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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-12

There is glory in any little thing
you do simply from sense Of duty.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-12

and national guard who rendered their
services time and time again, but were
ignored because they were not backed
by a political boss" and yet sons Of
Harrison, Blaine and Logan held posi-
tions that should have been filled by
men long experienced and thoroughly
disciplined in army details and service.
Col. Bacon declares that mo one
should be permitted to hold the posi-
ton of general or colonel, or to serve
in any division or brigade staff in the
regular army unless he be graduate
Of the military academy or has shown
special fitness during years Of army
service and has passed a rigid exam
ination in strategy. tactics, logistics
and military engineering at least-the
foundation stones of military learn
ing"
The Venezuelan dispute with Great
Britain that during Mr.. Cleveland's adj
ministration so deeply excited the
American people has become an almost
forgotten incident. AS soon as we car
ried our point and forced the British
government to arbitrate it's difficulty
with our South American neighbor, the
affair ceased to be of interest, and yet
it is not settled, nor is our connection
with it terminated. The commission
ers have now been appointed, and they
will meet in Paris the last of May.
The English commissioners are Lord
Russell, lord chief justice of England,
and Justice Collins. Doth Of these
gentlemen are Irishmen.) The Vene-
zuelan commissioners are Chief JUS
tice Fuller and Justice Brewer of the
United States Supreme court. The fifth
member of the board Is Prof. Martaens
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-12

In giving account of a convention
of brewers, a New York paper remarks
that never before were so many MIL
lionaires gathered in one hall at one
time.1 And now If we could assemble
all the men whose beer-drinking has
made these colossal fortunes possible,
1t would be quite as significant and
certainly an uncomfortably suggestive
sight. In the saloons Of single city
of hundred thousand inhabitants,the
contributions annually taken for the
enrichment of the brewers and their
agents are estimated at three and a
half million dollars
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-12

Little things trouble US and little
things console us.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-12

While the people have understood
chat many unpleasant complications
arose from the appointment of mex
perienced men, they are not prepared
for so positive a declaration as Col.
Bacon makes when he says that there
were hundreds Of West Point gradu-
ates with wide experience in the army
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-02

5itss1 plant IA the conntfy 81 Younss
town, the same 70 b operated inde-
pendently OF ali trusts. and to control
ore mines and eventually vessel prop
erty.
While this may be but a scheme to
sell out to the trust on speculation,
It nevertheless suggests serious dam
ger to the newly organized combine
1t shows phase Of the trust ques-
ton that is likely in the end to work
its own reformation Of the trust evil.
For there is limit to an industrial
trusts power of absorption. The more
it absorbs the bigger it's capitalization
becomes and the greater its profits
must be, which in turn means higher
prices and consequently renewed in
centive to private competition.
The tottering sugar trust is an evil
dence of a monopoly that has reached
its limit. The best that concern can
do now is divide the field with its riv-
ais, whom it can neither absorb nor
crush.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-02
PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT.

WASHINGTON, March 1.-The monthly
statement of the public debt shows that
at the close of business on February Is,
1899, the debt, less cash in the treasury.
was 81 Isl, 1904, 391. an increase during the
month of $5,27S,641. This increase is ac-
counted for by a corresponding decrease
in cash. The debt is recapitulated as fol-
lows:
Interest bearing debt, $1,O40 49,, go.
Debt on which interest has ceased since
maturity, 81, 2S1670.
Debt bearing no interest, $3.50, 040, 964
Total, $1,427, 0G7,9o4.
| This amognt, however, does not include
500 52S 513 in certificates and treasury
notes offset by an equal amount of cash in
the treasury.
The cash in the treasury is recapituiated
as follows:
Gold, 1854, O91, 476
Silver. $507, 532, SS7.
Paper, so, 936 4S6.
Bonds, deposits in national bank depos-
itories, disbursing officers balances, etc,
$S5, 791, 100
Total, sos, $50 971, against which there are
demand liabilities outstanding amounting
to 1855, pa. 45S. leaving a net cash balance
of 1853 1O3, 51S.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-02

pendent press of the country for
knocking the Alger junket in the head.
The publicity given that infamous
scheme to plumber the treasury to give
Alger and a few of his chums a royal
outing at government expense is solely
responsible for its defeat and abandon
ment. Alger probably never would
have given up, but the more sensible
among his invited guests declined to
accompany him, plainly giving their
reasons. 1t is pity that publicity
cannot as easily dispose of Alger, him
self.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-02
SUNDAY REGISTER CITY AGENTS.

