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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-02
CAN THEY justly COMPLAIN :?

The Intelligencer objects to the ap-
pellation "banditti" as applied to itc
masters, the State House gang at
Charleston.
Of course. The title, being apt and
fitting, hurts.
But what valid objection can the
organ offer to the use of the word in
this connection? Webster defines BAN
Does not this suit the Charleston
crowd to a "t?" In stealing a United
States Senator did they not openly
violate the sanctity of the ballot, the
will of the people, the law and the
Constitution, simply because they
could, because they held the power of
the State and knew they could not be
punished as law-breakers usually are?
Are they, indeed, not shade or two
worse than the common banditti? The
latter usually play an open game of
outlawry and violate no trust because
none is reposed in them. The Charles
ton outlaws were entrusted by the
people of this State with the execution
and maintenance of the very laws they
violated. They played the people false
as we'll as violated the laws. They
were hypocrites as well as law-break-
ers.
Verify, in the comparison the brown,
rough mountain bandit with his gun
and bowie knife has a shade the best
of the boiled shirt kidgloVed, smooth
spoken, but utterly desp crate and
consc.enceless banditti of the State cap
ital, who have just ruthle ssly plum
dered the whole people of West Vir-
ginia of that which is dearest to them
and most important because the foun-
dation of their welfare and their lib
erties-the suffrage and their constitu-
, tional rights.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-02
TAN THE CORPORATIONS.

In the last campaign the Register dis
cussed at considerable length with its
Republican friends the subject of Pull
man car taxation.
1t will be remembered that the board
of public works last year placed a tax
on Pullman cars. Republican organs
at once took up this act and glorifed
it as the right thing done at the right
time and they gleefully pointed to the
alleged neglect of Democratic admin
istrations and Legislatures to work this
necessary reform, although a Demo-
cratic Governor had first proposed this
tax and two successive Republican Leg
islatures had refused to take action
and had rejected measures to that end
In their dishonest zeal the organs
overstepped themselves and gave the
snap away so to speak. For, 10 and
behold, it was shown upon investiga-
ton that the board of public works
had assessed a merely nominal
tax on Pullman cars, and it
was even charged that it had
been done at the behest of the
Pullman car trust, itself, which desired
to throw a tub to the taxation whale
and by thus voluntarily paying a mere
pittance to the State, escape taxation
on the bulk of its property. 1t was
further shown that while the Pullman
trust had at least thirty cars in this
State the board had assessed it on but
FIFTEEN. 1t was. also, shown that
while these cars were worth at the
lowest possible estimate $4,000 apiece
the board at Charleston has assessed
them at but $4,000,
Saving to the trust on assessed valu-
alton of it'll property-s394, OOO-worth
even the Pullmans going after
All of this is now practically admit
ted by no less a person than Attorney
General Rueker, himself who is out
in published statement advocating a
proper tax on the Pullman and other
cor~orations, now escaping taxation in
this State, and admitting the failure
to properly assess the Pullman trust.
In other words. after it had been
made a campaign Issue by the Demo
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-02
DIED.

BAYHA-On Tuesday, January S1st. 1879.
at 0 clock a. M, az the family residence
No. l159 Market street. JACOB BAYHA
in his Slst year
Funeral services at ST. James Evan
gel.cal Lutheran church, on Thursday
afternoon at 2 O'Clock. Friends of the
family respectfully invited to attend In
terment at Peninsula cemetery. please
omit fiowers)
FOoSE--Wednesday February list. 1S99
at II:oo O'Clock p. m, Frances, wife of
John Fl. Foose, aged &C years and days.
Funeral from her late residence. No Il
Twenty-saventh street, Friday morning at
$50 O'Clock Requiem mass at St. Alphon-
sus' church at o'clock. Friends of the
family invited to attend. Interment at
Mt Calvary. Special motor will leave w.
& E. G. depot on Sixteenth street, at 10
o'clock. Kindly omit flowers.
BEANS-On Wednesday, February 1st.
lS%A at 1:l5 o clock p. m, Thomas K.
Beans, in the 18th year of his age.
Funeral services at the residence of his
daughter, Mrs. Jesse MARBLE, at McMech-
en-, Friday afternoon at l o'c.ock. Friends
of the family invited to attend. Interment
private. at Mt. Wood cemetery.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-02

