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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-15
AN oYsrGs AGE.

He who wishes may find out the ex-
act age Of an oyster, though he has
not the telltale evidence in teeth. The
lines in the groovt OF the hinge OF
the shell tell the wlo story, each line
representing a yeat An oyster Is Of
age at four years1 that Is, he is old
enough TO vote, tai Ike care of family
and go TO MARKET Going to marked
is a disastrous undertaking. for a four
year-old oyster IL particularly pal
atable. BY this it must not be suppose
ed that after an oyster has passed u
fonr-layer period and has five. six
even ten wrinkles he is back rin1
Indeed, there are records OF
being eaten just after celebTatin.
thirtieth birthday, and in mo
they formed a delicate meal
is an unusual age for an oyj
tain. because few are given
tunity TO live so long. II
life in his own way, 1t Is az
that the oyster would becq
genarian or even centenar
Captain Cochrane on his ns1l
Fulton Market, brought in an
found on his beds that Is bell
be at least thirty-five years old
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-15
y PAWNBROkER'S I
Although Needed by the Public He Is Grieyiousy
Abused by Thankless Beneficiaries.

L was just reading very touching
article" said the pawnbroker, as he
laid his daily paper aside and rubbed
up his eyeglasses with his handker-
chief 1T is about a deserted wife
who took her wedding ring to a pawn
broker, and because he wouldn't offer
her but So for it she dashed out and
let street car run over her. The
public are given TO understand that
the pawnbroker was entirely to blame
for her death, and lots of pedestrians
will shake their fists at his door as
they pass by. 1t will not occur. to any
OF the people who read the article that
the ring may not have been worth over
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-15

sigh! 1t took two days to auction off
those lots, but they went to the last one
and for the next three months l was
signing and mailing the deeds. How
much did l realize? Don't ask me for
figures. 1t took a horse and cart to
draw the greenbacks to the bank. l
was rubbing elbows with millionaires
If | could have only been shut up in a
place like the BastiIe then-in some
underground cell where there was no
admittance,' even to keepers-it would
have been a stroke of luck for me- But
| was allowed to run loose. There were
other counties waiting to be bought up
and resold. | picked up three at a bar
gain, and | plated and named four
towns which were to have million
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-15
TOOK A HORSE AND CART TC
DRAW THE GREENBACKS."

population within ten years. l plan
ned an auction which should be attend
ed by investors from all over the world.
had the wires laid to rake in millions
of dollars, but one morning as I finish
ed my breakfast to turn to a dollar
cigar the bottom dropped out of the
boom, and by shutdown no man would
offer me S. apiece for my three coun-
ties. Lord! Lord! Sixty days more
would have given me money enough to
parallel the Union Pacific road, and
here l am wearing an overcoat which
only cost $3.50, and wondering how I
am going to scrape up the money to
pay for my next ton of COAL"
CHARLES B. LEWIS.
Copyright, 1899, by John Brisben Walker)
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-15

her heels lifted OF the floor. and IL
that young man don't hear something
drop in a day or two, then | don't
know womankind. Yesterday there
was a girl in here with watch which
she insisted had cost SIS. She knew it
had, because it wal presented to her
by her bethothed, aid he was a young
man who scorned falsehood. He had
carelessly remarked that it cost SIS.
and | had to bring put one just like it
and offer it to herIfor s15 before she
could be convin to the contrary.
She went out Of r shop with her jaw
set. and next tiiee he calls he'll prob
ably find the enPerature Of the house
away down arouh zero"
CHARLES B. LEWIS.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-15

sion idea pleaSeS me. 1t gives our line
new territory to work, and as near as
| can find out we won't run up agin a
single town where the police compel a
tramp to take a bath or saw wood for
his breakfast"
Copyright, 1883, by John Brisben Walker)
HIS EXCUSES WE'RE REASONABLE.
l was stopping over night at the
cabin of a mountaineer when a colpor-
teur came along and was taken in, and
after supper he expressed his surprise
that no place of worship had been
erected in the neighborhood. There
were about twenty families within a
distance of two miles, but neither
school house nor church.
It's jest all OWN to two or three
men," explained the settler. I've Of
fered to give the land and put in the
foundations, but every time we've got
together to, talk it over Old Jim Lee
would be on hand. He'd keep shet I'M
til we'd got things about settled, and
then he'd git up'n say:
q" I'm in fur a church, same as the
rest of yo', but befo' goin' any further,
l want it known that l kin out-jump
any darned critter in this crowd
''Yo' can't talk about a church when
q mans BLOWN around that way" said
the mountaineer. "Yo' jest have to
drop the church bizness and go out and
jump. We'd allus to do that, and be-
fo' the jumpin' was over we'd forgit
everything else. 1t would run along
for a while, and then a dozen of us
would git together agin. We'd reckon
that we'd orter build a church, and
we'd be sayin' how much we'd give,
when that critter of a Pete Wharton
would riz up and say:
"I'm in fur church, as yO' all know,
but befo' we begin work l want it set
tied that | kin lay any man in this town
on his back. I'm claimin' that | kin
out-wrassle anything what stand on
legs. and [ want to prove it
Couldn't none of us stand any such
bluff as that, yo' know, and so we'd
drap the church to go out and wrassle.
That would set things all back agin.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-15

