davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-02-25
THE MINOR COURTS.

John Smith was fined IS and costs
yesterday morning before Justice Fitz-
patrick on the charge OF assault and
battery. The complainant was Mrs. r
Clark.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-02-25
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
Deeds of Transfers Admitted to Rec
ord in Clerk Rohertson,s Office.

Deed made February II, 1900, by
James R. McCortney, trustee, to James
H. Emblem, for piece of property on
the east side of Chapline street, be-
tween Tenth and Eleventh streets
Consideration, $3.50.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-02-25
Low Rates to c

Low Rates to Chicago and Return
Via the best and quickest route.
For particulars apply at City Ticket
Office G. L. & w. Ry., corner Twelfth
and Market streets. Tickets sold Feb
ruary 2Sth and 9th.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-02-25

A nice lunch will be served for 10
cents at the Loan Exhibition every day
this week from IL to o'clock p. m.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-02-25
Knox Hats.

We are agents for the celebrated
Knox Hats. Spring styles now on ex-
hibition. G. A. BEUTER, Halter,
% Twelfth street.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-02-25

Low Rates to Cleveland and Returu
Via best and direct line. Particu-
lars at City Ticket Office, corner
Twelfth and Market. Tickets sold
9th and 2Sth.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-02-25

Special closing out sale of Laces
and Embroiderfes this week at i. 8.
Good & Co.'S.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-02-25

Special closing out sale of Laces
and Embroideries this week at l.. s.
Good 4 Co.'S,
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-02-25

Ladies' Gold Filled Chains, the $3.50
quality, at $3.50, this week at Shelf
Bros.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-02-25

Turner's Mask Carnival Monday eve.
Feb. Is. Grand Carnival March $3.50.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-02-25

Special closing out sale of Lnces
and Embrofderfes this week at l.. y.
Good & Co.'S.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-02-25

Turner's Mask Carnival Monday eve.,
Feb. 26. Grand Carnival March $50.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-02-25
THE B. 70. HAS THE TERMINAL
AND WILL r . b A bly, TAKE
CHARGE OF THE LOCAL LINE
ABOUT APRIL 1ST,
ACCORDING TO J. h. MADDY,
VINO WAS IN THE CITY IN CHARGE
OF THE DEWEY SPECIAL.

The Projected Line Across the River
South of This City IL by No Means
. Sure Go-An Increase for b. q o.
Engineers-Trains Delayed-Other
Railroad News.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-02-25
wbetlin9 A9ister
SPRING OPENING

SPRING OPENING.
Fine Tailoring at Popular Prices.
Elegant in cut, finish, and yOrk-
manshfp.
c. HESS & SONS,
Fashionable TaflOrs
and Fine Furnishers,
1921 and 1873 Market Street.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-02-25

A new line of Ladies' Solid Gold
Set Rings, the $3.50 quality, at $3.50
each, this week at Shelf Bros.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-02-25
MerCeriZed S0fGen

Looks like and wears better than silk. Petticoats
come in black and all colors, made with ruffle and
flounce with knife pleating.
1925 TO S3.9S EACH.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-25

have often wished that here in Cook coun-
ty we could see an exhibition of a little of
that pride in authorship that so notably
characterizes the loyal sons and daughters
of Indiana who never weary of singing
the praises of their brilliant fellow-citizens.
Even the Indiana child of tender age is in
structed in the achievements of Hoosier-
dom and is early taught to stimulate his
faculties that in time he may, perchance,
take a place among the immortals. In Ill
Illustration of this commendable spirit we
may repeat the story of the little Indiana
boy who was discussing with two Chicago
playmates mis- hopes for a ripe manhood.
The first Chicago youth asserted that
when he grew up he was going to be a
cook on a dining car. The second declared
that 1T would be the height of his ambition
to drive stage coach. To them listened
with fine scorn the little Indiana boy, and
when they had finished he said with DELHI
crate emphasis: when / grow up 4 am
going to be q writer. / am going to be a
great man. | am going 10 be a greater
man than Shakespeare. / going to be
almost as great as Mr.. Harrington" Need
We wonder, then, that with this spirit per-
vading even the children Indiana is leaping
10 the front in the production of literary
living MASTERPIECES?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-25