AS if the actions of the Whitewash
Board were not sufficiently scandalous
in themselves in the suppression OF
testimony, it is now charged that mem
bers of the commission were in actual
conspiracy with the Chicago beef pack
ing combine to prevent the truth
about the ''embalmed beef fed to the
soldiers from leaking out. How much
longer does the administration propose
to infiict this infamous farce upon the
American people? 1t is high time
Congress were taking firm hold of this
vile scandal and probing it to the bot
tom.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-02
WONT 1T BEAR THE LIGHT

Why do the Governor, the rest of
the State House ring and the Republi-
cans in the Legislature shy at the reso-
luton to inquire into the expenditure
of the State contingent fund?
If there is no crookedness there,
what are they afraid of?
Won't some of the expenditures stand
the light of day?
The people have right to know how
this fund was expended.
Can the Republicans in the Legisla-
ture afford to go on record as denying
the people the right to know how their
money in this instance was spent?
1t would be a good plan to choke off
the contingent fund altogether if it is
to be the established rule that the
people are not to be given information
when demanded regarding the uses to
which it is put.
Meanwhile, the more anxious the
State House crowds to conceal the facts
regarding the expenditure of this fund,
the more interested the people are in
knowing exactly what was done with it.
Come, let the people see the books!
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-02
SUNDAY NEWS AGENTS.

The Sunday Register is on sale at the
following named Drug Stores and News
Stands in Wheeling and vicinity
EBERLING'S DRUG STORE, No. M35
Market street.
MENKEMELLER'S DRUG STORE, cor.
Twenty-second and Market streets.
IRWINS DRUG STORE, cor. Twenty
fourth and Chapline streets.
COLEMAN'S DRUG STORE, cor. Twenty
fifth and Chapline streets.
YAHN'S CIGAR STORE, cor. Twenty
sixth and Chapline streets.
HANDLANS DRUG STORE, cor. Twenty
seventh and Chapline streets.
STUART'S DRUG STORE, cor. Thirty
sixth and Jacob streets.
ARKLES CONFECTIONERY, No. S613
Jacob street.
COATES NEWS DEPOT, No 354S Jacob
street.
ARMBRECHT'S DRUG STORE, No. 3S41
Jacob street.
McELROY'S DRUG STORE, No. 3746
Jacob street.
HHRLEs DRUG STORE. No. 4S15 Jacob
street.
ST. GLARS DRUG STORE, cor. Forty
seventh and Jacob streets
LANTRY BROS. OLD STAND, No. 4421
Jacob street.
HAGUES DRUG STORE, No. III Six
teenth street.
EXLEY BROS DRUG STORE, cor. Zane
End Penn streets.
BURTS DRUG STORE, cor. Virginia and
South Penn streets.
FREESE'S NEWS STAND, No. 15161a
Market street.
QUIMBY'S NEWS STAND No. 1414 Mar
ket street.
GAUSS DRUG STORE, cor. Zane and
North York streets
OSWALD SCHICK, Bridgeport, Ohio
HOTEL WINDSOR NEWS STAND
McLURE HOUSE NEWS STAND
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-02
WHAT ARRANr HYPOCRISY.

