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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-09-23

For the benefit of the New York Sun.
which seems to be In dismal ignorance
of the seductlveness of the Wheeling
stogie, box Of these delightful smokes
might be sent to the advantage OF all
concerned. The Suns rays are weak
in their penetration OF the real Wheel
ing stogle, judging by at least two arti-
ctes on the subject within few weeks
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-09-23

stagnatlon comes to ali industries
ever and anon. So with the courtshlp
in Clay county. Its bright weekly, the
Star, has Of late no more Of Jim
Browns calls on Sue Green; Of Lizzie
Bailey's smiling face being seen at
church last Sunday. or any of the love-
pertaining squlblets which have made
the county famous for Cupld's aim. In
intfmated explanation for the absence
in its columns thereof these days, last
weeks Star edltorially remarks: THE
Daily Intelllgencer is having lots Of
fun over the spoony character Of the
news sent the Star by some OF its cor
respondents. II the Intelligencer man
could taste and see the SURPRISING beau
ty and sweetnessof Clay county girls, he
wouldn't wonder at the success Of Cupid
in this neck O. the woods"
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-09-23

And u these lips should even learn {
smile.
With thy heart far from mine,
'TWould be for Joy that in q little while,
They would be kissed BY thine"
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-09-23

DR.. and Mrs. Frank LeAioyne Hupp
and daughter, Elizabeth. are home from
Hulett's Landing. Lake George, where
they have a cotta8e.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-09-23

M. and MIS-. william H. Caldwell, Of
the Island. are home after summer at
Capon Springs.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-09-23

At Fourth street NJ. r. church to-
morrow morning communion services.
Rev. DR.. ]. L. sooy will preach in the
evening.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-09-23

DR. and Ms. Robert JEFFREY Reed Will
return next week to their Twelfth street
home for the winter.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-09-23

Mr.. Henry W. Hughes is expected In
the city in October for a short stay.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-09-23

Mr.. and Mrs. William P. Wilson have
against taken up their residence In
Pleasant Valley, after stay with Mrs.
wilson's family at the George II. Iay-
ior home on Fourteenth street.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-09-23

When 1t comes to ptaintive melodies
in the stIn watches Of the night, there
is the deep-mouthed watch dogs bnying
ut the moon-the whip-poor-will's call
to her mate-the baby-lIke cry of the
festive Thomas cat-and there are
others. Not the least of these, is the
sad minor tones OF the meek and gen
tie calf, whose tail is being dexterously
twisted by the steamboat roustnbout
unloading the aforesaid calf a u land
ing on the river. about a. m.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-09-23

Mrs. Nellie Sweeney Palmer leaves
tomorrow for the winter. which she
viii again spend in Richmond, taking
her place Of last year, In one OF the
leading choIrs Of that city.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-09-23

Rev. DR.. and Mrs. sooy entertained
deligtfully. on Monday evening, the on
ciais aud choir OF the Fourth street
church, at the parsonage on Chapline
street.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-09-23

Vance MISUNDERSTANDING school at 10
a. M: service at II a. m. Rallying day
subject, 1.-THE Presbyterian Outlook and
DUTY" In the evening at 1880 DR.. Aus
tin viii speak upon "Thorns,"
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-09-23

Mr.. Albert C. Whitaker and family
are at home, east of the city, after a
months stay at Mackinac.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-09-23

Miss Mary PAUL. and Miss Llde PAUL,
daughters Of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Paul.,
Of North Main street, are house guests
Of wellsburS relatives.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-03
PnIitenesn in Dreshen.

The people of Dresden are very polite, so
over-polite that they not infrequently
bring down ridicule upon themselves, says
London Tit-Bits. 1t used to be told in
that city that a stranger was one day
crossing the great bridge that spans the
Elbe. and asked a native to direct him to
a certain church which he wished TO find.
Really, my dear SIR said the Dresden
er, bowling low, Il grieve greatly to say it,,
but I cannot tell you"
The stranger passed on, little surprised
at this voluble answer to a simple ques-
ton. He had proceeded but a shore dis
lance when he heard hurried footsteps be-
hind him, and, turning around, saw the
same man running TO catch up with him.
In a moment his pursuer was by his side,
his breath nearly gone. but enough left to
say, hurriedly: my dear sir, you asked
me how you could find the church, and il
panied me to have to say that I did not
know. just now 1 met my brother, but 1
grieve to say that he did not know. either"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-03
A Chinese Examination Trick

