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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-08-30
Street DECORATIONS
For Merchants Day Arranged f6l
Last Evening,

BY THE COUNCIL COMMITTEE ON
LIGHTS-HIS HONOR, THE May
OR, MR.. SCHWERTFEGER OF
THE BUSINESS MEMS COMMIT
TEE, AND A COMMITTEE OF
THE KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS
PRESENT-THE DETAILS OF
THE SCHEME OF ILLUMINA-
TION.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-08-30
NOT PERMANENTLY INJURED.

LONDON, August Pa specialist
consulted by Walter Wellman. reports
the injury to Mr.. Wellman's right leg.
will not be permanent.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-08-30

The END IN SIGHT.

One more short week Of big selling and the
Sample Lingaman Go. stock Of merchandise will
be thing Of the past. Last week we gave
away thousands OF dollars worth Of merchan-
dise-each dollars worth sold bringing in about
fifty cents This week we PROPOSE TO Do
EVEN BETTER, as two of our buyers are now
East purchasing the Fall and Winter stock,
and every vestige Of Summer Goods must be
closed out to make room for what promises to
be the best stock Of goods every shown by this
store. Come in and Guy goods from us this way.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-08-30
PASSED OFT TO SEA.

DELAWARE BREAKERS, Del,
August 29.-The battleship Alabama
passed out at S:45 a. m. for her build
er's trial at sea-
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-08-30
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
By the Opera House Band at Wheeling
Park Tonight

The Opera House band and orchestra has
made extensive preparations for entertain
ing its friends at Wheeling Park tonight.
A special late car service on the Wheeling
and Bellaire lines will be a great conven-
fence The concert programme follows:
March. Promotion" Boyer
Overture, "Orpheus'' ........... Offenbach
Solo for cornet, shepherds Morning
Song Observation-Disclosures. Suppe
Selection, 1.-THE Jolly Musketeer'' Edwards
Intermisson.
Descriptive Fantasia, THE Fall of Jer-
icho" ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS aillochand
(a) Waltz Intermezzo Filtration" Steck
lb) March. 'Dusky Dudes" Jean Schwartz
Grand Selection from Balfes opera,
March. THE Smoky Mokes' HOFFMAN
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-08-30
MARKS FROM BELOW.

PARKERSBURG-Riv - inches and
stationary. Weather cloudy: mercury SIS.
POINT PLEASANT-River II feet and
falling. Clear.
CINCINNATI-River Al feet and falling.
Clear.
CAIRo-River SO feet and falling. Fair
and hot.
EvANSvILLE-River feet and falling.
Clear and pleasant.
MEMPHIS-River SIS feet and falling.
Clear and warm.
inches in canal; feet on the falls: feet
5 inches below the locks. Clear and pleas
ant.
At midnight the marks on the wharf
showed a stage of feet inch and falling.
The water continues to recede at all the
upper points.
To-days boat for New Matamoras is the
Lulu F., departing at II a. m.
Yesterday was another dull day at the
wharf, not single packet passing in or
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-08-30
GOOD SHOES. 1919 riAiN.
The River.

MARKS FROM ABOVE.
PITTSBURERiver feet and falling.
Clear and warm.
MORGANTOWN-Rive feet inches
and stationary. Clear and warm.
STEUBENVILLE-Riv i foot 9 inches
and falling Weather clear and warm
WARREN-River at low water mark.
Weather clear and warm
OIL CITY-River inch below zero and
stationary. Weather clear and warm.
and stationary.
GREENSBORO-Rive feet 2 inches and
stationary. Weather fair and warm.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-08-30
Fine Piano for Sale.

On Monday, August 28th, we shall
offer Mr.. F. ]. Hearne's fine Kranich
& Bach upright piano for SALE The
piano has been left with us to dispose
of as quickly as possible, and in order
to sell it quickly we will sell it at a
bargain.
For further particulars call at our
store, 1910 Market street, where the
piano can be seen.
F. w. BANNER co.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-08-30

Turtle Soup made of turtle. at Hoe
& McKeever's new saloon, ISL Market
street, tonight.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-22
THE TRUE MONEY VALUE. /"

