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Hutchinson gazette., 1900-08-09
CIRCUS PERFORMER MUST SMILE
NJ lie DocsnI Ills Effort IN Noticed
aud Audience Laugh

"The thing | found the hardest To
learn in my business was 70 smile,' "
said professional gymnast who did
very clever specially recently ut one
of the lOcnl theWtrcs, ~ started out In
ncrobNtic work when | was only IL
years old and one of family OF five.
My Instructor was Chns, Mcdonald, an
old time circus performer and one OF
the best In his day, While he was put
ting me through my PAGES he was con
tlnually yelling; Look PLEASANT Look
plensnntlA And my main trouble for
years was in following that same or
der.
"No matter how hard tried would
forget myself when was doing an eX'
tra hard turn,and | was certain 10 mike
horriblegrimnces, screw up my eyes
and grit my teeth, II took all the eff
feet out OF my net and must have
seemed very funny to the people In
the audience, Often, after performing
some difficult feat, | have been mort.
6ed to hear roar OF laughter, and at
last determined to either learn how
to smile or quit the business. got
the knnck at last and now II has be.
come u sort of secondnnture,
"rhc point Is greOt deal more i'm
portOnt than one would suppose, !
know IN equilibrist, for instance, who
IL very popular on the vaudeville cir
cult. not 50 much on account Of the
difficulty Of his net ms the smiling
ease with which 1t was apparently
done. You would never suppose from
his face that he was making any spec
lHl cXertlon, and that Of itself gives
remarkable grace and finish to his
work,
~ am not the only one in the bust.
ness who has found It hard to smile
at the right time Almost every bal.
let dnncer eccentric character dancer
and skirt dancer has had trouble on
the same score, Most of them finally
acquire a horribly fixed grimnce that
is supposed to be II smile, but has no
more suggestion Of merrimcnt than a
brick wall, II is produced by culti'
waiting certain set Of muscles and
made to appear and disappear on the
principle Of pulling string, '-NewOr'
leans Times-DcmoCrat.
Hutchinson gazette., 1900-08-09

Congressman Dolliyer relates good
story of General Wheeler lie says
that Wheeler came to him in 1SOs and
bcsought himtousc his useful influence
with thepresident get him (Wheeler)
Il place in the army. Dolliycr told him
he was too old to fight and that he
should stand aside and let the young
men do the work. My boy" replied
Wheeler, "you don't understand. | was
graduated from the United States mill
tary academy but when the war came
lwent with my stute,and leftthe service
of the federal government. fought
pretty hard in that war, and you can't
scare me by telling me what the hard
ships of this will be, ! may die down
there in Cuba with the fever, as you
say, but you don't know how much
good 1t would do me to have the priv
ilege of dying in the uniform Of a
United States soldier"
Hutchinson gazette., 1900-08-09

Jolly, an elephant in the Baltimore
Zoo, created II havoc n few days age
by sneezing The elephant sneezes
only once in about five years. When
he sneezes it is nn omen of prosperity
indicating abundant crops and great
commercial activity. The phenomenon
itself forms an interesting spectacle,
One morning everything wOs quiet in
the Zoo, when somebody shouted to
Lecturer Collins, look out! The ele'
plants going to sneeze!" Jolly had
drawn up his sides until his back was
humed. His tail was stiffy horizontal
tai. His mouth was open and his eyes
were shut, while great tears ,the size
of peanuts rolled down his leathery
face
There was a great drawing mp of the
sides, long.continued commissions, q tre'
mendous trembling Of the floor, and
then an explosion like the report of q
common. Half bucket of winter shot
out in stream while the elephants
legs trembled as he prepared for the
second snesze. There as q rumblinS
like that Of an earthquake and a vol
canis crack. All the animals set up q
roar. Dewey's cat jumped on the back
of goat, and every monkey screamed
shrilly. Jolly had been known ia
sneeze onl ytwice before since he en-
tered the Baltimore Zoo.
Hutchinson gazette., 1900-08-09
California Oil
DEVELOPMENT

The problem OF cheap fuel for producing
steam In all cities and towns In California has
been forever settled by development In differ-
ent parts OF the State OF Crude Petroleum,
southern California producing almost all OF
this most economical fuel, Three barrels OF
crude oil produces about the same amount OF
steam as one ton Of the best coal, OIL costs
about 81 per barrel, while coal costs $40 per ton,
thus S3 worth OF crude oil produces as many
pounds OF steam as $40 worth OF coal,
The most productive, and Of course the most
profitable oil field In Southern California Ia
known as the Fullerton field, Wells producing
100 TO bU0 bbs per day have been secured. Coms
panes operating In this field consider 100 10 500
acres ample territory TO make large profits from
The stock OF one company operating In the Full
lerton OH Field has advanced IN price from 4
few cents per share TO $40 per share In q few
months, stocks In other companies in the
same field have doubled, and quadrupled In
value IN few days recently.
The Information al OH Company has the larg-
est amount of oil land In ono body, under one
lease, OF any company operating In Southern
California. They have n twenty year lease on
1850 acres IN the Fullerton Field, The land has
been inspected by noted oil experts, who are
authority, and pronounced fine oil territory.
They are at work on the first well, using their
own machinery,
They offer 80 900 shares Of the treasury stock
par value Sl00, for development purposes, a.
g5G per share. No stock of the original incor-
porators for sNle--it being Pooled. No salarled
officers until the company is making money,
Officers and Directors all mon orstandlng and
responsibility IN Los Angeles, Cal,, where they
all live and have lived for years,
References as to personnel and reliability OF
the company Broadway Bank Trust Co.,
Los Angeles, Cal,
Stool, bought IN this company NJ CSC q share
may IN q few months be worth many times lta
cost. No certificate Issued Tor less than forty
shares.
Remit 10 International OH Company, All
Douglas Building, Los Angeles, Cal, or 10
Broadway Bank & Trust Co., Bradbury Brlld.
Ing, Los Angeles Cal.
INTERNATIONAL OIL co.
AIT Douglas bldg,
Los AnEeleas Cali
Hutchinson gazette., 1900-08-09