Every now and then someone comes 10
the front in advocacy of the training of
the left hand to equal skill with the right.
contributor to the British Medical Jour-
nal, in urging the plan, says there is no
advantage to have the full use of both
hands. His theory as to the universal
tendency to use the right hand in prefer
ence to the other is that in the earlier
days of the human race every man was
on the defensive and must be prepared
to protect himself. Instinctively he would
erdeavor to protect his heart from a blow
with a club a thrust with a knife or
sword, and would naturally use his left
arm for that purpose. The right hand
would be used for welding his weapon.
observation-disclosures thus arising would DE
transmitted by initiative heredity. AS an
argument in favor OF ambidexterity the
writer a medical man, says it would pre-.
vent many occupation pareses. 1T would
tend to more equal use, and to an alterna-
tive and reciprocally resting use, of the
two sides of the brain. It might prevent
or help in the cure of some cases of
hemicrania. Perhaps 1T might prevent some
cases CT hemiplegia." He suggests learn
ing to write with the left hand, using
pen and ink, and says that, with skill i'm
this, other accomplishments in the same
line would easily be added. The sugges-
lions are no doubt good, but the difficulty
of training children to use both hands alike
will prevent a general application of the
ideas. Parents and teachers who have at
tempted to train "left-handed" child
to use the other hand instead have had a
taste of what the reverse undertaking
would be. Still, in these days of growing
popularity for manual training, ambi-
dexterity may come to be common ac-
complishment. When children once realize
its desrability they will do their part will
ingly enough
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-25

The action of Judge Afford, of the Crimi-
nal Court. in allowing the jurors in the
Higgins case 81 a day for each day they
were in attendance is new departure in
our criminal Jurisprudence. The law says:
Jurors, grand and petit. shall be paid 81
per day while in actual attendance" In
der this provision the practice heretofore
has been to allow petit jurors only 81 per
day, even when they were employed sew
eral successive days and nights. Judge AL
ford justifies the larger allowance on the
ground that jury service is becoming more
and more distasteful to the better class Of
citizens on account of its interference with
business, and that they ought not to be
expected to serve twelve and practically
twenty-four hours a day for the meager
per diem of 81. This view may be founded
in equity, but the law seems to imply that
jurors shall not be allowed more than 81
per calendar oay However, if the law in
regard to election inspectors is susceptible
of the eight hours day construction per-
haps the law in regard TO jurymen is.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-25

The plan of engaging competent persons
to teach in Sunday schools and paying
them for their services is advocated by a
Boston minister. 1t is not a new idea, but
has usually been mentioned as a desirable
but not feasible innovation. The Boston
man, however, wants the scheme tried at
once and declines to regard it as imprac-
ticable. Whether he is right or not as to
its practicability there is no doubt that
competent teaching would put new life
into Sunday schools. AS they are at pres
ent operated, the children, in classes of
varying size. are under the care of men
and women, usually the latter, who are
likely to have no better qualification for
the work than willingness or sense of
duty In many cases they are young girls
with scarcely more knowledge of the SUBJ
jects on which they undertake to offer in
struction than the members of their
classes. Probably in g. majority of cases
the teachers have little, if any, background
Of scriptural or historical knowledge to
give their instructions special value, but
depend on hasty review each week of the
international lesson for the day. No child
can be made TO care for it's lessons under
such circumstances. No matter with what
pious zeal the teacher labors, unless she
has something to impart beyond the in
formation contained in the lesson leaf her
efforts to inspire the members of her class
with an interest in the study are in vain
They become listless and Indifferent, and
at early age cease to attend Sunday school
at all.
1t would perhaps not be so difficult to Sc
cure competent service of this kind as
some suppose. In the first place, the chill
dren need not be divided into classes of
dozen or less, but into two or more divi-
sions, according to their ages AS 1t is
now in many Sunday schools, the Infant
class" often forms a large division of the
school and is in the hands of one teacher
Why should not the other division be in
structed by single teacher, as in a day
school? And why should not the church
provide and pay for this teaching as it pro-
vides and pays for the minister's services
in the pulpit? Or else why should not the
Sunday school be given the place of first
Importance and the minister devote him.
self to teaching the children rather than to
preaching sermons to the elders, or the few
of them who come to listen?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-25