China is the land of examinations. and
about one of them the London Fireside
has an amusing story to tell. The earli-
est test of learning is conducted by the
district magistrate. His suspicious were
aroused i'll one case by the fact that a
young fellow of a wealthy family passed
head of the list at his first attempt He
determined to re-exa mine the student, and
gave him a subject for an essay, placed
him in an inner room, and himself waited
in the outer apartment, so that no one
could possibly have communication with
him. After an hour or two the student
whose abilities were most inferior was
sitting, hopelessly sucking the top of his
pen, and wondering how he could get out
of the scrape. The door opened and the
magistrate entered, bringing tea and re-
freshments In his own hands; for he
would permit no one, not even his own
most trusted servants, to come near the
student. The latter rose politely and bow
ed, and, as the magistrate turned to go
out again, he saw fluttering on the great
mans back a piece of paper covered with
writing. 1t was an essay on the given
subject. The magistrates servants had
been heavily feed. and, as forlorn hope,
had lightly pasted the essay on to the
back of their masters loose robe.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-03
Personal.

Justice John M Harlan of the United
States Supreme Court has a bass voice of
phenomenal depth and splendid quality.
As young man there was some talk of
ms making his living by it,
Congressman Charles S. Hartman of
Montana says that the new senator from
that state, w. A. Clark, concerning whose
election there were so many charges of
bribery, is easily worth more than $4,000
600, and will be able to buy and sell every
one of his associates.
The German Emperor has decreed that
his naval officers shall not wear a mus
tache unless they wear a full beard also.
This is supposed to be due to the fact that
the officers, when at sea, find it impossi-
ble either by the aid of cosmetics or other
devices, to maintain the upward curl to
the mustache which the Emperor himself
affects and which may of his officers try
TO initiate.
Among fourteen people arrested during
raid by the police of a Sunday morning
cock-fight on Staten Island were a num-
Der of officials of the borough to whom the
policemen doubtless owed their appoint
ments. This item will puzzle such of the
cock -fight-loving Cubans as may be study
ing our system of government, but it will
hardly deter other public officials that may
want to see the coming FitzsimmOns-Jef-
fries prize fight at Coney Island.
The will of Prof. o. c. Marsh, late of
Yale, leaves his entire estate to that in
stitution. with the exception of $4,000
which goes to the National Academy of
Science at Washington Yale also gets the
house and gardens, his great library, his
scientific collections and his collections of
more than 1000 rare orchids. On the house
and gardens the university is required to
spend at least 5000 a year. Prof. Marsh
left no family. His only relatives are a
sister in Batavia, N. Y, and half-broth-
er in Chicago.
Russell Sage will be 81 years old on
the 4th of next August He does not look
his age by almost twenty years. He ar
rives at his office every morning at $50.
He is a director in thirty-eght different
companies, from which he draws in direc-
tors fees ranging from IS to $40 per meet
ing, over $4,000 annually. This about COW
ers his whole cost of living expenses, in
GLIDING his stable and his charities. He
banks the income that he derives from
his $3.50, 900 600 investments, and his wealth
is computed at $175, 100000.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-03
PRECAUTIONS AGAINST FIRE.

Since the burning of the Windsor Hotel,
in New York, with such frightful details,
there has been a great deal of discussion
of means for preventing the occurrence Of
similar horrors. suggestion made in
Philadelphia the other day is receiving at
tenton in that city and New York, and II Is
likely that the idea will be adopted. 1t is
that an experienced and expert fireman
shall be stationed in every large hotel,
just as one or more firemen are now as
signed to every theater. 1t is asserted that
the risk in large hotel well filled with
guests is as great as the risk in a theater
filed with auditors, if indeed it is not
greater. since the law takes special cogui-
zance of the means for emptying a theater
quickly and safely.
Prevention is much better than cure, es-
pecially in the case of fire. 1t Is believed
that a competent fireman, having author
ity as an inspector. would considerably
increase the margin of safety in large ho-
tells Not only would he remove causes
likely to result in fires, but in case a fire
should break out. his knowledge of what
to do and how to do 1t quickly, together
with his trained GOODNESS under such con-
ditions would be of the greatest aid in
preventing panic. The hotel fireman would
organize and drill fire fighting force of
the hotel help and in case of emergency
take Steps for combating the flames and
clearing the house of guests in advance
of the arrival of the city's force.
The proposition is that the hotels which
shah be required TO keep fireman on
duty shall pay his salary; but it is be-
lieved the hotels would be able to recoup
themselves. or do even better, by securing
a lowered insurance rate In recognition of
the added protection that would be secured
Ii is likely that legislation will be asked
in Philadelphia requiring the presence of
one or more firemen in the large hotels
and something of the same sort may be
asked in New York.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-03
BRIGHT 8ITS.

