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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-06-11
SISTERSvILLE.

SISTERSvILLE, w. VA. June TO-
Frank circuit. of the, firm of Orcutt
Bros, left yesterday afternoon for ST.
Mary's, where he goes to- look after
some interests he has in their oil field
there.
Mrs. Jamsa ct.nbeyy, esfosspanjsd
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-06-11
CONTRACT LEE
For the Buildings for the Home for Incur
abies at Huntington.

Special to the Register.
HUNTINGTON, w. Va, June TO-
The contract for erecting the new
building for the Home for Ineurablea.
was awarded to-day by the board OF
directors. There we're ten bidders
Gresham. Boyd & Underwood, Of
being So. 500.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-06-11

Miss Katie Darrah and Miss Edna
Steger are spending week with Pow
hatan friends.
J Auditor Aldredge was with the Board
OF Equalization yesterday
Frank B. Archer Is slightly indis-
posed.
Iev. R. E. Beetham, OF y~merton,
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-06-11

A very enjoyable social affair was
the reception given at the home of JOS
eph M. Covert in the Third ward on
Friday evening, complimentary TO his
brother, Benz. Covert, who left last
midnight for his home at Daleton. 0.
There were eight or ten couples pres
ent and excellent refreshments served
at a seasonable hour enhanced the pleas
ant social features of the evening. The
friends made by Mr.. Covert while here
will be pleased to see him return at
any time.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-06-11
BELLAIRE.
Social Matters and Other Topics Brief
ly Chronic.ed for Sunday Read
erS.

At st. Johns Catholic Church this
morning bans of matrimony in the APP
preaching nuptials of Mr.. viii Herbert,
OF Cincinnati. and Miss Minerva Me-
han, OF Franklin. will be announced
for the first time. Miss Mehan is the
daughter of ex-Commissioner Owen
Mehan, and is an accomplished and at
tractive young lady, and the prospect
i've groom is a prosperous furniture
dealer of the Queen-City. The host of
friends of the bride to be, in Bellaire,
will be pleased to extend cordial wishes
- anticipation of the happy event.
The Washington bee., 1899-07-01

Politicians ought to tell the truth.
Put q small man in big posi-
tlon and he will forget himself.
Why is Justice in Washington
like the weather!
Because it is changeable. The
Justice that is meted out to the
white man not given to the negro.
There is but little hope for the
negro in the South.
The BEE editor is not looking
for an Office aud neither does he
want one.
Unhappy is the man who hangs
on Official favors.
Abolish the Office Of justice of
the peace.
1t is better that they are abolished
All Offices in the District Of Co.
Iumbia should be filled by election.
The negro vote will divide
IN 1900.
Our new leadership is made out
of that which cannot be seen.
In union there is strength.
E. M. Hewlett is the most manly
negro attorney before the District
bar.
The Washington bee., 1899-07-01
THE MAREoRAMA
ons OF the Attractions ne the P,.,-
position-A Hand So. NJ