The Sunday Register is on sale at the
following named Drug Stores and News
Stands in Wheeling and vicinity
EBERLING'S DRUG STORE, No. 2l35
Market street.
MENKEMELLER's DRUG STORE. cor.
Twenty-second and Market streets.
IRWIN'S DRUG STORE, cor. Twenty
fourth and Chapline streets.
COLEMAN'S DRUG STORE, cor Twenty
fifth and Chapline streets.
YAHN'S CIGAR STORE, cor. Twenty
sixth and ChApline streets.
HANDLANS DRUG STORE, cor. Twenty
seventh and Chapine streets.
STUARTS DRUG STORE, cor. Thirty
sixth and Jacob streets.
Ankles CONFECTIONERY, No. S613
Jacob street
COATES NEWS DEPOT, No. S543 Jacob
street.
ARMBRECHT'S DRUG STORE, NO. SSll
Jacob street
McELRoY's DRUG STORE, No. BAG
Jacob street.
EHRLE'S DRUG STORE. No. 4315 Jacob
street.
ST. GLARS DRUG STORE, cor. Forty
seventh and Jacob streets
LANTRY BROS OLD STAND, No. 4421
Jacob street.
HAGUE'S DRUG STORE, No. III Six
teenth street
EXLEY BROS DRUG STORE, cor. Zane
and Penn streets.
BURTS DRUG STORE, cor. Virginia and
South Penn Ireets.
FREESE'S NEWS STAND, No. 15161z
Market street.
QUIMBY'S NEWS STA d, No. 1414 Mar
ket street.
GAUSS DRUG STORE, cor. Zane and
North York streets.
OSWALD SCHICK, Bridgeport, Ohio.
HOTEL WINDSOR NEWS STAND
McLURE HOUSE NEWS STAND
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-02
THE ISSUE CLEAR CUT.

The Democratic minority of the
House has properly defined the Demo-
cratic position in opposition to the
colonial or imperial policy of the ad
ministration by the adoption of reso-
lutions declaring "that the United
States hereby disclaim any disposition
or intention to exercise permanent SOW
ereignity, jurisdiction or control over
the Philippine Islands, and assert their
determination when an Independent
government shall have been erected
therein to transfer to said government
upon terms that shall be reasonable
and just, all rights secured under the
cession by Spain, and thereupon to
leave the government and control OF
the islands to their people,
1t speaks we'll for Democratic har-
mony that the resolutions were adopt
ed with practical unanimity. The fact
that Gen. Joe Wheeler opposed them
amounts to nothing. Gen. Wheeler
stands alone and is respected more as
a gallant fghter' than as statesman.
This Democratic pronouncement de-
fines the issue sharply. The resolution
takes ground exactly opposite to that
occupied by the imperialists of Wall
street, who control the policy OF the
administration 1t is not the purpose
of these ever to give up an inch OF
the Philippines or to permit their peo-
pie to have a government of their own
or ever to be anything but hewers OF
wood and drawers of water to Amer
lean capitalistic greed under protec-
ton of carpet-bag administrations ap-
pointed from Washington.
The Democratic resolution is, how
ever, in perfect accord with the SOL
emn declaration of President McKin-
ley ten monthe ago, as to our purpose
in going to war, when he declared that
'forcible annexation" such as he is
now engaged in promoting in the
Philippines, would be CRIMINAL
AGGRESSION"
On this issue, the Democracy is we'll
content to stand before the American
people.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-02
STILL WARNING ON sCHLEY.

