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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-23
FOR sALE-REAL ESTATE.
EOR SALE.

Furnished Hotel and Bar, IS rooms: doing
a good business; No. / location; all new
furniture; long lease.
Grocery Store: No. / location: splendid
business a good chance for a live man.
FOR RENT
Six rooms and bath, No 10 Zane street
rent $500 a month.
ROLF & ZANE
Tel. 565. No. 80 Fourteenth Street
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may secure a second half loaf. Be cause this is so the line begins to form as carly us ten o'clock. There tBe iII- clad wrctches stand for two mortal hours until the signal is given to move forward one by one They may be drenched by rains, or their bodies chilled by piercing winds. but there they remain until the bread is given to them
 The charity is a noble one. Chronics are there, men who are in attendance night after night, but thousands of worthy men are fed there annually
 One of these chronies, or repeaters, whom his aequaintanees call "Major,s has not missed night for three years. He is q tall, fine looking fellow utterly aYerse to work. To show the force of this habit in the man, one terribly cold night q gentleman passing the line about ten o'clock saw the Major" at the head of the procession, and reeog- nized him as one he had assisted at various times with small sums of money.
 The air was bitter and cold. He saw that the Major" was scantily clad and
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! Liahthouse on nnI1s.

Moving a lighthouse by rail is novel sight 10 which m English community has recently been treated The houseis is made ealmestentirely of steel, weighs 120 tons and had to be drawn part of the distance through water. Its removal was necessitated by the gradual en. croachments of the sea, by which the beach between Yarmouth and Har- wich is slowly disappearing So steady have these encroachments been that this is the third time the old Lowestoft Low lighthouse has had to be moved. This time 1t was placed 95o feet fur ther inland. The former foundations, together with number of cottages which surrounded the light, are mostly under water. The removal was made by local contractor. Two engines were engaged in the. work.
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Pictures 6y Carl Wernfs.

and dope-Pipes an a lot O that kind O stuff. He was tellin' me all about it when we drove out-hoW the Wolvollv- something boys used to camp along the river. l listened 10 all his talk and said: Sure thing. prof. every little while, but, 10 tell you the truth, l iHasn,tueSt al all Ieould see, though, that he was full of this Indian stuff
 Well, when we'd gone about three miles we made q short cut for the river. and goin' along one of those mud roads the prof yelled: Hold oni and pointed gb something on the other side of the rail fence, What is if. prof. ?' I saYs.
 William, do you see that moUnd?' he says, pointin' at little hump O ground with grass all over it. That looks 10 me like mound built by them Wollyoily-an' so=on boys he says, 'an' like as not if we dig into it we'll find some skeletons an strings o beads, he says. l didn't think we Would-not me, for a minute-but I don't pertend to stucltup my bunch O brains against the prof, so l said nothin an got the spade out from the back O the buggy.
 We crauled over the rail fence, an. say, prof. was as ticlled as a kid at circus. He stood an, sized up this mound an says to himself Wonder ful! Wonderful just like that Then he stood mp on top of it. an he says: William, the Indians used 10 bury their chiefs in these mounds. Who knows but we'll find chief here?' says: All right, prof. here goes for q chief, and l begin to dig, see2 I'd got purity fair sized hole on top when the spade struck somethin hard. We'll, prof. I've landed on somethin,' l says, but 1t don't feel
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Y1 NY night, except Saturday, and in A\ every weekofthe4 4ear-inrain or ~ A snow inheator cold, may be seen just across the street from John Wan amaler,s palatiaI store on Tenth, and winding around on Broadway, on by Grace church, the vorsbiping place of the ultra fashionables of New York city, may be seen q motley aggregation of men standing in single file.
 The crowd varies somewhat with the seasons and the weather; say from 25d 10 400 persons. They are met to re eeise a dole of bread-one-half loaf each, and, besides, in cold weather, q cup of black coffee Many years ago one Fleischmann. a wealthy baker iu- stituted this charity, and before his death directed in his will that it should be maintained in perpetuity.
 Distribution hour is precisely at mid night. But as long as any bread re- mains it continues to be giveD out, SO that the head of the line by falling out and marching to the rear of the line
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A FAIR DFMoNSTF ATIoN.
qbev Were Satisfied the Thing Could Be Done, But by Some
 One Else.

