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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-04

Andrew Sundheima, butcher of
Wabash Ind, is an enveterate tobae-
co chewer, using plug exclusively and
carrying it in hip pocket. A few
days ago he absent-mindedly thrust a
ten-dollar bill down alongside tobac-
co. The weather was hot, the bill and
the tobacco stuck together, and not
until the plug had nearly disappeared
did Sundheima learn that for a couple
of days he had been chewing a ten-dol-
lar bill along with his weed
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-04
different Breaths.

Down In southern Georgia two Wild
ows were condoling with each other
oyer their troubles. In telling of the
last sickness and death of their hus-
bands, one said:
"MY man, poor feller, jes' suffered
and suffered and suffered, and then
Jes' died for the want of breath"
The other replied:
"Waal, mine didn't He drawed his
breath to the very last."--Argonaut
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-04
"l WIN" AND "l LOSE"
Sporting Men Ignore Their lenses
and Seem Pleased.

Sporting Men Ignore Their lenses
and Seem Pleased.
"Have you ever noticed the satisfied
manner Of gamblers while twisting
their lenses into the 4 win and I lose
rommon to the fraternityT' remarked
D man who has a fOndness for investi-
eating the peculiarities Of his fellows.
81 have thought of that for n long
tlmo-ever since that form Of expires
sion came into common use among
gamblers. Watch the first sport you
hear talking In that style ana notice
the pleasure he seems TO take in roll
Ing his method Of expression. The
tense he uses evidently carries him.
back. and he enjoys again in the pres
ent the pleasures of the act when he
speaks of it. Even if he says he lose
1t gives him qualification. according 10
the philosophy of Charles Fox, who Is
authority for the statement that the
greatest pleasure in the world, next to
winning money, is to lose It.
1.-THE ungrammatical fashion among
gamblers dates back about 10 years.
1t seems impossible to conceive any
reason for the custom other than the
one | have mentioned. That form Of
speech is still growing in popularity.
The so called sporting men have eX-
tended the scope of the present tense to
all their verbs. 1t jars on me some
times. but even then find consolation
In the knowledge that If the sports
did not affect that particular style Of
speech % in 100 of them would do even
worse. and their present picturesque
defiance of grammar is u relief from
the possibilities of such expressions as
I seem and I done New York
Times
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-04
Four Good Habits.

There are four good habits-punctu-
ality, accuracy, steadiness and dis
patch. Without the first of these time
is wasted. Without the second, mis-
takes the most hurtful to our own
credit and interest and that Of others
may be committed. Without the third,
nothing can be well done, and without
the fourth opportunities of great ad-
vantage are lost, which it is impOs
sible to recall.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-04

The time'has passed when any old
clothes that traveller might possess
were accounted good enough for an
ocean voyage. Indeed, the dressing
of passengers on some ocean liners
has recently become so elaborate that
persons looking for ease and inform
ality are alarmed at the rapidity with
which the former ideas on this subject
are changing.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-04

"Is marriage a failure| y y,
say notw remarked an Oregon 'I, a.,
"Why, there's Lucindy glIs W n n
mornin, milks six cows, glIs u,''1' 90,
starts four children to sEeWA ~"
ter the other three, feeds Wv
likewise the hogs, likewise SOU, I
erless sheep, skins 20 pans VI d,
washes the clothes, gifts d'I.'', ,.,' ~
cry, ct cetery! Think ! coulu ,l'a u~s
body to do 1t for what sh' s,", ,,,.
much! Marriage, sir is a 'a,, .,I
great successw Woman's J0u'"''
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-04

"Your latest novel seems W.. +
said the reader Of the puDl''D''
to the young but rising au'DoD
81 was pretty sure you D' I'D
that" rejolned the ali'uO' ,m
quently If you win coup' .sl
will find the heroine We'lo G
on just 253 pages of my sIo0
land Plain Dealer.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-04

