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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-19
THE pARKansDuRG POLICE.

From what we can gather from the
Parkersburg papers, from Tune 10
fine. that city is inflicted with po-
lice force which fails of its duty 10
some extent. The Parkersburg police
force. we take it, is Democratic pul
notifies cuts no figure in such case.
In here we have a Republican police
force. and its shortcomings are as
numerous and its faults as glaring as
those of the Parkersburg blue coats
The state Journal remarks, in an out
burst of wrath:
.,what is the use of saying anything
about the police of ParkersburgE BENG
deaf and dumb, they can neither see nor
fee l."
Bad as the Parkersburg force may
be- we submit that the State journal
does it an injustice. Men may be dear
and dumb, and yet see and feel. A man
may be unable to hear the sounds or
revelry issuing forth from Sunday
saloon. and yet see those who enter
and emerge from lne sue uoot' iA0
may be unable to utter an articulate
sound, and yet touch" fellow being.
The Parkersburg police may be deaf
and dumb, but we cannot bring our
selves to the thought that they are also
blind, and that the sense of touch Is
lacking. 1t cannot be as bad as that.
The esteemed State Journal is GER
tainly in error, and unduly magnifies
the defects of the local guardians of
the public peace. Up here the police
are somewhat defective in eyesight, and
a little hard of hearing, but they can
feel all right, and can understand
few words upon given occasions.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-19
WHAT SANITARY SCIENCE WILL DO

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Cuba has had her official scandals re-
sultirg from American occupation, and
has also reaped her benefits. One of the
great things achieved has been the
improvement of health through rational
sanitarism, and case in point is at
Santiago. That particular port has
been the home of yellow fever for three
hundred years. In all that time there
was not a year but the disease ragged
with more or less virulence and it
claimed its victims by hundreds and
thousands Under American regime
there has been a wonderful change
wrought There has not been case
of fever in the city since December,
1889, something unprecedented, and the
late summer passed without solitary
patient Two years of American rule
has made Santiago as clean and healthy
as any American city, A revolution
has been wrought in the matter of SAN
itation and drainage, and in the habits
OF the people. The stabling OF horses
and the keeping OF pigs, cows and
chickens in the habitations of men has
been ended Dwelling houses have been
provided with a sewerage system, and
the time-dishonored practice of simply
throwing all sorts of filth and refuse
out of the door and allowing it to lie
and tester where it CHANGED to fall has
been ended The people have been
taught somthing, new, and the results
have been very satisfying. 1t is posi-
Bile to practically Danish yellow fever
and kindred diseases from every tropi-
cal or semi-tropieal city 1t only re-
quires little less Incidence on the part
of the people, and an application of
rational methods of living. Havana
used TO be plague Spol in summer,
but it no longer has a terror for the
people OF the north. A few years of
scientific administration would make it
as healthy as Jacksonville or Mobile.
Cuba has profited much through her
emancipation from Spanish rule and
most notably in the increased immuGi-
ty from disease.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-19
AN ARCTIC NOVELTY.

Russia has determined to set a new
pace for Arctic explorers and the
authorities believe they will be en-
a!bled to reach the pole, the goal of
mans ambition for three hundred
years, by sheer force. The idea is to
embark well equipped expedition in
the ice boat Yermak, and start the craft
due north from some Russia seaport,
trusting to her wonderful ability in
cleaving ice foes to achieve that which
has been denied to all expeditions up
to this time.
The ship is very powerful one, and
has long been used in the breaking up
of very heavy ice in the Baltic and
ether Russian waters of the far north.
The object of sending it against the
heavy ice of the polar regions was for
mulated some time ago, and the Arm
strongs have lately completed a new
steel prev for the ship, guaranteed to
stand any possible strain, and to cut a
way through ice many feet in thick
ness. The ship will be accompanied
by heavily sheathed collier, and will
probably sail during the coming sum-
.ncr. The result of the experiment viii
be awaited with eagerness by the
scientific world.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-19
casual acquaintanceship with the cleo
trical current
nan sTATE OF AFFAIRS.