Mark Twain and his friend, Rev. Joseph H TwitchelI. once planned bicycle rida from Hartford, Conn. (their home), D Boston. and wrote beforehand to an ae- auaintance in the latter city, telling hln their line of route and what time he might expect to see them arrive. The appointed time was an ideal one for long run, a4l the two friends started quite early in tae morning. But neither ot them was aeeus- toned to long rides, so after F or b miles had been ridden, it became apparent that each of the riders was waiting fer the ota- CT to say something. Finally Twain said, as thev came in sight of the railway station in 3 small town they had entered: Let's take the train the rest of the way.
 Of course Mir. TWitchell agreed, and so the acquaintance in Boston was suTprise1 by seeing the two friends walk up to hIs door about one clock in the afternoon. F had not expected them till evening" but he greeted them warmly. and addressing Mir. Twitehen, said: Well, you made pretty good time, didn't youz2
 "Oh, fairly good time for noviees," WaI
 What time did you leave Hartford?2 he asked of Mr. Clemens.
 About seven q. m.
 "What, you don't mean to say that you have ridden all the way from Hartford 70 Boston on your bieyclesi
 Ne replied Mark Twain. "but we role far enough to demonstrate that 1t could De done Detroit Free Press
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ment. All were discharged, and since that time the unfortunates have gath cred there without fear of molestation.
 Father Drumgoole's orphanage, a Catholic institution at the corner of Fourth street and La Fayette place, gives all applicants breakfast of bread and coffee at eight o'clock each morn ing from October 1 until Easter day, closing with a plentiful supply of eggs.
 4 Baptist church on Twenty-tirst street gives out each Sunday night an
 unstiuted amount of bread and coffee. A mission on the Bowery deals big sandwiches and bowls of coffee to all corners Thursday night and Sunday morning. A Catholic orphanage on
 Eighth, near Avenue A, breakfasts ap- plicants each morning on coffee and rolls. Amy number of the missions takes in unfortunates, giving them
 lodging as well as food until they get upon their feet But the latter charity is somewhat misdirected, as q condi- ton precedent to relief is that the in-
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.PrafanesIIenee

A story is going the rounds of golf match between Rev Dr. Sterfet and Justice H8v- Ian of the United States supreme court. TIe incident occurred at Chevy Chase Gaf club, one of the prominent organizations near Washington, during meeting be- tWen these two ardent golfers. The does5r discovered that his ball teed up in tempt 2 style for fine 9fassie shot and. with tae the preliminary *Waggics, and with a zi- preme etf5rt-mssed tHe ba5 For fully a minute he cazed at the tantaIiziag sphere without uttering a word Al length Jus lice Harlan remarked soemHIy: Doctor that was the most protane silence l ever listened to.-Pittgbufgh Dispatch.
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ployer, he said: "Who. the prof? Say, he's q plate of cream. never saw his heat. He's good fellow all right, but he's put in so much time readin' them big books an pipin' grasshoppers through them telescopes that he don't know more'n half the time whether he's asleep or awake. He's all right at that. Pm goin to get twenty a month an found, with a dinky bedroom back over the kitchen, and, saY, it looks soft to me. It's snap that's whatitis."
 So Billy went to live at the home of Prof. Todd, and, strange Us it may seem. asort of attachment sprung mp betNeen the tough boy and the lamb-like schol- ar Billy, with characteristic impu- dence, soon began to address his em- ployer as prof, and the professor, in accordance with the strict rules of eti- quette and formality which had gov boy as "William."
 Like many men of large, intellectual attainments the professor was helpless in the conduct of small and practical affairs. He could not milk a CON or har- ness a horse, and if he had gone into d garden to hoe weeds out of the corn he would have fallen into reverie con corning the law of natural selection in biology, and would have hood down all the corn and left the weeds standing.
 Billy became the practical head of the family within week after he had moved into the "dinky" bedroom over the kitchen. The horse and the COW and the family dog became his obedient slaves. No doubt the professor. realiz- ing his own weakness and inefficiency as tanner of animals, looked upon William" as really superior person and secretly envied him.
 The professor made occasional trips through the surrounding country in search of specimens" of various kinds, and Billy always accompanied him to drive the horse, open gates and remem- Der the way back home. After one of their expeditions Billy came down to the store in the evening and told the following story of their adventures;
 'Well, sir, you ought to been with me and the prof to-day" he began. If we didn have time for your whiskers, I don't want q sou markee. You see, prof. has been readin lot of books here lately about how the Indians used to be all over this part Q the country, an he got it into his nut that mebbe we could go out an scare up a few graves where they'd planted lot O these Indians with their tommyhawks
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ral science at the ladies. seminary,
 He needed man of all work around his place-some one to make garden, milk the COW, take care of the horse and mow the lawh, and for some reason or other he selected Billy Fogarty, the toughest boy in town. We called him q boy, but he was big enough and strong enough 10 tbresh an ordinary railway brakeman and he had already rubbed mp against the world sufficiently to acquire a stock of the most expres- siye and Up to date slang lie WIS tough" in the sense that he murdered the kings English when he talked and was hungry for a scrap" at all times, but there was nothing vicious in his makeup and usually his soul seemed to be peWaded with baoyapt good nature.
 After the first interview the professor grayely expressed the opinion that Billy was "a rather remarkable young man with certain pecularities of speech. but evidently a person of some enterprise and ability.'
 As for Billy, when some one asked him what he thought of his new em-
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CUBAN CONCEPT.
Jhe People Fancy Themselves su- perior to Any Other Race
 on Earth.


