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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-30
THE PLACE TO HUSTLE.

Eyes, the West is the place for q
hustler" said the man who had been
buying goods at wholesale in Chicago.
ANY young man with ambition can
climb up in the West. My former
bookkeeper and cashier is fine ex-
ample of what hustling can do. After
three years at a salary of SIS per week
he opened UP an opposition store on a
capital Of $4,000 cash.
But he couldn't have saved all that
out of his salary" protested one Of the
group.
"oh, no, of course not" replied the
retailer.
Make it in mines or real estate?''
"No-he stole 1t from me-"
"And you didn't have him arrested
for it?"
mo. His books balanced to a cent,
and l had to say / was sorry he was
going to leave and wish him good
luck. Great place, our glorious West,
for hustling man. If he happens to
be a bookkeeper and knows how 70
make things balance he can own the
shop after two or three years. Great
place-great place, and it's wonder
it's advantages are not better known. I"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-30

lamp post and braced up. rive been con-
tending right along for the last fifteen
years that twenty-four hours a day was
altogether too many for one in my profess
sion. Eight hours is enough for any ons
to tramp up and down looking for cold
victuals and secondhand clothes and
eight more Is plenty for writing up your
diary, finding a place TO sleep and wondcr-
ing how many kicks you'il get tomorrow
Just shorten things from twenty -four to
sixteen hours and youll hit me TO dot.
As the case stands now I've got eight
hours to loaf around in. and give you my
word II 1 don't find myself lacking In am
bition and willing to let things drift
along. Too much loafing time is what has
brought our profession into disrepnte, and
rhings can't be changed too soon for thu
good of the majority. Can't say exactly
how IT'S going to be. done. but them
my sentiments and I'll be on deck when
they make the change. Yes, we all favor
shorter hours and more husti4ng, and Il
we can't get 1t we won't kick because
the farmers don't steam-heat their barns
and straw stacks during the chilly months
of the year"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-30

sat eating and talking fifth man came
in and put a couple of funny looking cans
on the stove | had a curiosity about
them, and when | put the question he re-
piled:
oh, them's dynamite. The stuff's got
frozen you know"
But isn't there danger?" I asked.
Lots of it," he replied as he sat down
to his dinner basket.
II saw the fellows winking at each
other, and 1t was my business as tramp
to show 'em that 1 wasn't afraid. I'd
heard many stories about dynamite. how
ever, and by and by felt shivers up and
down my back and had great longing TO
take walk. l knew they'd give me the
laugh if / went, but after awhile / rose
up and thanked them and said | guessed
Ia jog on / got the guy. just az / ex-
pected. but once outside / started on a
run down the road. l hadn't gone over
a hundred feet when | was picked up
and flung head over-heels into the bushes
and had the breath knocked out Of me,
and there was an explosion which shook
the earth. AS soon as / got my bearings
l returned to the shanty 1t wasn't there
any more There was a big hole in the
ground just where 1t had stood and in
the top Of a tree fifteen rods away was
a portion Of a human body. That was the
only relic of the FIVE men had left around
the stove. 1t was a dynamite explosion,
and If / hadn't got a bit ratified over see
ing the cans on the stove wouldn't be
worrying to-day as TO how I was TO get
food and lodgings for the night"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-30
was the beginnin' of the skeer."
"And what followed?" l asked.


Next night the ghost appeared at
Joe Barlum's and skeert his wife into
fits. Then it showed up at Bill Whites
and kept 'e1n awake all night, and
purity soon it was heard of all around
yere. In two weeks it got so that
nobody dared be out doahs arter dark,
and men was skittish about bein' in
the woods alone in the daytime. There
was some people ready to laugh and
sneer at fust, but arter that ghost had
paid 'em a visit and uttered a few
groans and means they was ready to
kill or drive the ghost away, but while
we was watchin' one place it would
appear in another. We got far
sight of it in front of Jim Hopes
smokehouse one night, and four bull
lets was fired at it, but it gin SIGH a
shout that we all run away like lot
of children. Nuthin' that walks kin
skeer the people on this mounting, but
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-30

