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Gilpin observer., 1899-09-21

discovery, which he considers the
crowning event of his wonderful
career, and which is embodied in
Red Cross Starch (Red Cross trade
mark.) He is planning to distribute
millions Of packages of this starch to
the housewives of America, at merely
nominal price to the consumer, in order
to make its merits known without de-
lay. Thus, for but cents two large
.1Oc packages of Red Cross Starch may
be had, together with two magnificent
Shakespearean views printed In ~
beautiful colors, or q Twentieth Cen
tury Girl Calendar; or for only 20
cents 10 packages of the starch and
the entire series Of eight tShakespearean
views and one Twentieth Century Girl
Calendar-views alone easily worth
$1.oO. Watch this paper for future
premium announcements, Of which
every lady will certainly want to take
advantage.
While Mr.. Hubinger will devote his
best energies to the manufacture OF
this new and wonderful starch, he will
not retire from the various financial
enterprises in which he is interested
street railways, electric lighting plants
and the Mississippi Valley Telephone
Co., with 10000 telephone subscribers
in Minneapolis and ST. Naul-nor will
his augmented activity interfere with
his social obligations and exercise OF
the splendid hospitality which he dis.
lpenses at his palatial Keokuk home,
Mr.. Hubinger's family, consisting OF
himself. wife and four children, is the
pivot around which his activity re.
wolves, and while fond of promoting
great enterprises, he is still fonder OF
his home circle, where he spends every
moment of time not taken up by busi
ness or public cares.
Gilpin observer., 1899-09-21
THE WIFE AND THE
STRANGE WOMAN.

Arthur Sanger was head clerk in a
dry goods store. Clara Heartily worked
in tailor's shop. She had a pretty
face, winning ways, and loving.
trusting little heart; so, when after
few weeks acquaintance, Arthur
Sanger asked her to be his wife, she
smiled and blushed charmingly, and
soon after she became Mrs Sanger.
The first bit of sorrow Clara expe-
rienced after her marriage was one
morning when Arthur tenderly inform
ed her that he should be obliged to go
to New York on business for the firm,
and would be absent three whole days.
1t was sad, gloomy time to poor
Clara, but the three miserable days
came to an end at last, and with a
light heart she arrayed herself to go
to the depot to meet her husband. He
would not expect her.
The train came putting in. Clara was
few steps from the edge Of the plat
form, when she saw Arthur alight and
hold out his hand to assist beautiful,
dark-eyed lady down the steps, and
what was her dismay, as she pressed
her way through the crowd to greet
him, to see him draw the lady's hand
through his arm and hear him say in
low voice:
Pull down your veil, Alice. End
walk delibera ELY through the depot"
For a moment objects swan before
Clara's eyes, but, lowering her own
veil. she followed the couple out. She
managed to keep them in sight until
they entered the Sweeney hotel.
Then, with heart she thought was
breaking, she goes home, how, she
hardly knew. 1t was half an hour be-
fore Arthur came; and Clara had
thought it all over, and resolved not
to say one word about her being at
the depot, and see If he would make
any explanation. He returned her
warm greeting in an affectionate, but
absent way, not even noticing her pale
cheeks and eyes red with weeping.
The next morning, after Arthur had
eaten his breakfast, mechanically kiss
ed her abstractedly, and gone to the
store, Clara went up to her chamber,
threw herself upon lounge, and wish
ed, oh, SO fervently, that she might
die, for If her husband was really un-
Gilpin observer., 1899-09-21
HORSE BITTEN sY a DOC.
said 70 Have Developed Gables and
Committed Suicide.

