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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-11-30
M6AICdH uUIIdTo II 14C.
Government bonds strong.
DtdtC UO1to THU U 2
Railroad bonds firm.


Railroad bonds firm.
Stocks-Prices Of stocks were on
the whole very well sustained to-day. in
spite of some factors making for reac-
ton. Chief of these was the continued
hardness Of the money market, the
further slump in Leather and the move
ment to take profits in the trunk line
stocks which have advanced so ag-
gressively for some time past. This
profit taking movement was the near
est to official confirmation that could be
had of the numerous published reports
and rumors of consolidation of con-
troll of the great trunk lines. Those
favored with advance information Of
such a project would naturally be SELL
ers when the news became public prop
erty and brought in outside buyers. A
good proportion of to-day's outside buy
ers thus invited operated by cabled Or
ders from London. Americans shared
in the general strength in that market
on account Of reports of British mill
tary success against the Beers. Lon
don buying was also attracted by the
publication of the currency reform
measure to be pushed by the dominant
pa ~ QL ItlC tOAll4h6 CCo1ACh VI COAf
gress This buying for London ac-
count was the mainstay of the market
and the spotty strength displayed here
and there by individual stocks, many
of them very obscure, kept the market
firm in face of the uneasiness over the
money outlook. To-morrow's holiday
also prompted some closing up Of short
accounts, while London's buying was
the main sustaining factor, the further
hardening on the London money rate
and fears of an advance in the Bank
of England rate tomorrow discouraged
operations for the long account. The
demand for money kept the rate at
seven per cent and above unit had
this mostly satisfied when it fell below
4 per cent in the late dealings and the
stock market hardened in response.
The sub-treasury's disbursements on
account of bond redemptions were con-
siderably below 100000 and the
treasury statement from Washington
showed the days revenue receipts
nearly $1,700,000 in excess of eXpendi-
lures. AS this is the last day for
which the treasury departments offer
to redeem bonds holds good, the total
lOI ISucupllOHS are DuL
little over half the amount of the total
offered. The feeling is general in Wall
street, however, that the period of the
offer will be extended and a safety
valve against pressure of money rates
thus supplied A further decline in New
York exchange at Chicago to 80 cents
discount against 20 cents yesterday and
a downward movement in New York
exchange at other domestic centres
were against the supposition that New
York is gaining this week on the in
terror currency movement, as was the
case last week. Fractional net gains
are the rule in stocks and they rise
ito a point or over in only few ex-
ceptional cases.
The bond market was quiet and
prices showed improvement as the day
progressed. Total sales, par value, ST.
$4,000.
United States IS advanced x in the
r.,
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-11-30
ywgy Pennsylvania Stations.
[vagPnnSulvdnld LINES.
Trains Run BY Ienlral liRs.

Sunday only.
Ticket Offices at Pennsylvania station on
Water street. foot Of Eleventh street,
wheeling and at tho Pennsylvania
Station, Bridgeport.
SOUTHWEST SYSTEM PAN HANDLE
ROUTE
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-08-03


The Goethe Society of Vienna has
just discovered the real story that lies
back of Goethe's beautiful creation Of
"Mignon," which has passed into so
many. songs and even into ar opera.
This story runs that in 1864 an Ital-
ian equilibrist, named Caratta, went to
Gottingen with his troupe. In his
company was child, evidently of good
family, who took her Part with marked
reluctance. The report soon spread
that the child had been kidnapped ty
Caratta, but he fed, and escaped all in
quiry.
The fate of the II year old Petronel-
la, as she was called, caused a great
sensation in Gottingen. Young poets of
the town wrote on the theme, and Dan
iel Schneider, one Of the university stu
dents, collected these poems into a
volume. Soon after Schiebler went to
Leipsic, where he was thrown much
with Gothic, and told him the sad tale
of little Petronella. A decade later
this Petronella became one of the most
charming of poetic creations.--Goethe's
"Mignon."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-08-03


