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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-02-05

The French people have just taken this
means of showing their appreciation of
the services rendered to France by Ma jor
Marchand, whose expedition to Fashoda
so nearly resulted in a war with England
The sword, however, will be given him
partly because of the discoveries which
the intrepid explorer made in that hither-
to almost unknown region of Africa.
A partly nude figure representing an
cient Egypt form the hilt. The two croc-
odiles, each holding fast 10 a beetle, rep
resent England and France dsputing over
the Fashoda territory. A suitable in.
scription is engraved on the weapon
Major Marchand will be presented with
the sword on his return from Africa
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-02-05
ONLY FANCY.

Husband ION his return from business)-
Why. my dear. what is the matter? You
look i'll.
Wife Gaintly)-Oh. Jim, I've just been
reading some patent medicine advertise
ments, and find / have sixteen diseases,
any one of which may prove fatai.--Aily
Sloper.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-02-05
MARCHANDnS SWORD.

When an officer of the army or navy
of any country specially distinguishes
himself by some meritorious deed OF
gallantry or in some other way proves
worthy of reward, it is very general
custom to present him with sword OF
honor, as was recently done in the cases
of Admirals Dewey and Schley i'll this
country
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-02-05

e-N. and s. 4; E. and W. 6.
COMMENTS.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-02-05

One rarely ever grows tired of lettuce
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-02-05
THE HOUSEHOLD.
MARTIN Supplies Us with Another Menu.
One That Is Appetizins. Is Usual - A
Lengthy Talk on Toast How to Make Veal
Loaf and Prize Doushnuts.

Potatoes ne from virginia.
PARSLEY WI sent to us from Sardinia:
French beaIs. low growing on the earth
TO distant India trace TIER birth.
Bna Scarlse runners, gayiand tail,
A cheerful sight TO ali around.
In South America were%found.
The onion travelled here from Spain;
The leek from Switzerland We gain:
Garlic from fair Sicily flows,
Spinach in far Syria grows:
When Liz beth was reigning here,
Peas came from Holland, and were dear;
The South of Europe lays its claim
To beans, but some from Egypt came.
Dinners and Diners
The Republican., 1899-10-26
NOTES OF REFORM.

The saloon stays because we are too
lazy to be in earnest.-Ram's Horn.
Lady Henry Somerset is. leading a
crusade against smoking by women and
girls.
AS there is no royal road to knowl-
edge, there is no easy way to work out
a worthy reform.-The New Voice.
A four-year-old girl in Milan, Mich,
has brought suit for $4,000 against a
saloonkeeper and his bondsmen for the
ruin and death of her father.
William A. Giles and Prof. Charles r
Henderson, of the University of Chi
cago, have in hand the establishment
of what will be known as the Way
farers' Inn, where the needy and de-
serving will not only be given lodging,
but will be furnished with employment.
The principal aim will be the discour-
agement of unorganized charity.
During the past year there have been
43 murders in San Francisco and 1853
suicides. This is fearful record and
can largely be traced to the liquor
curse. When man contemplates mur-
der he fortifies himself with liquor.
Danish liquor and murder and suicide
will be reduced to the minimum.-Cal-
ifornia Voice,
The Republican., 1899-10-26
RAISE OE The PRESENT.

Poets there be who tune their Tyres to Days
of Long Ago
And sing a song of sentiment in measure
sad and low.
To them the golden age is past, the golden
fleece is clipped
The rose of pleasure hath been plucked, the
cup of joyance slipped;
They live in longing for the lost, the dead of
Might Have Been
But Ia bard most practical-count all
such singing sin.
To me These Days, these present days,
Have fertile fields and flowery ways,
Wherein my fancy fondly strays;
And If | had song to sing, I'd sing about
These Days.
And there be bards who rave a stave con-
cerning Days to Be,
When all things shall be lovely and luxu-
RANT and free,
When Joy shall reach her chalice down to
thirsty mortal lip,
And certain rare elected ones to drunken
ness shall sip;
The bud has yet to blossom and the honey
to be stored
Ere hungry souls may sit them down and
sweep the festal board.
But as for me, l say These Days
Hold pastures where my soul may Craze
And drink delights and gather bays;
And if l knew a stave to rave, I'd rave
about These Days
TO me These Days are golden-tipped with
goodly thoughts and things,
And Opportunity but waits to spread her
splendid wings
At my command to bear me up and make
my vision wide,
That 1 may sweep the height, the deep and
know them deified!
The golden Days of Long Ago, the golden
Days to Be
Are not so wonderful by half as These Days
are to me;
And so These Days, these golden days,
To me are rich with wine and maize
And minstrel-sweet with harvest lays:
And were l piping Pan himself, I'd pipe
about These Days.
-Robertus Love, in N. Y. Sun.
The Republican., 1899-10-26
DeaIeninE Power of Alcohol.