One of the Attractions as tn.
positiOn-A Land stsam.,
One OF the attractions Of ~,
exposition OF 1900 will ba [raHs
dAlesi's "Mareorama," the n,, nugo
feature Of which will consist Of . :. pal
ocean steamer. the passengers ~ 20
which will have an opDortnn,.u upOn
making a voyage from Marseinos VI y
Constantinople; that is to saw or %
aSlnary voyage. since the yesssI IN, ~,
not move forward at all. the iII,,0'In Hni
Vi sailing being introduced by D'iuu an ou
Iahsement that has already been a a.
pioyed upon the spectacular stago u'
The vessel will be mounted 81.
spherical pivot, and the only n1pt M q
that it will have will be those of fOuOlS o;.1
lne ana roling, which will be given r'[. !.
through the maneuvering of fonr 'D n. y
tons. AOut piS
III VIII be surrounded with oor,,-
boiling and foaming water: and uuile - ~
Ventllators will be placed Saorr-.u, eu'
anu algae. traverSed by a curror, ,'Ca '.
air that will become impregnatpd v,,s "
marine odors. "'a
The spectators. or passengers r,,b..
will walk about at their plessnra q
sit at ease in chairs upon the S..9
which will reproduce that of a vonI,tI 1a
steamer with the minuest aecrrolE ue
with all the details of maSts io,aeI rio,io
smoking and vibrating funnel s9d 9,Ds
crew executing various manpuvSr" -O :
the command Of an experienced ooa a.
tain. F
At the same time, to the Starbo,,s
and port of the vessel will uproII oau
vases 80 feet in height, painted with
all the perfection that might bo a,u ~
pected from the brush of NJ A. lIos;
and representing the port of Narse1o,,
flying to the rear, FriOUi. Chatpau dI,
and fishermen's boats. and then tbo
high seas and the Algerian and Tnni..
ian coasts toward which the vessel
will be apparently steering
Over half a mile of canvas will Nm
fold all the sites and episodes of This
picturesque voyage. Every one is 90
quainted with the phenomeOn: the dia
placement of an object which occnnioY
the entire field of vision gives the sta.
tiOnary spectator the impression tbat
he himself is moving.
1t is the intention to change the can.
vases after the exposition is over and
then, perhaps. make a trip to the north
pole.-(Revue international deS Eypo-
sitions de 1900.
The Washington bee., 1899-07-01

! NOSE OF COMMON HOUSE FLY CARRY
ING DISEASE GERMS.
caying animal and vegetable matter
| on which it feeds. The mosquito also
conveys the horrible filaria diseases Of
the East which include elephantiasis.
Leprosy is communicated by moSQui-
toes and other biting insects.
The pink eye of the Southern
United States is attributed to the horse
tick. In the Fiji Islands Europeans
have to wear a veil to protect them
selves against serious native eye
disease, which is spread by the gnats-
Flees played an important part in
causing the recent terrible outbreak
of bubonic plague in Asia The horse
| fly and a common variety of biting fly
| (stomoXys calcitransl infect cattle and
even men with the germs of anthrax
Even without the Intervention of
| flies and other insects man is always
loaded with a swarm Of microbes. A
well known bacteriolOgist recently set
about classifying the various orders of
bacteria which are found on the hui
man skin. He gave up the task after
he had counted two hundred kinds.
Every one of these different kinds
was found to the number of rarely
less than five million. Thus it seems
! that every man carries about with
him microbes considerably exceeding
the entire population of the world.
Fortunately we are not utterly at
the mercy of these microbes. Very
often it is only the sick whom they
can hurt. Nature. who never creates
a pest without supplying some means
! of combating it. has furnished the hu-
man body with several lines of de-
! fence against the microbial hOrdeS.
The first line of defence is the skin.
! which most of the mco-OrganiSmS are
incapable of penetrating. 1t is just
! here that we perceive the dangers to
| which we are exposed from the sting
ing insects. They introduce into the
blood germs which would otherwise
not be able to pass the skin. The COM
mon house fly does not bite. but it
may spread infection by depositing
the germs in the mouth. nose or eyes.
Besides the skin there is another
line of defence against the microbes
in the mucous membrane lining the
! mouth, throat and digestive tract
The pneumonia bacillus and the diph-
liberia bacillus are frequently found
in the throats of healthy persons and
cause them no Inconvenience what
ever. They are unable to gain an en-
trance to the tissues unless there is an
Inflammation, caused probably by a
cold or some other violent disturbance
of the normal health.
The body has another very import
ant defence against the army of mic
robes in the gastric juice of the
stomach. This contains free hydro
chloric acid, which is extremely de
The Washington bee., 1899-07-01
DEADLY BACTERIA.
HOW FLIES AND MOSQUITOES DIS
TRIBUTE GERMS,