The Register is informed by tele-
graph that the country along the line
of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad,
between Huntington and Clifton Forge,
va, is saturated with smallpox, the
number of cases being estimated at as
high a figure ais five hundred. The
railroad officials have prepared to act
energetically, and this morning the
work of vaccinating the entire force of
employees will be commenced.
4 At Warrington, yesterday, gang OF
twenty-six strange negroes were es-
corted out of town, because of a fear
of infection. There are said to befnine
cases of smallpox at Pit Pleasant, and
the situation in Harrison county is the
very reverse of satisfactory.
1t looks very much as though West
Virginia was to pay a heavy penalty,
this winter, through the ravages of a
loathsome disease brought into the State
by non-residents whose votes were I'M
lawfully polled in the interests of the
dominant political party. These strang-
ers were not only colonized along the
railroads, and in the mining regions,
but as well in such counties as Ohio,
Marshall, Wetzel, Tyler. Marion, Pres
ton, Monongalia and elsewhere, to the
aggregate of thousands. They were
gathered UP from the slums of Wash
ington. from Old Virginia, from North
Carolina-anywhere and everywhere
and their expenses paid for few weeks
in exchange for votes. After election
they were left to shift for themselves,
and in rags, unwashed and infected
they have wandered from place to
place, leaving a trail of disease behind
them.
The theme is an unpleasant one to
discuss, but thsare is nothingto, be gained
by concealing the situation. The bet
ter plan is to- recognize the facts as
they exist, and let the people go to
work first to stamp out the smallpox,
and secondly to ascertain who is re-
sponsible for its introduction and
spread. In this latter regard a fair
commencement could be made with the
County Court of Harrison county.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-19
An rnpepuIar Measure.

Indianapolis News
The price Of the stock Of the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company has recently
advanced from 40 to 81 cents. The
great advance is no. due to the mere
fact that President Mckinley was re-
elected. and probably il viii not be so
claimed II Is said that the expected
prompt passage Of the ship subsidy bill
has had good deal to do with It. We
warn the Republicans that there is no
measure now before Congress more un-
popular-and deseTvedly so-with the
people Of the west.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-19
why Not Make it General.

Nashville American.
If shipbuilders are to be paid by the
government for building ships which
they mean to sail for their own indi-
vidual profit, why should not cotton
mill builders, steel plant builders or
any other projectors Of enterprise be
paid in like manner? Are the people
SO rich that money can be wrung from
them, piled high in the treasury and
then paid by act of Congress to already
wealthy syndicates?
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-19
sandbaggcd by the Salt Trust.

Minneapolis Times.
The salt trust has advanced the price
Of table salt to $3.50 per 100 pounds.
4 little while ago it was selling the
same grade at s1.10. All classes Of salt
are proportionately advanced, SO that
every packer, meat retailer, butter
manufacturer, grocer, baker, ice cream
maker and finally every housekeeper
will feel the blow of. the sandbag and
rise in the price of their wares is in
eYitable.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-19

Illinois Republicans are not pleased
with the information which comes from
Washington that Hon. Lyman j. Gage
is to be continued as Secretary of the
Treasury. If the Illinois Republicans
don't like the determination of the
President. they can lump it," as we
used to say whel we were boys. The
President is compelled to defer to Wall
street in scne matters, and Mr.. Gage
is a case in point.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-19

The Register this morning presents
an interesting summary of the scramble
for the spoils now going on between the
big guns in the dominant party. Incl
detally it is announced that opposition
to the reelection of Senator Elkins will
not be tolerated for moment, and that
any Republican who dares to cast an
adverse vote against the present senior
Senator will be relegated to the politi-
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-19
According to correspondent, the

According to a correspondent, the
verdict of Partisan society in the Count
ess de Castellane case, is that American
heiresses who elect to marry French
titles should be prepared to
pay the piper" That means
payments in cash to spend
thrift and dissolute husbands and pay
ments in wounded pride besides. It's
the old story. The American women
who ignore American young men for
the sake OF a foreign title and a rake
of husband are deserving of little
sympathy.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-19

said: he dare not try to utter more.
She took his hand and pressed her lips
on It, then she flung It from her as she
rememb ered that it was the hand OF
the man who had killed her father.
Not now. do not ask me now. Co.
do your duty. Pray God to give VIC
tory to those who fight for liberty.
After the war ask me. Who can tell
what my answer viii be. Paul, Paul. l
love YOU
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-19
Peculiar "Developmentv In Cuba.

Boston Globe.
It may seem TO some minds natural
consequence Of President McKinley's
reelection that great corporation
should have Just been organized with
capital OF 100000 600 to develop
Cuba in a very comprehensive and COM
plete, not to say trust" fashion. It Is
announced that the new Cuba COM
pany,' promoters of which are already
at work on Cuban soil, propose to Sc
cure If possible, options on all the
sugar plantations in the island, as well
as to gain control Of all lines OF transit,
electric and otherwise. 1t remains to
be seen how far such system OF
benevolent assimilation" OF franchises
and enterprises win please the people
of Cuba.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-19

The surplus revenues will foot up
$50, 100000 for the present year. 1t is
proposed to cut off but $15,000,0O0 of
this a.. the coming session OF Congress.
If that is done-and it is douotful-the
people will continue to pay $4,000, 900
more than the legitimate requirements
of government. The American taxpay-
ers have to face,a tough proposition for
the next few years. But they ought, in
Justice, to take their medicine without
making bad face. They voted in that
direction.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-19