The administration naval clique at
Washington has not yet stopped it's
secret prosecuting of gallant Admiral
Schley. Not content with placing an
unworthy subordinate over his head
at the beginning, nor with officially
robbing him of the credit of the de-
struction of Cervera's fleet, not con-
tent with falsely accusing him of
dereliction of duty-a charge con-
clusively proven false by the discov-
cry of orders which Sampson had de-
hberately suppressed-not content
with plundering Schley of his hard
earned laurels and giving them to
Sampson, the bureau pet, the admin
istration clique are now engaged in
further humiliating Schley, it is said,
by refusing to place him on active
duty. He is now on shore leave and
despite his repeated requests to the
department to be placed in active SER
vice, he is likely to stay on shore for
OH l1IuS, lOI 10 ut6u WudI-
ever is paid to his urgent requests
for service.
The department has not the excuse
that it has nothing for him to do, for
the navy is especially active at this
time, and there is work for more
commanders than the navy has on it's
list; especially has it plenty of use for
so capable an officer as Schley.
The Navy Department seems to be
daubed over with the same stick that
tarred the War Department. Hitherto
Secretary Long has managed to keep
his personal skirts clear by turning
the conduct of the Office over to
practical naval officers; and despite
the plumbers of the strategy board"
during the war he succeeded in pre-
serving his reputation free from scan
dal. But now he must come from I'M
der cover and shoulder the RESPONSE
bility for the departments treatment
of Schley. And if he doesn't wish to
make a place for himself in the public
estimation along with Alger, he will
speedily stop the official persecution
of that worthy and gallant officer.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-02
TuE LIMOGES ORIGINATED.

German craftsmanship has made the
best possible answer to the efforts OF
the limoges of this country to bolster
I'D the imperial policy by making a
scarecrow of Germany with which to
alarm or anger the American people
into endorsing a fierce and rabld for
eign policy. By simply withdraw
ing her warships altogether from
Philippine waters and turning over all
her property interests to the care of
the United States, German statesman
shin executes a master stroke at the
expense of the jingoes. Not only is
the lie thus given most emphatically
and conclusively to all the persistent
and insinuating jingo falsehoods but
the total BE- den OF protecting the
property of German citizens in Manila
is placed on the United States, which,
it is believed, are also thus made
liable for damages that may happen
to said property through lack OF
proper protection.
The falsehoods of the scheming
jingoes regarding friction with the
Germans at Manila had been repeated
ly and solemnly denied by the German
government, but it had absolutely no
effect in silencing the pernicious
efforts to create bad feeling between
this country and Germany in the in
terests of the lingo policy.
The German coup, however, has
effectually checkmated this game, and
sane Americans applaud the move.
Aside from slight friction over the in
spection of American meat products
before entering Germany we have no
quarrel with that country and We GER
tainly wish none.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-02
NOUN WILLIE.

Mrs. G. e. Jackson was visitor to
Wheeling yesterday.
Edward Lemon, OF McMechen. was
in the city yesterday.
Miss Roxie Hammond was visitor
to Wheeling yesterday.
j. A Ewing left yesterday on bus
mess trip to Parkersburg.
DR.. J. w. Mcdonald, of Benwood,
was in the city yesterday.
d. r. Meighen, of Littleton. was an
arrival in the city last evening.
Ezekiah Keller, Of McMechen, was a
visitor in the city yesterday.
F. P. Mcneil, a well known Wheel
ing attorney, was in the city yester-
day.
Lutte McCarriher, formerly of this
city, but now living in Colorado. is
here visiting relatives.
w. P. Robinson, the well known
Wheeling attorney, was in the city on
legal business yesterday.
Marshal T. ]. Steele goes to Wheel
ing this morning to collect taxes on
considerable property there.
Stewart & Bruner are shipping quite
a large amount of old oil well casing
from this city to the Scio field.
The Baltimore & Ohio water tank
at the foot Of Seventh street will be
completed some time Saturday.
Postmaster Linch and William Tay-
lor left at midnight last night on
business trip to Washington, D. c.
The Knights of Pythias have an i'm
portant meeting this evening and all
members are requested to be present.
Yesterday was pension examining
day, and the members of the board
were in session the biggest part OF
the day.
The Wheeling Bakery Company now
have a regular delivery wagon in this
city. This new departure was started
this week.
Miss Adelaide Brocroft has accepted
a position as decorator with the
Warwick pottery, of Wheeling, and
has entered upon her duties.
The stockholders of the Belmont
Manufacturing Company have another
meeting to-day, when the organization
will be completed for this year.
Uncle Josh Spruceby, at the Opera
House Tuesday night, should draw
big crowd. The show this year has
two brass bands and mammoth
street parade is given.
A special session of the county court
will be held tomorrow for the pur-
pose of arranging for the payment OF
the new bridge which is being con-
structed near the Fair grounds.
Riggs and Kull took their well
driller to Glendale yesterday, but be-
fore the place was reached the outnt
got stuck in the mud and it was sew
eral hours before it was eXtricated.
Will Porterield, Jr., who has been
i'll at Haskins' hospital, at Wheeling,
for several days past, is reported
great deal better, and will soon be
able to return to his work at the b.
& o.
The membership OF the new lodge
of Modern Woodmen, of this city, now
numbers about 35. The order is grow
ing rapidly and it the next meeting
several new candidates will be initi
ated.
The new bridge which is being con-
structed over Middle Grave Creek, near
the Fair grounds, will be completed
some time tomorrow. The bridge
is one of the best built in the county
and there is no doubt but what it will
give excellent satisfaction in the place
it is located.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-02
fre hc1 he best * ~ cleaners
worth much to the city's health.

