
bargain TO right party Only a small cap
ital necessary. Address X, care Regis
ter. mch27dQer
FOR SALE-Cheap, fifteen shares Pea
body Insurance stock. Address a. B.,
this office. fele&dh
FOR SALE-Twc trunks size. 26xlsx13;
suitable for travelling salesman. Cheap.
Apply Office WEST VA PFC. CO. 1925
Market street ja22e&dh
FOR SAILED horsepower portable Rus
sell engine ana boiler and saw mill, run
only sixty days Two 6. one ), one 10
horsepower portabIes. One 5, one 10,
two u horsepower fractions. the last
two compounds. One portable 20 horse
power. All warranted in good running
order. newly painted and repaired. Can
be obtained on good time. w. N. KIN
CAID. Cameron. W. Va. mch2oeda
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-29

correspondence containi1 tmportan'
news news solicited from every pa It CT the sur
Rejected communications VIII not be re-
Turned unless accompanied by sulhcient
The REGISTER ernbracinlg IT'S several
eGitlons is entered az TIC Pos Office at
wheeling, W. Va. as second- class matter
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-29
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

FOX RENT furnished room,
bath. No. 81 Seventeenth stree With
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-29

TO LOAN-Money in sums IN s,.i. -
wanting money that can Civ IL. ihos,
estate security. call on ]. {. FPpt,-rrsa
l426 Market street i'LFFEY
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-12-11
un,oaded Guns.

"Unl3aded guns are the deadliest
weapons in the world" remarked .
clerk in a Royal street curio shop.
"They are always going of and killing
somebody. Yesterday q fellow brought
an old horse pistol into the shop. 1t was
one Of the dragon model; loads with
powder and ball, you know, and uses a
percussion cap. The thing was as big
as a small cannon and hadn't been
fired, suppose, since the year l. The
owner assured me it wasn't loaded,
and, as there was no cap on the nipple,
l handled it a little more carelessly
than l otherwise would have done. We
were standing at the back door, and ]
raised the hammer to see whether the
lock was still in working order.
"When / pulled the trigger. there
was an explosion that shook the house
and scared ne both half out of our wits.
while the bullet hit packing case over
there in the corner and knocked il into
smithereens. How the confounded ma
chine happened to 60 of was a mystery
until closely examined the lock Then
saw that an old cap had evidently
corroded and attached itself 10 the ham
mer. which was slightly cup shaped at
the end. and when cooked the weapon
it simply lifted OFF the nipple and came
up too. 1t was only one of the little
tricks of unloaded weapons They are
mighty good things to let alone. -
New Orleans Times-Democrat-
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-12-11
A Golf Story.

At dinuer party not long ago a GER
tain young gentleman Tan enthusiastic
golfer) started in with the shellfish to
enumerate TO his partner the details of
a match that he had been playing that
day, says w. G. Van Tassell Sutphen
in The independent 1t was not until
the pudding was brought ON that he
suddenly bethought himself that he had
been doing all the talking. Indeed, the
young lady had not said a single word
during the entire progress of the meal.
1t was possible that she was not inter
ested in the subject-incredible. but
still possible.
II am afraid that have been boring
you with this talk of the shop" he said
in half apology.
"Oh, no. not at all. >" was the polite
response. "Only what is golf?'
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-12-11
An Interesting Prophecy.