thing floatin' about in the darkness
is heap different"
"And the people were badly upset?"
"They was that upset, sab. that in
the co'se of six weeks twelve families
moved away and other families dou-
bled up. 1t was a wus skeer than as if
smallpox had broke out No man
moved about by day without his rifle,
and when night come the doors was
barred and folks sot in fear and trem-
bin. There was good deal of talk,
as yo' may reckon, and there was a
good deal of stuff. in the newspapers.
The sheriff of the county got sixteen
men together to hunt down that ghost,
but it dun appeared one night and run
every last man home. / was one of
'em, and / don't go to deny that
clean lost my head over it. 1t was
the same with all the rest. Wed fit all
through the wah, and we'd tackled
bars and wildcats a dozen times over,
but we had no grit left when it come
to standin' up to ghost. Things was
in powerful bad way when that ghost
paid us third night visit. 1t ratified
the doah and groaned, some as befor',
and if I'd been offered all the money in
the world I wouldn't hev gone out to
investigate. Next mawnin'. however,
the old woman had sunthin' to say.
She'd been skeert, same as the rest of
us, but she had kept her head leetle
better. When mawnin' came she went
out and looked around, and bimeby she
sot down on the doahstep and said to
me.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-30

le0 Il
~ the 1itte " p IA ~ - I found
ono eone " barefooted niger had
bin there ana st<le pis. Was scratch
in my head and trydn' to make It out
when the old woman turns on me and
says:
All them niggers around yere are
MORALLY afeard Of that ghost, and
money wouldn't hire one to be out arter
sundown.'
"sWall?'
Wall, then what was this one do
in? IT he wasn't afeard of the ghost
then he must be the ghost himself
1T was easy huff .arter that"
laughed the old man. 1--WE didn't dun
say word to anybody, but l sot my
two big bar traps around that hawg
pen. There was five leetle pigs left,
and I reckoned the ghost would soon
be arter another. 1t was three nights
befo' he come. Then he ratified the
dcah and groaned, but we didn't skeer
as befo'. We jest listened, and purity
soon we heard yell and felt suah that
the mystery was cleared up
''And you went out and"
mo, sab. No, didn't dun go out
It'll daylight showed. II them bar
traps would hold a bar they would hold
a ghost, and I didn't do any worryin'.
When mawnin' came I went out, and
the ghost was right thar. He'd bin
cotched by the leg in one Of the traps,
and he hadn't had the pleasantest sort
o. time over it. He was the tallest,
biggest niger ever saw, and on the
ground alongside of him was bed
sheet which had once bin white. That
was what he wrapped around him to
play ghost. He was strange niger,
who's come over from Moth Caroleeny
and taken to a cave about two miles
away. If he'd started out thievin' we
should hev soon suspected, but goln
into the ghost blZneSS Sorter thrOWed
us off. He'd made heap O trouble by
his tricks, and he had that cave full
O. stuff he'd taken from the houses
and bans"
"And did you turn him over to the
law" I asked.
mo, sah-not skassly, sah,' was the
reply. Il reckon the law wouldn't
hev knowed what to do with him. We
did, though. When we got through
switchin' him he was the humblest,
peacefullest niger in all the world, and
though he didn't hev much hide left,
his heart was sot on goin' out of the
ghost bizness and airnin' his keep with
the hoe or AK"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-30

face was badly burned. Three days in
bed brought him round all right. But
to this day Admiral Dewey remem-
bers his first experience with gunpow-
der.
A few years later, when George Dew
ey was a pupil of Zebina K. Panghorn
in the public school at Montpelier, the
admiral in embryo decided to head an
organized revolt against established
authority. The rebellion fizzled out,
however, and Master Dewey received
from his teacher a rawhiding that he
remembered for many long day. But
this was the only licking that Dewey
ever got
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-30