The Simonton injunction case, seeking
to set aside the moderate tax levy inn
posed by the Corporation Commission,
is being carried into every neighborhood
in the State. 1t is believed to hinge
upon whether the tax assessors have
followed the law and assessed other
property at Its true value in money. =
Attorneys of the railroads visited seven
counties last week seeking to secure
affidavits from tax assessors stating
that in making assessments they put
the real and personal property on the
tax lists at not more than fifty per cent
Of its value. Ii it is true that assessors
have put any PROPERTY on the tax lists at
only fifty per cent Of its .'true money
value the taxpayers will be glad to
know it so that the property escaping
taxation may be reached next year. 1t
has been suggested that il in any county
the assessors have Systematically un-
deryalued other property the assessment
of railroad property for taxation in that
county will be allowed to stand as it
was in 1898 while in those counties that
have given ''the true value in money"
the 1899 assessment Will stand How
ever that may be- the assessors. citi-
zens and officers in each county should
see to it that the real condition affect
ing assessment Of property is furnished
in this important suit. 1t will furnish
information that will be of value to
legislators in framing the next Reve-
nue. Act as well as in the pending liti-
CATION.
While this is case involving no Fed
eral question and it is a bald usurpation
Of authority for the Federal courts to
undertake to assume jurisdiction of
State assessments for taxation, it has
claimed and exercised jurisdiction in a
case arising in Tennessee. Tt therefore
is essential that the assessors furnish
the evidence as to the basis of assess
ment, whether real and personal proper
ty have been assessed at sits true value
in money" according to law, or at forty
or fifty per cent of its true value in
money" as claimed by the railroads.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-22
DEATH OF DR.. GREASY.

The death of Rev. William s. Greasy
ID. D.. of the North Carolina Confer.
ence, will be widely deplored. He was
a short time ago in the prime of a VIC.
orous manhood, in the pride of intelIec.
tual power, filling with great accepta.
bility the first pulpit of the Methodist
church in the Western North Carolina
Conference Some months ago there
was break down, but it was hoped
that treatment in a sanitarium in Bal.
timore would restore his strength and
health. That hope proved delusive. 1t
is sad to see so strong and able man
perish in the height of his usefulness.
Servant Of God, well done:
Rest from thy loved employ;
The battles fought, the victory's won.
Enter thy Masters joy"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-22
MCDOWELL DEMOCRATS ARE ALIVE.

The opponents of the Constitutional
Amendment in Eastern North Carolina
are wont to say, "Oh, well, we do not
doubt that Eastern North Carolina will
give a majority for the amendment. You
are here In the negro section Of the State
and naturally influenced by the big ne
gro vote. But in the West it is different.
Wait till you hear from the West.
That vote will paralyze YOU"
That is the same kind of talk we heard
in 1898. The Fusionists said THE negro
racket as they called the White SIT
premacy campaign, wouldn't work west
of Raleigh. When the returns came in
they saw that the West was quite as
strong for White Supremacy as the
East.
History will repeat itself. The West
will vote for the amendment in order
to make White Supremacy permanent
just as they voted in 1898 to restore
White Supremacy. The Old Fort meet
ing gave the lie to the talk about the
West. 1t shows that the West is even
more alive than the East.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-22
NO SYMPATHY FOR SUFFERING CUBANs

Cleyeland's Secretary of Agriculture
made himself ridiculous by talking about
everything in the world except farming.
McKinley's Secretary started out on a
much better line and has talked deal
of sense about farming If he will stick
to it, he will earn his salt and do great
good to the farming interests of the
country. He is in danger, however, OF
not only falling into J.. Sterling's error,
but Of doing worse.
Secretary Wilson has been out to the
Pacific coast recently. Upon his return
this interview is given out:
did you meet any of the volunteers
returning from the Philippines? p
Yes. / went through the hospital and
talked with the men there. / also saw
the regiments march from the dock TO
camp, and have not seen such soldiers
since the civil war They were as fine
examples of soldiers as / have ever
seen or have ever been seen in any
country. They were the finest types
of American manhood.
did you notice any striking differ
ence between those who came home and
those who were going out to the Philip
pines?'
mo other difference than that be-
tween veterans and recruits. The re-
turning soldiers were veteran soldiers,
and in perfect condition. They were
glad to get home, but also glad thar
they had gone, and / would not be sur
prised to see hundreds and thousands
of them appear again at the recruiting
stations ready to re-enlist, after they
have been home a few weeks. In the
hospital there were 1873 men, but they
were not all suffering from disease due
to their service in the Philippines. There
were but two cases of typhoid fever and
several other cases Of fever. One man
said he had been sent to the hospital be-
cause he sprained his ankle chasing a
rabbit. another had been hurt while
wrestling with a comrade; another cut
his little finger, anil SO on. There were
many who were in the hospital who
laughed over the fact that they were
there, and that their names Went 70
swell the hospital record Of the troops
in the Philippines. But they were found
unfit for military duty and they were
IN the hospital.
did they complain Of their treatment
while in the Philippines"
Not those | heard. Some complain
ed that General Otis had not allowed
them to do more fighting and thought
that had they been in command they
could have handled the situation better
and whipped the insurgents sooner, but
] never saw private soldier who did
not have that opinion Of his command
ing officers. Tt is just as natural for
the private soldier to think he could do
better than the general as it is for the
man under orders in any department
of industry to think that he could direct
the whole machine better than the man
at the head We all have a weak
ness for that kind of kicking, and that
was the only kind of kicking | heard
from the soldiers returning from the
Philippines"
That's the sort of sympathy men in
the hospital, whose health in many in
stances has been destroyed by expos
IRE in the malarial country, get from
the officials who sent them to destroy
the Declaration of Independence when
they had only volunteered to fight to free
the starving Cubans
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-22
SOMEBODY or FlRMNESS AND COMMON
SENSE WANTED"

The Washington Post, which has been
soaring aloft on the wings of manifest
destiny and other like gauzy pinions
has finally 'slit." lit is tired of the poll
CIV of interference ia the affairs of other
people, which has "becn played to a
foolish and disheartenng end" It calls
loudly for somebody of frmness and
common sense" who SHOULD be in a po-
sition to put an end to- !. 'any more
Of that sort of humbug' We publish
the Posts editorial elsewhere.
1T is, perhaps, too much to hope that
all of sudden our brilliant contempor-
airy will plant itself ON Washington S
Farewell address and discard the imam
ifest destiny sky-scraping of the little
fellows who rattle around in big places.
The Post has been looking too long
through rose-tinted glasses upon the
expansive glories of imperialism
for it to come back in a day
to the honlespun doctrine of ZEN
tangling alliances with none" But
when the Post declares itself tired of
interference in the affairs or other peo-
foolish and disheartening end we see
that the Post is not far from grace, and
when it calls for somebody of firmness
and common sense who SHOULD be in
a position to put an end to it, we know
that the Post is very near the king
DOM 1t is true that our esteemed con-
temporary still wants to eat Aguinaldo,
but that one piece of bloodthirstiness
is to be expected even in so able d
journal as the Post, considering that it
has had a rather unsatisfying diet of
moonshine and manifest destiny for
some months, but it respects the Fill
pinos and wants ito offer them the or
portunity of self-government under a
protectorate."
The Post yields great power in the
Republic power to which its great
ability entities it. There will be wide
spread qualification to see that it is get
ting back to its oldLtime posi-
ton that it is not the BUSH
ness of America to ''inferfere
in the affairs of other people, If
man 'of tirmness and common sense
like Washington or Jackson were in
the White House. that sort of hurnbug''
would not last ten days. He would
first of all give the Filipinos assurance
Of their independence, and having done
that righteous act would enforce order
without delay. O, for Somebody IF
firmness and common sense" to put an
end to- the policy of militarism and inn
perialism which threatens the very mud
sills Of the American Republic as found
ed by the fathers!
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-22
STORM DID GREA DAMAGE
Some of the Crops in Beaufort County
We're a Total Loss.
Wilmington Messenger.)

Reports that are coming from the
country indicate that the recent Storm
was the severest that has passed over
the county in years. Cotton and corn
and tobacco remaining uncut is nearly
u total loss. One Of the best farmers
in the county, said: IF the crop in the
county was worth 10000 last Monday.
it is not worth more than $4,000 now
But as all the telephone mes are down
it is impossible to 60 into Il detailed
statement of the damage. The Pantego
mail man, after trying TO get through
yesterday had to return to this city.
He tired again this morning, with the
result that he found the Beaver Dam
mill dam washed away, and returned and
tried to get through by another route
only to find all the bridges washed away.
We hear that Edwards mill and the
Broad mill dams are both broken From
a careful estimation the damage Ivy the
storm will reduce the crops ut least two
thirds
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-22
Spirit of the Press,
TIME TO LET THEM ALONE.
Washington Post.

TIME TO LET THEM ALONE.
Washington Post.
| One would suppose under normal con-
ditions, that Secretary Hay is to be
| credited with the arrest and presumably
| final disposal of the Dominican agitator.
| Jiminez, at Cienfugos Cuba, day or
I two ago. We have had quite enough of
ineddling with the instructions, the
struggles, and the pestiferous theatricals
of these hare-legged peoples in the An
titles, and it is high time that somebody
of trmness and common sense should
be in a position to put an end to if.
We should be glad to gather from this
action that there is to be little il any
more of that sort of humbug.
,Jiminez seems to be, like his fellow
countryman, Maxine Gomez, a mere inn
pudent adyenturer, disturber and an
incendiary. But, however that may be,
we have been by this time sufficiently
educated in half-breed political erup-
tons to let them severely alone, and to
refuse to recognize their representatives.
The farce of humane interference in the
affairs of other people has been played to
foolish and disheartening end. We
know, now, that neither the Cuban in
surgents nor the grooming Filininos were
worth protecting, and we have received
in both cases only ingratitude and
treachery. The Filipinos have at least
shown capacity for fighting some
thing the Cuban insurgents never did
and we can well afford after having
captured and hung Aguinaldo, to offer
them the opportunity of self-government
under protectorate. Their courage
and devotion entitle them to our respect.
The representatives and the so-called
armies Of the Cuban instruction should
not be considered in our scheme at all
If we are to fulfill our pledge to the
civilized world and discharge our lawful
responsibilities to the nations in Chris
tendon, we must rear the structure of
enlightened and free government in
Cuba with the material furnished by the
taxpayers, the property holders and the
substantial classes of the population.
But we cannot afford to enlarge the
arena of our difficulties. We want moth
ing TO do with such alleged republics as
Haiti and Santo Domingo. Let them
quarrel and cut each others Threats as
they may, but let us have no relations
with their exiles, their juntas, their
fugitive statesmen, and their ridiculous
affairs in general.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-22
BIG RAILROAD TRUST
Columbia Cor. News and Courier.

Columbia Cor News and Courier
1t looks very much like the railroad
situation is resolving itself 10 a grand
consolidation of the Soarnern, the Lou
isville and Nashville, the pennsylvania
and the Vanderbilt lines out ri New
York This would be the most gigantic
trlist ON earth. and woull practically
control all the lines east oe the Missis
sipp The only chance tlia' the man pt
a tree can see lis in the stlel-.tii Of thC
Seaboard and it's allies holding out. Ih,
Seaboard Is making arrangements tc
get into every port and into every int
rior city in the East with its own lines
and it looks very like our Uncle join
skeleton Williams, and his able lieuten
ant. Bunch McBee, are not to be caught
mapping.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-22
STILL. MORE CONTEMPLATING

The Secret Service has unearthed an
other band of counterfeiters and secured
a large quantity of bogus bills, whicl
are so cleyerly executed that the average
persom would never suspect them of be
ing spurious. Things of great value arr
always selected by counterfeiters for in,i
tation, notably the celebrated Hostetter'.
Stomach Bittcrs, which has many imi
tators but no equals for indigestion, ner
vousness and general debility. The Bit
tcrs sets things right i'm the stomach, anf
when the stomach is in good order il
makes good blood and plenty of it. II
this manner the Bitters get at the seal
OF strength and vitality, and restore
yigor to the weak and dedicated. Be
ware Of counterfeiters when buying.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-22
Mrs. Joe Person
REMEDY.

Mrs. II. NJ. Sample, Hopewell, Meek
lenburg county. n. c., was cured of
chronic neuralgia by using Mrs. Joe
Persons Remedy.
Mrs. James M. Thompson, Pine Level.
N. c., suffered with a blood poison in
her breast while nursing, which caused
the death Of two of her babies, and
was perfectly cured by using Mrs. Joe
Persons Remedy.
Mrs. J. NJ. Houston, Brist0w, Meek
lenburg county, n. c., was bitten by a
spider, which caused her intense suffer
ing for four weeks. Nothing gave her
relief until she tried Mrs. Joe Persons
Remedy and Wash. 1t cured her.
Mrs. s. Il. Bonner, Edenton, n. c.,
was completely run down. and suffer
ed from indigestion, headache, back.
ache, nervousness and rheumatism; was
restored to perfect health by using Mrs.
Joe Persons Remedy.
Mr.. julius Covington, McCall's, s. c.,
had his arm caught in a shafting and
badly cut and torn to pieces. 1t resulted
in running sore that nothing relieved
until he tried Mrs. Joe Persons Remedy.
It made perfect and permanent cure.
Mr.. S. l.. Patterson, Commissioner of
Agriculture, and Profs. Massey and
Johnson, of the Agricultural and Me-
chanical College, yesterday returned
from Columbus county where they have
been holding Farmers Institutes during
the past two weeks
Mr.. S. G. Davis. one of the most
popular and successful hat drummers on
the road, was here yesterday. Mr.
Davis added Texas to his territory about
a year ago and has bought an interest in
a large buv'ncss at Terrell Texas, in
which he Isl making a fine success. He
is a native franklin county.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-22
CONF ERENCE AT CLAYTON.
Sunday was the Big Election of
Officers.