From Arizona bridal trip little
out of the ordinary is reported. A
young couple went to Flagstaff, bought
a couple of big wagons and team of
mules, hired a couple of teamsters and
a good cook, and started south for
Phoenix. The principal wagon was
rooted witheangas and wire gauze with
every comfort, and tho "trip is describ-
ed as ideal. There wers 40 Aies or
mosquitoes and good hunting. Upo9
arrival at Phoenix the wagons were
sold at an advance and the couple
proceeded by rail to Los Angeles in
search OF new adventures.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-04

There was lawyer in the Indian
country who had none too good a repu.
taton for honesty, says the Chicago
News
one of the aborigines employed him
to do n little legal business. 1t was
done, to the clients satisfaction the
fee duly paid and Il receipt for it duly
demanded ~ receipt isn't necessa-
ry," the lawyer said 'But | want It,"
replied the red man. There was some
argument, and the attorney finally de-
manded his reason "Since becoming
Il Christian | have been very careful
In all my dealings that | may be ready
for the Judgment" answered the brave
sententiously, and when that day
comes | don't want to take time to go
TO the bad place to get my receipt from
you" The receipt was made out ana
promptly delivered
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-04

81" said the gentleu''D, IA, b
fairly prospered, "am nuDge ,sos h
of the fact that | took GEL Du,' rb
me, Satan, as my motto "D'a aoibA
business life" "There is pU,s ',So
said the second gentleman, ~ ,se
measured business wits WIZ b
gentleman, "like having ~
ing"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-04

m proportion to population, North
Berwick is said to be the wealthiest
town in Scotland 1t has an annual
value of real property per inhabitant Of
about $50.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-04

People marvel at the mechanism Of
the human body, with its 402 bones
and GO arteries, but man is simple in
this respect compared with the carp.
That remarkable fish moves no fewer
than 1886 bones and muscles every
time 1t breathcs. 1t has.4,320 veins. to
say nothing Of its 90 muscles.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-04
A Good VarnIsh'

BY dissolyipg cellulolo raml
acetic ether a transparep' n,u,l
made which viii take o l'su ,,lcr
resist hot water, II H .,cb 4
adapted to metal objects '" ',,nrl
cycles, and can be nlaa'
any desired coloring na'''
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-04

An advertisement in a New York
morning paper lately calls for Este
nographer who can cookl" Another
demands "a housekeeper who under
stands shorthand and typewriting.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-04

Tact is being more aud more recog-
nized as a valuable instrument in
mans welfare and happiness.-Phila-
delphia Ledger
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-04

Shakespeare, among his many ailu-
sions to the sweetness, the innocence
and the helplessness Of the lamb, only
once cites it as an article of food.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-04

A Detroit business man says that die
tating to stenOgrapher has ruined his
spelling. He cannot write an ordinary
letter now, he says, without making
gross errors in photography
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-04

The most magnificent tomb in the
world is deemed to be the palace ter
pie OF Karnak. occupying an area
nine acres
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-04
Chicago physicians say that more

Chichgo physielans say That more
than one-half the women of that city,
or any other civilized place, have
euteroptosis, a dragged down condi-
tion of the viscera and stomach. 1t
is this condition which brings on
chronic billiousness, constipation,
backache, debility and loss of com
pleXion.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-04

Japanese swords have the high tenn
per Of the famous Damascus blades
without their wonderful fexibility.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-04

The marble keeps merely cold and
sad memory of man who else would
be forgotten, No man who needs
monument ever ought to have one.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-04

The Lombards introduced the custom
of charging interest for the use OF
money.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-04

A married man says Wv, ,oodsI
should be like a roast lalnp sd
sweet, nicely dressed' wv
sauce,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-04

The fellow who has boil on the
back Of his neck naturally feels sore
about ~,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-04

Smart Barrister- You say the even,
ing wore on. What did it wear on that
particular occasion2
Witness-The close of day, pre-.
Hnmn
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-04