To us on the verge Of an interoceanio
waterway across Central America the
forecast Of that remarkable Scotchman,
William Paterson. the founder Of the
Bank of England, is of singular inter
est. Peddler, buccaneer, preacher. bank
er, statesman and speculator, his mind
had that bigness os perspective which
belongs to genius. 1t is in connection
with his great Darien scheme for colo
nizing Central America with English
men and thus grasping what he believed
would be the key of the commerce be
tween Europe and Asia that contem
porary thought will recall his career,
though he first organized the greatest
monetary institution in the world.
When projecting his Darien dream, he
said: "If neither Britain singly nor the
maritime powers of Europe will treat
for Darien. the period is not very far
distant when, instead of waiting for the
slow returns of trade, America Will
seize the pass of Darien. Their next
move will be TO hold the Sandwich Is
lands Stationed thus in the middle, on
| the east and on the west sides of the
new world, English-Americans will
form the most potent and singular en-
| pire that has appeared, because 1t will
consist, not in the dominion of part of
the land of the globe, but in the do
minion of the whole ocean. They can
make the tour of the Indian and south
ern seas, collecting wealth by trade
wherever they pass. During European
wars they may have the carrying trade
of all If blessed with letters and arts,
they will spread civilization over the
universe. Then England, with all her
liberties and glory, may be known as
Egypt is now"
At the time when these words were
spoken, about l695-for that was the
year when his Darien company was in
corporated-the English in America con-
sisted of a few scattered colonies with
out much power or prospect of a great
future. Yet this Scotch speculator' s
eagle vision pierced the far future and
foresaw the logic Of possibilities 200
years ahead That Americans will now
read the Nicaraguan route probably FOR
his projected canal from Venta Crucis
to Panama upon the south sea by land
about eight short French leagues does
not affect the interest of his provision
Paterson recognized the engineering
difficulties which interposed, but he did
not consider them insurmOdntable even
| in his age 1t was the tremendous re
suits which he f0resaw to follow from
such a shortening OF the maritime route
around the world that made him per
! haps too sanguine for his period What
he prophesied will soon now be an ac
complished fact and become one OF the
great revolutioniZing agencies in the
worlds trade by the enterprise of Eng
lish speaking America
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-12-11
Banking In switzerland.

Some Of the methods are sufficiently
antiquated, according to our standards.
For instance, it requires Is minutes in
which to make a deposit at a bank. Ev-
cry banking house has numerous chairs
outside the railing. aud the visitor is
expected to sit quietly and cultivate a
spirit of patience while the machinery
is getting under way.
A customer who wishes to make de-
posit goes to q window and hands in his
money. together with a memorandum of
the amount. The employee behind the
railing counts the money and prepares
a receipt for it, adding his signature by
way of preliminary Then small boy
takes this receipt up stairs and submits
it to an official, who studies it and then
ponders for awhile as to whether it will
be safe to take the money.
If he decides that the bank can un-
dertake the risk. he passes the receipt to
another man, who prepares duplicate
slip and makes several entries, and
finally signs his name. Then, as soon as
another man has examined the receipt
and added his name it is taken down
stairs and turned over to the depositor.
There is one satisfactiOn-the money is
thoroughly deposited. Zurich Letter
in Chicago Record.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-12-11
Millions Of Men Under A.

A French statistician states n.
the total number of men pern.
nently under arms is 4, ,25O. .OOo u
universal war broke out tbs-
would be 4,25O.OOO men ready :.
take up arms at once. Placed in
line the soldiers of the world worls
cover the equator right around n.
earth: To pass along the line on.
would need to ride in an express
train at sixty miles an hour 70.
seventy days. If the soldiers =.
ceived orders to exterminate N.
rest of the population they would
only have to kill thirty-three pe,.
sons apiece.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-12-11
Temper and Football.

At football all manner of men have
played at the ends of the rush line-an
ideal man would be a composite of all
the other men ON the team.
He would be about feet 10 in height
and would weigh about 165 or 16S. He
would have the speed of a half, the
quickness of a quarter, the bulldog
pluck and nerve or a guard, and the
brain of a captain. In addition to all
these (and contrary to the opinions of
most people, he would have a quick
temper. There is nothing in football
nor indeed i'll any form of athletics in
compatible with a little of the "Old
Adam, nor is there anything like an
ger to put life and fire into a tired man
late in hard fought game.
One can be as angry as he may and
still be a gentleman. Temper. properly
directed and controlled, will add fierce
ness to ones tackles, speed to his run
ming and strength to his blocking, as
nothing else on earth will do, and many
the captains there are who, knowing
this, have stirred up their wesried men
with harsh words of command which
they themselves realized were unmerited
simply to make their teams work harder
and faster.-College Athlete
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-12-11
Cruisers Of the Air.