Scientists Daily Making New Discoveries
Majority of Our Soldiers Lost in Spanish
Americas War Died Frsn Typhoid Fever
Carried by Flies.
The relations Of insects and bacteria
to man are Of the highest Importance
and are only just beginning to be ap-
preciated in O vague manner by the
public.
The extent to which diseases are
conveyed by insects is appalling.
Scientists are daily making new dis
coveries Of this character. AS a very
pertinent illustration of what takes
place il may be pointed out that the
majority of our soldiers lost in the late
war died from typhoid fever carried
by flies.
Texas fever is conveyed by the
Southern cattle tick. Professor Koch
found that the Tsstse fly, which causes
an enormous loss Of cattle in Africa,
kills not simply by its bite but also
by introducing harmful micro-or-
ganisms into the blood of its victim.
The germs of malaria are inserted
into the blood of man by mosquitoes.
The insect finds the germs on the de-
The Washington bee., 1899-07-01

MICROBE-LADEN FOOT OF HOUSE FLY.
structive to germs. The cholera germ
in particular is unable TO flourish in
this acid. and therefore a stomach in
a thoroughly sound condition is a sure
protection against cnOlera.
The blood also possesses certain pro-
pertieS of defence against microbes
the nature of which scientists are only
just beginning to find out. Microbes
will flourish in the blood of certain
animals. Diphteria. for instance. does
not infect rats or mice. There are IN
the blood of these animals certain
floating substances which have de-
STructive properties SO far As the bac-
terra Of diphtheria are concerned.
When the bacteria attack any point of
the organism these substances receive
an automatic signal and float to that
point There they help to destroy the
invaders
Acting in cooperation with these
substances are those corpuscles Of the
blood which are called ''phagocytes." 4"
They not only attack the microbes,
but eat them.
The human blood possesses phago-
cytes. and il is by their action that we
acquire immunity against smallpox
and other diseases after one attack
. When the smallpox germ first attacks
the body the phagocytes hasten to de-
fend il. If the body lives the phago
cytes in the blood have become 50
vigorous that they will be able To re
pei any future attack of the smallpox
germ with ease.
The Washington bee., 1899-07-01
Amount of Powder to rroper rroisctil'

Amount of Powder to Propel ProjsctH'
The amount of powder required =, ~
propel cannon projectiles is about Al- l'
the weight of the projectile. a pr
jectile four inches in diameter Wel-I.@,
33 pounds: five inches, 30 pounds 5so ,so
inches. 100 pounds: eight inches. "a 10
pounds; ten inches. 500 pounds. ts,. WV
inches. $50 pounds; thirteen inc1gTs a-s
1.1OO pounds; sixteen inches, -''''
pounds.
The Washington bee., 1899-07-01

Iumbia should be filled by election.
The negro vote will divide
in 1900.
Our new leadership is made out
of that which cannot be seen.
In union there is strength.
E. M. Hewlett is the most manly
negro attorney before the District
bar.
Be is not the man to cater for
favors.
If there was more manhood in
negro attorneys they would sue
ceed bet er
Be truthful, it will pay always.
There is too much treachery
among certain negroes to succeed,
This world was not made for the
white man alone.
1t is not well to tell all you know.
Be careful Of what you say and
to whom you say 1T.
Don't be too hasty in coming to
conclusion.
The Maryland politicians have
not been cared for as yet.
VIII the negro vote ever become
a factor in American body polite?
Be what you say you ar
nothing more.
Deception is sooner or later
detected.
An honest man is truthful man.
You should do nothing that is
distasteful to good society.
1t is not the person who grins in
your face, that should be regarded
as your friend.
Don't place too much confidence
in the person who pretends friend
ship.
Be honest with your fellow man.
The best policy is when you can
not do thing say so.
1t will never effect you to be
truthful.
ont be altrm9 d at lie
noise.
The try daily has been struggling
hard since its publication.
1t came out one day and has been
trying hard ever since to make its
appearance daily.
Can any one tell the difference
between the old school and new
school of politicians?
Well out of the great number of
ficers appointed in the army not
one negro was appointed.
What has become of the repeal
the civil service law?
Don't forget how the negroes
fought on San Juan Hill.
General Miles thinks well of the
negro soldiers.
And yet not negro officer has
been appointed in the regular army
The man who speaks the truth is
the man to trust.
Don't be too impetuous in yonr
deliberation.
The man who thinks he knows
it all is generally affected with the
big head.
There was tyranny in the schools
on the part of certain school officers.
There are some school officials
too much on the old woman order.
The day will soon c1me when all
will be placed on level.
1t is not the wise man who
makes a fool of himself.
Our head swells some times be-
ond theuas ne
The Washington bee., 1899-07-01
TO CONSERVATIVES.