A standing order--"Move up front. "
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-10-04

o love. since you aud / must walk apart,
Spare noe one littla corner OF your heart
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-20

|the remarkable change III the senti-
ments ii MI. william Mckinley on
this subject since 1888 when he was
a Congressman:
president Mckinley said N this floor
February %. 1883: Nearly $5s.ooO.o0o is out
among the banks, held by them. they CIV
ing to the government bonds as security
for the deposit, and they are getting 1t
without interest, and they draw the ac-
crued interest on the government bonds.
He properly severely criticised President
Cleveland for letting them have free S59,-
600. 900, while he now gives them the free
sIf we adjourn this Congress
without passing a law forcing the
Treasury to let these deposits out
at their market value h same as
the States do, we should be con-
demned Mt home by a defrauded
constituency.
THE ordinary banks of the country do
not get these benefits. In the first place
they do not have United States bonds to
deposit and if they did they would not
lave the influence to get the deposits. If
the $10O, 900, 600 were equally divided among
the $500 national banks there would only
be $27, TT for each bank.
1T has recently been shown by the press
thai the National City Bank at times had
daily balances of $40, 600, 900 to $29,Oo0,00
At this rate you could only distribute to
three banks out of the $780,. Ii each was
given $40, 100000 only five banks could be
served. If each got s5,0o0,00. only twenty
out of $500 could be served.
1.-THE whole system tends to make the
powerful more powerful and the weak
weaker"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-20
WHO Is SPENDING MONEY!

Our Fourteenth street neighbor apol-
ogizes for it's hasty and yellow insinu-
atoms against the Register regarding
the use Of money in the refunding or
dinance campaign. 1t says:
1.-THE Intelligencer never said that the
Register was paid. Neither did it say that
any money was being used; it was the
Register that made these false charges
against the friends of the ordinance, and
the Intelligencer suggested that IF any
money was afoat that the Registers course
laid it open to suspicion"
This, although sufficiently contempt
ible and offensive, is quite a different
way of putting it.
What does our neighbor mean by IL
any money is afloat?"
Doesn't it know that there is money
aloat and plenty of it to push through
this refunding ordinance?
Our neighbor further states that no
"heelers' are employed to work
for the ordinance.
1t surely knows better than this.
Who are those active persons who
for several days have been distributing
misleading pamphlets filled with false
arguments throughout the city on
the subject of the refunding ordinance?
Were they engaged in a labor of pure
love for the taxpayer? And who foot
ed the bills for printing the said PAM
phlets?
Our neighbor would best consider a
moment before making the claim that
the city machine and a regiment of
paid workers are not working desper-
ately for this ordinance and spending
money to push it through.
The self-evident facts are against it.
The important question is: Who is
footing the bills for the foisting of this
refunding outrage on the people of
this city?
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-20
HOT AFTER GAGE.

If the administration has been fiat
tering itself that its gross favoritism
for the Standard Oil Bank of New
York would be forgotten, or that the
effort to get at the truth of this scan
dial would exhaust itself it is very
much mistaken. The people have not
forgotten, neither has Congress. Con-
gresham Bell, of Colorado, recently
bombarded Mr.. Gage with some hot
shot calculated to effectually silence
the treasury batteries. Mr.. Bell had
nearly every State Treasurer in the
country in response to inquiries sent
by him. He read these letters to the
House, prefacing the reading with this
declaration:
THE answers show beyond the pos
sibility of controversy that daily bal
ances where checking against the ac-
count is general are worth 2.O7 per
cent. a year, and anything like stable
oCpOollo WI I'll . pOA CCAt"
These deposits have a value as well
defined as cotton, wheat or any other
commodity, and 1 want to know why
this government persists in giving
away the money of the people in this
needless and profiigate manner.
After quoting a number of State
Treasurers Mr.. Bell pointed out that
the Secretary of the Treasury in his
annual report shows 1888, $500 of
public money in the banks June 80,
1899, the end of the fiscal year, and on
December II the press generally stated
that he announced that he would in
crease this $40, 200, 900. On December
is he ordered the collections of inter-
nal revenues, about 81, 200, 900 daily,
left in the banks. so that now there
is probably considerable more than
500, 900 900 government funds in the
banks without charge or limitation as
to the amount of interest they shall
charge the people for the use of their
own money.
of we say there is 800, OOO, 900
public funds in the banks and one
half of 1T is subject to daily check,
or worth 2.07 per cent. a year, this
would mount to $1,O35,O 900 inter-
est a year, and the other 5 O,OOO.-
DOC at 3 per cent. would mount to
l,6OO or n total interest for the
year of $2,535 ,OO0-$6,945 a day.
Woul it be any more of n moral
wrong for the Government to allow
these banks to ram their arms into
the treasury daily and purloin &c.,
4 thar 1T is to give them the free
use of 500. 00O,OOO daily thai has a
market value of $6,945 as well fixed
as that of wheat. corn or cotton.
foilow1ng up this scathing arraign-
ment, Mr.. Bell turns his attention to
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-20

