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were the heaviest in years; that all records in trading on the exchange were broken In the last few months; and that in the first eleven months of the year the circulation of money increased 15o million dollars.
 To these generalities may be added one important fact in figures that, while not so stupendous, Is more easily assimilated. It is the price of seat on the stock exchange which advanced in value from S19,0O0 at the beginning of 1898 to s29,5OO at the close of the year.
 The most active day of the year on the stock exchange was December F. when the total sales were SS6 ,397 shares. The record had been held by August r, when the sales were 5,971 shares. December 12 was the most active day for five and half years. On the day of the Reading receivership the sales were ,971 shares, which. consider ing the fact that Reading shares are really half shares, would be about the same as yesterday on the basis of full shares.
 The sales of Reading stock on that day were 957.9 .955 shares. On February II, 1892, the day the Reading coal combination was announced, there were recorded sales of l.
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a-days save in the way of amounts of transactions that fairly take one's breath away
 The produce exchange has mad two sensa- tions, however. The one that kept it on the jump through the early portion of the year was the Letter wheat deal-the biggest wheat enterprise ever undertaken in this, or any other country. The latter half of the year has been made active by the ru- mors of European hostilties which have crystalzed themselves into cold facts-and cash in the shape of enormous export sales.
 The value of the crops of the kind handled on the exchange, is estimated by the de- partment of agriculture as being worth $S3,- 900 more in 1898 than in 1S97-this being due largely to the difference in prices.
 So if the Spanish-American war of 1898 brought small credit to some of our gener- als it was not without its effect In Wall street
 And when the brokers pounded each other yesterday and gave up the day to the most boisterous forms of amusement by way of wishing each other Happy New Year. 1t was with a sense that they had
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THE NEW YEAR on STREET

When the brokers on the New York stock exchange and those who deal on the floor of the produce exchange arranged the eel ebrations with which they closed their years work yesterday they planned to have the publications on a much more exten- sive scale than usual that they might be in keeping with the magnitude of the years business in "the street." For though, with in the year just ended, the country has passed through costly war, the amount of business done in Wall street in that period has eclipsed all previous records within the past seventeen years.
 To talk of Wall streets business and the amount of trading on the produce exchange in the past twelve months Is to deal with big figures, stupendous figures Before the panic of 1893 it was common belief-based, 1t must be admitted, on a certain degree of truth-that no broker ever thought of get ting up from luncheon without having drank pint of campaign.
 Those were champaign days" Down.
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Hon. Josiah B. Allen, Clerk of the Stu preme Court of Ohio, was Captain in the army of the rebellion, where he lost an arm Clerk of Common Pleas Court of Athens county two terms; Sergeant at-Arms of the House of Represents tives; and is now serving second term as Clerk of the Supreme Court of Ohio.
 COLUMBUS. OHIO, April 16, 1897. The Pe-ru-na Drug Mfg Co.,:
 Gentlemsn-I have been afflicted with 8 disease, commonly known as Ia grippe, covered. I-have tried many remedies without success. This spring was in- duced to try 2 bottle of Fortuna. I have new taken two bottles and have re- ceived much benefit therefrom. In fact, all symptoms of the disease seem to recommend tho virtues of Pe-ra-na.
 Josiah B. Allen.
 La grippe has been justly called "The Scourge of the Closing Years of tho Nineteenth Century" This disease runs severity. It lesves the system in de- plorable condition. It wsakens the nerve centers, it imDovsrishes tho blood, disturbs the circulation, clogs up the ex- cretory ducts, and dspresses the whole vital system. There are thousands upon thousanes or people n th1e cohdAtleh as the result of Ia grippe. Pe-ru-na cures Ia grippe.
 As to the after-efscts of Ia grippe, so with the acute stages, Ps-ru-na Is . spe- cific. It seems to be thoroughly adapted to this disease in all it's phasss. A great many letters are received by Dr. Hart man every year in which Fortuna is ex, tolled by the people IS being . prompt and reliable euro for la grippe. La grippe is in reality 2 catarrhal disease. It would be properly named acute cpl demic catarrh. A few specinens of the letters received by Dr. Hartman on this subject will be given:
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He Got in the Way
From Tit-Bits