In general terms, it may be said that
no instance has been recorded where
the influence of alcohol upon good
man, when carried to its full extent, has
failed to faint his moral nature. Nor
has an instance ever been known of a
character so base, so bestial and inhu-
man, that alcohol could not sink it still
lower. "Alcohol deadens the con-
science of anyone who partakes of it,
let his motives in drinking be what they
may" "a person intoxicated will COM
nit offenses in thought, in speech, and
in conduct, which in his sober moods
he would view with adherence. The
tendency of drunkenness is inevitably
toward crime."-D. T. /. Wright.
The Republican., 1899-10-26
TOBACCO SMOKE.
Scientific Test to Discover the Pres
ence in 1t of the Deadly Poi
son, Nicotine.

To demonstrate the presence of nico-
tine in tobacco smoke, kissing uses a
bottle half full of water rendered faint
ly acid with sulphuric acid; two tubes
pass through the stopper, one dipping
into the fluid and having a cigar in
serted in the upper end; through the
other much shorter tube the assistant
draws the smoke in the ordinary way
of smoking. When a portion of the
cigar is consumed, few drops 81
Mayors reagent are added to the iq-
uid, in which a copious precipitate is
produced in the presence of nicotine.
Further evidence of nicotine may be
obtained by rendering the solution
alkaline with soda and distilling. The
idea that a picoline base, and not
nicotine, causes the reaction described
is not borne out by this experiment.
Previous investigations by the author
also show that tobacco smoke contains
relatively large proportion of nico-
tine and never more than very small
proportion of picoiine base.-Chem.
Zeitung.
The Republican., 1899-10-26
Reason of Perfect Health.

81 have not tasted beer, wine or spir-
ituous liquor since 1861, and | know
that total abstinence from alcoholic
liquors has been the cause of perfect
health with me up to the present day
l have cruised in all parts of the world ;
ate the fruits of the country without
limit at all hours of the day and night;
drank the water from shore at will;
but have never experienced any i'll re-
sults-due entirely, l think, to total alb
stinence. Rear Admiral Phillips.
The Republican., 1899-10-26

For joke or friendship idly quaffed,
Or cruel, hellish snare.
But twas a drink-one drink too much!
o, for the gift to tell
In time the ruin of one drink!
o, for the sight to see the brink
Above a drunkard's hell!
One foolish act-one thoughtless deed
Itself so small thing;
And yet it changed the world to him,
And heralded the requiem
In dismal ministrng.
One drink, and yet another one
The flood gates open wide,
And hope, and love, and good and truth,
Brave manhood's aims, the dreams of
youth,
Drift out upon the tide.
To-day we buried Reuben Wright,
The once true, faithful friend;
A wreck of life-a blighted name
A memory shrouded with shame
And this the drunksrds end!
The old, old story told once more
The heartaches and the cries
The drunkard's grave-the blighted years
The heartbreaks and the bitter tears
The shame that never dies.
o, God of justice, on Thy throne,
When shall this blood-red crime,
1ntemperance, cease to blast and blight?
When shall it hide itself from sight
Beyond the gates of time?
'Tis only just a common case,
This one of Reuben Wright
So common that we pass it by,
Some with tear some laughingly-
Forgotten in night.
Twas but a drink-one thoughtless drink.
o, for the gift to tell
In time the ruin of one drink
o, for the sight to see the brink
That bounds a drunkards hell.
S. B. McManus, in Rams Horn.
The Republican., 1899-10-26

United States Senator Sullivan.
" l desire to say have been taking
Pe-ru-na for some time for catarrh, and
have found it an excellent medicine,
giving me more relief than anything I
have ever taken.-W. V. Sullivan, Ok
ford, Miss"
United States Senator Roach.
Persuaded by a friend 1 have used
Pe-ru-na as tonic, and am glad to
testify that it has greatly helped me in
strength, vigor and appetite. have
been advised by friends that it is re-
markably efficacious as cure for the
almost universal complaint of catarrh.
w. N. Roach, Larimore, North Da-
kota."
A free book on catarrh sent to any
address by The Pe-ru-na Drug Mfg
Co., Columbus, Ohio
The Republican., 1899-10-26
MnIn Cnuse of Idiocx.