-Destroyers-Jones-Yo needn't be
afraid to place that book In the hands of
your children.
Smith-H'm! guess you don't know my
children. Brooklyn Life.
What She Meant-"The idea OF her
having the nerve to claim she first saw the
light in 1878" 'T would not judge her too
harshly. Perhaps she meant the arc light"
indianapolis Journal.
Prediction Verfied-"I see there Is talk
of a Plough Trust with capital of $780,
100000" "Well, haven't been telling you
right along that they would run this trust
business into the round?"-Chicago News.
Wasted Time.-Miss Topnot-Isn't it
too bad about this book?
Miss Panhandle-Why, what is the mat
ter?
Miss .Topnot-Why, didn't discover I'M
til 1 had finished it that had read it be-
fore.-Detroit Free Press.
-silencing Him-George-Jim Bluffem
told me that his wife makes all her own
bonnets.
Maud-Well, George, would you like to
have a wife who was such a dowdy that
she was never known to get seat in a
crowded car?-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
That's curious car load" said Man
chester to Birmingham. as the two stood
on the platform and looked down the aisle.
whats curious about it, except that all
the passengers are women?" well, where
will you find more curiosity than in car
load of women?'-Pittsburg Chronicle
Telegraph.
Enthusiastic Young Miss-'To think of
your being a real literary man! I do so
long 10 know how you write things Can't
you explain it?
Venerable Hack-It is the simplest thing.
You have a mind suitably prepared. You
get an idea. The idea being introduced
into the mind causes fermentation. during
which a scum rises TO the top and is care
fully removed. leaving a residue of clear
thought This you bottle up for your own
use. The scum you sell to a publisher
life
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-03
THE CANNING INDUSTRY.

Owners of fruit, vegetable and fish can
ming plants find the outlook very promis-
ing 10 them. Prices are good, the demand
strong, and the supply well within the
demand. All old stock has been worked
off according to a Baltimore trade paper.
leaving the market open for and ready to
absorb new products. And further, it is
expected that the demand hereafter will
be much larger than it has been
heretofore. The army uses other canned
goods than beef. 1t takes canned vege-
tables, game, fish, oysters, fruits and the
like in large quantities. The prospective
increase in the regular army, and the fact
that a considerable proportion of the army
will be on foreign soil for many months,
makes ii quite sure that there will be for
some time to come steady demand for
timed and sealed food products. The do
nestle consumption of canned goods by
families, hotels and restaurants has been
considerably increased during the past
few years. Many housewives who former
ly canned their own corn, tomatoes, ber-
ries, beans, and the like. now purchase
them from the family grocer They find
it cheaper to do so than to do the work
themselves; still. the prices which they
pay for their canned goods are sufficient
TO leave a neat margin of profit for the
Gamer who goes regularly into the bust
ness and practices economy. 1t is predict
ed that the output of canned goods at
Baltimore will this year be the largest
on record.
All of this should be interesting informa-
ton to the truck and fruit growers of
Georgia. There is raised in this state eV-
cry year a considerable quantity of truck
and fruit which never reaches market, for
various reasons. At present these prod
ucts are practically. If not actually, vast
ed. with small canning plants scattered
about through the truck and fruit sections.
that which now goes to waste could be saw
ed and turned into money. Take the one
item of tomatoes: II is probable that ten
thousand crates of tomatoes go to waste
every year in South Georgia and Florida
because they cannot be marketed prompt
ly in their natural state. If there were
canneries handy. pretty nearly all OF
them could be saved. And the same is
true respecting pears, peaches. peas, beans
and other products.
Small canning plants. capable of doing
as good work as even the largest plant,
cost comparatively little money. For a
few hundred dollars plant can be estab-
lished. Half a dozen producers in a
neighborhood can club together and start
a canning factory, without either of them
feeling the outlay. The time is propitious
for boom in the canning industry in
Georgia and Florida.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-03
Editor NIediII's Clippings.