"'See yere, old man, do ghosts walk
or fly?'
"'Fly, of co'ce,' says /.
"'Then they don't leave tracks In the
sile?'
"'Of co'se not. What you tryin' to
git at?'
"'And do ghosts eat, same as human
critters?' she says, not answering my
question.
"'They can't. No ghost has teeth or
a stomach. They are jest shadders,
and they live on the darkness. What
all this got to do with ito
"'Jest this. Every time that ghost
has showed UP anywhere sunthin' has
bin missin'. 1t has taken away chick
ems, bacon, 'taters, suckin' pigs and
heaps of other stuff. And yo' cum with
me and see tracks,
Il went out to the hawg pen with
her." continued the old man, "and there
in the soft sile she pinted out a dozen
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-30

one of Dewey's first taste of gunpow-
der.
There was pile of logs in the Dew
eys' back yard at Montpelier, and one
day George got hold of powder horn
and decided to have celebration. He
and his chums bored hole in one of
the logs, put in good charge of pow
der, fired the fuse and ran for dear
life. The explosion was not satisfac-
tory, so Master Dewey marched up to
investigate. He went to pour another
charge into the hole, when the pow
der exploded in his face. George
made for the rain barrel and fell in
head first. When he reappeared he
was minus hair and eyebrows. and his
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-30

dows, and as the conversation grew
hot l saw the man look around and
take notes of the situation. He had
about half finished his meal when one
of the bloods asked his companions if
they had ever heard of an American
fighting duel. They replied in the
negative, and broadly limited that it
was from lack of grit. Then the same
man wondered what Yankee would do
if glass of wine was flung in his face
They didn't have to try the experiment.
The Chicagoan laid down his knife and
fork, rose up and peeled off his coat,
and with a smile on his face said:
Gentlemen, you needn't go to that
trouble. We Americans don't go much
on dueling, but we have other ways
which solve the problem just as WELL
And without making any fuss over
1t he grabbed those young bloods one
after another and dropped them out of
the window upon the awning, and each
one went clawing and sliding down to
the edge to take a. drop to the side
walk. Then he nodded to me and took
his seat again to finish his supper. and
when the walters came IN and looked
around for his trio, the promoter calm
ly said:
They found the room too close and
went out by way of the window. You
can serve the rest of their supper on
the pavement
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-30

II Upset Whole Neghborhood But Beat Trap Solved
the Mystery.
the Mystery.

The old mountaineer had been tell
Ing me Of strange and fatal illness
which once seized upon the settlers on
the crest of the Cumberland and fright
ened score OF families away, and l
was wondering over it when he went of
into fit of hearty laughter and said
That was a scare, suah huff, but it
didn't begin with what took place about
six vars ago. Suthin' happened then
that scarf fam lies away fur dozen
miles around"
was interested, of course, and when
he had refilled his pipe and been coaxed
a little, he continued:
1T was the ghost, sab, and the fust
thing we knowed of it it gin me SIGH a
skeer as never had befo' or since.
went out O. the cabin one dark night to
see if the hawg in his pen was all right,
and l was ready to go back when a
ghost suddenly appeared befo' me and
let out an awful groan. 1t was big,
tall ghost, all clothed in white, and 1
kivered about fifty feet of ground in
three jumps. A bar or wild cat
might hev startled me, but nuthin' in
the animal line could have turned my
blood to ice as that thing did. When
got into the house and got the doah
shet after me | was so weak fell down
in heap. I told the old woman what
] had seen, and we never slept wink
all night. Three times befo' daylight
that ghost ratified on the doah and
groaned in way to make us gasp fur
breath, and even when the sun got up
we didn't feel like movin' about. That
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-30

Tha. Admiral Dewey is the idol of
the American people is now receiving
fresh confirmation from the fact that
such a clamor is being made for the
establishment of May l as dewey
Day" Several of our States have al
ready decided to make the anniversary
OF the battle of Manila legal holiday,
and it is not improbable that the Amer
lean small boy of the future will soon
start saving up his pennies about the
middle Of April for fireworks on Dew
ey Day"
Each first Of May for years to come
anecdotes will be told OF the admiral
and his adventures, but one Of the
most appropriate will always be that
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-30
HE FELT SHIVERS.