From Tit-Bits
 "How did this happen?" asked the sur geon, as he dressed the wound in the cheek and applied soothing poultice to the dam- aged eye.
 "Got hit with a stone," replied the pa- tient.
 .'Who threw it?"
 "My-my wife," was the reluctant an- swer.
 Hum! It's the first time I've heard of a woman hitting anything she aimed at," muttered the surgeon.
 ''She was throwing at the neighbor's S hens," explained the sufferer. 'I was be- hind her.
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would .sk Dr. Hartmsn's aAvise, which and took it accordiag to his directions and WAS cured in & short Nns. I advise everybody that is troubled with lung disease to take Dr. KsYtnsA's treat ment. am sure they vin net regret 1t if they do. am now sAtsying good health and can thank Ps-rl-ns for it.n were sevsrly attacked with Ia grippe, and by using Pc-ru-na we recovered without having physician. I think Pe-ru-na is just the thing for suffering human ity. highly recommend your remedy to all sufferers" - Master Ross, Osh- temo. Mich.
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it, but nothing was able to cure me. l took three bottles of Pe-ru-na, ond am happy to cay thnt it is the best medicine I ever used. ain satisfied that Pe-ru-na is good medicine, and ss such have recoMfnended it to several of my fricnt;s with good results. It is seldorn give testimonial, but l think this is du3 you. i hope others may be benef ted througi, you and your ramedies.r = MI. J. r Lowefy, Proprietor City Hotel, Albany Texas.
 For . free book, entitled sWiatex Catafrh," address The Pe-ru-na Drug Manufacturing Company, Columbusy |'Ohio.
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MT. J. B. Allen. the medicine. I took it and immediately began to improve: For take 1t, but finally he began to take Pe- ru-na, too, and he now is IS enthusiastic in it's praise as I am. Pe-ru-na also curaa my husband of obstinate nasal catarrh of twenty-five years stand
 7Some time ago my youngest son had the grippe and the disease seemed to set from the lungs. We procured the best medical aid for him we could, but all to
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MT. Sanford Rob inson, Adrian, Mich, writes : q was taken very sick with Ia grippe last winter. I could sit up only Q few moments every day. I could eat n o tn in 6. I got a bottle of Pe-ru-na and began to take it. T h 0 improvement was prompt. In ten days | was able to be
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helps me greatly. have influenced eev- oral others afflicted with chronic catarrh to take Pe-ru-na in this locality and they are all improving.n
 Mrs. T. V. Rogers, Flushing, Mich., 63 years of age, was three years ago taken with pneumonia, and while recovering she caught h grippe. She had two re- lapses and was given up by two physi- clans. A friend persuaded her to try Pe-ru-na, and, after taking three bottles, she was able to do her own work. She is completely cured.
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Notice to Contractors.
Office of City Engineer,

Birmingham, Ala, December 2S, 1898. Sealed proposals will be received at this office until 12 o'clock noon, Wednesday, January 4, 1S99 for certain grading. macad- amzlng, curbing and storm sewer construc- lion in the neighborhood of Beelers Station. Plans, specifications, forms of proposal, and estimates of quantities may be obtained at this office.
 Certified check for $50, made payable to the mayor and aldermen of Birmingham must accompany each bid.
 Bond will be rcauired to the amount of $3,0O0 Right Is reserved to reject any and all bids.
 (Signed.) JULIAN kENDHlCh, 1a77aa-fa Cfty Ensineer.
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Mrs. Eliza Guest, KearAey, Buffalo county, Ksb., says: q took your Peru n2 for some time for catarrh and am hap py to state that I am entirely cured of it. I took both Peru.
 na and Man-a-lin. I an still taking Pe- ru-na for Ia grippe and And tn at if
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The Sisters of

l09 olbtoIb OI St. Francis of St. Vincen t' s O1ph an Asy- luni, East Main street, corner of Rose Ave-, Col umbus, Ohie, in Q letter dated June 2, 1898 to Dr. s. B. Hart man say :"Some y @ a r 8 Q g O Q friend of our in- stitution rscom- n and t0 us
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"Being advised to try Fortuna for la grippe and asthma, I did so with good results. I had been feeling very unweli for a long time, and had as,th m @ quite bad till I came West, when I got better of the asth- ma, but was not well. I tried Q great many remedies for
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Mrs. J. B. Allen, Pe- toskey, Michy writes: "Both my husband and myself were seriously i'll with la grippe. Fi- nally I took to my bed, but my husband would not give up. One day I saw an advertisement of Fortuna in a paper and asked him to get me a bottle. He had no faith in 1t. but got
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Not Used to the Place
From Puck.