and tried ana convicted. buk 6efoze
they could bring him 10 the p~eniten-
tiary he broke jail. There was i r.
ward Of g hundred dollars offered Tor
him. Two detectives OF that vicinity
got q line on him and when they went
to get their man he opened fire on
them, killing one. Instantly the 9th
er shot Lee, inficting q bad wound
and the authorities were compelled to
bring him to prison on a stretcher.
The prison doctor says the man will
get well. Lee is related to Gen. Fitz-
hugh Lee.
DR.. j. d. White. veterinary surgeon.
treats all kinds of domestic animals.
Diseases of horses a specially. Learned
from the oldest and latest books pub
l:shed. Night calls promptly answer
ed. Telephone. the Hotel Johnston.
Charles Morgan, of Pittsburg, is Wis
iting his parents for a few days and
will return soon to Pittsburg.
Capt. Henry Seamon, who has been
sick for some time, was able to go to
Wheeling yesterday.
Tuck Anshutz, of the Dakan & Sy-
vert store, is slightly indisposed. J.
M. Williamson has taken his place be-
hind the counter.
Judge Hall, of Charleston, a promi-
nent politician, is circulating among
his friends in town to find out his
chances for State Auditor.
The funeral of r. R. Lutes occurred
yesterday at his late residence on
Fourth street. After the services were
held the remains were taken to the
Roberts Ridge cemetery for inter-
ment.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-20
WSAPHO.v

The more or less virtuous eastern
metropolis of the nation is stirred
from center to circumference over the
production of the play "Sapho," dram
atized from the French.
The press of New ~York-always will
ing to assist a sensation-has columns
in review of the Shocking" play and
| other columns filed with scathing
denunciation of it from the ministry
and other good metropolitans of prom
inence. And the theatre is unable to
hold those who rush to see "Sapho."
The brilliant actress who portrays
the title role, Olga Nethersole, thus de-
tends her play:
"All I a to say of sapho is this: It
is art, it is a classic. 1t shows life as life
is. Thousands of people all over the world
have suffered just such heart-burnings as
1 try to portray in Fanny LIE Grand. What
can be more noble in life than a woman
who Is trying to be good?
There is a moral in Sapho. Nothing is
immoral that points a moral"
The actress concludes: again I
thank the women who attended to-
day. Where the go. the men
will follow"
We will not question the point of
Miss Nethersole's statement, though it
doesn't altogether "gee" with the fig
ures of the box Office. AS a general
proposition it is true that where the
women go the men are apt to follow.
In this case, however, if the men were
willing to follow the women left no
room for them. The audience that
witnessed "Sapho" last Saturday con-
tanned 1900 women and but 178 men.
These figures may tell nothing, how
ever, except that the sterner sex is
not being given a fair show.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-20
A CELESTIAL DINNER.
Chicago