OF all those inventors strictly scien-
tif1c and conservative in their methods
who have devoted themselves to aero
nautics Professor Langley Of the Smith
sonian institution has perhaps made the
most satisfactory advances The ordi-
nary balloon has such marked limita-
tions for war use that its value except
for reconnoitering purposes to limited
degree is simply unthinkab!e. It has
been tested under service conditions by
the United States and foreign govern
ments without much justification of its
military good. During our civil war
and before Santiago it proved itself OF
but little worth. Still there has been a
general eagerness to push Investigation
as far as possible in this direction.
In the invention Of ths-aeroplane. a
dirigible air vessel equipped with its
own motor power and not dependent
ON air currents, Professor Langley has
without doubt initiated the only prac-
ticable future of air travel which prom
ises anything. Without now discussing
the importance of a successful air ma
chine for the more beneficent purposes
of peace, it can be readily perceived
what a tremendous war engine it could
be easily made if il can be devised OF
sufficient weight carrying power Cit
les, armies, Notifications, great sea
fleets of battleships, all would be in
significant in comparison with the de-
structive power of these aerial ships
carrying high explosives. Professor
Langley has so impressed his ideas on
the war department that it has been de-
cided to expend $25, 600 for further ex-
pertinent along the lines recommended
by the inventor. He has been an enthu-
siastic yet conservative student of the
problems involved for many years and
is fully confident of the ultimate sue
cess of solution. The process of manu-
| featuring aluminium commercially
| helped to remove one of the most trou
blesome obstacles; and there now seem:
clear perspective of the future navi
CATION of the air machine. General
Greely of the signal corps and Profess
or Langley, who. it is understood. will
find his compensation only in the glory
of success, will conduct the experiment:
/ together. The outcome will be looked
for with intense curiosity at home and
| abroad.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-12-11

If the pIoguostications of the enor
nous expansion of American trade in
terests with the east are justified III tine
future by fact, it viii be big factor
in a greater relative growth of the cities
of the Pacific coast Even the cutting
of the interoceanic canal will not PFC
vent a great diversion of trade from
eastern to extreme western ports. That
American coast facing Asia will nat
urally be an important point of depar
ture for the orient, to which both export
and import trade in many branches
will be attracted as steel TO a magnet,
for commerce always follows the line
of least friction, the short and direct
route as far as possible. This will be
specially notable perhaps in the han
ding of the cereal products, for which
the opening of the Asiatic markets can
scarcely fail to create an immense de
mand.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-12-11

The latest official return of the for
eign trade of the United States shows a
steady increase of the great balance of
exports over imports. For the ten
months ending with October the i'm
ports fell from $63S, 734, 6I5 to S527,- =
ISL, 554. while the exports increased
from 1857, 9S2. 759 to 1897, 964, $50
The increase in excess of exports for the
ten months rose from $2I9,24S, S,l44 to
S4G0, 202, S02, The excess of imports of
gold rose from S4,612. 754 of the previ-
Gus year to Si29, 596. 246 in 1898. This
balance of trade in favor of the United
States has never before been equaled in
our commercial records. The balance
of all the items sum up credits in favor
Of the United States fer the first ten
months of 1897 to be about S265, 600, 600
and for the corresponding time in 1898
$3.50, 900, 600
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-12-11
For Sale

One of the most desirable resi-
dence properties in ArdmOre, three
blocks from L. 5. court house, on
West Broadway. Corner lot 80
by 100 feet, facing Broadway
south, house has four rooms, good
never failing well, 80 bearing fruit
trees embracing peaches, pears,
cherries, apples and plums of best
variety, a 100 foot grape arbor
producing abundance of grapes Of
finest varieties, yard full of trees,
flowers and shrubbery, one OF the
best and largest storm cellars Id
the city. VIII be sold cheap to
spot cash buyer and will deduct
reasonable amount for estimated
appraisement value by commission.
Enquire or address ARDNOREITE
office d&wtf
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-12-11