From Puck.
 MT. Isolate (of Lonelyvile)-What is the matter, Amabe? You seem agitated.
 Mrs Isolate (distractedly)-Oh Ferdi- nand! hurry into the kitchen and calm the cook! There's an eel coming through the cold water faucet and she thinks she has the delirium tremens.
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Dr. Hartman's Pe-ru-na as an excellent remedy for influenza, of which we then had several cases which threatened to be of Q serious character. We began to use 1t and experienced such wonderful results that since then Pe-ru-na has be- come our favorite medicine for infiu- enza, catarrh, coughs, colds and bronch-
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6OstAOAs
 Mrs. A ma Har- n @ nfng, M Q O Manic, Dane county, Wis.,, writes : "I can not praise your rom edy too highly. Last W l n t CT I had le grippe, and hemor- rhags of tho lungs folio cd. All the doctors around here told mo I had to die of consumption. Th T Ah4.-lA Y
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Kindly Considerate

From the Chicago Post.
 You don't call me a brute any more." he said, tauntingly, after he had refused to buy her a new hat.
 "No," she replied. ''The brutes have been maligned too much already"
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MT. Aug. TryloH, , Mt. Clemsns, Mich., writes: "I will let you know what I t hink of Pe-ru-na. Two years ago 1 had Ia grippe, and it left mo with . dreadful cough. The physi- clans couN not cure me. I tSleA ot h CT medicine b 6 fore I took Perm. but it
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HON. JOSIAH B. ALLEN, OF OHIO.

no purpose. We tried Fortuna and his
 hemorrhages stopped, and he soon got
 up and is well and is hard at work. He has had no more hemorrhages."1Mrs. O. R. Harden, Evansville, Wis.
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town establishments fiourished then. And the only patrons of the lunch counters or the saloons where free lunch was feature were the office boys and the mes- sengers.
 But the panic of '93 put an end to the 'champaign days and for the next four years beer was the favorite beverage in "the Street,
 To the outsider whose acquaintance with Wall street is only of the lowing order, no better illustration of the state of affairs there could be given than to say the "cham- pagne days" are back in "the Street" again.
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Looked Familiar
From Life.

From l4lte.
 First New Yorker-Did you note any po.nts of resemb ance between the old world and the new when you were abroad?
 Second New Yorker-Well, Jerusalem and Ireland looked familiar.
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A HEAVY YEAR.

One marked effect of the panic of 1893, and one whose influence has been most marked in Wall street, was the wlping out of the speculators. This left the field open for legitimate business which above all was the marked feature of Wall streets year. To summarize the years business in a gen. eral way it can be stated that the bank clearings, bank deposits and bank loans
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out of doors. It only required one bot tie of Pe-ru-na to cure me. think 3 mend them to the people, who all speak well of them. I am 75 years old."t
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"I took your Pe-ru-na for deafness. and consider my self entirely cured. I can
 hear now as well as I eyer could, and shall always feel very thankful to you for your kindly advice. My father was greatly benefited in a severe attack of la grippe by the use of Pe- ru-na." Miss Esther Lu,
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earned a holiday; and that if the record of
 the year 1899 lived up to the standard set
 by its immediate predecessor it would be a Happy New Year. indeed.
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money can be invested to better advantage. The fundamental basis of the increased wealth from sale of surplus products to Europe is supplemented by enormous ex- ports of manufactured goods, the increased consumption of such goods at home and a general trade of unprecedented volume at a comparatively narrow margin of profit.
 ''The railroads carry goods at the lowest rates ever known. but their earnings are the largest ever known, because they have learned how to reduce the cost of trans portation faster than the reduction in freight tolls. What is true of the railroads is true of manufacturing and mercantile business generally.
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LEGITIMATE TRADE.

One noteworthy feature of the year has been that while there have been many re- ports of big and profitable deals by this or that financial giant these stories I.ve not been borne out by the facts. All the money that has been made is the result of legti- mate dealings.
 Wall street furnishes no sensations now
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did me no good. then took some Pe- ru-na-about Eve or six botSlAs. It did
 me more good than all the rest put to-
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ru-na.n Miss Esther Luther, Frank linsville, NC.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-10-22
FINED 500.
A, New Martinsville Oil Man Given.
Salty Desc for Jumping a Board
Bill---He Settles.