cries they could certainly be improved
upon, yet his endeavors were praise
worthy"
This is what the Commissioners for
the Park said of their achievement.
Peter B. Sweeny was president then
and Henry Hilton was vice-president
and treasurer The quotation is from
their thirteenth annual report:
"A very wide interest, both in this
country and in Europe, has been ex-
cited among scientific men by this in
teresting and novel undertaking. The
proceedings of the Commissioners OF
the Park in this matter have been al
luded to, commented upon and COM
mended by scientific journals both at
home and abroad 1t would be diff
cult to insure too great care in the
preservation of the wonderful remains
of animal organizations of past times
that are from time to time discovered
in different parts of the country. There
are examples of fossil remains lying in
public and private collections of the
country that in the interest of science
should be utilized and placed where
they can be got at by those specially
interested in this department of in
quiry. It is very difficult, except
through the offer of a reward in
money, to impress upon those who in
excavating casually come upon fossil
remains the Importance of handling
them with care. They are often to
them nothing but bones, and a strike
of the pick or a scoop of the shovel
may in an instant irrecove1ably de-
stroy or cast away a fragment that
might serve to establish or refute re-
eeived ideas of the past eras of our
globe
THE group of ancient animals, liv
ing during the secondary geological
epoch, which is now being modelled
and restored to natural size and ap-
pearance of natural life by Mr.. Haw-
kins for Central Park. consists of the
gigantic Haduosaurus, one twenty
six feet long and one thirty-nine feet
long. as proved by fossils described by
Joseph Leidy in the Smithsonian con-
tributions to knowledge, also models of
the Laelaps Aquilungius, as described
by Cope. together with the Elasmosau-
rus anG the Mosasaurus. OF the past
tertiary epoch there are the mas
todon. the mammoth, megatherium,
the megalonyz and the glytodon.'
These groups excited awe and some
times terror in the breasts of specta-
tors. Some, too, were incredulous,
though not from scientific reasons.
They believed there never had been
OF never could be such objects alive.
Neither Adam nor Noah had referred
to them. Probably they were a fraud
Mr.. Hilton seems to have had an opin-
ion of Mr.. Hawkins restorations not
altogether different 20 that held by
these worthy folk. He pondered on
the righteousness of the monsters be-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-08-03
OUR BEST BELOVED WOMAN.

who OF the Present Century win Oc-
cupy First Place in the Peoples Hearts?
Edward Box, in the Ladies Home
Journal, replying to correspondent
asking who will be the most widely
beloved woman of the nineteenth CEN
fury, considers Martha Washington as
having very firm place in the affec-
tons of the people, Naturally" he
says, "the conspicuous position ac-
corded the wife of a president of the
United States gives rare opportunities
for a woman to attract and hold the
love of nation, and in this respect
Mrs. Mckinley has been singularly
successful. But, after all, a woman's
qualities as a woman must remain the
strongest forces to her claims of re-
spect and affection. 1t is not alone
because Dolly Madison was the wife
of James Madison that Americans hold
her memory in tender regard as a
woman of unexampled heroism. Lucy
Webb Hayes won the respect and love
of thousands on grounds other than by
right of her title as the wife of the
president. 1t is not because Frances
Folsom Cleveland is the wife of an ex-
president Of the United States that she
holds so large a place in the affections
OF the American people OF the many
daughters of the presidents only one
is remembered-Nelli Grant; and yet
a presidents daughter is only whit
less conspicuous in the eyes of the
country than is her mother Harriet
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-08-03
New York Letter.

Even in the world of fossils there
has been life recently, and the study
of the remains of extinct animals has
progressed rapidly during the last few
years. Perhaps no one thing shows
this advancement more distinctly than
comparison of the sort of "restora-
tions" of ancient life animal artists
and sculptors made thirty years ago
with the reservations that are making
to-day. Compare, for instance, the
groups of restored monsters which the
English artist Waterhouse Hawkins
made for Central Park about 1868 with
the reservations now in the American
Museum of Natural History. which are
like those it is proposed to put in
Cope Lake, in Bronx Park. Mr.. Haw-
kins had executed several reservations
for the Crystal Palace gardens, Sgd
enham, London, and had thereby gain
ed fame. The reservations in Cope
Lake, named after the great paleonto-
logist, Professor Z. d. Cope, will be
something like; those that were in
the bosky bower near SiXty-fourth
street, on the east side of Central Park,
were something unlike'-with a
strong accent on the ''un." That was
not astonishing, however, when one
considers how comparatively few spe-
cimens Mr.. Hawkins had to take his
measurements from. He had to draw
on his imagination, and he did so, I'M
der the circumstances, exceedingly
well. Many New Workers remember
those wonderful Hawkins groups, and
will recall perhaps their untimely end.
1t is too bad they are gone. They
should have been preserved for their
historical value, as relics of relics
reliquae reliquarum.
The Park Board was proud of its
strange exhibit in the days of 6S. The
Rev. H. N. Hutchinson, B. A., F. G. S.,
says: 'Mr. Waterhouse Hawkins
reservations in Central Park naturally
attracted a good deal of attention; and
although in the light of later discov-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-08-03
Mid Scenes Of Prehistoric Time To Be Reproduced