posed one to the other? We can imagine
no other reason why gold medal should
be given to this namby- pamby, wisny-
washy and log-rolling sheet. AS the col
ored gentleman said, IL gives one "a misery
in the back. "
1t is reported that Mr.. Willard left be-
hind him the manuscript of a volume OF
"reminiscences TO be published twenty-five
years after his death. Commenting on
this, Harper's Weekly says: 1T is good
news, except the detail OF delay in pub
LEGATION. II only more men who have been
active in doing the worlds work would
stop working betimes and attend 10 their
memoirs a great many interesting stories
would be saved TO the world. But Is
rule only the men who have acquired the
writing habit will bother with autobi0g-
raphies. Ben Franklin is an example. Mr..
Willard another. General Grant was an
exception. Most men arc Indifferent TO the
claims Of posterity upon their pens. They
pass down their Accommodations, If they
have any. and let ii go at that.
Mr.. Stephen Phillips. the author OF Pa
olo and Francesca" was interviewed.
shortly before the first production. in Lon
don, OF his new poetic drama. "Herod." by
a reporter OF the Pail Mall Gazette. ac-
cording to whom the poet said: II should
be inclined TO describe 'Herod' as an at
tempt TO paint In dramatic verse with an
Eastern background the most tremendous
love story in the world. l say this advis-
edly. 1t is no case here of a boy-and-girl
passion as in Romeo and Juliet or 'PaOlO
and Francesca, nor even OF the infatuatiOn
of a middle-aged man for somewhat coli
orless maiden as in 'Othello.' but Of the
clash OF two natures equally intense and
OF barbaric emotion Throughout the play
1 hope TO make perpetualiy felt the thrOb
or that world struggle between Mark An
tony and Caesar Augustus. which involved
the fate OF Herod, and with him that Of
Judaea itself There is also a motive which,
so far i know. is new, and which IN
itself is foundation enough for a separate
play-the constant contrast between Her
DDS public suSoss and his domestic mis-
cries."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-25
THE YELLOW JOURNAL WAY.

Poor Miss Wilkins. If ever a woman
press she has. Somehow or other New
York paper of that class discovered. few
weeks ago. that she was engaged TO marry
citizen of Metuchen, N. ]. Thereupon,
with flourish of large. black type IL
announced the fact as well as great
many other things connected with the
event which were presumably not facts.
They sent an emissary to Miss wilkins
with demand for full particulars. The
lady declined to talk, but this did not
prevent the publication of an interview
The prospective husband was also inter-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-25

Once upon a time there was a Boy who
would not get Mad. He was willing to do
anything to help out a Playmate. so when
the Gang went fishing they took Him along
to carry the Bait, and when they went
Swimming in the Deep Hole he had to stay
on the Bank and watch their Clothes.
II any of the Urchins found a Cookie
Burr and it came to Question as to which
Boy would be Held Down and have the
Burr put into his Hair they always de-
cided in favor of Mel
His Right Name was Melford Praxiteles
Johnson, but he grinned so much and was
so good natured that everybody was Fa-
miliar with him and saluted him as Mel.
He got all the Cookie Burrs in his Hal,
and the Toads down the Back of his Neck
and the Smart Weed rubbed on his Bare
Legs because he was a Good Fellow, and
the Tough Boys who went to School with
him knew that he would not go and tell
Teacher and have them properly Lam
basted.
Sometimes he would go out to the COM
mons, where the Boys were playing Two
Old-Cat, and they would have him act as
Back-Stop and chase the Flies. Somebody
had to do it, and he was so Accommodate
ing and Friendly he did il rather than de-
lay the Game.
All the little bull-headed boys who threat
cned to take their Bats and go home unless
they could have their own way played the
Star Positions.
When he was little older he went TO a
Medical School. where he promptly
tossed up in Blanket and then dropped
down Air Shaft. because the Hazers
saw that he was Good Fellow and would
not go and Squeal to the Faculty.
Mel was Bright Student and graduated
at the. Head of his Class He won a Set of
instruments for his Thesis on the Osteology
of the Supernumerary Digits, and the Dean
predicted Great Things for him.
He hung out a Single right across the
Street from a Classmate who had finished
at the Tail End and did not know the
difference between the Duodenum and the
Clavicle. But this Classmate grew Whis-
kers and wore a Prince Albert and n Tall
Hat and Glasses with Gold Chain and
Coughed into his Palm and used Latin
Words, and he got the Practice.
He was Physician and Mel was Doc.
If a Man came into Mel's Office suffering
from q Combination of Soft-Shell Crabs
and Neapolitan Pudding II would be like
Mel to tell him that he had the Stomach
Ache
Then the dissatisfied Patient would go
across TO see the Physician. who would
tell him that he had Acute Gastritis
Anybody would rather have Gastritis
than Stomach Ache the Physician had
his Waiting Room crowded all the Time.
The Public could not pin its Faith to a
Practitioner who wore Sack Suit and kept
his Hat on the Back of his Head and spoke
to the Children along the Street and never
used three Double-Jointed Words from the
Materia Medica unless he had to.
Still Doc managed to get some Practice
If any Sufferer happened to be Broke he
went to Doc, because Doc was a Good Fell
low who could be Stood OFF. Doc got all
OF the Charity Cases and the Fake across
the Street treated all the Women who had
Property and Imaginary Complaints.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-25