Pittsburg Is to have trust In filtered
water. The syndicated altering COM
panies expect to sufficiently control
the supply to compel the city to buy
them out at fancy prices in carrying
out the general municipal scheme of
filtration.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-02
Low Rates to Chicago

The Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling
Railway will make low rates to Chi
cago and return March 9Th and 7tb
Three trains daily Except Sunday
The quickest route. For tickets, sleep-
ing car reservations and full particu-
lars. apply to City Ticket Office, corner
Twelfth and Market streets.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-02

Gov. Atkinson's reason for vetolng
the bill taxing express companies is
that other similar corporations are not
so taxed. There is a species of justice
in this: but if that reason were gen.
orally recognized as good and sufficient,
if every fellow was allowed to escape
taxation because his neighbor wasn't
also taxed we would have a mighty
hard time getting funds to run the
government.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-02

Having in Difference to public de-
mand summoned enlisted men to tell
what they know of Ayers "embalmed
beef" the court of inquiry is learning
4 few truths.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-02
THIRTY-S SEVENTH BALLOT.

Harrisburg, Pa. March 1.-Thirty-
seventh ballot for Senator: Quay 105,
jerks so, Dalzell IS, Stewart s, Huff Z,
Widener 2, Markle /, Irwin 4. Stone f.,
Tubbs l, Rice 2, Smith l, Grow 1, Rit-
Ter 3
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-02

The Last Trust has been organized
It's the Last Trust only in name, how
ever. There are others.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-02
TRUST COMPETITION.

News than contains a menace to the
steel trust is the report that company
with $20,000.000 capital has been or
ganized to build and equip the largest
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-02

It is quite a delightful sensation to
see the brick-pavements once more.
A good flushing Of the streets with the
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-02
DIED..

COOK-Wednesday March list. 1899, at
9:45 o'clock p. m, Annie M, wife of Ed
ward Cook, and daughter of William and
Ann Morgan, in the 32d year of her age.
Funeral notice hereafter.
(Pittsburg papers please copy)
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-02

Evaporated Sweet Corn for Sale at Red
eker Bros. Friday and Saturday by w m. Ii
Cooke Circle Kings Daughters.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-02
Farming Lands in Virginia

Are good and cheap. immigration is
moving Southwark. Have you investi-
gated our State?
Whether manufacturer or farmer il
will pay you to come and look around.
Write for Peaceful Scenes or for
"a Home for Farmers"
All information gladly given.
PAUL SCHERER.
Agt. L. & l. Z. & W. Ry., Roanoke, Va.
ALLEN YULL.
Div. Pass. Agt. n. & W. Ry., Columbus,
Ohio.
W. B. BEVILL,
Gen'l Pass. Agt., Roanoke, Va
b q o. Mid. Winter to Excursion Washing
ton, ID. C., and Baltimore.
Thursday, March I'd. Round trip
SO. Tickets good ten days
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-02
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

FOR sRENT-No. 81 Virginia St, island,
seven-roomed house with all modern i'm
Rent reasonable fe5e&dh
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-07-10
THE WoOD-rHRUsH AT EVE.