No better remedy can be fou FOR every form o.
cough colds, bronchitis and ge. 4. debility or for
Compound of Pure Ccj-Liver Oil AID Phosphates OF
Lime Soda and Iron. " + the fruit O. long expert
ence and experiment, ID its present form can be
recommended as the best preparation known to re-
ore vitality and vfgor to flesh. nerve. blood and
rain q It is manufactured only by Dr. ALExASDKR
s. wILBoR, Chemist, Boston, who win send an illus.
rated circular free on application.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-17
THE SIZE OF THE SUN.
Comparisons Which Show 1t to Be Yer
Large Affair

The earth on which we stand is, no
doubt, a mighty globe, measuring as it
does 5000 miles in diameter, yet, what
are its dimensions in comparison with
those of the sun?
If the earth be represented by a
grain of mustard seed, then on the
same scale the sun should be repre-
sented by a cocoanut, says Pearson
Weekly.
Perhaps, however, a more impressive
conception of the dimensions of the
great orb of day may be obtained in
this way: Think Of the moon, the
queen of the night, which circles
monthly around our heavens, pursuing
as she does a majestic track, at dis
lance of 100000 miles from the earth.
Yet the sun is so vast that if it were
hollow ball, the moon could revoIve in
the orbit which it now follows and still
be entirely inclosed within the suns in
terror.
For every acre on the surface of our
globe there are more than 10000 acres
on the surface of the great luminary.
Every portion of this illimitable des-
ert Of flame is pouring forth torrents of
heat. 1t has, indeed, been estimated
that If the heat which is necessarily
flowing through any single square foot
of the suns exterior could be collected
and applied beneath the boilers of an
Atlantic liner, 1t would suffice to pro-
duce steam enough to sustain in con-
tinuous movement those engines of 3d.
600 horse power which enable a superb
ship to break the record between Ire
land and America.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-17
(Howard. CROSBY 8 COS Boston Letter.

Howard, Crosby & Co.'S Boston Lottery
Boston, Aug. 16.-Wheat opened strong.
Ac. over last nights close. The firmness
in Liverpool, in spite Of the break here
yesterday, was the steadying influence in
the early session, but wheat received little
help from steadiness of the second Liver
pool cable, and as foreign houses sold on
the bulge, local strength was not pro-
nounced and an easy tendency soon an
peared. The western crop news was
favorable, the weather showing cooler in
the extreme, north, but higher in the
conditions which could not be improved
Northwestern wheat receipts were az
cars, against 269 last week and 275 same
day last year The Bombay dispatch on
crop prospects In India states that some
rain has fallen, but the general conditions
are unsatisfactory. Prime saws that
farmers. are selling very sparingly of
been generally worked off and are busy
plowing for the new crop of winter wheat
for which the ground is in fine condition. !
Mneat closed steady at Antwerp and
tne English country markets were gem
The first hour in the stock market was
a hurIy-puriy of violent and frequent
changes IN price, the bear faction at
tempting to follow it's late success of yes
terday and was successful in some di
rsctions, but unsuccessful in others. In
radical, but prices were unsettled by Inc
erratie movement elsewhere. Strength
was developed during the second hour,
anu tne market became more stable and
Increased on evidence of more support
from outsiders. which caused shorts to
cover Louisville and Nashville was a
prominent feature and advanced over /
point on moderate dealings. Southern
Pacific is also in good borrowing demand
ana continues strong. Brooklyn Rapid
i lranslt recovered per cent from the
loves. point in the morning, and there
Is really no reason for the bear raid on
this stock, except that certain interests
want to make movement against it.
me bull confidence in Tobacco was fea-
ture at the opening and orders supposed
to come from Broadway firm lifted
American Tobacco points It is reported
that papers have been drawn for the
transfer OF the Buchanan g. Lyall Com
pany to the Continental Tobacco Com
pany., The advance In Southern Pacific is
stated by good authority to be the result
of manipulation by bun pool, while the
strength. in Louisville and Nashville has
been mainly on buying in connection with
the company's large earnings. The Lon
don securities market for Americans was
easy. Money on call from 2a to Q per
cent.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-17
NEW HAvEN's FUTURE.