'.After a man has been on the tramp
for dozen years" said the aborshirESsr.
as he backed up to the stove-"after he's
met logs. farmers, constables, police and
all sorts of weather, it takes something
out Of the ordinary to rattle him. Last
winter / was changing locations in the
State of Pennsylvania, and one cold day
came across shed by the roadside.
There were four men in there eating their
dinners. and they invited me to stop and
warm up and have q bite with them
They were blasting ont the bed for : new
ranroad track not fax away. and - ws
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-30
LOCATING THU TROUBLE.

Husband-why are you 80 angry at she
doctor?
wife-When I told him tad a terrible
tired feeling. he told me 10 show him mr.
tongue.--Tid- Bits.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-30

HE FAvoRs SHORTER HOURS.
'You bet I'm in for shorter hoursi"
exclaimed the tramp, as he
gave his back last rub against the
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-30

of distractions, strengthens the stomach, and
so enables Nature to convert the food into
nutriment and to distribute it to blood and
brain, bone and muscle.
There IS no alcohol, whisky or other intoxi-
cant, and no opium or other narcotic contained
In Golden Medical Discovery" Stimulants
are very harmful to children and few medicines
are without alcohol. Golden Medical Dis
covery" is strictly temperance medicine.
"My four year old daughter had suffered from
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Mrs. Lizzie Aten, of Baldmount, Lackawanna County
Pa. The treatment given her by home doctors
afforded but temporary relief Last February she
was taken with severe pain in the bowels followed
by violent vomiting. She experienced difficulty in
passing urine, which, when COOL deposited milky
sediment. became alarmed from her symptoms and
wrote to the Worlds Dispensary Medical Association
OF Buffalo, N. " receiving in reply letter advising
the use OF DIR. Ferce's Golden Medical Discovery
together with a special medicine which they sent
This line of treatment followed for about two
Joyng good health, and she has had attack
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iousness with the most favorable results"
Mrs Ella Gardner, of Waterview, Middesex Co.,
Va, writes my little daughter is enjoying splendid
health. am glad found doctor who could cure
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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-30

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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-30
NO WoNDHR. MADAM.

NO WONDER. MADAM.
woman. when you married me you goe
a wonder?'
Yes; and have been wondering ever
since. Philadelphia Journal.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-30

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-18

ures of the famous diamond necklace story
in which Marie Antoinette was supposed to
be concerned. The cardinal was the dupe
of an artistocratic adventures, who de-
clared that the queen wished him to obtain
the necklace for her
To convince the cardinal the adventures
informed him that the queen would meet
him for few minutes at a certain place at
midnight. and a lady resembling the queen
in appearance was paid literally to play the
part The cardinal, who knew Marie An
toinette well. conversed with her for some
minutes. when a footstep was heard, and
the mock queen hurried away. For weeks
the cardinal believed he had seen the queen
The explanation of this amazing story is,
anticipated the meeting, and that the image
of the queen had been all along In his mind
1t Is quite possible for man to be so
his imagination summons up to his sight
scenes which DO not in reality exist An
English explorer once named a range Of
mountains which 1t was afterward found
had no existence
Do you still trust your own eyes, and
think them incapable Of misleading you?
Try simple experiment Take burning
stick and ask a friend to turn 1t round and
round in the air. Your brain tells you that
there Is only one spark, but your eyes see
circle of fire as long as the stick goes
round Yet the stick can only be at one
point at once, and there Is no circle of light
at all.
The explanation Is simple. When an OBJ
ject is brought before you and taken away
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-18
Brufn Made Himself at Home.


