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, 1899-09-21

There are several districts in the
world where gold may be said to grow
every season. One is in the Edmonton
country, in the Canadian Northwest,
where, after the spring floods, there
are taken every year from the banks
and bed of the Saskatchewan river
considerable quantities Of gold. But
the most conspicuous and interesting
case of this sort is to be seen near
Ichang. in the province of Hupeh.
China. For many centuries past each
year gold has bee washed from the
banks of coarse gravel on both sides
OF the River Han, and in the midst of
the auriferous district there is an an
cient town called Li-kiu-tien, which
means "gold-diggers' inn Its inhab-
itants subdivide the gold-bearing
ground among themselves annually,
stalking out their claims with parti-
lions. The annual river floods bring
down millions of tons of mud and sand
from the mountains. which is charged
with gold. both fine and in flakes.
, 1899-09-21

Protection is a Republican policy
the Democrats have formed a habit of
denouncing 1t, and they think they
must keep it up. with or without rea-
son and sense. And so. with the SPLEEN
did record OF protection staring them
In the face, and being unable to point
to a single fact that Is not to its credit,
they wildly re-echo Havemeyer's flip
pant utterance with some such scheme
as this in their heads: The people like
the protective tariff; let us try to make
them hate 1t by circulating the absurd
lie hat 1t is the moher of trusts.
The hypocrisy of all this is quite as
comical as 1t is revolving. 1t shows
what a poverty-stricken old concern
the Democratic party Is. Free silver
is dead. Flag hauling as an issue is
worse than no issue at all. Fantastic
yarns about trusts and the tariff are
the only remaining resort. The De-
mocracy grabs at this grotesque ban
ner and iourishes 1t frantically. hoping
to rattle voters and muddle their think
ing apparatus. But the dodge will moi
work. 1t is a confession OF weakness
and a proclamation of stupidity. The
people see through the game and Will
coldly keep out of it, preferring to re-
tain their prosperity. their open work
shops, their 100-cent dollars. their
sterling A~mericanism and their re-
spect for the flag of their country
Rochester IN. " Democrat and Chron-
!cle.
, 1899-09-21
VIC WANTED.
The supply Not sumciept to Meet the
Demand for Industrial Helpers.


Assistant Commissioner of Immigra-
ton insolvency. in his testimony be-
fore the Industrial commission at its
recent sitting in New York city. stated
that applications for 10000 unskilled
workmen had beer made upon the i'm
migration authorities since the revival
Of business last spring, but these they
could not and had no authority to fur
nish.
in 1893 an army of worxmen. out Of
work. started out to march to Wash
ington to demand employment. There
we're many hundreds of thousands
more workmen in the country who had
no work. but who did not start cut on
that fruitless and foolish march. In
1899, when immigration has swelled
the number of laborers in the country
by many hundreds of thousands above
WHAT it was in 1893, employers of labor
are so in need of laborers hat they ap-
ply to the immigration authorities for
10000 workmen. In 1898 we had for
president the so-called Moses of Free
Trade" the man who in his search for
an issue with which to make good his
leadership had gone back to the dead
past and had brought forth a bygone
and discredited policy and made it the
policy of his party; the man whose
election meant, above all, that this
country was again to make a trial OF
same old policy which history showed
had wrecked its industries more than
once. In 1899 we have for president
the great apostle of protection. whose
election meant. above all things, the
restoration of protection to American
industries. whose first official act was
n calling of a special session of con-
gress for the purpose of enacting a
protective tariff law. In 1899 the pros
pect of the Immediate adoption of
free-trade and workmen seeking in
vain for work: in 1899 a protective tar
if law and work seeking in vain for
men to do it. 1t is an instructive pic
ture.
, 1899-09-21