pawnshop to buy coal and bread. You
read that he burst into tears and could
not swallow his food, but you don't
read that the pawnbroker will lose a
dollar on his advance. II wouldn't do
to let the public know that he had hui
man feelings. It's the easiest thing
in the world for one of you sketch
writer's TO find little Tommy SILVER
ing on the street because his mother
had TO pawn his overcoat, and il you
follow him home his mother will tell
you how heartless the pawnbroker was.
Do you see the little Tommy" over
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-15
NETGHBoRLY COMMENT.

Uncle Rube-I hear that city farmer
that bought 81 Browns farm TO play with
braggin' that his taters cost him a quar-
ter apiece to raise.
Uncle JosEl-Aint it funny how man
kin be proud of bein' a dern ool?-India-
napolis Journal.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-15
HOW LOUD IS SOUND?

There is no such thing as silence.
What men call silence includes all
noises below the limit at which the
human ear will register sound; but
silence is really full Of sounds that
pass unnoticed This interesting fact
has just been revealed by an instru-
ment invented by Prof. A. G.. Webster
of Clark University, to photograph
sound The device can photograph any
sound from the roar of an explosion to
the noise Pade tN2 hiEht OF air
passing through ROOF
The machine consi set of
movable mirrors and % hitch act
in conjunction with I'M. The
slightest sound will this dia-
phragm to vibrate. On f6e inner side
of the diaphragm is a. sacheA a very
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1899-09-08

Western farmlands. Several me
teors will fall to earth this month
and brilliant fash lights will as~
tonish all those who behold
them. The electrical displays
will be sharp and destl uctive.
The storms will be wild and fur
ious. The yellow Jack will
cause great CONSERVATION. The
Low Ebb" vital forces will do
all they can to provoke wars.
famines murders, suicides, strikes,
and crimes of the most diaboli-
cal nature. Prepare TO hear OF
some great event that will
shock the whole world. Earth>
quake shocks will be felt both
in the old world and in the new
A strange new disease will be-
come epidemic in some sections
of the country. Showers of
strange appearing insects may
be looked for this mouth.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1899-09-08
ON HER
TRIAL TRIP,
The New Battleship Kear
sarge Reveals Splendid
Qualities.
A Reaord of ut Knots Made
Under: Adverse Cireum-
circumstances,

A special from Newport News
Va, says: The official reading
OF the log gave the 6rst-class
battleship Kearsarge, which
went on her trial trip Tuesday,
a record of TX knots, which
speed was maintained for nearly
halt an hour. Those interested
IN the construction of the spler-
did vessel consider her accom-
pllshment a phenomenal one,
in view of the fact that the
course on which forced draft
was tried was in shallow water.
and that the vessels bottom i.
in a pretty filthy condition, hav-
ing been in the water contin>
uolsly for nearly I3 months.
The steam and hand steering
gear were subjected to the most
severe tests, the immense mass
OF steel and iron responding to
her wheel almost as readily as a
steam launch. On one test she
made a semi circular turn in
two and half minutes. Captain
Folger, who is to command the
Kearsarge, and the other naval
officers on board expressed
themselves as highly pleased
with the result of the trip.
The Kearsarge sailed at 6 a.
m., in charge of Captain Fair
cloth. She was handled by a
picked crew Of 200 men from
the yard. She left the dock un-
der her-own steam and at once
proceeded towards the Capes.
At Old Point. Captain Chester,
who will command the KEN
tucky, sister ship of the Kear-
sarge, boarded the vessel. Here
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1899-09-08
A HORRIBLE STORY.
Two Survivors of West Indian
Hurricane,