viewed and made to talk like a three-ply
ssmpleton. not to say cad, about his
courtship, his hopes and prospects. ETC.
Il is mere fairness to give him the bene-
fit of the doubt and assume that he never
said the things aseribed to him. The en-
gagement was meat to the yellow paper
for several days. Portraits of the couple,
pictures of the house where the bride-to-be
now lives and of the one where she is to
1--we, guesses as to why she had remained
single so long, incidents in the courtship
which the reporter had not been able TO
invent for the first version of the story.
sketches or residents of Metuchen who
would be her future neighbors and infer
entially serve as "material' to be worked
into her stories, aspeculations as to the
effect upon her literary work OF marrying
and going to New Jersey-all these af-
forded an opportunity not to be neglected.
After all the straw had apparently been
threshed out of the sensation the pub
lie was allowed to rest for week in the
supposition that the marriage of the pop
ular story writer would take place in the
near future. Then came the announce
ment, with more sensational black head
lines, that Miss wilkins had broken her
engagement with the New Jersey gentle
man, who was left disconsolate. This an
nouncement caused reporters Of Boston
papers to visit her at her home in a sub
urb of that city, and to them she declared
with indignant emphasis that she had not
broken her engagement, had no intention
of doing so, and had given no authority for
such an announcement. In fact, she used
plain English and called the story lie,
and complained bitterly of the way she
had been pursued by reporters for the
past few weeks and her affairs pried into.
Miss Wilkins, according to the account
person who believes that though she writes
for publication she is not necessarily a
public character. To such woman the
notoriety she has been given must be dis
tressing But there is apparently no help
for such outrages. Their preparation is
a feature Of the 'new Journalism which
applied indiscriminately and unjustly to
the press in general. For where there is
one yellow paper without decency or hon.
esty there are dozen which are clean and
trustworthy. 1t is great pity that they
must suffer for the misdoings of the few.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-25