With time. comes progress and ad-
vancement in all lines of successfully
conducted enterprises. Success comes
to those only who have goods with
superior merit and a reputation. In
the manufacture of laundry starch for
the last quarter of a century ]. C.
Hubinger has been the peer of all
others and today is placing on the
market the finest laundry starch ever
offered the public under our new and
original method.
Ask your grocer for a coupon book
which will enable you to get the first
two large 10 cent packages OF his new
starch, RED CROSS, TRADE MARK
brand, also two of the children's
Shakespeare pictures painted in twelve
beautiful colors as natural as life. or
the Twentieth Century Girl Calendar.
all absolutely free.
All grocers are authorized to give
ten large packages of RED CROSS
STARCH. with twenty of the Shakes
peare pictures or ten OF the Twentieth
Century Girl Calendars, to the first ave
purchasers OF the Endless Starch Chain
Book. This is n of the ~grandest of
.fers ever made to introduce the RED
CROSS laundry starch, ]. C. Hubinger's
latest invention.
, 1899-09-21

Corn in Kansas this year will win
over calamity by the largest majority
ever known.-Topeka Capital.
1t is gratifying to observe the stead
lily increasing volume OF our %transac-
lions with all of our Latin-American
neighbors.-Troy Times.
Even the numerous strikes are in
dices of the country's prosperity.
Workmen know better han to strike
when the times are hard.-Buffalo Ex-
press.
The Kansas corn crop is estimated at
300. 900. 900 bushels, and the most ardent
OF Populists concede a Republican vic
tory in the state for at least two years.
Good times and Republicanism go hand
in hand in Kansas.-New York Press.
Prosperity is evidenced in the earn
ings of the railroad, which for June and
the first half of July increased from IA
to 16 per cent I've the corresponding
period of last year. There is no better
gauge of the improved business condi-
tions.-Syracuse Herald.
Pennsylvania papers announce that
marriages in the state have increased
decidedly during the last two years,
and one editor remarks that there is
an intimate relationship between mar
riages and the markets" Another
pleasing result may be credited to
prosperity.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
, 1899-09-21

Champagne importations to this
country have largely increased. It's
another bumper for Mckinley times.
Back in the Gorman-Wilson days the
thirst haunted a~ristocracy a lucky to
get beer.-San Francisco Chronicle.
Champagne as a luxury, and in pro-
lection times there is always an in
crease in the use of Injuries. Foreign
champagne, however, belongs in the
category Of foolish luxuries-foolish
because sparkling wines in every way
equal to those sold under foreign labels
are now being produced in our own
country. 1t is no longer true that
champagnes of the first quality are
only to be had from France. America
has made splendid advances along this
line. as along many other lines of sue
cessful competition.
, 1899-09-21

For the present. and with the cur
rent rise of wages making the work
ingmen contented with their lot. 1t
would not be possible to rally a large
part of the labor vote against the tar
in on the ground that 1t is the parent
of trusts, even II that contention were
true, which 1t Is not. Mr.. Havemeyer
Is inadequate authority to quote on that
side, in view OF the fact that our worse
trusts lie entirely outside the range of
protected industries. and that these
organizations have been shown by
English writers to flourish in that
country under free trade no less than
in America under protection. But
whether true or false. 1t will not make
votes for the Democracy in the quar-
ter where they most want them. and
the party can make no graver mistake
thar to run after Mr.. Havemeyer's red
herring.-Robert Ellis Thompson, in
the Irish World.
, 1899-09-21