Holland" in an interesting letter in
the Chicago Inter Ocean regarding the
New England railroad situation and the
important changes therein now shaping
up, takes occasion to discuss the prob
able future of the New Haven road. and
incidentally to pay high compliment
70 PRESIDENT Charles p. Clark. an all
OF TINS discussion about the future of
the New England system it has he
says, been curiously enough overlooked
that, in all probability, the decision Of
the future of the New Haven system
Wlll De made by the man who has made
tmat system what it is, the president,
Gharles 4. Clark. OF Mr.. Clark's devo-
tlon 10 that corporation no one who has
watched his management of it. and the
ueVelopment of it since it came under
ms presidency, has any doubt. Nor is
there any doubt that if Mr.. Clark be-
lleVed that it were for the best interest
OF that system that it should share the
rate of the Boston & Albany he would
strongly advise that this be done. 1t is
regarded by those whose Judgment is
worth needing as almost inconceivabIe
that any such action should be taken
oy the Vanderbilts in this, permanently
aIIectlng the future of the New Haven
system, against the advice of President
clark. Moreover, while Mr.. Vanderbilt
is perhaps in some respects the most
strongly fortified In resources and
friends of any of the greater railway
owners of the east, nevertheless 1t is
very doubtful whether he, with all his
strength, would prove to be more pow
erfu than President Clark. There is
no reason to suppose that he has any
desire to set his own judgment against
RI t..
son to presume that he and Mr.. Clark
are not in perfect accord.
president Clark, in IL years, has ac-
comphshed quite as much as Commo-
dore Vanderbilt did in the years in
which he was supreme in the New York
Central; iii some respects he has done
more He has certainly matched the
achievement of Commodore Wander
bilt, who brought several independent
roads into one systematic, successful
corporation. The purchases and
absorptions by lease and in other WAYS
that characterize the building up of the
New Haven system under President
Clarks management represent greater
capacity, more financial arrangement.
and a much larger business than did
the consolidation out of which Commo-
dore Vanderbilt made the original New
York Central system. In addition to a
movement WHlCn mas with one gigantic
impulse concentrated into the control
Of the New Haven corporation all of
New England that lies south of the Bos-
ton & Albany system. the whole of the
states of Connecticut and Rhode Island.
and all of the steamboat lines that
make connection with Boston, Presi-
dent Clark has done, in the way of rail-
way engineering what many Of the ex-
pert engineers of the country deem an
even greater thing than that
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-17
HERE'S MORE TROUBLE.
"Collectable Through Bos-
ton Clearing House"
Won't Go.

New York, Aug. 16-The New York
Clearing House association informed Its
members today that checks on banks
not located at discretionary points but
stamped "Collectable through the
clearing house at discretionary point"
were subject to the rules governing
collections charges on out of town
checks.
This action has reference to Massa-
chusetts business, especially since
checks on Springfield banks have re-
Gently appeared in this city stamped,
'Collectable through the Boston clear
ing house" so as to avoid the eXac-
ton of the one-tenth of one per cent
charge usually asked for the collection
of Massachusetts items.
A clearing house authority said this
afternoon concerning today's ruling,
The Boston clearing house has at
tempted to establish a country clear
ing house in connection with it's regu-
lar organization. The adjunct is, now
ever, nothing more than a collection
agency for out of town checks. It is
not recognized as a country clearing
house by New York. Banks that are
remitting under the new system
to the Boston clearing house are
asking their customers to stamp checks
"Coilectable through the Boston clear
ing house." The checks, however, are
payable at banks in which they are
Drawn, and not at institutions located
at discretionary points.
Hence, the decision of the committee
TO collect the one-tenth of 1 per cent
charge on such items