A special from Charleston, S.
c., says: The British steamer
Woodruff, Captain Milburn, ar
rived from Hamburg Wednes.
day. August 81, $50 mile.
south of Charleston, the Wood>
ruff picked up Maurice Ander-
son and Goodmund Thomason
survivors of the Norwegian bark
Drot, wrecked August 18th of
the Florida coast. The Drot
was bound from Pascagoula to
Buenos Ayres. Anderson is a
raving maniac, and his compau-
ion IS shockingly mutilated from
bites of the crazed man. Thorn
ason tells dreadful story. The
Captain of the Drot and seven
seamen were swept overheard
and lost in the recent West In .
dian hurricane. The mate and
seven other men put to sea on a
raft made from decking. The
raft men on the otherpa1t of the
raft one man was separated from
the others. The mates compan-
Ion was landed at Philadelphia
by the German steamer Titania
On August ~. He stated that
the mate~c )mmitted suicide. Of
the six ruen On the other part of
the raft one became crazed from
exposure and jumped into the
sea. Two others, exhausted
from suffering, jumped over
board and were lost. Anderson
Thomason and a German sea-
man drew lots as to which
should be eaten, as none Of them
had hae a mouthful since they
took to the raft. The lot fell to
the German. He was killed
and the blood sucked from the
veins by the two survivors.Soon
after Anderson lost his reason
and savagely attacked his only
companion. Thonason's breast
and face were bitten in several
places, chunks of good size be>
ing torn out.
Both men are now at the city
hospital and the Norwegian
Consul has taken the case in
hand. Thomason is a native of
Stevanger, Norway.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1899-09-08
} The Same...
Old Sarsaparilla.

That's Ayers. The same old
sarsaparffia as II was made and
sold by DR.. J. c. Aver so years
ego. In the laboratory II Is
different. There modern appli-
ances lend speed 10 skill and
experience. But the sarsapa-
rilla Is the same old sarsaparilla
that made the record--5O years
OF cares. Why don't we better
iti Well, we're much In the
conditioned the Bishop and the
raspberry: Doubtless, he
said, "God might have made n
better berry. But doubtless,
also, He never did" Why
don't we better the sarsaparillai
We can't. We are using She
same old plant that cured the
Indians and the Spaniards. II
has not been bettered. And
since sce make sarsaparilla CON-
pound out of sarsaparills plant,
we sec no way of Improvement.
OF course, II we were making
some secret chemical compound
we might -. But we're not.
We'se making the same old sar-
saparills to cure the same old
diseases. You can tell it's the
same old sussdpa rtIIo be-
cause it works the same otd
cures. It's the sovereign blood
purifier, and-irs Ayers.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1899-09-08
The Lake Drummond Canal
Opened.

The Lake Drummond Cana
and Water Company wish te
give notice that the Old Dis1na
Swamp Canal route between
Norfolk and Elizabeth City i:
now open for business-and the
tug boat will leave every other
day except Sunday, commen,
cling August 28th, making trips
as follows: Leaves Norfolk
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri>
pays. Returning, leaves Eliza
beth City, Tuesdays, Thursdays
and SATURDAYS.
The Canal Com pany insures
nine feet of water at present
time between the locks, and in
a few weeks they will have ten
feet of water in the canal. The
Company has dredged fifteen
feet in depth for a distance of
three thousand feet below the
locks in Deep Greek. They
have also made deep water be-
low South Mills locks, in the
waters Of the Pasquotank rivel .
The Cana. Company has dred-
ged the old Turner Cut to the
depth of ten feet at low water.
Thus far the Canal Company
can insure a sufficient depth of
water,
The Canal Company would
not at present guarantee a safe
passage between Norfolk and
Elizabeth City for boats draw
ing more than seven and half
feet of Water-as the Pasquotank
has one shoal place. ard Deep
Creek at low water has not more
than seven and a half feet at
the present time.
The government has appro-
priated money to deepen and
widen Deep Greek and also to
deepen and straighten the wa
terway of the Pasquotank river.
This work is to commence at
once. The Company in the
meantime intend to improve
and widen the canal, and in the
near future the Canal Company
believe that they will have a
canal and waterway between
the points named tnat cannot be
excelled in this country.
J. B. SANFORD, V. P.
Information as to where to
leave and receive freight and of
the boats landing can be had at
Hathaway Bros, corner Main
and Water streets, Elizabeth
City, N. c.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1899-09-08