said TO Have Developed Rabies and
Committed Suicide.
A remarkable story is going the
rounds of South Baltimore of horse
which committed suicide, short time
ago, after having been infected with
rabies. The animal was of good stock.
and although years old was valued
by its owner. Edward Franklin. at
500. Mr.. Franklin is one of the best
known residents of Anne Arundel
county, where he served as constable
and deputy sheriff. He has farm
near Glen Burnie, and is engaged in
mercantile pursuits as we'll. He is
stepson of Mr.. Myers of East Osten
street. The story is that Mr.. Franklin.
who had been in the city on business,
was returning home some weeks ago
when his horse was attacked by mad
dog. 1t was night, and although the
horse was terribly frightened and
nearly threw its driver from his seat
when attacked by the dog, Mr.. Frank
lin, owing to the darkness, was not
aware that his horse had been injured
until he reached home. Then he dis
covered that his horse was bleeding
from the mouth, the mad dog evident
ly having attempted to pull him down
by springing at his throat Mr.. Frank
lin made wash of laudanum, with
which he dressed his favorite's inju-
ries, and after time forgot all about
the incident. A few weeks later, how
ever, the animal began to act queerly,
and one day made a savage attack OH
its master. 1t seized him about the
waist, shook him violently and would
possibly have trampled him to death
II Mr.. Franklin had not made his es-
cape at the cost of some of his cloth
ing. While he was badly bruised the
skin was not torn, and there Is no
danger of his being stricken down
with the dread disease. The shock was
sufficient to confine him to his bed for
several days, however. Meantime, the
horse had developed well-deffned
symptoms of hydrophobia. II refused
to drink, frothed at the mouth, and
tried to kick its way out Of the stall
in which it was secured. The animal
was unable to break loose, although
in one of it's paroxysms of rage 1t tore
off with it's teeth new trough which
had been securely nailed to a heavy
beam, and threw it into the air. Mr..
Franklin's family were greatly at
tached to the horse, and in the hope
that it would recover did not kill 1t.
1t continued to grow worse, and finally
broke it's neck in mad plunge against
the beam while trying to break out.
The remains of the unfortunate beast
were buried on the farm and the man
ner of its death has only recently
come to light, as the Frankl;ne feared
that If the facts were known they
might create panic among the neigh
boring farmers. So far as is known,
Mr.. Franklin's animal is the only one
which has come to it's death from an
attack by this particular dog.-Balti-
more News.
Gilpin observer., 1899-09-21
JOHN c. HuB1NcER.
1sAarkabls Career OF = wen-Knewn
Western Capitalist, Manufaet-
! ursr and Philanthropist.

! Among the leaders of the progressive
element for which the midle west is
famous, Mr.. John G. Hubinger, of Keo-
kuk, Ia, reigns without peer. As
a manufacturer, as an enterprising cap
ltalist and as philanthropist his fame
has spread over many states, and his
financial enterprises have developed
many obscure towns into progressive,
thrifty and wide-awake cities. Mr..
Hubinger, although but Al years of
age, can look back upon scores of COM
mercial victories, each one of which has
benefited mankind, for his liberality is
as bountiful as his business sagacity is
marvellous. He was born in New Or
leans, La, his parents being of French
and German origin. When he was four
years old, his family removed to Ken
tucky, in which state young Hubinger
received public school education. AL
most before reaching mans estate he
secured patents on number of val
liable mechanical inventions, thereby
laying the foundation of his present
fortune.
BY inclination and force of circum-
stances his attention was early direct
ed to the manufacture of starch by i'm
proved processes, and in the course of
time he became the head of q concern
having an annual business of millions
of dollars. But genuine ambition
never quite satisfied with existing con-
ditions, works ever toward perfection,
and after years of painstaking study
and research Mr.. Hubinger has made q
Gilpin observer., 1899-09-21
NATIONS GREETING TO DEWEY
Features Of tho Bsesption 10 the Manila
Hero at' WsshinRton.

Features Of she Hsesption 10 the Manila
Hero se' Washington.
Tho central idea underlying the
grand welcome to be given Admiral
Dewey in Washington the hrst week In
October Is Its national character. His
arrival at the capital will mark his real
homecoming to the American people.
where the offlcials Of the government
will participate, and the magnificently
jeweled sword voted by congress will
be presented. To that end all the ar
rangements will be of simple but
most dignified character. The welcome
to the hero of Manila at the national
capital will probably occur on Monday,
October 2, although the date will de-
pend upon the length Of the celebra-
tion IN New York, which is stiu un-
Gilpin observer., 1899-09-21
Debt of the Deaf to DIR. Meyer.