discovery, which he considers the
browning event of his wonderful
career, and which is embodied in Il
new article of commerce, known as
Red Cross Starch (Red Cross trade
mark.) He is planning to distribute
millions of packages of this starch to
the housewives OF America. at a merely
nominal price to the consumer, in order
to make its merits known without de-
lay. Thus, for but 5 cents two large
10c packages of Red Cross Starch may
be had, together with two magnificent
Shakespearean views printed in IL
beautiful colors, or Il Twentieth Cen
fury Girl Calendar; or for only 20
cents 10 packages OF the starch and
the entire series of eight Shakespearean
views and one Twentieth Century Girl
Calendar-yiews alone easily worth
S1.O0. Watch this paper for future
premium announcements, of which
every lady will certainly want to take
advantage.
While Mr.. Hubinger will devote his
best energies to the manufacture of
this new and wonderful starch, he will
not retire from the various financial
enterprises in which he is Interested
street railways, electric lighting plants
and the Mississippi Valley Telephone
Co, with 10000 telephone subscribers
in Minneapolis and st. Ntul-nor will
his augmented activity interfere with
his social obligations and exercise of
the splendid hospitality which he dis
penses at his palatial Keokuk home.
Mr.. Hubinger's family, consisting of
himself, wife and four children, is the
pivot around which his activity re-
wolves, and while fond OF promoting
great enterprises, he is still fonder of
his home circle, where he spends every
moment of time not taken up by BUSH
ness or public cares.
, 1899-09-21
JOHN c. HUBINGER.
Remarkable Career of n wen-knovn
Western Capitalist. Mnnufnct-
urer and PhiIanthrop!st.

Among the leaders of the progressive
element for which the midle west is
famous, Mr.. John c.. Hubinger, OF Keo-
kuk, Ia, reigns without a peer. AS
a manufacturer, as an e~nterprising cap
italist and as a philanthropist his fame
has spread over many states, and his
financial enterprises have developed
many obscure towns into progressive,
thrifty and wide-awake cities. Mr..
Hubinger, although but A years of
age, can look back upon scores of COM
mercial victories, each one of which has
benefited mankind, for his liberality is
as bountiful as his business sagacity is
marvellous. He was born in New Or
leans, La, his parents being of French
and German origin. When he was four
years old, his family removed to Ken
lucky, in which state young H%ubinger
received a pubic school education. AL
most before reaching mans estate he
secured patents on n number of val
liable mechanical inventions, thereby
laying the foundation of his present
fortune.
BY inclination and force of circum-
stances his attention was early direct
ed to the manufacture of starch by i'm
proved processes. and in the course of
time he became the head of "A concern
having an annual business of millions
of dollars. But genuine ambition
never quite satisfied with existing con-
ditions, works ever toward perfection,
and after years of ~painstaking study
and research Mr.. Hubinger has made q
, 1899-09-21

A
Bottled. The principal features OF the
reception in Washington, as planned
by the citizens, with the cooperation
Of the president and cabinet, will be
two in number-the presentation of the
Sword voted by congress and a night
parade. A public reception at the
white house will be followed by dinner
10 the admiral by President Mckinley.
The sword will be presented by Secre-
tary Long. at the asst front OF the cap
itol, In the presence of Mr.. Mckinley
and all the members OF the cabinet.
late in the afternoon. while the parade.
consisting of organizations of all kinds.
will be accompanied by an illumination
OF the city on a scale OF beauty never
before Witnessed in Washington.
The different features Of the prepare
tons are in the hands of a central
body of citizens and eleven commit
tees, embracing in all over a thousand
people. Preparations for the celebra-
ton have been in hand for over a
month.
The Baltimore n Ohio railroad and
.other railroads entering Washington
have agreed upon cheap rates for the
celebration, and the committee expects
}hat there will be an outpouring of pa
rtotic citizens almost equal t the in
Of a president.
, 1899-09-21

When the Wilson-Gorman bill was
getting in its deadly work nearly all of
the railroads in the country were in
the hands of receivers: now that the
agent of prosperity is on deck they are
troubled because of their inability to
receive all the freight which offers it
self.-San Francisco Chronicle.
, 1899-09-21
NATIONS GREETING 70 DEWEY
Features of the Reception 70 the Manila
Hero at Washington.

Features of the Reception 70 ths MAnils
Hero ut Warrington.
Tho central idea underlying the
wund welcome to be given Admiral
Dewey in washington the first week in
October Is its national character. His
arrival at the capital win mark his real
homecoming to the American people.
where che oficials OF the government
will participate. and the magnifcently
jeweled sword voted by congress will
be presented. To that end all the ar
nngements will be Of a simple but
most digni1ed character. The welcome
to the hero of Manila at the national
capital will probably occur on Monday.
October 2. although the date will de-
pend upon the length of the celebra-
tion In New York. which is still I'M
, 1899-09-21
rslsphen, rhlsre. Cut In.