A correspondent of the New York
Sun has called attention to a pregnant
point apropos of the merits OF the Mica
ragua and Panama routes for an inter
oceanic canal The climate of nearly
every part Of Nicaragua where work
on the canal would be carried OH is as
healthy as it is possible to fancy. There
is literally nothing in climate or condl-
tions to prevent any ordinary person
from doing as much work as he would
in the best parts of the United States
The situation is Numerically opposite
in the isthmus of Panama. There The
chagres fever, the most deadly and Ger.
tain of malarial diseases, RACES In all
seasons of the year. Loss of life made
the Lesseps enterprise twice as costly
as it would otherwise have been. And
it is well known that human life was
sacrificed for every tie laid on the Pan
anna railroad. 1t is this which makes
large enterprises involving human la.
Dor so expensive on the isthmus. TAX
ing this consideration into thought. it
means very great addition to cost of
labor as figured ON a simple basis One
writer thus sums up: "The whole ques-
tion amounts to this: The figures of an
estimate for a canal through Nicaragua
represent what it could actually be
dug for. Those for a canal through the
Panama isthmus stand for that. plus
an almost indefinite amount of expense
incurred in a villainous climate.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-12-11
Hebrew Benevolent Association.

The Hebrew Benevolent associa-
tion held a very satisfactory meet
ing on Sunday last, at the resi-
dence Of Mr.. J. n. Barall. The
members present, as well as Rabbi
Friedman of Gainesville, partici-
pated freely in the debates, and it
was unanimously decided that the
aims of the association should be:
First-Charity.
Second-The maintenance of a
Sabbath school with an efficient
corps of teachers.
Third-To promote all interests
in connection with judaism.
In order to carry on the second
and third objects, it was resolved
to re-organize the Jewish Sabbath
school, and Rabbi Friedman was
elected as superintendent of the
same, ana the nrSt lesson or SAID
school will be held on Sunday, the
18th, at 10 a. m, at the Odd Eel
lows hall, opposite the Wisnor
hotel Beginning Sunday, the 18th,
at 7:30 p. m, at same place, Rabbi
Friedman will begin a series of
lectures and hold evening services.
The first lecture will be on THE
Maccabees," to which all who NAV
come are invited. We call the
attention of our readers to the call
issued by the president Of the asso-
citation. and wish our Jewish fellow
citizens prosperous school and
large attendance to their lecture.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-12-11

Mr.. Alfred r. Wallace in letter to
an English paper puts on record an ex-
pert experience in the tropics He con-
troverts the ordinary belief that white
men necessarily deteriorate in the warm
er climates. He regards the zone cover
ing about 10 degrees each side of the
equator as furnishing the most enjoy
able abode for man. where he can OBJ
tain the maximum of the necessities,
comforts and luxuries of life for the
least work and can at the same time
develop and cultivate his higher nature
But Mr. Wallace in declaring this as
covering the whole problem ignores the
universal experience of the human race
1t is not where nature bends to man the
most easily, but where it presents some
difficulties to be conquered, exacting in
dustry, forethought and ingenuity. that
mans great advances have been made.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-12-11
KeeDtnu Cool.

At one of the viceregal balls in the
Emerald Isle young detrimental"
came up to where a young lady was sit
ting and asked in her mothers presence
if he might have the pleasure of the
dance.
- Deed an ye can't, then. Shure
she's keeping herself cool for the Earl
of ClanfurlyP' was the pointed refusal
volunteered by tire ambitious mamma
Exchange.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-12-11

On the occasion of the recent funerals
of Generals Santocildes and Vara del
Rey in Havana the American commits
sioners sent magnificent wreaths of
flowers to be laid on their coffins. Both
the dead soldiers perished from wounds
received in battle, and American chiv-
airy responded to the occasion. Similar
acts of courtesy have marked the action
of our officers whenever occasion called
for it,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-12-11
The American Health association h,