At the woodbridge, what time the sun
sank low,
We fingered speechless, being loath
to leave
The cool, the calm, the quiet touch
of eve,
And all the glamor of the afterglow
We watched the purple shadows
lengthen slow,
Saw the swift swallows through the
clear air cleave,
And the bats begin their hayward
fight to weave,
Then rose reluctantly, and turned to
go.
But, ere we won beyond the warder
trees,
From out the dim deep copse that
hid the swale
Welled of a sudden fute-like har-
monies
Flooding the twilight, scale on silvery
scale,
AS though we heard, far Ger the sun
dering seas,
The pain and passion of the night
ingale.
Clinton Scotland, in Atlantic
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-07-10
MORMONS IN GEORGIA.

Oconee county is being canvassed
just now by number Of Mormon ell
ders, but they appear to be receiving
but cold comfort Two of them went
the other day to the home of citizen
of Oconee to get dinner. That citizen
told them they could get dinner, but
they would have to pay for it. They
said they never paid for what they ate,
as the Lord provided that. The Oconee
county citizen told them to go along,
then, and let the Lord furnish them
dinner. These elders told the country
man that they intended making Oconee
county the headquarters of Mormon
ism in Georgia. They intended build
ing a church somewhere in that county
that will accommodate 1000 people.
They expect to bring large numbers OF
elders to Oconee county and to do their
work in Georgia with a rush. They
have set their hearts on making
Georgia a Mormon state. They say
that they now have one man in con-
gress and that some day they will gain
control there and will then punish all
their manifestations (Ga.) Banner.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-07-10

would know I was taking a fearful
risk, young woman"
Il don't care what you would say to
your wife, sir. think you are the
most impudent Old
Il beg your pardon, miss, but you
are riding pigeon-toed again.
"Will you please go on ahead sir?"
Il would like to oblige you, miss,
but this is about as fast as I can ride
I'm no scorcher. However, this is
where I turn off. I wish you good
afternoon, Miss Never-m1nd. have
enjoyed our little conversation very
much"
He lifted his hat, turned down side
street, and rode away with his head
UP.
But as he turned to glance at her,
before she passed entirely out of sight,
he saw that she was not riding pigeon
toes.-Chicago Tribune.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-07-10
HAvANA's CHASTITY BONE-YARD

Away Off in far corner of the I'M
used part of the cemetery was an in
closure about seventy-five feet square
and fifty feet Deep with CHASTITY skulls
and bones in all conditions of preser-
walton, and piles of burial cases of all
degrees, from costly casket down to
a cracker-box or an oil-can. This is
the inhuman manner of disposing of
the bodies buried in a plot upon which
the rental is now renewed every three
years. There is ample room that is
unused, so it is not the lack of space
that causes the disturbing of the rest
Of the dead; it must be merely for
gain for the cemetery corporation.
In many cases the bodies of the poor
are never buried at all, but at one side
of the cemetery is a building, called
the "Deadhouse," in which arrange
ments are made for burning the bod
les with lime until there is nothing
left but the bones, which are then
thrown into this pit Thousands upon
thousands were here in pile that was
fully, forty feet deep and as large as
the area of the pit.-From Havana
Since the Occupation, by j. F. J. Arch
ibald in Scribner's.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-07-10
A RATrLESNAKE EATER.

Moses Henderson is sable son of
Africa and lives two miles from Amer
icus in rocky field. Moses makes
a living by capturing snakes and SELL
ing them. Whenever he cannot sell
them he eats them. This is the truth,
as strange as it may seem. Last week
he killed a large one with eleven rat
ties on it. This was fat snake and
Moses ate it. The other day he
brought very large snake to the city,
trying to sell it's hide. There were
% rattles on it. The snake was very
poor, and Moses said it would not do
to eat, and stuffed it's hide and sold
it for a good price. Every year
Moses makes a good deal of money
selling snake oil. He says right down
the vertebrae of a rattlesnake is
fatty steak of flesh that makes an oil,
when fried, that will cure any case of
rheumatism. 1t is strange to how
many people he sells this rheumatic
snake oil. He has long list of GER
tificates from people he has cured
Some of them are from intelligent
whites, who declare that the oil has
cured when all other remedies have
failed. He sells a vial of the oil for
one dollar and guarantees a lasting
cure. Moses says his father was an
African hoodoo doctor and taught
him how to cure all aches and pains
with snake oil. The negroes of Sum-
ter county venerate and fear him as a
mysterious doctor who can cure when
all else fails, and look upon his snake
oil as something enchanted.-S avan-
nah News.