DR.. Walmsiey, Of the Darenth asylum
schools, says that of the 1872 imbecile
children that were admitted to his in
stitution in year, the family history
was well ascertained and clear in 104
cases, and he further demonstrated that
alcoholic intemperance of parents and
hereditary predisposition are the main
factors in the production of idiocy and
imhecilitv
The Republican., 1899-10-26
Total Abstinence Society.

A total abstinence society has been
started in Vienna by 120 members. It's
programme includes abstinence from
alcohol in every form for the benefit of
the health and morals of the people,
and to show the absolute uselessness
Of alcohol.
The Republican., 1899-10-26
CASE OF REUBEN WRIGHT.

Now, Reuben was a friend of mine,
And stancher could not be,
A man of heart-of muscle-mind,
A manlier man one scarce could find
Nor sure could wish to see.
His farm was like a garden plat,
TILED with such watchful care;
His barns were filled from bay to roof
His granaries held more than enough,
And large his store and share.
His good wife, all wife could be,
His children fair and bright,
His home was like an Eden spot,
And happy truly seemed the lot
OF neighbor Reuben Wright.
The tempter camel know not who
A foe in friends disguise?
A drink perhaps for old times sake?
An idle thought a thirst to slake?
A fiend in paradise?
1 know not now who tempted him,
Or what, or why, or where;
1t may have been a thoughtless draugh
The Republican., 1899-10-26
A Queer Vessel,

The most singular ship in the world
is the Polyphemus, OF the British navy.
1t is simply long steel tube, deeply
buried in the water, the deck rising
only four feet above the sea. 1t car
ries no masts or sails, and is used az q
ram and torpedo boat.
The Republican., 1899-10-26

Major General Joseph Wheeler, com
manding the cavalry forces in front of
Santiago and the author of 1.-THE San
tiago Campaign" in speaking OF the
great catarrh remedy, Pe-ru-na, says ::
81 join with Senators Sullivan, Roach
and McEnery in their good opinion of
Pe-ru-na. 1t is recommended to me by
those who have used it as an excellent
tonic and particularly effective as a
cure for catarrh."
United States Senator MoEnery.
Hon. S. D. McEnery, United States
Senator from Louisiana, says the fol-
lowing in regard to Pe-ru-na:
Pe-ru-na is an excellent tonic. l
have used it sufficiently to say that 1
believe it to be all that you claim for it.
S. d. McEnery, New Orleans, Louisi-
ana"
The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-05-26

NJ Remember, you can get
almost any form of Legal
Blank YOU wish, besides any
kind of Job Printing at The
News Office.
The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-05-26

OACA VI ~OuI w alton
and wife and Mr.. ]. F.. Spain
hour attended an entertain
ment at Claremont College,
Hickory, last Saturday night,
going down on the S o'clock
train and returning on the YES
Thule same night.
Mr.. and Mrs. O.. A. Belts
and Mr.. Jno. G. Miller left
this week, the former for
their home in Raleigh, the lat
ter for his home in Goldsboro,
their duties as teachers in the
D. & D. School having ended
for the spring term. They
will return in the fall.
Mr.. w. T. Harris, of Hick-
Dry, and Miss Beulah Brown,
daughter of Mr. A. w. Brown,
of Morganton, were married
by Rev. S. J. Porter, at his
residence, on Green street,
Wednesday at $3.50 p. M, and
left the same evening for
Hickory, going by private
conveyance.
The case of J. H. McNeely
and A. p. Whitener AGAINST
the commissioners of Morgan
ton, growing out of the refu-
sal of the latter togrant license
for the sale of liquor in the
town, will be heard at cham
bers in Marion before Judge
Mcneil soon after the ad-
journment of Yancey court,
which is now in session.
We see in the papers that
those who enlisted for the
Spanish-American war and
did not pass the examination
are allowed pay by the govern
ment for the time between the
date of enlistment and the
date of examination and mile
age from recruiting stations to
!, their homes. There are some
young men in Burke, both
white and colored, who enlist
ed and afterwards failed to
pass, and it would be we'll for
them to look into the matter.
Several colored men from
Burke had to walk back home
. from the recruiting station ir
South Carolina.
The commencementatC Clare,
mont College, Hickory, tool
, place the first of the week
=. and it is not surprising tt
those who know her that Mis-:
Winnie Patton, daughter O:
Rev. R. l.. Patton, of Morgan
! ton, won a good share of tn.
laurels. On Monday nigh
. Miss Patton, one of the liter
airy graduates, won the Muir
ply gold medal for the bes
Grafton. Her subject wa
''music.' On Tuesday nigh
the main feature was the tw,
d observation-disclosures, byMis.
: Harris, of Hickory. for tn
normal class and Miss pa
The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-05-26
LOCAL MATTERS.