ing exposed to public view and decid-
ed that the Park Commissioners were
not acting according to Scripture. In
deed, in several things he was quite in
harmony with some of those who held
it to be wicked to open the museums
on Sunday. So, hiding his time, Mr.
Hilton finally had opportunity to vent
his Indignation and ease his con-
science. AS a result of his efforts the
plaster of paris fragments of the res
torations of the worthy Hawkins now
lie buried over near the sheepfold,
deep down, beyond all danger of con-
Eliminating anything more serious
than earthworms. This ended the
effort of the Park Board at free OBJ
ject lessons in paleontology.
The present generation has never
seen the Hawkins effigies. Therefore
several illustrations to show the gift
of imagination and the anatomical or
iginality possessed by the distinguish
ed Englishman. He meant well, and
he did the best he could; perhaps Mr..
Hilton likewise
Professor Osborn of the American
Museum of Natural History, who is to-
day among the very foremost authori-
ties on geological remains, will have
charge of whatever work is to be done
in Cope Lake, in the Bronx. He has in
his department an exceptionally able
artist named knight, who as an ami
NAL painter was associated with Mr..
Rowly, the chief taxidermist of the
museum. Professor Osborn noticed
Mr.. Knights cleverness, and suggest
ed to the young man that he try his
hand on some reservations. He did so
with such success that the professor
straightway gave him permanent job
as restorer in chief, Mr.. J. Pierpont
Morgan supplying the necessary funds
Mr.. Knight entered upon his new du-
ties with ardor. He studies the fossil
remains from an anatomical point as
carefully as any of the psychologists
in the museum, and under Mr.. Rowlys
direction he has become an expert
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-08-03
Tinsel Fabrics for Summer.

This is a glittering season. Summer
dress goods continue to be woven with
tinsel threads and very pretty are the
effects thus obtained. In the dark
materials the cleaning
suggestive tinsel is most effective. The
newest gauze used, either as a trim
ming Or fer entire evening gowns.
comes traced in swirling design in gold
and silver threads, and the latest
mousseline de sole is embroidered with
glittering threads. To the English is
due the praise for the luminous pow
der which when applied to fabrics
gives them the brilliant, scintillating
coloring of the opal by day and rem
ders them phosphorescent by night.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-08-03
Eugenie's Rival.

Eugene, widow of Napoleon Ill, is
the subject of a romantic story that
Frenchmen are telling just now.
Across the quiet pathway of the ex-
empress life passed recently stout
and ugly Englishwoman. The two rec
ognized each other as rivals half a
century ago for the affections of Louis
Napoleon, emperor of France 1t was
touch and go for some time, but Miss
Howard, the then lively English girl.
was discarded in favor of Eugene.
They met no more after Eugenie's
marriage to the emperor until chance
threw them together in their old age
recently.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-08-03
Philippine Hemp.

1t is worth noting in regard to the
famous hemp produced exclusively in
the Philippines that the plant yields,
in fact, two qualities, with important
industrial or commercial adaptations
in each case. From the best. or
fibrous outer leaf comes the coarse
strong fiber, which is the best material
used for sailcloths and cordage, it be-
ing particularly recommended by the
fact that it is not easily rotted by salt
water. The fiber yielded by the inner
stalks is fine and weak, and from it
are woven textile fabrics superior in
softness and lightness to those made
of the best Russian hemp, these fao-
RIGS, however. being seldom exported,
as they are bought by Chinese mer-
chants at Manila for local consump-
ton. 1t is found that, under the best
conditions, Manila hemp produces the
very large quantity of 5000 pounds of
fiber to the acre, and, though between
5000, 900 and 100000 bales have been
exported in the last ten years, the in
dustry is admitted to be still in its in
fancy.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-08-03
a CLEVER GIRL.
How She Fooe ed the other Girls Neatly
and CompleteIy.