Shortly after Doc began 10 Practice h.
fell in Love. but no one took Il Seriously
for he was always Joking. The Cir liked
Doc because he was entertaining and ill.,
eral up TO his Income. but when he Pro-
posed his Sense OF Humor prevented him
from getting down on his Knees and Civ
ing her any OF this Mrs. +. ID. N South
| worth Hanky-Pank.
She had the usual streak Of the Romantic
In her Makeup and she refused to con-
slider his ofhand Request She gave her
self to an opinionated Willie-Boy who was
always having himself Photographed in
Dress Suit. and who came at her with a
Ten-Minute Speech that he had learned
from q Book on How 10 Make Love"
published by Munro & Co.
Then because Docs Philosophy and his
Goodness Of Heart came 10 his Rescue and
he Forgave her and did not Drink himself
to Death or start for the Gold Fields with
her Picture next 10 his Heart nearly every
one said that he had not Cared for her AZ
all and was not capable OF the Grand Pas
sion.
After Doc had struggled along I'm his Pro-
fession for many Years without having any
Velvet H. front of him he decided to trv for
Politicai Appointment. Every one seemed
10 like him and he knew he could get
Backing. He thought very well of his
Drag. Sure enough. when he applied FOR
| Consulate all the influential Moguls of the
Party signed his Petition. Then they SAT
down and wrote Private Letters 10 Back
Cap him.
They told the President that he was a
| Good Fellow, but he lacked Dignity and
Bearing. They said that he was commonly
known as Mel or Doc. that he had a Repu-
tation as Story Teller. that he had been
| a Failure in his Profession and never ac-
| cumulated any Property. that he was Care
| less in his Business Habits and loaned
Money to any one who seemed to be in
Trouble, and that. therefore. although ne
had been an Active Worker. possibly the
Appointment ought TO go to some Man who
had more regard for Solemn Responsible
ties
So the Job was given TO a Four Flush
who posed in Public Places and Drowned
and kept one Hand inside of his Coat and
never said anything because he had Moth
ing to say.
Even after this final Throw-Down Doc
did mot become embittered or cease trying
TO be a Good Fellow.
One Day, however. as he was reviewing
his Career he decided if he had it to do
over again he would be NJ Particles John
son and wear the Front of Jove and refuse
to be Sociable.
He realized that he had Erred in repeat
ing Anecdotes, lending Money and trying
to be a Mixer. He wished that he had
kept his Degree printed on all his Cards
and hung an Articulated Skeleton inside
of his Office Door. Also ne began TO un-
derstand that 1t is advisable to crowd in
en- the Platform at every Public Powwow
and be played up as a Prominent Citizen.
Furthermore, he wished that he had
Dressed the same IS Pallbearer.
1t would have been a Hard Job 10 keep
up the Monumental Bluff, bat then one
must always pay price for True Success
Moral-Be Dignified and Serious. If posi-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-25

the sos our boatyard, situated on the
north OF the city. on the sandy shore or
the river. just below where the city water
OF industry. The saving and the hewing to
the chalk line, the pounding together OF
the framework. the driving Of the great
wooden pins and the punching homo OF the
osxum or calking into every crack and
Granny altogether created a busy and life
like scene.
Another passage relates to a different
scene, which the author seems 10 have
witnessed. as have many others who can
recall the days of the old stage coach:
1t was magnificent sight for the small:
boy, In those early days, TO witness the
village; to hear the blast OF his long tin
horn and the crack of his whip; altogether
IL was something that impressed itself In
delibly upon his memory. Every small boy
likes whip. but stage drivers whip was
his ideal; something TO admire, but not
to handle. The whip itself was a work of
art. The stock was of tough hickory. long.
slender and elastic, with heavy butt end.
ornamented sometimes with fiat silver
rings and sometimes with bone knobs, hav-
ing lash scientifically plated of thin
strips OF leather, on the end of which was
attached what was called the cracker,
made of plated sewing silk. TO crack
the whip near to the tip of the ears Of his
an expert driver. This was possible by
bending over and reaching forward as the
stock of the whip was four feet and the
lash ten feet long.
This may not be as important as the fall
of an empire or as thrilling as the descrip-
ton of a battle, but nevertheless it is a
phase of history. In 1875 mail. stages ran
three times a week from Terre Haute to
Cincinnati by way of Indianapolis, three
times a week to Louisville and Evansville,
twice week to Lafayette and once a week
to Springfield, Ill. The mail service has
improved since then.
One more extract may be given relating
to the difficulties encountered by pioneer
lawyers:
Judge Blackboard, on one of his trips to
VincenneS from Indianapolis came very
near losing his life. Mounted on a stout
horse, with overcoat, leggings and his sad
dlebags full of law books, he undertook
to ford White river near Martinsviile while
the river was swollen by freshet He and
but eventually landed an island. He
was rescued by farmer. Having dried
his law books and clothing. he waited a
couple of days for the water to fall when
he proceeded on his way.
This was Isaac Blackford speaker of the
first State Legislature, in 1916, judge of the
Supreme Court from 1919 to 1896 and Judge
of the United States Court of Claims from
1856 till his death in 1859. While Supreme
judge he reported his own decisions in
eight volumes, which from their first pub
LEGATION have been quoted as high authority
in the courts of the United States and
England. 1t would be we'll if every county
in the State could have done for it what
this book does for Vigo county and Terre
Haute