Miss Winnie Patton came
home from Hickory Wednes-
dav.
Miss Mildred Ellis, of Hick-
orv, is visiting Miss Gertrude
Davis.
Miss Fannie Ferree left
Tuesday for Randleman to
visit relatives.
Miss Sudie Hudson return
ed home Wednesday from
school at Oxford.
Mr.. w. G. Erwin left
Wednesday eveningfor Wash
ington, D. c., on business.
The Misses Bower, who
we're at Rose Villa, left Tues
dav for their home at Altoona,
Pa.
Prof. F. B. Hendren's fam
ilv moved to Wilkesboro the
first of the week. Prof. Hen
dren will follow shortly.
Messrs. O. E.. and D. v.
Stoner, G.. Hensley and G.. F..
Law, of Asheville, visited Mr..
Watt Meacham, in Morganton,
this week.
Register Giles requests us
to state that tax assessors for
the different townships of
Burke can get the necessary
blanks for tax listing by call
ing at his Office.
Work has been commenced
on the new brick storehouse
of Collett & Davis, on Union
street. The new building
will be occupied by Mrs. a.
+. Hicks, milliner.
f. S. Coffey, Esq, and fam
ilv. of Boone, and Mrs. Grier
and son, of Grayson county,
Va. visited the family of Mr..
J. F. Spainhour the latter
part of last week. They left
Monday of this week.
Mr.. J.. F. Spainhour and
family have gone to Boone
Mrs. Spainhour and the chill
dren will perhaps spend the
greater part of the summer
there. Mr.. Spainhour will
return in a few days for court
Mrs. H. S. Pinkston an6
her four children left yester
day for Bakersville, wher'
they will make their home
Mr.. Pinkston has been Their
tor several months. He i:
publishing the Mitchell Mir
fOr.
Mr.. E. Breese's father ant
mother, who have been visitin,
here for several weeks, lief
this week for their home il
the Stateof New York. Thei
little granddaughter Bessi
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-02-13
THE GEORGIA LYNCHING.
Three Negroes Taken from the Ieesbure
Jail by q Mob.
PLEADING OF The SHERIFF uSAyAlllNC
j III Crime WINS Revolving and
BrotaI one and Rewards Had Bcen
Oncrcd for the Perpetrators.

Leesburg. Ga, February 12.-~A mob OF
200 men came into this little town at mid
night last night, broke into the jail, tool
thercfrom three negroes and lynchcd them
The men were not hung. They were tied
up 10 a tree and shot full OF holes. TheiI
names arc George Bevins, George Forte
and VIII Holt. The mob came from all
directions and in all kinds of conveyaDces.
Amorlcus sent the largest delegation
probably 200 coming from that point It
was reported carly in the evening that
they were going 10 Smithville and take q
train from there. but the officials get
ting wind OF this the plan was changcd.
The party arrived at the Jail about mid
night. Shcriff Jones, who had heard OF
the intentions of the mob, was on the
alert, and when admission was asked,
promptly refused. His word went for
nothing, and in moment the jail door
was battered down. In five minutes after
making the request of the sheriff, the mob
stood within the jail. The sheriff proved
unable TO stand the men off and asked
them who they wanted. They replied they
wanted to look over the negroes he had
and that they were after the rascals who
had so brutality outraged Mrs. Maroney.
the wife of the schoc!master in December
last. The sheriff then, under cover of sew
eral large sized reviewers, unlocked the
cage la which the negroes, fourteen in
number. were confined. The leaders of tho
mob advanced and as the men were pointed
out asked thom TO stand aside. When the
three men were selected. the leader asked
for Arthur Sect and Henry Hooks, saying
they were equally guilty. The sheriff
pleaded with the mob and told them he
did not think they were guilty He said
the evidence against them was not COM
plete. nor even convincing, and he finally
prevailed up q the mon to leave them.
The three men were then marched out
of the Jail They were taken to the edge
CT town and into a little strip OF woods
and tied to trees. A hundred shots were
fired into their bodies and the mob dis
persed firing their pistols into the air.
The three men lynched were concerned
In most revolving outrage and crime
which has stirred South Georgia to it's
depths. Last December they entered the
house of John Maroney. school teacher.
near Leesburg. The leader OF the black
trio ordered Mrs. Maroney to tie her hus-
bands hands behind his back, after which
they bound him to bed. The negroes
then transacted the house and one of them
outraged Mrs. Marouey In sight OF her
helpless and Infatuated husband. The. me-
groes escaped, and although tho State Of
iereo a reward, the negroes We're not can
tured until two days ago.
Governor Gambler tonight advised the
sherin that he would tomorrow offer q
large reward for the apprehension of the
lynchars
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-02-13
this session its supporters viii make