Bears which were unusually numerous
in Pike and adjacent counties during last
winter and spring, are again making them-
selves obnoxious to farmers, and are ven-
tuning into the clearances. and in one in
stance took possession of a farmhouse, as
is evidenced by the terrifying experience of
Mrs. Picot, an aged resident of Dark
Swamp.
While engaged in her morning duties
about the house she startled by soft
footsteps advancing up the walk. Turning,
she was confronted by the bear. and be-
fore she could close the door bruin barred
the way. Although terribly frightened.
she retained her presence of mind, and be-
gan to shy various cooking utensils at the
beast, which, instead of retreating, lodged
the missiles and walked into the kitchen.
Mrs. Picot hastily ran to the upper portion
of the dwelling and locked the door
Bruin, evidently thinking the kitchen a
nursery, began to toss the furniture about
the room and eat a portion of the vfctuals
remaining in the pantry firing of the
sport, the bear took a short nap on the
floor. and then scampered off into the
woods.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-18
DECEIVED BY THE EYES.
incidents That show How Difficult 1t
is TO Put Confidence in Your Sight.

is 10 Put Confidence in Your Sight.
From the London Mail.
How many times. when your yeracity has
been questioned. have you clenched an ar
gument by saying: II can surely believe
my own eyes,"
The words are always on somebody's lips.
vet they are by means SO convincing as
would seem at first sight to be the case.
Read this paragraph over again; your eyes
may be misleading you just now.
Eighteen months ago a Well-known man
died in London and few days after his
death a London journalist declared that he
had met the deceased in a London club. and
moreover, asserted that he had spoken to
him.
Andrew Lang once met somebody in the
street whom he took for a well-known uni
versity man. He spoke to him, shook
hands with him. and left him. and the next
day he startled to learn that at the
moment he was speaking to the gentleman
in the street his university friend was dy-
ing in a place more than hundred miles
away.
There people of repute who declare
that they have seen Parnell since his death
But these instances are ecIipsed by the case
Of Cardinal Rohan. one of the central fig
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-18
GREEN PARROT FISHES.
An Exhibit at the Aquarium That At.
tracts Many AdmirinE Eyes.

An H1D1t ut the Aquarium That Ate
tracts Many Admitting Eyes.
From the New York Sun.
Among the fishes brought this season
from Bermuda the most attractive exhibit
at the Aquarium, next to the green moray
is found in the green parrot fishes of which
there are two to be seen in one of the large
tanks on the salt water side, on the ground
floor tier. not far from the tank of the
green moray. These two green parrot fish.
es are larger than the parrot fishes CONS
monty seen in captivity, and they are re-
markedly fine specimens and of great beau.
ty Women particularly are pleased with
the parrot fishes, and they say of their
color, What beautiful shade of green!'
|. The parrot fish is deep-bodied and pref
ty substantially built fish, but it is of very
graceful and symme srical outlines and
good swimmer 1t moves often with a
dancing motion in the water. but in the
case of the parrot fishes this motion Is not
so abrupt as it is with some others which
have the same kind of movement The
parrot fishes motion is less like dancing
movement and more like a slight and gentle
bounding, more still though it were
the result of sheer buoyancy in the water.
There seems to be touch of reserved good
humor about the parrot fiSh'S mouth, and
take it altogether the parrot fish is a crea-
ton very agreeable to see.
1t may be observed that the rocks in the
parrot fishes tanks are more or less
scratched about the edges these scratches
are marks made by the parrot fishes teeth.
The parrot fshs mouth is small as COM
pared with the size of its body, but it has
strong jaws and good teeth In nature it
eats various kinds of cruStaceans, which it
takes wherever 1t may find them; if they
are attached to rock it bites them off,
very likely scratching the rock where it
bites. The blackfish would do the
thing, biting off barnaces, for instance,
from rock. The parrot fishes in their
tive waters had been accustomed to roam
ing about the coral rocks, biting off any
thing clinging TO them that might please
their fancy. Here, impelled by habit, and
perhaps finding on them some minute
growths that they liked, the parrot fishes,
upon their arrival and before they had be-
come accustomed to the food provided for
them attacked the rocks in their tank and
bit at them until they had them SCARED all
around the edges; now they bite at them
less.
Among the things fed to the parrot fishes
are soft shell clans, of small size which
are fed to them entire, shells and all; the
parrot fishes like them. Some fishes that
eat crustaceans crack the shells and eat the
meat or the juices therefrom and reject the
shells The green parrot fishes, on the con-
trary. eat these clans, shells and all,
grinding the shells up with their teenth
fine that they can swallow them without
any discomfort