Nothing has more effectually demon
strated the insincerity and arrant
hypocrisy of the State House crowd at
Charleston than their present attitude
on the fee system.
In the late campaign these political
tricksters, adopts in making fine prom
Uses to the people, duly and deliberate
ly incorporated into their State plat
form a plank in most fervent denuncia-
ton of the fee system and promising
to abolish that system if the good peo-
pie of the State would but return them
to power and give them another
chance!
Shrewd observers and those who
knew the tricksters were perfectly well
aware that they were guilty of false
hood and deliberate deception when
this plank was put into the Republican
platform. And how true this estimate
was is proven by their actions now
that they have the opportunity to keep
faith with the people.
In the Senate the other day a Demo-
crat brought them face to face with
their pledges to abolish the fee system
in the shape of preparatory .resolu-
ton calling for a statement of fees re-
ceived by the Secretary of State and
the Auditor.
A stranger in the chamber might
have thought that this Democrat had
offered a resolution to dynamite the
State House! Lo and behold, the
henchmen of the State House ring on
the floor of the Senate actually tum-
bled over one another and almost
fought to prevent the consideration Of
the resolution!
They did not dare even to adopt the
usual tactics and have the resolution
go over one day and then come up for
consideration. So deadly was their
fear that it might evade them and slip
through by some mysterious means
that they got rid of it by referring it
to the Judiciary committee by a strict
party vote.
And, yet, this simple resolution en-
bodied nothing more radical nor OBJ
jectionable than their own ante-elec-
ton promises and solemn platform
pledges regarding the abolition of the
fee system, simply calling for Informal
ton on the subject on which to proceed
to carry out said promises and pledges
to the people,
In this disgraceful exhibition the Re
publican leaders were forced into open
acknowledgment of the barefaced and
Infamous hypocrisy they have all along
been practicing upon the people in
their biennial fervent attacks upon the
fee system
When the Democrats were in power
these same Republican leaders were
hot to abolish the system root
and branch. Now that they them
selves, are in power they eat their
promises and pledges on hustings and
in platform, stultify themselves and
acknowledge their a.rant and disgust
ing hypocrisy-and maintain the in
iquitous fee SYSTEM for the fees now
go into their own pockets.
They Enow-none know it better
that they have dug their political
graves, that this is their last lease of
power in This State and tncy propose to
feather tn<lr nests wh'ie ,hey may.
Meanwhile what a spectacle they
present for the contemplation of honest
citizens.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-02

The correspondence between. the
President and the Peace Commission
shows that at first the President
wanted of the Philippines only the is
land of Luzon. At that time the Presi-
dent was on patriotic ground That
was before the Elkins- Hanna crowd
and the Wall street stockholders saw
a good thing" for themselves in COB
bling the whole archipelago.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-02
Che February Century

The February Century offers for the
entertainment of its readers quite a
number of very interesting contribu-
lions, among them Harvesting the
Nile; What Charles Dickens Did for
Children" .Franklin's Religion;" ION
the Way to the North Polei" "Alexan-
der's Conquest of Asia Minor" The
Sinking of the Merrimac," and "The
Capture of Santiago de Cuba For
sale at Stantons.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-02
THE PRESIDENT TIRED.

Washington, February Secretary
Porter said to-day that President Nc
kinley is tired and worn, but that it is
untrue that he is in any danger Of
breaking down. His health is fairly
good and all he needed was a little
rest, Mr.. Porter added.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-02
THE REGISTER AT CHARLESTON.

The friends of the Register throughout
the State will find the daily and Sunday edi-
tions of their favOrite morning paper on sale
at the Hotel Ruffner news stand. Members
Of the Legislature and visitors at Charles
ton need not miss a single copy of the Reg
lister. Orders may be left at the news stand
or sent to the office of publication, and
same will be sent by mail at the regular
rates.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-02

The Fourteenth street organ approx
ingly quotes from the Washington
Post the observation: THE West Vir-
known as a very soft mark" Now, the
Post made this remark apropos to the
alleged ease with which the Demo-
Gratis, to prevent further revolutionary
outrages by the Republican leaders,
submitted to being buncoed out Of the
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-02
fee system, what q miserable blum the
campaign attitude of the Republican
leaders was proven to be.

Senator Whitaker is to be commend
ed for his bold stand against the fee
system in opposition to his party and
its bosses at the Capital
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-02
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

st. Louis. February I'D. L. Will
Hams, of Morristown, Tenn, who was
arrested yesterday with Miss Mary E.
Morris, his sister-in-law, with whom
he eloped, attempted suicide to-day.
He ate the heads of matches.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-02

The country will watch the contest
of the Senator al seat from this State
with interest THAT no court of justice
would decide MI. Scott legally elected
is beyond reason able dispute. To seat
him the Senate of the United States,
as Mr. McGraW puts it, will have to
overturn the prec edents OF a hundred
years. 1t remains to be seen if the
Republican majority in the Senate can
act fairly in this matter, and place
right, justice and the law above par
tisanship.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-02