this session Its supporters will make a
desperate fight.
Time must be given for tho conaidera-
tion az the government Of Hawaii, hut T.,
also, for the preeont, must give way to
the appropriation bills.
Five Of the great annual budgets still
remain Enacted upon by the house and as
shey are the mcst important appropriation
bills 1t will require practically all the re-
mainder OF the session to nut them through
and consider the conference reports upon
The other appropriation bills az they are
brought in. This will undoubtedly prove
70 be the case u the opposition shows "a
citpcsition to debate the various PROPOSE
lions as they are brought into the arena.
And this seems altogether likely.
During the earlier part OF the session
the opposition was passive, but II seems
10 have been aroused by the debate on
the army reorganization bill and within
the past week las become quite aggressive.
The threat of an extra session appears to
hold no terrors for the democrats and
populists: indeed some of them would APP
parentiy welcome 1t. especially II II were
called 10 increase the size OF the regular
army.
Tomorrow the consideration Of the sum
dry civil bill for amendment under the
hye-mnute rule VIII be resumed. It's scope
has been so enlarged md complicated by
the attempt 20 place the canal bill upon
how many additional days VIII be re-
quircd TO pass H.. The whole question OF
the receipts and expenditures 81 the gov
eminent. the deficlencioa and the possi-
bility of expenditures arc likely 10 be thor
oughlv ventilated. tn sa4s RI s$4.%. al I'll
AS en- unembarrasscd proposition tho
Nicaragua canal bill would doubtless
command a very strong majority In the
house, but with the power OF the appro-
priations committee and threat Of bond
Issue thrown in the bninncc against II and
the likelihood that to get direct vote
upon II VIII require reversal OF tho rul-
ing CT the chair # is exceedingly doubtful
whether IL can carry. AS soon as the sun
dry civil bill Ia ont OF tho, way the for
LITIGATION bill Will follow and tile other
three appropriation bills In tho following
order: Naval, army aud general den
cheney.
Both tho naval and army bills. in view
81 tho existing situation. Will furnish texts
for diTrussieii Of our future policy and may
he prolific OF o prolonged struggle. Alto
gether II viii seem unless tho opposition
resumes II passive attitude that the house
Will have It's hands full Tor the remainder
81 tho session in getting through the APP
propriation bills.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-02-13

expeeyyenced robbers throw him down
an take TIL shoes on his feet, Now, II
twas thrust. II these here ronipetin
INGREDIENTS was TO unite an meet IN
la-ad at tn sthart they could stlrip him
clano as bone. and lave nawthin fr IN
ioathscne and disunited competitors up
III sthret. They'd BE- sihfons enough
10 do bisiness In spite " IN polls,
they'd have no thrubhle in bpln' incpr-
uiyated in New Jarsey, where tn green
goods comes FIRM, AN they could prove to
amy intiligint man that It's betther to
he skinned cary an be the latest meth
odu thin to thrust the job to lot ~
rough IAN -tumblers, without capital an
not hsyin tn INTERESTS ~ tn country
NJ stake"
,An' what ar-re tn poor la-ads up tn
All reet ecin 10 dor" asked Mr.. Hen
messy. whose democratic sympathies
were instantly aroused by the misfor-
tunes OF tho crushed fuotpads.
They're goln to wurruk f'r the Burg
lsrs' thrust" said Mr.. Dooley. Each ~
thin that's q good mechanical be given
piece " lead pipe an wooden aock.
AN toll TO go out an increase the COM
fort iv tn poor. Th' stbreet carh'll give
thin rayjooced rates 10 thravel firm
wan dark alley 10 another. an III coun-
ell II pass an ordinance prohibiting
amy wan firm importin' sandpags an
tlmnies into IN city Afther awhile
man can be robbed as aisily IN his own
house an In IN alley. That's what tn
thrust will do. u will So
- hear said Mr.. Hcnnessy. that
they're for-rI,in' whissy thrust"
Nhisky thrust. said Mr.. pcoley.