The government of the Argentine
Republic has determined to construct
an underground telegraph line one hun
dred and f5ty miles long, between
Buenos Ayres and Rosario, simply be-
cause spiders spin their webs on the
overhead wires and in damp or rainy
weather the service is practically Grip
pied.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-19

The Chicago Chronicle advocates a
chain-gang for the thieves, thugs and
oisoroerly elements of that city. 1t
isn't a bad idea, although it was aboI-
ished in Wheeling twenty years ago.
The daily tramp from prison to work
and back again, with ball and chain as
jewelry, is more eficacious than ten
dollars and costs and term ION the
hill
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-19
ACHING HEARTS.

For the Register.
oh. when viii man e'er understand "a
And feel anothsr's woes. :
And learn TO give sweet sympathy =
Where bitter anguish flows. IT
And not unjustiy TO condemn
And fill the heart with care.
Until the soul misunderstood
Deems life is so unfair?
How many hearts will ache each day
For lack OF sympathy.
Until the overpurdened sou.
From life longs to be free?
Would we more kindly words e'er speak
And criticize much less.
How many souls we would uplift
And others lives Oft bless.
MARTHA SHEPARD LIPPINCoTT.
Moorestown. New Jersey.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-19
cal wilderness, with ample opportunity
to muse over his indicretion.


Humanity is much the same the
world over. The civilized portion OF
it has a mania for relics, and neither
tomb or temple is sacred from the
vandaIs who knock chips off the pyra-
mids, gouge out the eyes of heather
gods or dig up the bones of forgotten
kings.
There is case in point at Marseilies,
France. A suite of twenty-four rooms
had been reserved for President Kru-
ger and his party at the Hotel Noailles.
The apartments were extensively FUR
nished, and decorated with the choicest
curtains, rugs, bric-a-brac, etc. There
was a public demand for an Inspection,
and the apartments were thrown open
and speedily thronged. The mob didn't
do a thing. They carried off orna-'
ments, whitfield chips out of amhogany
chairs and ebony tables, cut pieces from
rare old lace curtains. hacked the fringe
off Persian rugs with pen knives, and
cut pieces out of the Administer carpets.
In short, they came pretty near looting
the whole of the portable property and
ruined most of it beyond repair-and
all for the sake of having relic. The
apartments will have to be refurnished
and meanwhile fee OF Ave francs is
charged for an inspection of the ruin
wrought. When the relic fiend reaches
the neither world he'll have TO carry
ice and deliver at the end of long
journey the same weight he started
with, and the penalty for any discrep-
ancy will be hot old time.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-19

ParkerEbNrg Journal.
A female clairvoyant has muItched
many Of the fashionable ladies of
Wheeling out OF large sums OF money.
She appears to have been a DAISY az
well as an encaantress. II may be said
TO be all very well. The cash Of fools
might just as properly go the way That
wizard at wheeling as In any other
manner.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-19

The County Mail. OF Clarksburg,
makes some timely and pertinent re-
marks about the prediction breaking
up of the Harrison county smallpox
camp, which we reproduce upon this
page. Ihe bosses of the dominant
party stopped at nothing calculated to
command success.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-19

Washington, Pa. has just dedicated
its new court house, and is justly very
proud OF it. 1t is building which
would be an ornament TO any city OF
a quarter OF million people, and will
last our neighbors for the next cen
tury.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-19

The Board of County Commissioners
came off its hight perch in the matter
of recounts. The hide of the Board is
Of pachydermous thickness yet it
can be pierced.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-19
what he wanted.

Chicago Tinles-Herald
They say he married her because he
felt that his children needed mother"
Yes He has just bought her a $3.50
toy dog and sent mis- children TO live
with his first wifes mother"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-19

About twenty-five State papers re-
printed the Registers list of the mem
bers OF the Legislature, elected during
the present month, but so far as we
nave observed. it did not occur 10 a
solitary editor to give the Register
credit.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-19
The are many enquiries for a com

The are many enquiries for q COM
,plete exhibit Of the vote OF tae State.
The Register is compiling the returns
as fast as they can be secured. and
complete ard accurate table, by coun-
ties. for al Offices. will be published at
the. earliest possible moment.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-19

Seattle electrical experimentors have
succeeded in driving an electric motor
with a current carried over one hundred
and fifty-three miles Of wire. This
breaks all previous records. and shows
that it is possible for Niagara to furnish
light, heat and power for Albany, Cleye-
land. Pittsburg and all the intervening
country. We are only scraping a
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-19
In Keeping.