In the last twenty-five years great
advances have been made in AURA
surgery. and the number of deaf per.
sons has been lowered greatly. The
celebrated Danish physician, DIR. Hans
Wilhelm Meyer, was the first to put
his finger into the little space between
the nose and the throat to remove
"pharyngeal vegetations." 1t took him
some years to convince the profession
that these outgrowths were n common
cause not only OF loss of hearing and
obstructed nasal respiration, but also
of defective articulation and impaired
mental and bodily development. It Is
40 exaggeration to assert that the
number of young persons who have
been saved from lifelong deafness By
the removal of these obstructing glands
amounts already to hundreds OF thou.
sands. and that hundreds of thousands
more will be delivered from this ter.
rible afliction in future times. DR..
Meyer lived Just long enough to know
that the medical world recognized the
great value of his discovery.
Gilpin observer., 1899-09-21
Betrayed by His Parrot

Victor Chevalier. a clever criminal
In Paris. was run down in a shrewd
way. He wus known to be exceedingly
fond Of a pet parrot, and the police
were instructed to look for q loQua-
cious bird OF this kind After weeks
search the talkatve parrot was dis
covered In the Montmartre district.
The police kept close watch on the
house. and in time the criminal ap-
peared to have an affectionate chat
with his bird.
Gilpin observer., 1899-09-21
Color Phptogrn Nl,v.

1t Is stated by the London Engineer
that a Photographer at Kiefr has obtainec
a patent from the Russian govern. ent
sor a new form of photography. HI.
camera, which is threefold takes three
negatives at once. all alike in outline. but
of different values. In the first all shades.
of blue come out more distinctly; in tn,
second reds, and in the third yellows
From these are printed separately three
positives on transparent films. which ar.
then superimposed one on the other. II
is claimed that the final result of thi.
gives a perfect picture In the colors OF
nature.
Gilpin observer., 1899-09-21
PROVERBS BY WILLIAM BLAKE.

Expect poison from the standing wa
ter.
Without contrarios is not progress
sion.
To create little flower Is tho labor
Of ages.
What Is now proved was once only
imagined.
He who desires but acts not breeds
postilence.
Listen to the FOOLS reproach. It 10 .
Lingly title.
Gilpin observer., 1899-09-21
Once washIngton.s Arsenal.

New York Sun: The tearing down
OF the old buildings, 93, 95 and 81 Cher
ry street, to make way for a modern
structure, removes landmark vaguely
associated In the annals of the neigh
brohood with the days of the American
revolution. When Washington made
his headquarters at Roosevelt ald
Cherry streets, the local historians
declare. he stored In these old build
ings munitions Of war supplies for his
army. The historians OF Cherry Hill
then skip the intervening years until a
period beginning fifteen or twenty
years ago Is reached. The buildings
were then occupied as resorts for sail
ors. The Loopey gang, which once
threw man into the river for cents,
made its headquarters in the neignDor-
hood. Near by was Sneepy's alley.
leading from Roosevelt to Cherry
street, in which Roosevelt street resi-
dent declares there were three muir
ders within as many months.
Gilpin observer., 1899-09-21
Evil Eye Leads to Divorce.

New York World: Elizabeth Els,os.
ser of Patterson, N. j.. who has
brought suit for divorce. believes that
her husband was hypnotlzcd by Marie
Koch, who was employed rs servant
in the family Miss Koch Is IS years
old and plain looking, but Mrs. Ell
soesser says she has the "evll eye"
Twice, she says. Elsoesser ran away
with Marie. leaving prosperous bake.
shop. Elsoessor says he will not de-
fend the suit
The happiest person In the world Is
he or she whose ambition scars be-
yond what he or she Is able to get.
Gilpin observer., 1899-09-21

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup.
For children tecthlng, sofens the gums, reduces In
nRnmaton. allays pain. wind collie. 2Jc bottle
Gilpin observer., 1899-09-21
Ali Intestinal Troubles Prevented.