At last it has come! Badgeress
Fayne Moore is to go upon the stage.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-02

crafts and the Democratic contention
endorsed by the people in the election
Of Democratic Legislature, the Attor-
ney General finally see the wisdom Of
of ccming over to the popular side of
the question. But it is never too late
to mend.
1t is the duty of the present
Legislature to ad opt a measure
looking to the proper taxation of the
property of the Pullman car trust in
the State. The people, the Constitution
and justice demand it. A similar meas
ure drawn up by the Democratic Attor-
ney General in 1895 was rejected by the
Republican Legislature of that year
the notorious first in twenty-five
years" 1t was presented again to the
succeeding Republican Legislature of
1897 and was again rejected.
Now let the present body demon
strate to the people its superiority
to its Republican predecessors in this
respect and it's freedom from the in
f1uence of the trust and its regard for
the law and the rights of the people
by passing this much-needed measure
to bring the trust to book and compel it
to pay it's just share of taxation.
Already a good start has been
made in this line by the in
PRODUCTION early in the session by
Senator Dotson, Democrat, in the Sen
ate of "a bin to tax telephone, telegraph
&C mpanies, ETC.. in West Virginia. 1t
is a reform that has long been needed
in this State. but has been repeatedly
ignored by successive Republican Leg
islatares whose attention has been
called to the subject.
Let the Democratic House follow
Senator Dotson's lead in this matter
and promptly take up all these too long
neglected reforms and put them
through while yet sufficient time re-
mains. They could do nothing of
greater value to the State and the tax
payers than bring these tricky and
elusive coTpors ltions and trusts to book.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-02
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

T OR RENT-Store and six dwelling
rooms, Eleventh street. $50: six rooms
No. - Tenth street, So: -Four rooms No
s. Fifteenth street. $l5; five rooms No 1867
Main street. 50. five store rooms on Tenth
street, So, large store room No. 1o65 Main
street. Sl00. three store rooms. Main near
Tenth street; one store room Market ana
Tenth street. JAMES l. HAWLEY, Real
Estate and Loans No. 1855 Main street
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-02

Grounding Day! If his majesty, the
grounding, when he shall venture forth
to-day, shall see his shadow, straight
way will he pile back alarmed into his
hole there to stay for another six
weeks, secure in the knowledge born
in him that King Winters reign will
yet last that time. And, alas! the
chances are at this writing that the
prophetic animal will see his shadow.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-02
MARRIED.

NORTON-WOODS-At Elm Grove, w
cell Norton to Miss May Woods
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-02
Senatorship. THUS does the Fourl
tenth street organ acknowledge The
swindle and boast of it!
wHAr MANNER OF woMrN ,

~ n n IVA - y n ~ NE WYNN H.N
A Parkersburg paper has this para
graph concerning Wade Grant, the
negro rapist recently removed to es-
cape lynching to Wheeling and the
other day returned to the Parkersburg
Jail:
Grant seemed to be very glad to get
back to this city after his enforced visit
to Wheeling. He says he did not get the
attention there. so far as deiicacies were
concerned, that he got here. although he
got no end of letters from mis- female
friends in this city.
Doubtless the interrupted stream of
oelicacies to the brute's cell will now
resume it's flow, together with the at
tentions of the so-called women who
before his removal to Wheeling
haunted the vicinity of the Jail and
made it the scene of their disgusting
exhibitions of Anticipated, sentiment
tality and nauseating love-sickness
over this vile black brute.
What manner of women are these
of Parkersburg?
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-02

A more thoroughly discredited set of
political leaders than the State House
gang at Charleston never existed any
where
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-02
GENERAL NOTICES.
CHANGE.
y ESA-% IssSss NtA<A@NA6G-+
9. II. TX YIE.
Successor to VIM. Conneliy.)
1864 MARKET STREET,

Dealer in Hay. Feed. Seeds and Farm
Implements
I have purchased from the above named
party the business as described above. and
wsll keep fun stock Of farmers inple-
rnenfs which viii be disposed Of at tba
lowest prices. The best Seeds, Grain. Be.
win always be In store At my place at tina
prevailing market price
solicit continuance Of the liberal nat
ronage bestowed upon my predeeessor
and VIII try b. fair business methods TO
merit an Increased patronage from the
public. Respectfully G. ID. KYLE
5a3lesdqrg l14 Market Street
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-02

clauses-BiGnk rental receipts; rental re-
ceipts. one cent each. ten cents Ter dozen
OIL leases two for five cents, % cents per
dozen. Add postage when ordering hy
mali. REGIS1 ER OFFICE. Wheeling.
w Va
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-11-03
His Titled Guests.