SPANS telegraphic and telephone
systems suffer greatly from thieves.
The other day the premier was hold
ing an important communication with
a fellow-minister over the telephone,
when "Rrrr!' went the apparatus. and
the that was interrupted. A gang of
thieves had been at work and had cut
and taken away a large section o. the
premier's private wire.
, 1899-09-21

Mr.. Hayemeyer illustrates in a new
way the old rhyme that When the
devil was sick. the devil a monk was
he" In the days of the Cleveland ad-
m%lnistratlon Mr.. Havemeyer moved
heaven and earth to secure protection
for his sugar. but having failed to get
as much as he desired he now de-
ounce the tariff as tho mother of
trusts."-Burllngton Hawk-Eye.
, 1899-09-21

Forty years ago we were far in the
rear as a manufacturing nation. To-
day we occupy the first rank. Forty
years ago we were dependent upon Eu-
rope for all our best manufactured
products. To-day We are Independent
, 1899-09-21

The microbes that cause chills and
fever and malaria enter the system
through mucou membranes made
porous by catarrh. Pe-ru-na heals
the mucous membranes and pre-
vents the entrance OF malarial
germs, thus preventing and curing
these affections.
, 1899-09-21

Twenty-Five cents was the foundation
of my fortune "who gave Il to YOU p
Nobody l tried to borrow 1t and could
, 1899-09-21
POCKET MIRROR

Something new. Great sensation. A reg
ular and very handy pocket mirror. Held
owards light. photograph shows. Good
assortment of pictures. Everybody buys
one on sight. Agents coming money sim
ply by showing It. Send 20 cents for SAM
Pile and special prices to Belcher Mfg. Co.
L. o. Box iS3. Denver. Colo.
, 1899-09-21

William. Il daughter is determined
10 go on the stage" We'll. we must
stop that. Find out whether she is
erazy for new frocks or admiration"
, 1899-09-21
SUFFERED rs YEARS,

In a recent letter to DR.. Hartman.
Congressman Botkin says:
My Dear Doctor-Iit gives me pleas
nre to certify to the excellent curative
qualities OF your neutrality-suspicious.
, 1899-09-21

FITS rermaneutlyCuted. sohts or nervousness after
trst day : use OF DIR. klines Great Nerve Restorer.
.end Tor FREE $500 trial bottle and treatise.
, 1899-09-21

Piso's Cure for Consumption has saved
me large doctor bills.-C. l.. Baker, 422S
Regent So, Philadelphia, Pa, Dec. s, los.
, 1899-09-21

He-"Do you think your father will
overtake us3' She-"l hope not. dear.
1t would mortify me to have you borrow
money from him.
, 1899-09-21

when that barber was thrown off his
wheel he was clear out of his head"
What did he rave about?" Rave? He
1idn't say "A word"
, 1899-09-21

A word or two may make II fellow-crea-
ture happy. but be careful how you write
them ON a check.
, 1899-09-21

stra~nger-"rhey ARE building a new
postoficc in Chicago. ! believer" Chi
e~ngoan-"Oh, no; they are building Il very
old one"
, 1899-09-21

People who take late vacations natural
ly get a chance To tell the biggest stories.
, 1899-09-21

A strong minded woman never has an
Extra pin about her person.
, 1899-09-21

All Intestinal Troubles Prevented.
Ten cents worth of prevent'oi saves fortunes IL
iocsor bills and funeral expenses. loo buys a box OF
JAscArets candy Chthartic Druggists, lOc, 25c, Zoe
, 1899-09-21

writing to Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass
MRS. Corr gibson. Yates. Manistee
Co.. Mich. writes:
dear Mrs. PINKHAa-Two years e
I began having such dull. heavy. drag
ging pains in my back, menses were pro-
fuse and painful and was troubled with
leucorrhoea. took patent medicines
, 1899-09-21
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and consulted a physician, BIT
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my troubles and asking for al
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much benefit that I canno
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MRS. PERLEY MoULroN
Thetford, VT, writes:
dear Mrs. PINKHAM-
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ing Lydia E. Pinkham's
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, 1899-09-21

n CAPABLE mother must be a healthy mother.
The experienced of maternity should not be approached
without careful physical preparation.
Y Correct and practical rounselis what the expectant and would
be mother needs and this counsel she can secure without cost by
, 1899-09-21