 Francis H. Nichols is the author of a capital article on Cuban Gharacter.p He was with the insurgents during the hopeless contest against Spain and he has no illusions. Mistrust he has found to be one of the cardinal points in their character. They mistrust the man who has their best interest at heart and gives his life for them as much as they do a foreign tyfant.s This mis- trust is the basis for all the strange contradictions and inconsistencies in the Cuban character. It is the reason why Gnbans invariably impugn one another's motives.
 They are intensely imaginative and romantic, and the absence of a religious sentiment is supplied by an idolatrous worship of their country, which goes 10 in point of fanatieism. If results. in the Cubans minds, in an absurdly ex- aggerated idea of the importance and power of their country. 'Politically the Cubans are insanelY coneeited Many of them sincerely believe that the war would have ended just as quickly without the slightest aid from the Americans. Although the fortunes Of the insurgents were never in the en- fire course of the war at so low an ebb as when the war was declared between Spain and the United States, it was al- most impossible to make any Cuban chief admit that he needed any further American assistance than q few rifles and cartridges"
 Lots of them arc perfectly confident that in the not distant future Cuba will he the ruling power of the western hem sphere. They say that Cuba is more productive island than England. which rules q large part of the earth's sur face; that the mere fact that the United States is larger than Cuba does not make her greater, and that they ex- pect to see the day when all America will recognize Cuba superiority.
 This national conceit is at the root of the national ingratitude. for the Cu- bans are one of the most ungrateful peoples on earth Whatever American military government does for the
 provement of the island in the way .. better sanitary conditions. better tar if or telegraphs, the Cuban accepts as his natural right He is even some times inclined to speak q bit patron izingly of ns as stupid blunderers, who mean we'll, but whose intelligence is far below the Cuban standard. From motives of policy and politeness Cuban assemblies and politicians often make , great show of publicly thanking American officials for their work in their behalf. but everyone who knows the Cuban people knows that. down in the bottom of their hearts, there is no real gratitude; only hope that Amer jeans will soon receive enough thanks ta leave them forever. Outlook.
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like chief. He was on his hands and knees. lookin into the hole. all excited, you know. ] seraped away the dirt, an there was a board. The prof. couldn't get wise to that board lie said he'd never heard of Indians buryin' anybody in bcXes. We'll, while I was diggin' around so as to get good opening 10 break into this box We heard somebody yell. an up comes d farmer, hghtfn' mad an yellin' at Us to get off of his place.
 NOW, what do you think? Say. this'H kin youi What do you think we'd been diggin' into? Wy, one O these caves where the farmers keep their milk am butter. You see, they build kind of box in the side of U bill an cover it over with dirt an sod. There was little door 10 get into it. but that was around on the other side. and we didn't see it till the farmer showed it to us. Oh. but he was red headed! He wanted Us to pay two dol- lars damages to his old milkheuse. [ was for fightin', but the prof. wouldn't have it. He apologized and tried to square it, an finally the farmer took a dollar n a half and we come away. An We come right home, too. No more huGtin' for Indian graves for us!"
 TOIJN IT 4vtsT F,f~S4
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BLIND MANS GUIDE POSTS.
the Busy streets of Big city.