Philadelphia Record
Nell-fWhey Is the colonel's wife
wearing half-mourning?
Belle-She has heard through private
sources from the Philippines that the
colonel has been half-shot ever since
he went out there
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-19

The first fruits of the recent election
were increased prices by she trusts.
The second crop gathered was de-
cided tendency to decrease wages. The
public is expected to smile and be sat
isfied.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-19

The Governor OF Colorado is report
ed to have said, when warned Of the
contemplated burning of the negro
murderer and rapist. that it was none
of his business The Governor Of
Colorado surely has strange ideas Of
his public duties under his oath.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-19

Admiral Dewey is expected TO be the
guest of Pittsburg friends sometime dur
ing the present week
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-19

All France has gathered at Marseilles
to do honor to Dom Paul.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-19

New York word.
Il Is costing more and more 70 kee1
that dinner pail full.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-19

a rebellion It isn't rebellion. and
never was. save against Spain. There
is no rebellion in the Philippines
against the United States.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-19

A few Republican papers continue to
refer to the war in the Philippines as
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-19

yesterday was a royal day, for the
middle OF NQTember.
New-York tribune., 1900-04-19

MoLAsSEs AND sYRUPs-A very firm under,one was
aeaTy all instances were ereed snapped up
the leading buyers. Staple offered was not abundan,
Choice Sotson % IN some cases where extra
se ns open af Kettle e sqaS Se7S So PRIME o
fSG ys@ s 95nc sH2 fair 1aal4c good l6l5
metals today Cables from London averaged up as
partial 10 to 2 points closed quiet easy at si
closing s7 g 0n sqea "se We're ana aoed 9n
TG'aiy Tor the Fs time In months at sl6 and weak
auiTy closing firm at 3 s 75as4 50 Lead continues dun
brokers price for lead s. 10 spel,r 81 774
trades Was in and rates We're ts f as 6
few vessels offered for nearby loading Coaswse
for local loading better demand and rates
q R0Ps @ 05 but p9ats fate
d Gaasew Sa Bso To- a. dvfTP3S Tai
g t4$ SnsSs ss "a Man
ton ! q IAyerpoo per 100 r. 2so: London oats
but but with s ms Igs no sssnd
Refined petroleum. unchanged Insesd oil remains
la n IA S % s T M & @ IN 6 6s 50 p
* So 'na deaGoFited RGl
hona prime summer yellow sc prompt of PDs saher 5Se
s ye6T 4S4 nssed ~eils s@g
raw raw Ssgoag n boiled e59Gse Calcutta
lard OIL 5sa5sa S'O''' = '''e' city Ofaha''
Of 'tte decline SiAia In os %saA prcss
@ and m aTg 5g & m than cncssS getting
place later day stronger undertone and slfost
full recovery based on good demand pork from
packing interests Tere also commission houss
buying Of other product but in afternoon realizing
unsettled at little Under the previous nights figures
AZ Chicago 26,Ot0 expected Thursday Kansa,
CITY had 10000 hogs yesterday ana Omaha 1000 -.
So 25qs5; clear sis 5oasi5 aREF-steadyy staty
3gSted; Mes SO 50gsi; family si2Gsls 90; packet
p1 as1Y SSS'si SSs,sa at & $40 5s@ssl 90 go ~ HOGS
pigs, T&c... GUT MEAT5-Ficltied ,peiies ouss bur
nrm Quoted, Smoking bellies. s+sc; 10 Sc IL 10
Tag la 10 IhG11sc F1cked shoulders steady qrroted
at e Picked hams dun quoted at 1ohs9lIc. tai.
igJo Renned hard steady quoted south Inerca az
As5o coEtinent &C. Brazil, kegs. 350c Compound arm
Quoted city. 9&e Western eSsc..... .STEA RIM"
Firm Quoted: Oeo. SC; city stesrine $50
RTcE-Tre desirable sorts of foreign ana do
mand relatively higher prtcss OferingS OF ali sorts
We're most of the time to-day and only ar ,,I
rates Sellers conservative an unusaj iseree
Quotations foilow: Domestic how fair "a IN
47sci fair 70 good AZ noe prime choice 5M65StfS
head. 81. 9311c: Patna p4 Sc: Japan az a IaS'
slGAR-Merked frmness obtained throughout me 1,,,
II IN" refined market with active with co,rtr
points and fairly brisk with local parties There wsa
charge made In prices and the noy Iooknr fr
iary settled conditions in this uleaia
futures az least Quotations follow and c-sb.S
cubes and xxx powdered. 580c: powdered coz we no
deTed and fruit powdered. b25c: Eagle confertJoners,
granuated 54oc: Eagle and extra ons
gronEiated SOC; Eagle II cartons. bags & N car
granulated. standard granu,i and diamond A. & i5o: