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A sew RuskIn Story.

4 characteristic new =Ruskin story. the accuracy of which is youched for by the Bookman, is as follows: 4 eer- tain person in this country sent friend of his in England an American edition of Raskin's works They were seized by the customs authorities, of course, and were in peril of eonfisea- tion, when the constgnee learned that If be could procure letter from MT Ruskin allowing she books to pass into England the customs would re- lease them Accordingly a letter Of request was sent to MT. Rusl1in, who replied promptly and with character istic verve as follows: "Sir: do not see that your friends desire to give you a present at Ely expense is any apology for your intrusion upon me. Yours, etc, John Ruskin" The books came back to America, but In spite of very tempting offers the recipient of MT. Ruskin's curt reply refuses to part with the autograph.
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THE MARKETS.
CORRECTED DAILY BY L FOWLER, COMMISSION
 MERCHANT
COTTON.

COTTON. PINE FLUFF, Nov. 1.-The cot ton market today is: Middling, upland..............- to 64e Middling river.................. to 7Ac
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MRS. LowNDEs BUFFERS BREAD
She Is Kept Busy Because of Curious
 Fancy.

She Is Kept Busy Because of Curious
 Fancy.
 Mrs. Lloyd Low nues, wife of the gov ernor of Maryland, is engaged in the beneficienl work of curing whooping cough at Annapolis, says the Baltimore Sun. It would be better, perhaps. to state that Mrs. Lowndes is kept busy responding to the appeals of curious folklore fancy of southern Maryland In the household philosophy of that section 1t is grayely stated that if the mother of twin children will butter piece of bread for a patient suffering with whooping cough the little one will be speedily relieved upon eating 1t. Two of Mrs. Lowndes sons are twins. Whooping cough is now prev alent at Annapolis. These two state ment gsve an index to her present troubles. Anxious mothers of late have been appealing to the lady of the executive mansion in season and out of season. No social function is too important to be interrupted by them. The door guardian is constantly bring ing in Macedonian cries for pieces oe buttered bread Mrs. Lowndes is too kind-hearted to refuse to respond to this curious superstition, and has used in tn way many pounds of the de- licio~s butter that is brought to the executive mansion from the governors fine farm near Pompey Smash. Alls- gaay county.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-09-17
1T MADE A DIFFERENcn

-
IF slip down ON a defective graf
ing in the street pavement and sustain
severe damages. can | get r~edress?" he
asked a lawyer.
You can"
Whom shall l sue?"
THE owner or oceupier Of the prem-
Uses. You can hold him responsible"
Il was laid up seven weeks and I
think | ought TO have GOO.
4 think we can get double that. Do
o know the owner of the property -
Il can find out very easily. It's No.
so Blank street."
What? Why. that's my residence!
Better drop the case at once. sir. / for
got to say that the law is SO defective
that you can't get a verdict once IN
twenty times-London Tit-Bits.
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to monomania. She sees the duty to
defend her husbands memory in and
out of season, in street cars and on the
way to church, and when she is out
shopping. She thinks that everybody
knows her. She sees it only proper
that men should step aside and lift their
hats as she sweeps by.
There are other tender-hearted wo-
men among the victims-Mme. Ester
hazy, neglected and ashamed; Nine.
Lalbori, continually worrying lest the
assassin's bullet should by some OBJ
: acuHte accident affect her husbands
spine; Nine. Chapelon, whose only son
and the hope of her old age lost his
scholarship, and with it his future, be-
cause she had promised to testify at
the lola trial; the mistress of Lemer-
cier-Picard, who saw the man she
loved driven each day nearer to the
suicide that ended his career-and hers;
the wife OF the spy Lajoux, an innocent
young Swiss girl, who, after a hundred
miseries, died in Brazil, her husbands
place of exile, and Nine De B~oulancy,
the guiltless ~confidante of Esterhazy's
contempt for p~resent-day ~Frenchmen,
driven from Paris by the silly rage OF
public opinion.
Il am absolutely convinced" wrote
EsterhaZy to Mime. De Boulancy, that
this people is not worth the ammuni-
ton to kill it, and all the little tipsy-
woman cowardices to which the men
give themselves up confirm me in my
opinion. For me there is one human
quality, and that is completely lacking
in Frenhcmen; and if I were to be told
this evening that tomorrow l should
be killed rs a Uhlan captain cutting
down Parisians I should be perfectly
happy. Oh, their on dit que with the
on anonymous and cowardly and these
~unspeakable limitations of men run
ming from n woman to another with
their filthy gossip, would they not
make a sad figure in the red sunlight
of battle, in a Paris taken by assault
and given over to the pillage of a hun
bred thousand drunken ~soldiers?"
1t is a dozen years ago that Esterhazy
wrote this amiable appreciation TO his
cousin, the playmate Of his childhood
and the consider of his ripper years.
Nine. De Boulancy does not seem to
have been on cordial terms with Nine.
Esterhazy. On the other hand, Nine.
De Boulancy swears that she herself
did not give up those letters for publ
cation. In some mysterious way, how
ever, they came to see the light Of pub
lication; and her dearest enemy could
not wish a greater revenge on the
"Uhlan's" unfortunate correspondent.
The Parisians, rather timid of the re-
doubtable c-ommandant, took it out on
Nine. De Boulaney. As for Nine. Es-
terhazy, she has her divorce. Refined
and retiring, she bore the eating up of
her fortune without a murmur. She
bore the insult of E~sterhazy's collage
with Marguerite Pays. She permitted
ESterhaZy 10 COMPLAIN in the Paris ma
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"Abase la bock.")
Il says to mesilf thin, This man
is a thraitor.' But tn thrainin' iv
a sojer makes war cautious. /
determined to fortiry mesilf with
Evidence. | put spies on this man,
this ~perfejous wretch. an disciv-
cred nothin'. I was paralyzed. An
officer iv thf French ARMY an
nawthin' suspicious about him.
Damnable. / was with dificulty re-
sthrained from KILN him. But /
deSisted. (CrieS iv Shame /
said 10 mesilf. TIL honor iv FIR
rance is at sthake. TIL whole wur-
ruld is lookin at me. al me, Bill
MERCER. / will go TO bed an
think it over / whit to bed.
Sleep, blessed sleep that sews up
tn confused coat-sleeve iv care,
as tn periejous SHAKESPEARE (cries
iv 'Conspuez ShaRespere,") says.
dayscinded on me tired eyes. 9Th
coort weeps) l laid aside me
honor (Cries iv Brave Gin'ral.")
with me coat. tMurmurs) / slept.
/ dhreamed that | see tn Ger
mar impor playiA' a Jews harp.
(Cries iv 'Abase Ro~thscheeld." an
sensation.) | woke with a vi'lent
start, tn perspiration poorin' firm
me rugged brow. Cap. Dhryfuss
is guilty l cried. But no. l will
confirm me Evidence. l darted in
to me fred pants. dhruv with
fury to til home iv Madame Clee-
pathry, tn CELEBRATED Agyptian
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-09-17
TYPICAL WOMEN OF
THE DREYFUS CASE.
Though Not Exactly at Bottom of the Affair
They Had Their Recognized
Place in 1t.

in France? We were not married be-
fore a French Consul"
Thereupon she left him. The ro-
nance of Nine. Labor is something
like this tale reversed and ending hap
PLY. Blonde. slender, v and
alert, speaking French admirably and
distinguished by an almost French vi
yacity, and quick wit that comes Ia
her with her Irish blood, Nine. Labor
%perfidious Albion. Yet, as Miss Maggie
Okey, she was n of the most distin-
guished graduates of the Royal Acad-
envy of Music, with a brilliant London
concert career before her. She mar
rfed M. Vladimir de Pachmann. the
Russian pianist and composer, who had
his own little leaning to Gallo gal
lantry." To this Mime. de Pachmann
vigorously objected, and, as the emf
nent Russian pianist was making a
good living in London, far from the
jurisdiction of the Grand Synod, he
was not able to make the amiable re-
ply of Clemenceau: Don't you know
that you are not legally my wife in
Russian" On the contrary, she who
was destined to become the partner of
one of the greatest legal skirmishers
of modern times procured divorce and
.alimony from the astonished Russian
Her marriage with Maitre Labor did
lot delay itself, as they say in French,
and turned out Of the happiest. Labori
is the most Anglo-Saxon Frenchman
| have ever encountered-outspoken,
fearless, combatant and go-ahead, ut
terly free from the artificial, timid and
tagging Correctness" THAT distinguishes
the judge-terrorized French advocate.
His colleagues admire him with re-
spectful wonder, and on nor than n
occasion have gathered round him as
the champion of their privileges Once
Eabori said: Il protest."
Protest all you pleased" was the
cynical reply Of the French judge,
%whereupon "the good natured colos-
sus," banging his books and pounding
the table, raised such an outrageous
row that the proceedings were inter-
rupted for five minutes.
But, mon Dieu, what are you do
ing?" cried the judge.
Il am protesting" answered Labori,
and gained his point. Il learned that
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in kodaks, there was a commo-
ton near TIL coort house. Was it
a revolution? Was this tn begin
min iv another Saint Barth'mew's
day whin tn degraded passions in
Fr-rance pent up durin' three hun
dhred years d break forth again?
Was it tn sigma Nv another div's
lish outbreak that'd show tn thrue
nature iv tn Fr-rinch people dis
geesed behind a varnish iv ojoos
politeness which our walters know
nawthin' about? No, alas. alas,
twas nawthin' a man cud make
more thin a column iv. Twas tn
a~c-cursed janitor goin' in to open
tn degraded windows. Abase tn
janitor, abase tn windowsi Fear
followed uncertainty. No wan
knew what moment he might be
called upon to defend his life with
hio HoAOA. CuuuClAly III UiuIoA PO-
liceman who sthud on gyard wsv-.
ed his hand. What cud the brave
men do? They were obliged TO re-
threat in disordher. But our spec
ial correspondent was. able FIR to
cHtain a fine view of tn thrilling
scene that followed. First came
tn coort weepin'. They was fol-
lowed be tn ginerals in tn
Fr-rinch ARMY, stalwart, fear
less men, with coarse disagreeable
faces. Each gin'ral was attinded
be his private body gyard iv
thried and thrusted perjurers an
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Mr.. DooIey at Close Quarters With the Dreyfus Case.
.BV "a. p. DUNNE.-

a brillyant uniform, denotin' TIL
p~risince iy tn London Times cor
ryspondint. TIL lawn behind tn
coort was thronged with ex-mim-
bers iv til Fr-rinch gover'mint; tn
gin'ral staff bein' witnesses FIR tn
prosecution sat with tn coort; tn
pris'ner % bein' able to find a
chair sat on tn window sill. His
interest in tn proceedings was much
noticed an caused great amuse-
ment. Ivrybody was talkin' about
tn MYSTERIOUS lady in white. Who.
is she? Some say she is a Dhry-
fussard in til imploy iv Roths-
cheeld; others says she is Madame
cheeld; others that she is an agent
iy tn Anti-Semites. No wan has
learned her name. She says she is
Madame Lucille Gazahs iv wan
hundred an eight Rue LIE Bonn
bon, an is a favorite iv tn Fr-rinch
stage. She is van iv tn great
MYSTERIES iv this remarkable
thrile.
Afther tn coort had kissed tn
witnesses tn proceedings opined.
'Tis thrue, they kiss each other.
l wanst see a Fr-rinchman go FIR to
kiss a man be tn name iy Doherty
that in~thrajooced resolutions in
favor iv Fr-rance again Germany
at a convintion. Doherty thought
ne was afther his ear an laid him
out. But in France it's diff
They begin be kissin', an this
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-09-17

PARIS September 7.-"Cherchez la
femme" says the wisdom of diplomats
and detectives. In the Dreyfus case the
proyerb, Look for the woman" has
not justified itself, no fatal female hav-
ing doomed up to supply the ever-miss-
ing mobile "in presence of whose alb
sence," according to the judicious Ber-
tulus, the magistrate is troubled" but
in revenge, any number of interesting
mesdames have been hrought upon the
scene in minor parts, from tragic mis-
cry to farcial insouciance.
At one time the fatal female was to
be the mysterious Austrian Frauline
Derry, discovered by the opera bouffe
detective Guenee, the frequenter of
high society and the grand bars;" and
serious minded French officers-like
that Lieutenant Colonel Gendron, who
himself hoped to procure from the frau
lein only interesting notes for his
course of lectures at the Ecole de
Cuerre-lamented Dreyfus' i%mprudence
in taking afternoon tea with a for
eigner, L'Autrichinne! Louis Kill,
Louis XIV, Louis XVI. and the great
Napoleon all married A~ustrians, not to
mention the present Orleans Pretender.
Nothing is more remarkable than the
present day disdain of the Paris "pa-
triot" for the foreigner. The English
wife of Labor and the American wife
of Clemenceau point clearly to odious
cosmopolitanism. When reminded that
their w MERCER cherishes a British
spouse, good Nationalist are tempted
to doubt the talk aS an invention OF the
syndicate. Yet nothing is truer; and
the Generals son recently boosted that,
had he failed in his Saint-Cyr examina-
tons, papa could have got him a com
mission in the British army.
The Parisians who carp at Clemen-
ceau's Americana are much behind the
times. That unfortunate woman from
her American home may feel a certain
satisfaction in the fact that the man
who spent her money has ranged HIM
self on the side of truth in the Dreyfus
campaign, but it is a satisfaction that
comes late in life to her. Clemenceau
married her in America. One day,
years afterward, when she r~eproached
him with mt more than usually afro
cious gallantry, he replied calmly:
stop making such a fuss. Don't you
know that you are not legally my wife
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THE rules of this club said the secro-
tary, demand that each applicant tell 4
good story before being admitt@Ls.
"AIl right replied the men Mo waS
going to ride the goat. Here goes. In /
big city two Chinese conducted rival la1t1@
dries. over one door was Chang: over thu
other IA. One day Ii caught Chang read
ing his laundry tickets through the vim
dow. Like a fash he dragged him in.
Now, gentlemen, do you knew what hap
pened?'
Give It up?"
LII hung Chang, '-Chicags News.
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asthrologist an medicine woman
9TH coort: we know her, she
supplies Evidence to all Fr-rinch
coortS") / told her me dhream. She
TURNED a r-red king an a black
knave. TIL Impor Willum an
Cap. Dhryfuss.' l says. in a fury.
1 burst forth. l had Cap. Dhry-
fuss arristed. I dashed to tn pris-
idint. He was ~a-receivin' rayfus-
ais FIR a new cabinet. I have
found tn thraitor,' says I. Hush
says he. If tn Impor Willum
hears we he'll declare war he says.
l was supplied. oh. my believed
country / cried. oh, hivin.' I
cried. What shall I do?' I cried.
They was not a minyit to lose. I
disbanded tn ARMY. l ordhered
tn navy in dhry dock. I had me
pitcher took. 1 whit home an hid
in tn cellar. FIR wan night FIR
rance was safel"
They was hardly a dhry eye In
tn house whin tn gin'ral paused.
TIL coort wept. Tn audience
wept. Siv'ral Of tn minor journ-
alists was swept out iv tn room
in tn flood. A man shoyelin' coal
in tn cellar sent up FIR an umbrel-
le. TIL lawn shook with tn con-
vulsive sobs iv tn former minis
tiers. Gin'ral MERCER raised his
damp face an blew a kiss to a for
mer minister at wan Nv tn win
dows an resumed his testimony.
CTo be continued next Sunday
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thrile opines this way:

thrile opines this way:
"Pris'ner," said tn prisiden. fv
tn coort. til eyes Nv fr-rance is
upon us. tn honor Nv tn nation is
at stake. Tn naytiona. defnces.
tn integrity iv that ARMY upon
which Fr-rance must depind in time
iy peace, tn virtue iv public life an
tn receipts iv the exposition is in
volved. Incidentally We are bein'
thried. But why dhrag in mat
Tiers iv nc importance? We ARE
i~nsthructed, accordin' to tn pa
apers. be tn Coort iv Cessation TO
permit no Evidence that does not
apply TO your connection with tn
case. AS sojers we bow to tn SUI
peryer will; we will follow out tn
instructions iv the Supreme Coort.
We have not had time to r-read
thin, but we will look at thin at
Their tn thrile. In tn manetime.
we will call upon Gin'ral MERCER.
that gallant man, to tell us tn story
iv his life"
Il obey, mon colonel" says Gin
raj MERCER, kissin' tn Coort.
Not to begin too far back an to
make a long story short, I am an
honest man an tn son Nv an honest
man. admit it,"
Good" says tn president. Dye
recognize tn pris'ner?" Il do"
says Gin'ral MERCER, Il seen him
vans dhrinkin' a shell iv Munich
beer in a caafe." marked sensa-
ton in til Coort an cries iy
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-09-17
THE cHApPYs coMpLA1Nr.

When a chappy thinks he's going at an up
10 datish clip,
And seeks the pleasant draughts OF ufe
from which 10 take q sip;
When youthful blood Is flowing through
his veins at fever heat.
And Ell the world appears TO him complete
ness most complete,
II always takes him down. Baw Jove. 10
hear somebody shout.
Little chicken does your Incubator know
ciSefi ciaeSi
You may wear the most foot ballish hair
that mortal youth can get.
And pun the n%oisiest yapors from tho
cutest cigarette;
Your cane may be a I~allaioo. your necktis
sWectly red
The cunni1gest Of chapeaux may adorn
your lovely head,
But the combination crashes when your
hear somebody shout.
Little chicken, does X.our incubator know
that you are outAH
ciaeki ciaeEi
You ask the fairest damsel IN tho world IL
To see the play. performances. entertain
nent or the show,
She says "fI1 be ~delightedip and you're
You're b the seventh heaven Of delight.
tHl nearly there.
You hear q horrid whisper from the rab-
bic and the routs
Little chicken. does your Incubator know
that you are out2"
C4uckt CTucki
Clucki ciWck.
Why cawn't a cunning chappg wear the
clothes he thinks are cufe9
If he cawn't give checks "a tailoTs, cawnfk
he have them on his &tdtz
Why should those common creatures on
the sidewalk stop and sfarez
/ feel that I could slap them on the wrists
] could. 50 there
And I feel ike SAYING "Dernmitfs' when
they laugh before they shout:
Little chicken, does your Incubator know
that you are oukTT
Ciuckt Ciucks
C9uckt Ciuckt
Ciucki Cguekt
George Y. Hobart
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pers of her family's stinginess and his
OWE sacrifices to support her-at a time
when she was giving him money. But
when he had the indelicacy to speak of
the state of her health-and that false
ly-as an excuse for his g~allantry Nine.
Esterhazy revolted and shut Ter door
forever on the man.
THE PAYS.
Meanwhile Marguerite Quatre-Doight
as she was once called at the Moulin
Rouge, laughed gayly and proudly as
'her commandment" steered their frail
boat, overloaded with sinister secrets.
through the rapids of the lola trial, his
W courtmartial and a dozen criminal
instructions. 1t was Marguerite Pays
who made the saying: "A general is
only a man." Marguerite Pays invent
ed the fower-pot hiding place for Sc
cret papers. Marguerite Pays carried
E~l5terhazy's poison for him, lest it
should be taken from him before he
could swallow it. The devotion of this
Moulin Rouge girl to the ruined French
officer never wavered. She went cheer
fully to prison for him. She sneered
at a bride of $50. 900. 1t broke Ester
hays heart because she did not take
it. Think what a time we could have
had spending it," he moaned to her in
London. Whereupon she only laughed
again. In London she is the rage, as
1.-The right sort and a real little
brick" to men who tolerate her man
only by night around the supper tables
of the Cafe Royal. Yet Esterhazy is
a great and sombre genius of whom the
world has not yet heard the last To
Marguerite he is "the man who took
me from the hell Of the Place
Blanche"
Then there is Nine. Bodson, for whom
Dreyfus-oh, a long time ago-forgot
his studies for a moment. A witness
at Rennes has testified to a remark that
will make Mr.. Bodson a historical char
acter in France. The witness did not
like the company he met at Mrs. Bod
sons, and he bIurted it out frankly at
the second interview. But | am very
happy to hear that" cried the friend
and c~onidante Of a day, who had pick
ed him up" in the Bots, don't think
those people are my friends. They are
the friends of my wife, and you must
have perceived that Dreyfus is her
lover," He wanted to chase Dreyfus
from the army; and it was then that
the solemn Monsieur Du Breuil made
the remark that has made the name of
Bodson Synonymous with Christian res
ignation: Il attributed this to his dis
content as a wronged husband, and /
responded: Monsieur Bodson, If they
were to chase out Of the French army
every officer who has taken his neigh
bor's wife, perhaps there would be a
famous cleaning up of the lists,'"
LORUP THEIR GUEST.
The Bodsons ought to be peculiarly
interesting to Americans, because it was
at their reunions-now so famous
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that our own one-time military at
tache to France, the enigmatic Captain
Borup, figured-at least in the eyes OF
the Information Dependencies, a
vague menace to the patrie. Borup
served . his country, they say, as
Schwartzkoppen and Panizzardi served
theirs, at risk and peril. When caught
trading forbidden secrets he could not
in honor plead the baby act" and tell
the truth that all the other attaches
were doing the same thing. So he ac-
cepted his lot in silence. If this ORGY
fus case will have lone no other good,
it will at least have demonstrated the
evil Of transforming honorable soldiers
into spies. And Nine, Bodson still ex-
lists. She still receives. And there are
gay times at her Sunday evenings.
without the revelation Of the Drey-
fus ease many people would still be ig-
norant Of the confidential relations al
ways tAlStllS W Tic 4&lAS PoklNN
and the janitors of Paris apartment
houses-yours or mine-when anything
worth notice goes on in them. EsteT-
Hays conciege. the woman Gerard,
kept a diary in which she wrote down
everything she saw, heard or suspect
ed, all the while maintaining the
friendliest intimacy with her tenants.
IN. Oscar Wilde" she writes, SIS he
whose condemnation occupied public
opinion" 1t is a picture as fin de
sicle as could be imagined that she con-
fdes to the judges in her precious
diary. Esterhazy, Strong, Wilde. Sher-
ard and Marguerite Quatre-D oights
dining ~joyously with the Janitor and
his wife in the janitor's back Kitchen;
Esterhazy giving Marguerite a dis
culinary Gaming" when he tracked her
to a house she ought not to have fire.
quented; Strong mysteriously fitting
back and forth with checks and copy;
and the whole troupe making a fete of
it when Esterhazy found himself in
funds. The intimacy of Strong and
Sherard with Wilde dates back to the
old days in the early nineties, when
Wilde made an important literary fig
ure in the capital, the friend Of Catulle
Mendes, the Goncourts and a host OF
~notables. 1t was only after his return
to Paris. however, that he seems TO
have been introduced TO Esterhazy and
his strangely nicknamed Marguerite.
Strong and sherard were still living to-
gether in an apartment opposite the
Church Of st. Vincent de Paul. near the
house of which Jules Guerin has made
a fortress. AS Strong quarraled with
Esterhazy and Sherard. and Sherard
with Wilde and Strong, with mutuN
examinations in the Paris press, Mar
guerite Pays turns out to be the sweet
est tempered person Of the lot. She
has quarreled with no one. She COM
plains Of no one.
STERLING HELLO.