the anchor chains We're tested.
Proceeding 10 the neigh borhood
of the Capes, the compasses
were adjusted and the big ship
was put through the various
placesnecessary to test the quail
ities of her steam steering gear.
Passing cut of the Capes with
the water curling high upon
her prov. forced draft was put
on, and the remarkable speed
noted above was obtained.
Twenty-Five miles out from Cape
Henry the ship swung around
and started on the return trip.
Inside the eapes, on the return
trip, the hand steering gear was
tested and found satisfactory.
The new bearer of the noble
name of Admiral Winslow s
frigate then steamed back at a
ten knot clip. Both going out
and coming back the Kearsarge
received a noisy greeting. Many
of the foreign ships passed dips
ping their colors and saluted the
new warship with their whistles. |
The Kearsarge steamed up to
her dock at 6 p. m. With brooms
lashed to her peak and mast
head.
Superintendent Walter A. Post
was in charge of the trial trip.
Captain Faircloth was navigator.
Captain Hand, OF Philadelphia,
adjusted the compasses, and Pr
lot Stanworth, of Virginia, look
ed out for the shoals.
The trial was success inI
every particular. All the armor
and main battery of the Kea.>
sarge is now in place. Her sec
ondary battery will be placed On
board and she will 20 to New
York for preparation for her
official trial trip.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1899-09-08
Questions for the Student.

Did you ever change religions
just on account of a pretty girl ?
Did you ever start to Sunday
school and land in the swimming
hofe7
Can you suggest a plan to
keep a woman from church If
she has a new hat?
Did you enjoy your first ex~
perience with tobacco? Didn't
you swear you would never
touch it again? Well, you are
at it yet, amt you?
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1899-09-08
New Magistrates.

On account of vacancies, Gov
ernor Russell has appointed the
following magistrates
Pasquotank county-Elizabeth
City township, M. B. Culpepper;
Salem township, James S. Will
cox.
Camden county-Courthouse
township, E. J. Sawyer.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1899-09-08
Volcanic Eruptions

Are grand, but Skin Erup>
tons rob life of joy. Bucklen S
Arnica Salve curee them, also
old, running and fever sores,
nlcers, boils, felons, corns, warts,
cuts, bruises, burns, scalds,
chapped hands, chilblains. Best
pile Cnre on earth. Drives out
pains and aches. Only 25c. a
box, Cure guaranteed. Sold
nv Alex. Wadsworth, Druggist
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1899-09-08
All Well at Hampton.

All the yellow fever patients
at the Soldiers Home at Hamp
ton, Va, are now we'll, Surgeon
Vickery reporting to Surgeon
General Wyman that the last
case had been discharged from
the hospital Sept. 1st.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1899-09-08
Bismark's Iron Nerve

Was the result of his splendid
health. Indomitable will and
tremendous energy are not found
where stomach, liver, kidneys
and bowels are out Of order. If
you want these qualities and the
success they bring, use DR..
Kings New Life Pills. They
develop every power of pain and
body. Price 25c. at Alex.
Wadsworth's Drug store.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1899-09-08

The great success of Cham
berlain's collie, cholera and diar-
rhoea remedy in the treatment
of bowel complaints has made
it standard all over the greater
part of the civilized world. For
sale by Drs. w. W. Griggs &
Son.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1899-09-08
GREENVILLE'S Z
SHOOTING.
People Wonder Why Shep-
pard Didn't Shoot Sooner.
Kings Weekly Thinks Shep-
pard Ought to have been
Jailed for bad Marks
manship.