Some time ago well known oil man
from New Martinsville stopped at the
Brunswick Hotel, on Market street, and
after running bill amounting to $50
or $40, left the city without settling or
making any arrangements to do so.
Subsequently he returned to the city,
and the hotel proprietor enlisted the aid
of the police. The oil man was ar
rested, but allowed to go upon making
satisfactory arrangements for paying
the bill.
The New Martinsville man failed to
keep his promise, but yesterday he
again visited Wheeling, and upon COM
plant of the hotel proprietor, was ar
rested and taken before Justice Peter
man, where he was arraigned under the
State law providing punishment for
jumping board bills. The evidence was
heard, and he was fined s100.
The New Martinsville man began to
realize at this juneture that jumping
hotel bills is a very serious matter,
and he burnt the telephone wires be-
tween here and New Martinsyille AS
a result, he made arrangements for
paying the bill and the fine and costs,
and was then permitted to go. a SEN
tence of 80 days in Jail having been re-
mitted,
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-10-22
CARELESSNESS
In Burning Brush Near Echo Point
Resulted in the Destruction of a
Large Number of Trees and Shrub
berry.

A fire in the trees and shrubbery on
the hill north of Echo Point, burned
fiercely all day yesterday, endangering
fruit trees and fences, but doing no
damage beyond the destruction of trees
and shrubbery. 1t is supposed to have
been burning since Wednesday, and is
believed to have become ignited from
burning brush on the place of a man
named Frederick, barber. Last night
large number Of persons living in the
neighborhood fought the fire, and tel
ephone message to the Register at mid
night conveyed the information that the
spread of the fire had been checked and
the flames extinguished.
Persons owning property in the
neighborhood of the fire are DR.. Henry
W. Etz, George Hibberd, Mrs. Kyle,
Miss Stephens and John Falloure. A
fire started about the same place last
year and spread to an orchard, doing
considerable damage to fruit trees.
Both fires are said to have been caused
by carelessness.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-10-22

P1TTSBURG. Pa, October 21.-The
pilots of Pittsburg claim that the Mo-
nongahela River Consolidated Coal and
Coke Company have taken the initiative
TO test the legality of the wage agree
ment entered into among the pilots to
enforce payment of higher wages. Yes
terday Capt. Harry Black, master OF
the towboat Harry P. Jones, owned by
James Jones & Son, branch of the river
consolidation, got off the boat and, it is
alleged, refused to stand a watch at the
wheel Of the Jones with Lewis N. Clark
because it is alleged that the latter does
not belong to the pilots association.
John McDonough, a river mate. in
speaking of the affair, said: Captain
Black quit the Harry P. Jones yester-
Gay when Lewis Clark went on board
OF the boat Joseph Gee, one of the
pilots who is striking for $500 a year.
took Andrew Young's place as a deck
hand at $50 a month. Now, then, if
the pilots and engineers are going to
stick together to enforce their wage de-
mands, the firemen and deckhands will
do their part. The deekhands in the
pools are the men who run the boats.
Some of the deckhands can pilot as well
as the licensed men, but unless you
have a pull you cannot get a license.
We do not know why Gee, who is a
licensed pilot, should lake a deck
hands job"
Mr.. Young verified McDonough's
statements.
A well known pilot who was seen to-
day, said: The only thing for the
pilots to do now is to make a stand.
The men can get the wages if they
stick together. There are only few
pilots who have not signed the scale.
cannot understand the object Of yester-
days move"
An effort was made to see Captain
Black to-day, but he could not be found.
There seems to be no question that the
pilots will stick together and that they
will win.
John H. Jones made this statement:
capt. William Stewart, who is paid ST.
900 year, telephoned me that he was
sick and to send a man up in the pools
to take his place at the wheel of the
Harry P. Jones. | sent Clark, not
knowing whether he belonged to the as
ISOLATION of not. Black, who was get
ting 81 500 a year, got off and deserted
the boat. We pay as high wages as
any paid on the river, for we get good
men. and | am sorry this affair hap
pened, as Black is a good man. We
have not decided what action we will
take in the affair. The combination
has nothing to do with the matter. The
best Of feeling is entertained for the
pilots organization"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-10-22
JUSTICE COURT ITEMS.