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup.
or children t%eething, softens the gums, reduces In
allays pain. cures wind cole. 25c a bottle
, 1899-09-21

Congressman Botkin. of Winfield. Kan.
and Man-a-lin. l have been afflicted
more or less for a quarter OF a century
with catarrh OF the stomach and con-
stipation. A residence in Washington
has increased these troubles. A few
bottles OF your medicine have given
me almost complete relief, n l am
sure that a continuation OF them will
effect a permanent cure. Pe-ru-na Is
surely a wonderful remedy for catarrh-
al affections"
J.. ID. Botkin.
The most common form OF summer
catarrh is catarrh OF the stomach. This
is generally known as dyspepsia. Con-
gresham Botkin was a victim Of this
disease twenty-five years. Pe-ru-na
cures these cases like magic. Address
DR.. Hartman. Columbus. O., for a free
book.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-08-07
STATE FAIR BOOMING.

Groat Interest Being Taken in the
Projected Merchants Dny-Pros-
poets for all of the Departments
are Excellent.
The official call for the meeting of
the chamber Of commerce and business
men generally. to be held tomorrow
evening for the purpose Of arranging
for Merchants Day in connection with
the state fair. was Issued last night,
and the hope Is expressed by President
Quarter and Secretary Hazlett that
there will be u large and representative
attendance.
From travelling men who blew Into
town Saturday night from points in the
state and in Ohio. 1t is learned that the
merchants are looking forward to the
probability Of Merchants Day in
connection with the fair, and intend
coming to Wheeling in large numbers II
the movement is n go.
All along the line the indications are
that the fair Is going to far eclipse any
NJ its predecessors. More interest Is
being taken in advance than ever be-
fore, and this in itself is good sign
The new department Of amateur pho-
Biography promises to be very fne fea-
ture. In addition to the exhibits by the
amateur cnmerists, II Is likely there VIII
he exhibits by camera manufacturers
and denIers In cameras and supplies,
Secretary Hook having arranged Tor
space for these exhibits.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-08-07
PERSONAL NOTES.
Going and Coming of Wheeling
People and Visitors.

Going and Coming of Wheeling
People and Visitors.
j. S. Johnston. of Marietta, is at the
Stamm.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Cats. of
Moundsville. were in the city yesterday.
DR.. E. L. Armbrecht has returned
from a three weeks trip to Lockport,
N. Y.
Miss Annie colvlg and H. B. Wade
were GAINESVILLE visitors in the city
Sunday.
w. E. Allen. of Little. and John E.
Mcguire, OF SisterSvllle, registered ut
the Grand Central yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alex burst and son
Robert, have returned home, after
spending two weeks at the seashore.
Edward Elliott, city license officer,
left yesterday on brief visit to Cum
berland, Nd, where his wife Is visiting.
H. C. Smith, E. D. Thompson, Isldore
Staudt. George S. Arnold and Charles
D. Mann, were party OF Woodstield
people at the Windsor yesterday.
Friend Cox and D. H. Cox. OF New
Martinsville: II. A. Wright, OF Sisters
vile, and William O'Brien. OF Manning
ton, were at the Howell last night.
Messrs. Louis Rentsch, Albert Wilkie
and Thomas Carnahan, jr., Of the firm
OF George N. Shook & Co., left yester-
day for Glebe. W. Va, to spend a two
weeks vacation on the South Branch
Of the Potomac. They will be the
guests Mt the residence OF Mr.. John
Miller. whose name Is familiar to all
Wheeling fishermen.