The girl of my heart came home to
attend cousins wedding on Thursday
OF last week and she stayed in town for
two days before going back to school
for the commencement which will
make her sophomore, says the Wash
ington Post. 1t wouldn't be fair to tell
the name of her school, hut it's an ex-
cellent one, where the fashions of the
mems college are followed, even to
the possession of a college yell and the
practicing of hazing. The girl of my
heart was hazed last fall. She did not
faint when the girls touched her arm
with bit of ice and said they were
branding her with an iron. She en-
dured every ordeal so smilingly that
the girls at last determined to do some
thing perfectly dreadful. They
marched her through dark halls, blind
folded as she was, opened closet door
in the physical laboratory, snatched
the bandage from her eyes, pushed
her in, locked the door and left her
shrieklng in the arms of skeleton.
Now, skeleton to her is no more ter
rifying than hoopskirt, but she saw
an opportunity to amuse herself. She
is one Of the cleverest amateur actress
es Washington possesses. She let
down her hair and tangled it about her
face. Her gown was an old one, so she
sacrificed it and tore it to tatters.
Then she waited. Presently she heard
the girls returning. She began to
Groom softly to herself a weird song.
The girls opened the door. She took
no notice of them, but went on lavish
ing kisses on the grinning skull, laugh
ing idiotically to herself the while.
Finally one of them whispered: Girls,
she's raving mad" That was the cue
for the girl of my heart. She raved;
she tore her hair; she shrieked when
they tried to draw her away from the
skeleton; she laughed; she flung her
self about, and finally danced out into
the outer room, moaning in a blood
curdling way. The girls dared not
even breathe. They were CHASTITY.
They clung to each other and shud-
dered. The girl of my heart danced to
the door, caught up a knife from ia
bic, waved it with a hideous scream
and sprang at them. Then, as they
huddled together in a perfect agony of
fright, she dropped the knife and
opened the door. "Well, girls" she
said, drawlingly, 81 hope you've en-
Joyed the fun; I'm sure have" Then
she disappeared, and a dozen crest
fallen girls, too frightened to dare to
go into Mysteries, too much relieved to
be angry, stole quietly away. ley
are clever girls at that college, but the
girl of my heart is bell wether OF the
flock
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-08-03

ON his own hook. John was a widower
himself, and being a practical sort Of
a man, he went to work right away
putting the farm and the house into
shape. One day 1 happened over mis-
way and found him digging hole in
the back yard.
What's that for?' says I, walking
around, and looking over things.
"'That's a syclone cellar, Mr.. Bis
KUN, says he.
"A cyclone cellar? says I, consider
ably astonished What do you want
a cyclone cellar for? This amt kan
sas.'
81 know it amt says he, but you
know, Mr. Biskum, and he got very
confidential, I'm going to git married,
and cyclone cellar may come IN
mighty handy occasionally.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-08-03
ICE-LoCkED kLoNpIkE.
How Nature Turned the Key and the
Ice Went Out in the Yukon.

How Nature Turned the Key and the
Ice Went Out in the Yukon.
San Francisco Chronicle: The icy
letters which have held the Yukon cap
tive since Nov. 3, 1898, broke quietly at
APO p. M, May II. 1899, and with as
little evidence Of its great destructive
power as the live wire gives of its
deadly current. The event was her
aided with a clamor of whistles and
sturdy yells from thousands of Threats.
There was nothing spectacular in the
display. The river rose rapidly. sew
eral feet in the space of a few mo-
ments, and the ice foe gained the
velocity of an express train. With the
ice went the winters accumulations of
filth, clearing away the dreaded source
of disease. The rivers banks were
black with people watching for the
promised sensations of the breakup.
but nothing occurred to break the
monotony of the steady procession of
ice aside from temporary blockade
which lasted from 6 until II p. m. The
stately procession continued uninter-
rupted for two days, when the river
ran clear of ice and natures highway
was opened
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-08-03