A strong-minded woman never has Cn
extra pin about her person.
Gilpin observer., 1899-09-21

AS n rule people who don't need rest
never let anybody else rest.
Gilpin observer., 1899-09-21

Ton cents worth OF prevention saves fortunes Ia
doctor bills and funeral expenses 10c buys box oI
Cascarcts Candy ,athnrtic Druggists, ivc. Zoe 10.
Gilpin observer., 1899-09-21

People who take late vacations natural.
ly get a chance to tell the biGGest stories.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-19

couldn't give a colored family a woven
wire mattress. Some of my field-hands
won't cross a street car track without
offering up a prayer, and l have half
a dozen old fellows who couldn't be
hired to ride on a trolley car. Last fall
l sent two of my hands across the
country to bring home a bull l had
bought of a fellow-planter. The dis
lance was fourteen miles, and they
came home about eight o'clock at night
without the bull. When l questioned
them the explanation was:
I've got dar' all right, Mars Pen
lipe, an we found Mars Thompson an
de bull. Mars Thompson was mighty
kind an de bull was powerful slick, but
when we seed dem brass knobs on dat
critters horns we knowed dat he was
a '~lectric bull, and had bin all wired up
to raise de debbil on dis platachun, an
so we dun walked right off an left him
behind!"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-19

not another hundred pounds OF ore
could be found. On a certain Monday
the stock was worth SIPS. By Tuesday
it wasn't worth five cents on the dollar.
7 did it. of course. If I'd kept gu OF
that mine it would have raised enough
silver to make millionaires OF all the
stockholders. l sold my certificate for
Sc and went prospecting with a partner.
We turned up ore and figured out that
we had found a big thing. He wanted
to do a couple of weeks work and get
at something like the true value OF the
discovery. but | insisted on a bird in the
hand. He found enough money to pay
me 500 for my claim, and within sixty
DAYS sold out his interests for S150,00O
in new gold coins. 1t was the general
belief that | was a Jonah, but Western
people are ~big-hearted and they were
wiling to give me a show. l bought
three mules and hired a dozen more
and started in to freight ore over the
mountains. To my great amazement
made three successful trips and profit
enough to buy another mule. On the
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-19
pie who saw me getting out of Chicago

pie who saw me getting out of Chicago
thought l had wings"
Its easy to nip a career in the bud"
sighed the fat man, land mine was
chopped off then and there never to
bud in the humorous direction again.
From that hour to this l have never
been tempted to write anything funny
without a vision rising up before my
eyes-a vision Of an old man gurgling
and gasping and choking as he tried to
find cuss-words to fit my case, and of a
young man tumbling over himself to
get away from a n and a boot. I
laugh, of course-ha! ha, ha,-and
go about telling funny stories-ho! no!
ho!-but I'm not advertising myself
as a funny a I'm selling wind
mills, l am, and I'm leaving the comic
business to those who can tell an edi-
tor from a farmer when he happens to
strike an icy spot"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-19

recognizes no proprietary interests
when his stomach yearns. l used to try
to protect my fowls and bacon with
bear-trapS and alarm bells and pad
locks, but the darkeys always beat me
in the end. If they couldn't get into
the meat-house by door or window
they'd cut a hole through the roof or
tunnel under the foundations. Up to
about ten years ago one had to sit up
nights with a shotgun across his knees
to guard his fowls, and he might get
up any morning to find 200 pounds Of
bacon missing or the store house robbed
of meal or flour. The colored, man was
frightened of electricity from the start.
There is something of the supernatural
in it to him. You can't get n in a
hundred to talk through a telephone,
and they lever ride IN a trolley car
without being prepared for a calamity.
In my district, when we came to know
how the colOred man regarded the I'M
seen force, each planter set about TAX
ing advantage of it for the protection
of his chattels. We passed hand-bat-
teries around and gave exhibitions, and
after a maraud:ng darkey had received
a shock to loosen his teeth he was
ready to listen and to believe. My
meat house is to-day surrounded by two
lines of wires. So with my h%en-coop,
and store house. They are as safe as if
guarded by a half troop of cavalry
By running a single line of wire around
my melon patch | can keep all providers
out. If it was known that a wire ran
through my peach orchard you couldn't
get a darkey over the fence. The idea
is that the electric current is lying in
ambush, and that it's mission is to
knock out providers. We foster the idea,
of course, and it has brought a happy
relief and a great financial saving.
There are some queer happenings in
connection, as you may suppose. The
colored women refuse to use wire
clotheslines for fear of shocks, and you
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-19
KILLING A CAREER.