Mr.. Medm was a worker. says
the Chicago Times-Herald. There
never was a lazy hour in his
life. When he was not writing ne
was reading and clipping articles from
other papers and magazines. He was not
a condenser. He used to come to the Of
flee loaded down with his own articles and
hi hat and pockets filled with clippings
which appeared to have been selected on
account of their length. For days he
watched for them to appear in print, but
they never did
One evening he went to the office loaded
with editorial and reprint. Mr.. White was
not on duty, and the assistants had fin
ished their work and gone home. Mr..
White had put all of the editorial and re-
print on a spike and left it on the night
editors desk. That was before the man.
aging editor had become a necessity. Mr..
Medill found the hook. He lifted the mat
ter from the spike, threw it on the floor,
put on his own matter, and walked out
The next day Mr. White had a row with
the night editor, but that functionary
cleared himself by producing the copy"
Mr.. White thereupon issued anAOrder
that no copy was to be set In that Of
fee from that time which did not bear
the initials II. w" There was no row
with Mr.. MediI about what he had done
He was simply told of the new rule, and
he said nothing, but kept unloading upon
Mr.. White.
The time came for change. Mr.. Medin
had managed 10 secure enough stock to
give him control of the paper. The trans
action was legitimate and no bad blood
made it appearance. Mr.. White stepped
out, retaining $4,000 stock, and Mr.. Me-
dill stepped in. If he did not own the
controlling stock at that time he acquired
it very soon after.
Mr. Medill was a meddler in the affairs
OF his journal. This is not to be consld-
cred In any offensive sense. Before mat
tiers were systemized in the Tribune Of
flee. as they are now, Mr. MedlPs APP
pearance there used to be regarded the
same as that of bull in a china shop.
For instance: Mr.. MedilTs orders had
been given out and obeyed. The editorial
page was ready Everything had been
cleared for the news features when Mr..
Medill would walk in with an armful of
clippings and communications from "old
friends" to whom he could not say no,
and throw them on the desk of the man
aging editor
For while the managing editor gave
in and revamped the paper to accommo-
date Mr.. Medill but the time came when
fast mails had to be made and news ac-
cumulated and the managing editor was
forced to say in explanation of the nom
| appearance of the articles that he had lost
them. Mr.. Medih accepted these ex-
plantations good-naturedly and continued
to unload
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-03
She EIoored G1nh.tnne.

AZ Hawarden one morning Dorothy
Drew refused TO get up. When all other
means had failed to coax her out of bed,
Mr.. Gladstone was called. 'Why don't
you get up, my child?" he asked. why.
grandfather, didn't you tell me to do what
the Bible says?" asked Dorothy. Yes,
certainly" "Well, it disapproves of early
rising; says it's a waste of time" Mr..
Gladstone knew his Bible better than
most men. but he was not equal to Doro-
thy. For once in his life he was nom
plused. you listen, then" went on Dor
othy. in reply to his exclamation of as.
constituent, and, turning up her Bible.
she read the second verse of the 127th
Psalm, laying great emphasis on the first
words, 1T is vain for you 10 rise up
early'
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-03
THE PEOPLE AND THE STREET
RAILWAYS.

Two cities, Detroit. Mich, and San
Francisco, Cal, now have the priv
ilege Of owning and operating the street
railways within their respective limits,
ana 1t may not be very long before we
shall have an opportunity OF judging
whether a city can operate a street rail-
way with profit to itself and satisfaction
to its citizens.
We do not have any hesitation in saying
that we do not believe that municipal
ownership Of street railways would be a
success Here and there the undertaking
would be successful for a while, but it
would be because of the presence of ex-
ceptionally able business men in the coun-
ellis of those cities. In the great major
ity of the cities the railways would be
managed in the interest of the political
faction or party in power. Incompetent
men would be made managers and super
intendents, and heelers and henchmen
would get the minor positions. And then
the people would not be as well satisfied
as they are now. The railway officials
would not pay as much attention to the
complaints of bad service and excessive
charges as the private owners of the
railways do, because feeling that they
had the support of the men vino con-
troled the city government, they would
do just about as they pleased.
This demand that is made in some quar-
tiers for public ownership of public fran
chises will not be granted because the
thoughtful people of the country are sat
isied that if the government should be
put in control Of the railroads the people
would not get as good service as they
do now and they would have TO pay
more for what they got. Freight and
passenger rates of the railways of this
country are very much less than they are
In the countries in which the railways are
owned by the government, and the serv-
ice in this country is so much better that
il is the subject of comment by travellers.
Why is it, then, that there is a demand
on the part of anybody for municipal
ownership of street railways, or for the
ownership of the great steam railways by
the general government? Is IL not sim
ply because of the belief that If the gov
eminent owned the railways the people
would have TO pay little or nothing for
railway service? 1t is that, together with
the disposition of the owners of public
franchises to grab more than the law in
tended they should have. But il is the
duty of the lawmakers and the courts
TO protect the people in their rights, and
they will protect them If the right kind of
men are chosen to make and administer
the laws.
No. we don't want government owner
ship Of railways We have troubles
enough without those which would flow
from turning the railways over to the
politicians and the men who depend upon
politics for living.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-03

The New York Legislature the other day
passed a bill directing, under penalty, that
all druggists dispensing any poisonous sub
stance should employ a box or bottle,
octagonaI in shape, with serrated edges,
and having impressed on it the emblem
of a skull and cross bones" 1t transpires
that previous to the passage of the bill a
Brooklyn man had patented a design for
poison packages described in those identi-
cal terms and the suspicion Is that he and
his friends procured the passage of the
bill, since it appears that the law makes
compulsory the use of the Brooklyn mans
patented boxes and bottles for all poison
Gus substances which may be kept by
drug stores in New York state. That is
what might be called an example Of prac-
teal. modern legislation.