Harry Cree, an oil man, was arrested
on the street yesterday By Constable
Thomas and taken before Justice Fitz-
patrick ON a drunk charge. He was
fined 81 and costs. in default of which
he went to Jail for ten days
John Murphy, an Aetna iron work
er, who was arrested week ago on
the charge of lunacy by Turnkey Buck
ley, was yesterday released by Justice
Rogers, as he was found to be sane.
The suit Of John Ienahen. the con-
tractor, against E. J. and j. T. Ga1Iagh-
er, to recover the sum of s1T5.14, al
legged to be due for tearing down the
old building at the corner OF Water
and Eleventh streets and extra work on
the property, was tried before a jury in
Squire J. r. Larue's court Friday ncrn-
ing. A verdict was rendered favor OF
the plaintiff for the amount in full.
The plaintiff was represented By Attor-
new Samuel Boyce.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-10-22

which drilled the original well, is com
posed of the following: S. D. Black. of
Braddock; Daniel Cain, NJ. S. Kennedy.
DIR. ]. S. Mclean. d. B. WEIGH and
John Bricker, of Cadiz.
In the Scio field Myers & Brown No.
IA Haga is a producer; Frendenberg
& Co.. on Sommerville farm, is a 10
barrel we'll; Forsythe & Co. No. 16 John
McLandsborough is a producer; Rus
sell Bros. No. Z Kimmel is a good pro-
Queer; Lawrence &c Co. No. Snyder
is fair producer; Ohio &c West Vir-
ginia Oil and Gas Company on Som
meryille farm is an average producer
The Wheeling Oil and Gas Company
has made two locations on their block
of territory between Sherrard and Tri-
adelphia, and will be drilling within
the next week or ten days. A strike of
oil in this neighborhood will be a great
boom for Wheeling.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-10-22
IMPROVEMENT CONVENTION.
President Vance Tells What $50, O0o, 900
WIN Do for the Ohio.


President John l.. Vance, of the Ohio
River Improvement Association, in his
opening address at Louisville, made a
few striking comparisons, showing how
England, France and Germany have ex-
pended colossal sums in the improves
ment of rivers to the advantage of COM
merce and the nations. He made the
statement that for $60,000,000 such i'm
provements in the Ohio could be made
that the wealth of the valley would be
increased tenfold.
Secretary Wilson's report showed
that subscriptions amounting to ST 500
have been made during the year, and
that the association has 121 members
in good standing. Major w. II. Bixby
in charge of Ohio river Improvements,
addressed the association touching his
work. His statement that under the
new law wrecks must be removed with
in thirty days was particularly inter-
esting to the assembly. Capt. j. F..
Ellison, of Cincinnati, presented q set
of resolutions in which 1t was "Resolv-
ed. That Congress be repeatedly petit
toned to provide for immediate con-
struction of a lock and movable dam
near and below Gallipolis.'
The marks on the wharf at midnight
showed IS inches and stationary.
The Matte X. left with large trip
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-10-22
HEART DISEASE


OF Heart IFOuDle.
Heart trouble, at least among the
Americans, are certainly increasing
and while this largely may be due
to the excitement and worry of
American business life, it is more
often the result of weak stomaehs.
of poor digestion.
Real organic disease is incurable;
but not one case in hundred Of
heart trouble is organic.
The close relation between heart
trouble and poor digestion is be-
cause both organs are controlled
by the same great nerves, the SYM
pathetic and Pneumogastrie.
II another way, also the heart is
affected by the form Of poor diges-
ton, which causes gas fermenta-
ton from half digested food. There
is feeling of oppression and heav-
mess in the chest caused by pres
sure of the distended stomach on
the heart and lungs, interfering
with their action; hence arises pal
pitatiOn and short breath.
Poor digestion also poisons the
blood, making it thin and watery,
which irritates and weakens the
heart.
The most sensible treatment for
heart trouble is to improve the di-
gestion and to insure the prompt
assimilation of food.
This can be done by the regular
use after meals of some safe, pleas
ant and effective digestive prepar-
alton, Ike Stuart's Dyspepsia Tab
lets, which may be found at most
drug stores, and which contain
valuable harmless digestive ele-
ments in pleasant, convenient
form.
1t is safe to say that the regular
persistent use Of Stuart's Dyspepsia
Tablets at meal time will cure any
form Of stomach trouble except can
Ger of the stomach
Full sized packages of these tab
lets sold by druggists at so cents.
Little book on stomach troubles
mailed free. Address f. A. Stuart
Co., Marshall, Mich.