There were eight of us going to stop
at the same town and the same hotel in
a Kansas hamlet, and we talked things
over before we left the train. Each one
registered himself as professor, judge
or general, and when the last name was
down we stood waiting to hear any OBJ
servation from the landlord. He was a
Quiet-spoken, humble looking man, and
he should have been duly impressed
with the array of names. lie wasn't
though. He read them over in a care
less way and then looked up to say:
"All right, professors, judges and
generals, I'll do the best l can for you,
and | guess most of the folks will turn
out to your circus tomorrow if the
weather is pleasant. columbian.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-11-03
Retfnue of an American Palace.

The household staff of servants at
tached to the Castellane palace in Paris
numbers IS persons, which includes a
secretary to the count, major domo, a
valet to the count, three footmen, Il
chef de cuisine and three assistants,
two concierges, maid to the countess,
a staff of housemaids, butler and assist
ants. In the stables are three coach
men, jockey and half a dozen grooms
and stablemen. When a reception is on
the house forces are largely increased.
The livery of the Castellane establish
ment is blue, with black knickerbock-
ers, stockings of MORE silk, and a waist
coat of transparent red and yellow
Gala livery of white, with black plush
knickerbockers and gold lace brandon
burgs. Another livery is white without
the lace. On reception days the serv-
ants are powdered in the regulation
court style.-Edward Page CASTOR, in
Woman's Home Journal.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-11-03
HOUSEHOLD DON'TS.
Ordered and Truly Wcll-Fur-
nished House.

Truth publishes a few "don'ts" that
might well be recommended to the
young housekeeper:
Don't ornament your table in mixed
color of embroideries. The well-ap
pointed board is one in which tone is
we'll carried out, not only in the needle
work, but in the floral decorations.
Don't dress your walls with conflict
ing colors. A fine background for pic
lures is u cartridge paper of solid
tint, which, as foil, will show off any
subject which tends as decoration.
Don't buy a piece of furniture be-
cause it is lone of the latest styles"
The artistic home-maker knows that
fashionable furnishings are often
crude, and that an atmosphere may be
given by the homeliest of appoint
ments, provided the placing is q right
one. Don't select covers in which there
is overela boration of design. Quiet
tones are always the best; they do not
intrude, are restful, and generally hold
their own.
Don't let your rug be one of loud pat
tern; remember it is the foundation of
your color scheme, and often the charm
of your room.
Don't serve your food on china dishes
of different make; give the pure white
ware, with the ordinary gilt band,
precedence above all others. Let your
decorations be in your damask, en-
broideries and flowers.
Don't let your kitchen be work
room only. For the convenience of
your maid, let there be an easy-chair;
in one corner put a looling-glass, in
the other a timepiece. If there is an
unused door, make it a pretty closet
by setting in the framework some three
or four shelves, which, when painted,
make a tidy place for odds and ends of
table ware.
Don't decorate your rooms with pho
tographs, either of your friends, of
actresses, or of people you don't know.
In every house there should be folio
large enough to hold these treasures.
Don't hang your pictures too high
or too low; recollect the level of the eye
is the correct guide. Don't fill up your
walls with poor prints; one good ctch-
ing is worth dozen such.
Don't purchase furnishings merely
for their own beauty. Bear in mind
the room in which they are to be placed,
and above all their relation to other eff
fects.
Don't buy over-ornamental pots for
your plants; they should serve as foils
rather than attract too much attention
in themselves.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1899-11-03
An Odd Mail packnce.

Strange articles occasionally find
their way into the mail boxes. One
package mailed in New York was, to
all appearance, very glad to get out
from among its uncongenial surround
ings. a collector one day, on opening
a mail box, found everything within it
in motion. He began to take out the
contents, and was startled by hearing
shrill yelp. A moment later tiny
pup poked its nose through the parcels.
1t seemed delighted to see a human
face again, after its sojourn among
papers and parcels. 1t was carefully
tagged for western city, and on the
tag was a two-cent stamp. The col
lector took it to the station to which he
belonged, and as there is no provision
for sending dogs by mail, it was kept
at the ofiice.-Youth's Companion.