"If things had gone right with me in
other days." said the fat man, who had
been making everybody laugh with his
stories, Il would probably have become
a second Mark Twain, a noted circus
clown or a humOrist-lecturer. All my
friends said l had it in me, and pre-
dicted great results. 1t was a member
of Congress who got me a reportorial
situation on a Chicago paper, and I
soon found out that great things were
expected of me in the way of humor.
l had been on the staff a couple of
weeks, and the only members of it |
had seer were two other reporters and
the city editor. l had got off two or
three good things and was looking for
others, when happened to be close be-
hind an old chap who took a tumble on
an icy corner. In the first place, no
one can see a fellow man sit down all
of a sudden without seeing some fun
in it, and in the next this old chap
made such a fuss over it that | should
have roared if he had broken his neck.
He was bow-legged and lop-shoulder-
ed, and wore a rusty hat, and in writ
ing up the accident, | worked it all in
as a matter of course. l made half a
column of this incident, and when the
city editor read my copy he laughed
till the tears came. He patted me on
the back till I was sure of a raise of
salary the next week, and l went home
that night stepping high. Who do you
think was waiting for me when l got
down next day? The old chap who
had taken the tumble. He was not
only the old chap Of the tumble, but
the editor and proprietor of the paper,
and though l had used no name in the
| article I had described him so well that
everybody could identify him. Was
there a scene? Was there a cyclone?
Did an earthquake occur? Yes, things
happened. That old chap not only wal
Hoped me with his tongue, but he broke
a cane over my back and gave me the
boot at the head Of the stairs, and peo-
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-19

and the house caught fire and burned
down. At the age of six months my
mother pricked her hand with a pin
while dressing me and died OF blood
poison. When l was a year old l fell
into a tub of hot water and was under
the doctors care for weeks. AT the age
of two I set a neighbours barn on fire
while playing with matches, and L
wasn't yet three when I cut W fingers
off a sisters hand with a Ratchet. The
many unlucky things which happened
me up to my twelfth year would make
a record a foot long. By hat time
every child avoided me. Any boy VINO
stuck to me for a week was sure to cut
his foot on a bottle, fall off a shed or
tumble into the river. At the OF
twelve I was sent off to an uncle in the
country. The very first day of my ar
rival I found an old horse pistol which
he had flung down in the garrett ten
years before. I held it out OF the Win
dow and snapped it perhaps a hundred
times. One more snap and it went off.
The big bullet il it not only killed a
horse in the yard below, but the weapon
was shattered and my hand was so bad
ly injured that | had no use for it for
several months.
"a boy is always privileged to throw
stones at a bluejay, isn't he, especially
when he is out in the country? That
hand of mine had just got well, when
l threw a rock at a bluejay looking at
me from the limb of a cherry tree. How
was I to know that there was an old
farmer up in that tree after cherries?
I didn't come within five feet of hitting
the bird, but the stone put out the old
mans eye, and of course everybody for
five miles around was down on me.
They were yet saying ! ought to be
locked up as a dangerous character
when the roof of a shed tumbled down
under my weight and / had two ribs
broken. My Uncle George was not up
on Jonah, or he'd have bundled me out
neck and heels. He let me hang on,
and a few weeks after my ribs had
mended / left the barn door unlocked
and a thief came along and rode off on
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-19
DOAN'S KIDNEY PILLS.
Condition VS.. Theory.

You have a bad back.
1t bcthers you nearly all the time;
Days of misery and nights OF restless tossing.
The back is lame, is weak or aching.
That's the condition.
There's a reason for it.
Perhaps you have a theory.
Think it may be overwork.
You take something for ''that tired feeling"
You plaster the back or rub it with liniment.
This is where you're wrong.
You are not tired, but the Kidneys are.
That's why the back aches.
Backache is Kidney ache nine times out Of ten.
Start the Kidneys working rightly.
The back will quickly right itself.
All backache pains and Kidney Ills
Are quickly cured by Doan's Kidney Pills.
We say this and back it by Wheeling testimony.