While United States Distric
Attorney Claude M. Bernard. ol
Raleigh, was at the depot al
Greenville, N. c., last Saturday
evening waiting for a train, Mr.
b. S. Sheppard confronted him
and said: "You id scoundrel
you ruined my home" and fred
The ball missed, Bernard ran
into the waiting room, closed
the door, climb out of a back
window, got into bug ggy, drove
into the town and swo1e out a
peace warrant against Sheppard.
The public sympathy is with
the latter.
Kings Weekly, published at
Greenville, gives the following
account of the shooting with
comments
Saturday evening several peo-
pie at the depot witnessed lit
tie harmless shooting that crea-
ted much excitement for a few
minutes. Claudio Bernardo was
sitting quietly in a bus when
Mr.. Ben Sheppard walked up
and addressed some uncompli
mentary remarks to him order
ing him down and out, which
he forthwith immediately pro
ceeded to do. AS he reached the
ground, Mr.. Sheppard shot at
him with a pistol. To use
Claudio's own words he "duck>
ed his head" and the ball missed
him. He shuf1ed lively get
ting into the waiting room and
two ladies made their exit
at the window. Claudio locked
himself in and after friends had
somewhat got things quiet he
dashed himself out of a window,
hustled to a buggy and drove
rapidly down town.
AS soon as he could, he had a
warrant for Mr.. Sheppard who
had sent the officer word he
would be down town soon. The
officer met Mr.. Sheppard and
proceeded to the office of w. II.
Long, who after hearing some
of the matter, put Mr.. Sheppard
under a $500 peace bond, instead
of 6ning him and putting him
in Jail for such bad marksman-
ship. Claudio left hurriedly
Sunday morning for Raleigh.
Nearly everyone hereabouts
is familiar with the cause of the
trouble and wonder why Mr..
Sheppard hasn't used a shot gun
long ago. His bad narksman>
ship is universally regetted.
NO-HED-AKE Toblets are guaran-
teed. No cure no pay. doses for 10
cents. Cures all headaches.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1899-09-08
SEPTEMBER
WEATHER.
Predictions Made By Prof
Coles, of Pennsylvania.
Great Disasters That Will Ex-
ceed Those of the Last
Month.

Following are the preo ic>
tions of Prof. c. Coles. of King
ston. Pa, for September:
The great Atlantic cyclone
and tidal wave that We predicted
in our August forecast came in
all its fury and swept 5000 hu>
man beings off the face of the
earth and left $1,000 others
homeless and starving. This is
but the torerunuer, We believe,
of greater and more destructive
storms to follow in all parts of
the world, as more remarkable
conjunctions of the planets than
has occurred for 5000 years will
take place during the next four
months; great disasters are prob
able, a cataclysm possible. From
the 7st to the 9th, from the Sta
to the 12th, from the I4th to the
18th, and from the goth to the
goth will be great danger peri
DDS, when destructive storms
and floods are liable occur at
any place. The Atlantic coast
dwellers must keep their eyes
open aud watch out for the wild
waves that may inundate the
land. The heat waves and the
cool waves will alternate with
each other and produce extremes
that may break all previous re-
cords for September.
AS the new moon occurs on
4th inst, and is exact sextile to
Mars and near a sextlle to Jupi>
ter, and the High Flood vital
forces in the ascendency, shows
that the combination is a very
good one for business in general
The cereal and provision market
will liven up gradually; chill
dren born during the first 10
days will be generous to excess
and lucky. The 2nd, 5th, 9th,
9TH, 9Th, 18TH, 2Ist, 22nd, 29th,
and goth are unlucky days, on
which no marriage ceremonies,
important business transactions
or surgical operations should be
performed. At considerable ex-
pense we have gone to the
trouble to prepare a tull list of
the days to SOW grain, cultivate
flowers. transplant trees, bushes,
strawberries, ETC., destroy noxi>
Gus weeds, and all such informa-
ton for the month of Septems
Der, which we will send free to
any address for postage, two
stamps. The outlook for a boom
ing fall trade for business in
general is the best that has pre-
sented itself before in many
years.
A new pest, worse than the
"kissing bug" is about to make
its appearance in America.Gr
swarms of bugs and insects will
overrun some sections of the
West, and they may find their
way to the Eastern States. The
grasshopper pest is about to
make another attack upon the
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1899-09-08

II suffered from plies for twenty
five years, and after all so-Called
cures had failed was permanently
cured by one box of DeWitt's Witch
Hazel Salve,' says Eli Rle, OF
Lumber City, Pa. Be sure you get
"DeWitt's." There are injurious and
dishonest counterfeits. Sold by
Griggs & Son
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1899-09-08
Story of a Slave.

To be bound hand and foot
for years by the chains of dis
ease is the worst form of slav-
cry. George D. Williams, of
Manchester, Micr., tells how
such a slave was made free. He
says: "My wife has been so
helpless for 5 years that she
could not txrn over in bed alone
After using two bottles of Elec>
trio Bitters, she is wonderfully
improved and able to do her
own work" This supreme
remedy for f t1nalediseases quick
ly cures nervousness, sleepless>
ness, melancholy, headache,
backache, fainting dizzy spells.
This miracle working medicine
is godsend to weak, sickly,
run down people. Every bst-
tie guaranteed. Only soc. Sold
by Alex. Wadsw orth, Druggist.