There is Il blind man living iu the heart of the old quarter who walks uearly every day to little restaurant near Canal street The distance each way is from 16 to 20 blocks according to his route, and to see him sauntering earelessly along one would never sus~ pect his intirmitS
 Talking with an ineuisitive reporter, he declared that he saw with his nose and feet. and this was the way he eN- plained it: When man has his sight, he said, the smells of the street are all mixed mp, but when he's blind he learns to separate them. The smells of the shops ure almost as plain fo me now as the signs used to be over the doors Some of them you would hardly suppose to exist Take dry goods store. for instance, if smells Of cloth. and cloth has a very peculiar odor. Iron and lin have smells of their own. and | can tell q hardware store immediately. l pass two book stalls nearly every day. and 1 scent them yards off by the old books. Then there are great many iudescribable Odors hN Wtfch I kao@ lBAS P1aEt dAd 'l1t- 0f course, my feet are my principal guide. and I've been over the same ground SC often that l have learned every little inequality by heart. but couldn't get along with either nose or feet alone. They work together, and where one fails the other helps out. Between them they make very good eyes, The secret of my stepping out is this: I've learned how 10 stop, Peo- pie who can see hurl themselves for ward like locomotives. That's why the shock is always so unexpectedly Nio- lent when you collide with another per sou. l put no extra power whatever in my movements, and if the toe of my boot touches some unknown obstacle l stop stock still instantly
 This clever blind man leads very t1ana}lil life He has a small income, and lives with granddaughter. servant is hired especially to read to him every afternoon. Many ef them who know him are unaware of his blind ness.-N. 0. Times-Democrat
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dividuat shall go forward to be prayed for9 and that he shall profess con1er- sion This leads in some cases to Ge- ception.
 The city. as we'll as many institutions of q private nature, has lodging house, in which supper, a bath, bed and break fast are served, the recipient paying for it in an hour or two's light work in the morning.
 New York city is the paradise of the i unemployed, and, as a result. there are more idle men there than in any other municipality upon the face of the earth
 The rich of the city are vastly chari- table, giving many millions annually in Iargesses to the poor. Miss Helen Gould ana Cornelius Vanderbilt are notably generous, their donations run ming into hundreds of thousands of i dollars every year. It is estimated that Miss Gould includes in her list as many as 300 local charities; not one of which is neglected by her.
 That these benevolent people are i'm 1 posed upon gfievoasly, none know bet ter than themselves. Yet this does not appear to discourage them in the mat ter of giving. They understand that imposters are found everywhere and that there are worthy as well us un- worthy poor
 The Bower5 is the home of the lat ter This thoroughfare, about one mile in length, is lined on each side with lodging houses of the cheaper and cheapest kind. It is a conservative es- innate 10 place the number of male lodgers (adult) at 5000 Fully 800 of these are mendicants, pure and simple. These know all of the public and pri- yate charities and rely upon them in 1 large measure for food and raiment. In addition they pride themselves upon their skill in "panhandIing. A pan handler is one who has become ex- pert in petty begging for money, pro vision and clothing. These must be very adroit, as the law is strict against mendicaney and is vigorously enforced by the police. One is impressed with the fact that there are so few female beg9ars in New York. This may be explained in the vigilance of the po- lice.
 The male beggars usually hunt in pairs, one keeping guard, the other so- lieiting aims. Without exception they are filthy, ragged and vermin-infested. What they receive in money goes in- yariably to the dramshops. It is surprising how much ready money these individual beggars re- eeiYe in uickels and dimes. It is the boast of many of them that they would become independent if only they might remain sober.
 These Bowery miserables by no means constitute all the unworthy mendieants of the great city. They have haunts here, there and every wherein New York, Brooklyn and the proXimate towns of New Jersey.
 Yet the army of the worthy destitute is far greater. Here is found in magni- fled proportions verifcation of the say ing of the Christ: "The poor ye have with yon always" Itis gratifying tha; the rich do give and that persistent ef. fort is made to succor those in distress, and with e-sn gratifying results. WILLIAM RossER CoBBE
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Ahout raper Hangers.