The American Health association has
been urging President Mckinley to ap-
point commission to go TO Cuba for
the purpose of making a study of the
yellow fever bacillus and the best means
of preventing the disease, aside from
municipal sanitation. 1t is probable
that such board of experts will be So
lected, including the most experienced
men of this line in America.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-12-11

do something to make them happy.
When they see the whole world re:
joicing, themselves alone left out.
then when we tell them that Xmas
day is remembered to celebrate the
birth of the Savior, who loved and
died for them they will be more
ready to believe US and more will
ingly to follow a cause that scat
ters some of Heavens gifts as well
as earth's flowers along the rug
ged uphill pathway of their lives.
We have two little ones in mind
now, bereft of a mother S love only
yesterday. What a small Xmas
twill be for them. Come help US
brighten their burden. Bring us
dress. a pair of shoes, or a wrap
your children no longer use, they
will help to keep them warm, and
leave a warm and sunny spot in
your own heart since by so doing
you are Obeying one of the Mas
ter's. commands. He said In as
much as We did it unto one of the
least of these, we did into me.
Let us show the children OF, Ard
more that we are interested in theil
pleasures and that we can forget
ourselves in remembering them
and that loving cur own little ones
we can love them too. Mrs. Brown
ing says, Two human love:
make one divine" D."
The Benevolent society will meet
with Mrs. Bennett at the residence
of Mrs. Wilhelm on Main street
Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock, tC
appoint committees to solicit Christ
mas gifts for the poor, also to dis
tribute same. Will you meet Will
us and help to carry out this plaT
of making Xmas day a joy to poor
children as well as ourselves. YOu
need not give much a nicke
goes long way towards buying {
tin horn, a toy dog or cookie
We earnestly hope for good at
tendance and by putting our gooC
wishes aud a good many nickel:
together the result need not be {
failure. All are invited to come.
Mrs. A. G. CRUCE, Pres.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-12-11
Mules for Sale.

| will be at Harper's livery sta
BILE, on CaddO street, Ardmore. |.
T., about Dec. y, with a nice
bunch of well broke young Texas
mules, which l will offer for sale
at reasonable figures.
5d&wtf TIP CO1EN.p
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-12-11

The shortage of currency in the treas
ury is so great that the government has
been making all its payments. as far as
possible. in gold This may not suit the
merchants and traders at home, but
Cuba. Porto Rico. Hawaii and the Phil
ippines are quite satisfied.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-12-11

Constipation prevents the body
from ridding itself of waste matter.
De Wits Little Early Risers will re-
move the trouble and cure sickhead-
ache, biliousress, inactive liver and
clear the complexion. Small, sugar
cooted, don't grippe or cause nausea.
City Drug Store.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-12-11

Hers is story of Disraeli; it is one
of his quick replies: A lady, who had
asked him TO dinner. when the eastern
question was looming large, inquired,
Lord Beaconsfield, what are you wait
ing for?" For mutton and potatoes 4"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-12-11

Pains in the chest when persoA
has a cold indicate q tendency "
ward pneumonia. A piece OF hannei
dampened with Cnamberlains r~i.
Balm and bound on the chest oFe'
the seat of pain will promptly reness
the pain and prevent the threateneu
attack Of pneumonia. This san
treatment will cure a lame back ID
lew hours. Sold by City Drug e'Oi'
and T. N. Coleman.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-12-11

At Munich many of the clerks at the
Sanks and hotels are girls, and as CASH
iers and bookkeepers at restaurants and
other houses Of business they are well
in evidence. Many women are also en-
ployed at railway stations as booking
Office clerks
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-12-11

American naval officers are as much
In the business of raising ships as of
sinking them. Admiral Dewey expects
to resurrect three of the Spanish war
ships which he sent to Davy Jones in
Manila harbor. These vessels will be re-
paired and reftted, it is expected. at
Cavite. where there is a naval arsenal.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-12-11

Men never understand women, or wo-
nan men. 1t is along the twilight bor-
derland Of this mutual ignorance that
sentiment and passion between the sexes
find their most congenial habitat
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-12-11

The New Zealand old age pensions
bill provides that persons of good char
acter attaining 65 and having resided
for 90 years in the colony shall be en-
titled to q pension Of ess annually.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-12-11

Western farmers. it is said, have so
much money in hand that they ere go
ing into the discounting, business to
rival the banks Money to lend is new
experience for the agricu:turist of Kan
Ras and Nebraska.