Chicago Chronicle.
On Ling Hung entertained a few even
ings ago at the Merchants Club of China
town, New York City. 1t was a strictly
chinese menu. The guests thought it a
Celestial dinner. The guests were all eau
casion, of various creeds, races and pro-
LESSONS. They numbered about eighty per-
sons. A Chinese band discoursed the
music of the heavenly kingdom. The host
had discarded the characteristic reticence
of his race and was amiable, voluble and
attentive to the needs of his company, like
mine host of the best of fellowship of any
age or cline. That the company might
enjoy novelty of a Chinese kind the music
| ceased to permit the explosion of a stock of
firecrackers big enough and loud enough
to make a Fourth O. July and startling
enough to attract a great throng to the
neighborhood of the dinner. One Of the
celestials laughed at the reverberations and
said that mine host was cracking one of
his little jokes "allee samee Mclean man
dinner"
With felicitous symbolism the table was
T-shaped. The guests sat on high stools
straight up, not like the languorous Ro-
mans, who reelined the better to absorb
rich viands and sleep-producing wines.
lie mayor OI CH.ldlOWn HeIp6O serve the
guests. The menu consisted of birds nest
soup, egg pudding. chop suey with mush-
rooms. stuffed chicken wings and sweets.
Horace himself in his sylvan retreat could
not yearn for more exquisite cooking it
is reported, nor Brillat-Savarin suggest a
lacking dainty to make the feast SYM
metrical. Wine was poured for each guest
in a cup as large as a thimble-not a tail
or's thimble like the now lost ''Shaugh-
| raun's." Rice wine IS nearly pure alcohol.
1t is Chinese etiquette for the host to drink
as much as each guest, so that the guests
are put on honor not to drink in excess.
Another commendable feature of the feast
was that the speeches had to be cut short
to allow the guests to attend the Chinese
theater. AS they were about to take their
leave amid mutual fluctuations each one
received a red paper bag, IN which he was
told that it was becoming to carry away
anything eatable he would ike and had not
| eaten, and also portions OF the service and
appointments of the table. Thus the hos
pitality of the secluded and ancient east
surpasses in profusion and generosity the
most lavish and sympathetic known to ma
tons accustomed to smile at their elders.
I, No wonder the guests said it was a ce,es-
tai dinner. The service was of the rarest
porcelain. 1t was nearly all carried away.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-20

By tomorrow or Thursday the city
will be in gala attire. The wise decor
ator gets his bunting out early. In
this connection the Register desires to
compliment many business houses that
have already thrown their colors to
the breezes on the exceeding beauty
and good taste of their decorations.
Cousin George Dewey will enter a
fairyland of the national colors.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-20
Dewey Day
Proclamation.

I, Andrew It. Sweeney, mayor of the city
of Wheeling, do hereby proclaim Thurs
day, February q. 1900, a holiday. Not only
is 1t the day of the birth of the Father
of Our Country, but IL is also the day
when we are TO commemorate the last bait
tie of the Revolution. fought around the
walls of old Fort Henry, and honor, as
well, two of our heroes, Admiral Dewey
and Lieutenant Doddridge.
L earnestly recommend that manufac-
turers, wholesalers and. so far as possi-
BILE. all business people of our city observe
his greatest of occasions in Wheeling's
history by closing for the entire day. II
practicable, or at least for the afternoon,
in order that the working people of our
city may be enabled to participate in the
celebration.
ANDREW IT. SWEENEY,
Mayor, City of Wheeling.
fel9et
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-20

that the CHARGES insde by NJ Macfunl
we're among the sravest that could BE-
made against q friendly nation, and that
due diligence would be exercised in prepar-
ing q case.
Two days ago the State Department de-
clared that the matter would be ignored.
and that newspaper stories would be dtsre-
garded. in which decision the British en-
bassy cordially agreed.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-20

The taxpayers must beware of the
gum shoe" campaign secretly on foot
to carry the r~efunding scheme. It will
avail nought IL the people will go to
the polls early next Saturday and vote
down the ordinance. The people have
the votes. They should use them for
their own protection.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-20
MOUNDSvILLE.

The wife of William Ofterdinger,
the First ward baker, is confined to
her home on account of sickness.
Last Sunday Will Lee was brought
to the ~penitentiary from Mcdowell
county to serve a life sentence. About
ten years ago Lee and another man
had some trouble and it terminated
in Lee killing his man. He fed but
was apprehended about two years ago
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-20

Vote down the ordinance to spread
the city debt over thirty-four years
when we car easily pay it in less than
half the time for about half the money.
There is no politics in this.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-20

The city's past experience with sink
ing funds is not calculated to cause it
to fall in love with the proposition in
the refunding ordinance.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-20

Vote down the r%efunding ordinance
and clear the way for the city's en-
trance into the field of municipal cleo
trio lighting.