Clayton, n. c., August q. Especially -
Sunday was charmingly pleasant. Rev.
j. b. Floyd preached at II a. m. A
number of good talks were had at the
afternoon meeting, and Rev. j. ii. Buff
faloe preached at might. Mr.. Buffaloe
in a senior at Trinity and expects to join
the regular work. He has native tai
ents, energy and a good idea OF sermon
izing. The people were aroused by his
sermons. May the Lord bless the young
man always. Officers We're elected on
Saturday as follows:
Rev r. G. Gully, president.
Il. b. Thomas, first vice-president.
]. IL. Buffaloe, second vicepresident.
Il. b. Adams, third yice-president.
Edwin II. Thomas. corresponding sec
rotary.
Levi Branson, financial secretary.
The time and place of the next am
nual meeting was left to be determined
by the executive committee.
Resolution were passed by the com
ference highly complimentary to the
preachers and people of Clayton. Alto
gether it was a good and useful confer
ence.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-22
DEATH OF AN EXCELLENT LADY

Wilson, n c., Aug. 21.--(SpeciaD
Mrs. NJ. r. Moye died yesterday morning
after long illness. She was an excel
lent woman, and her death will be a
shock to her numerous friends.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-22
STEAMER NEUsE ASHORE.
(Newhe1n Loalrnnl.l

A dispatch from the Norfolk office of
the II. g. ID. Line, states that the steam
err Neuse went ashore one mile southwest
of Pamdico Light on Thursday might.
Judging from the position of the steam
er it is Thought that she must receive u.s.
sistance from tugs in order to get off
Nothing can be learned as to damage
to the boat. A notice in this issue states
that the steamer NeWbern vii run in
place of the Neuse for tile present.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-22

If men could live their lives over again
they would avoid all their old mistakes
and make lot of new ones.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-22

All weak places In your system effec-
tually closed against disease by Dewitt
Little Early Risers. They cleanse the
bowels, promptly cure chronic constipa-
ton, regulate the liver, and fill you with
new life and vigor. Small, pleasant
sure; never gripe. Bobbitt, Wynne &
Co, w. II. King & Co, Adams g. Moye.
VIM. Simpson. Druggists.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-22
Machine Business.

We arc still en- hand with fHn Hns o,
-ngine boilers, saw and sriHt mills, tran
cara, the celebrated champion AesRArI
and Viewers sRA brick sAkias sas
shiaes.
RepaiSlnM DsAH ErsmMels.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-22
WILLING no OBLIGE.

Hix-''Young DIR. Pillsbury doesn't
seem to have much of practice
Dix-"No; but there is one thing to
be said in his favor"
Hix-'What's that?"
Dix He's willing to,practice on any
body that will let him.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-22

Inebriety, morphine and other drug
addictions are dependent upon diseased
condition Of the nervous system. The
victim Of the disease again and again
puts forth the most heroic efforts to re-
form, but his disease is too absolutely
oyerpowering to be conquered by reso-
lutions. The will-power he would ex
ercise if he could is no longer supreme.
Alcoholic stimulants have so congested
the delicate nerves that they cannot re-
spond to the performance of their func-
tional duties, and the helplessness of the
victims condition is as inexplcable to
himself as it seems inexcusable to his
friends. The Kelley treatment cures
this disease by restoring the nerves to
perfectly healthy state. 1t cures by
removing the cause. The result is that
by condition, and he has neither craving,
yer 100000 men and women today have
inebriety through DIR. Keeley's treat
rolina only at the Kelley Institute at
tuition is pleasant; no restraint is inn
ton; the patient only knows he is cured.