1t isn't as polite as it is intended to
be to say that person has the appe-
tite of bird. If a human being ate
as much proportionately as does the
average bird the sight would be dis
gusting. In one shrike there have been
found the remains Of 70 caterpillars. "a
bugs, one field mouse and one leech. A
field hawk that was observed for a
month is credited with a record OF
1000 mice in that time A tame owl
ate seven mice, one after the other,
and three hours afterward ate four
more. The robin eats on an average
of fourteen feet Of worms daily.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-08-03

Speaking of wives and their DISPOSE
tions and tendencies said Mr.. BiskUm
to the evening crowd in front of his
crossroads store, according to the
Washington Star, there was John
Brunt that lived for ten years in the
cyclone belt of Kansas, trying to raise
corn and mortgages and things like
that, until he was able to borrow mon
ey enough to get back to Maryland
again without walking more than halt
way. John come right to me, and let
him have a job on my farm at $40 a
month, for he was a hard worker ard
thrifty. At the end of the first year he
had got the Widow Aliens promise to
marry him in October, and he rented
nice little farm to begin business again
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-08-03


modeler. Mr. Rowly is of the new
school of animal mounters He does
more than prepare skin, stuff it as
full of straw as it will hold and then
balancing it one way or another, call it
mounted. He arranges form for the
skin and molds the form so as to dis
play the lines or muscles as they
would show in life. He is, indeed a
sculptor
Mr.. knight makes models from
measurements taken from as many
fossil skeletons as are accessible, and
having got this model into shape he
makes his sketch in black and white, or
in color, as the case may be. He has
achieved results far beyond those of
any other artist in the same field. The
results of the best work of Rowly and
of Knight are now on exhibition on
the fossil and mammal floors of the
museum.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-08-03

Lane, as the niece Of James Buchanan,
occupied officially the relation of a
presidents daughter, and few young
women have won for a presidents ad-
ministration so large a share of the
affection of the people, and gracious
Winnie Davis won the love of every
Southerner Harriet Beecher Stowe,
Louisa May Alcott, Frances E. Willard.
Clara Barton, Margaret Bottome and
Maud Darlington Booth also have Sc
cure places in the hearts of the peo-
pie"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-08-03
McKiuley.s Barber.

Washington Correspondence Phila-
delphia Bulletin: There has been
quite contest over an important po-
sition at the White House during the
last week, and great deal of wire
pulling and office-seeking has been
done. The presidents barber died
few days ago. and there has been
great rush of Washington BARRIERS to
the White House to secure the place
of tonsorial artist to the president.
Every man who ever shaved the presi-
dent while he was in congress applied
for the place and brought up the al
legged fact that the president said he
was the best barber he ever had. The
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-08-03
HOW A FILIPINO DIES.
Usually Stretches Himself Out and Meets
His Death Easily.

His Death Easily.
The general, in a white hat, was
marching in advance of the firing line
when the discharge of rifle was heard
in the yard of house next to the road.
Several soldiers rushed into the yard,
but not in time to prevent two more
shots, which came whizzing in the di-
rection of the general. At this moment
came to break in the hedge, where l
could see what was going on. A young
Filipino was about thirty yards off.
He was turning this way and that like
an animal at bay, thoroughly fright
ened. He had a rifle in his hand. It
afterward turned out that this rifle
was choked. The soldiers were break
ing down the high hedge to get in.
Suddenly the Filipino made a run for
life. He got through the hedge some
way and dashed across an open lot.
Three shots followed, all of which
took effect. The wounded man turned,
ran sideways few PAGES, lay down on
the ground, and a second after was
dead. | got good sight of the whole
incident, and so naturally did the Fill
ipino stretch himself along the ground
and rest his head upon his arm that l
thought he was shamming. An exam
nation a minute later proved that he
was dead. There is this difference be-
tween the manner in which American
and Filipino soldiers die-the Ameri-
can falls in heap and dies hard; the
Filipino stretches himself out, and
when dead is always found in some
easy attitude, generally with his head
on his arms. They die the way wild
animal dies-in just such position as
one finds a deer or an antelope which
one was shot in the wood Harper's
Weekly.