Wall paper does not hang, and vet the person whose business if is to paste t up is called a paper hanger. The req son is simple. Long before the intro auction of wall papers, Arras, town 'n France. was famous for is tapestries. called "AlTas" These were nsed as wall coverings, and the men who were employed 10 put them mp were called hangers When paper succeeded tap ssfry as mural decoration, the name
 hangersN stuck to the men though in- aasa9 of being tapestry hangers they were now paper hangers Chicago Evening News.
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before him.
 Come with me, Major" he said, and l will pay for your supper3 lodging and breakfast"
 The Major shook his hand negatively.
 Boss" he answered, I'd be mighty glad of the money, but if l went with you I'd break my luck. I've not missed night for three years. and it's te late for me to begin now
 Yet he knew he had no lodging place and must walk the streets. Still he positively declined the offer and re- mained steadfast at his post.
 Schumann, another baker, widely known and generous, from his place on Third avenue, near Cooper Union, makes another free distribution of bread, cake and coffee at two o'clocl, every morning. \ short time ago, be- cause of protests made by neighbors against the alleged noise made by the gathered crowd. the police seized the throng and took the poor devils to the station. The local papers raised a cry against the arrests, and investigation showed that nearly every one of these men were honest, but out of employ
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Cavalry on the Wane.

Carefully collected figures show that the proportion of cavalry to other arms has been steadily diminishing for | long period. The artillery has been iG- creased, the cavalry diminished. Aus tria, Turkey and Spain are the only countries whose cavalry exceeds their artillery force.
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An Excellent Combination.

The pleasant method and beneficial effects of the we'll known remedy, SYRUP OF FIGs, manufactured by the CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP Co.,, illustrate the value of obtaining the liquid laxa- tive principles of plants known to be incidentally laxative and presenting them in the form most refreshing to the taste and acceptable to the system. It is the one perfect strengthening laxa- tive, cleansing the system effectually, dlspelling colds, headaches and levers gently yet promptly and enabling one to overcome habitual constipation per manently. Its perfect freedom from every objectionable quality and sub stance, and its acting on the kidneys, liver and bowels, without weakening or irritating them, make it the ideal laxative
 In the process of manufacturing figs are used, as they are pleasant to the taste, but the medicinal qualities of the remedy are obtained from senna and other aromatic plants, by a method known to the CALIFORNIA FIe SYRUP Co, only. In order to get it's beneficial effects and to avoid limitations, please remember the full name of the Company printed on the front of every package. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP co.
 SAN FRANCISCO. CAL.
 LOUISVILLE. KY. NEW YORK, N TOT sale by all Druggists-Price soc, per bottle.
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ONE could ever tell why Prof Todd se- leeted Billy Prof.
 Todd 8as tlfemild- est, meekest. quiet est man m ut1r to w He was about#40 Years=of age, pale and sttl- dious, with spec taelesrof. course,
 and he was the
 professor of naffI-
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Like =4h.4 Admiral.

Mrs S5ubb-John is that yoH coming home at saeh an aneartaly hoar2
 Alr Stuhh-Yes, M=Maria: the club iai 3 little D-DeWcY toast tonight.
 Well, yeu remind me 0I Dewey.
 'IE W-What Wax. Maria =
 "A long time coming home. 2-Chieago Evening News.
 There Now -Sbe[eIf I were to die Y8u would never get another wife Ike me He-"Nh hat makes yoR think I'd eyer want another like you"'-W asp. "righds" that they forget the rights of others.-AtchisoH Globe.