"Disinfct the house thor.r-roughly
me by" said Mr.. o. Toole, when the
negotiations for renting the house had
been completed, "ond we'll move in tt
pnct." "
why do you wish II disinfected? ~
inquired the agent. "The place is per
fectly clean"
"Shure," replied Mr.. o'Toole. as OK
.presslve of great shrewdness, the
last family thot lived in it hod "trip.
lets."-Judge. =
Hutchinson gazette., 1900-08-09

Marcus Daily, the copper king, tells
several amusing stories about a man
in New York bearing the same name,
The other day this person went to a
real estate man- in search Of house,
was treated to champagne and expens-
i've cigars, and, after being shown only
the most luxurious houses, explained
that he wanted some thing little
cheaper as he was only making $25 q
week
Hutchinson gazette., 1900-08-09

In the thirty years that the Penn
sylvania anthricte mine law has been
in operation 0,j75 persons have lost
their lives in and about the anthricite
mines, or on an average of 319 each
year. The chief of the beaureau Of
mines says that the principle cause Of
accidents is the negligence of en-
ployes.
Hutchinson gazette., 1900-08-09
An employe Of n Kansas Citv M,

An employe Of Kansas City pack
ing house has invented scheme for
bhoing the feathers or fowls by an ar.
rangement of electric fous, which is
great improvement over the old
method of plucking by hand. II 1t
can be applied to whiskers as well as
feathers, the easterners think It
will work wonderful changes IN Kansas
politics.
Hutchinson gazette., 1900-08-09

The verdict given by the general public that
the Great Rock leland Route has tho best din
ing car service in the world, will not be dis
puted by patrons who have used this line.
Thousands Of letters testify TO this fact A bot.
ter meal cannot be secured In any hotel or res-
taurant in the cities of New York or Chicago
than 10 served in the Rock Island dining cars.
A Ia carte on all care; splendid lunch Aerved
on Colorado tlains for 30 cents,
Hutchinson gazette., 1900-08-09

Liked THEM thnt Way. nda altar, ella
Mag--l know could never like Har.
old. He is always SO close.
May--l-l don't believe would
mind that.-N. Y. Press.
Hutchinson gazette., 1900-08-09

Fine feathers may not make fine
birds, but they are apt to make costly
hats.
Hutchinson gazette., 1900-08-09

Many a married couple sou.~ gave
money out Of what bachelor spS1S4A
Hutchinson gazette., 1900-08-09
GRAVEYARD ETIrAPHY.

sOHc Peculiar and Ludlcrous Thinm
Found on GraVestonc,
On the headstone In a cemetery d
burlington, w., are these linesi
She lived with her husband hfty years
And died IN the blessed hope Of a
better life.
Another, equally ambiguous, lsfound
In MNrshilcld, Mass;
Here Hes the bodies Of
ObedlNh Wilkinson
and
Ruth Wilkinson, his wife.
Their warfare Is accomplished,
Hutchinson gazette., 1900-08-09

Women are PARTIAL To tightweardng
apparel. but they draw the line "
Hutchinson gazette., 1900-08-09

Brendel"
Your wife, sir"
what does she want?"
The only word can understand "a
numskull.'" -
Let me come there; she probably
wants to talk to me-"
Hutchinson gazette., 1900-08-09

The less We have the easier e ia %
uhGre it with otNers.
Hutchinson gazette., 1900-08-09

Another, equally ambiguous, isfount
IN MNrshflcld, Mass;
Here Hes the bodies Of
0bedlnh Wilkinson
and
Ruth Wilkinson, his wife.
Their warfare Is accomplished,
Rutland, VT, furnishes another speci
men Of dubious epltaph, asfollows;
William Wilson
Died Oct, 4, 1885,
Aged Sj years,
The good die young,
Speaking OF ambiguous epitaphs, q
Chicago paper reports there nre three
In an old cemetery near New London,
Conn, which are considered sntlrlcnl
They are nj least subject to doubtful
construction, The first expresses the
sentiments OF sea captain upon the
deOth Of his fourth wife, us follows;
Behold ye living mortNls pusslng by,
How thick the partners Of one hus'
bnnd lie
Vas, and unsenrchable the ways Of
God,
Just, but severe, His chastening rod.
These lines, however, nre not quite
50 clear as two coupets from the scrip.
lures which are engraved by another
double widower upon the tombs OF his
deceased partners, Under the epitaph
Of The first was;
The Lord gNyc and the Lord hath TAX.
en- away;
Blessed be the name Of the Lord.
On the tombstone Of the second wife,
which stands beside the other, Is this;
] chilled upon the lordmd He gave me,
And delivered me out Of my troubles,
People who visit the ancient "pubic
hmYing ground" beside the old Con.
cord school house in Germantown, Pa,
reports the Philadelphia North Amcri.
cun, are apt to receive q shock; that is,
II they fall to rendlng the cptnphs, as
visitors in graveyard often do.
Concealed in modest, unlrequentcd
corner Is grave which, half hidden in
tangled grass, seems in nowlse differ
cnt from It's sunkcn fellows, 1t Is only
when the eye Of the explorer falls upon
the tombstone at It's head that the
shock Is received. For the inscrip.
ton reads us follows;
In Memory OF
Adam Shisler,
Who Departed This
Life December The
90, l777, Aged OGo
Years.
Luckily the oldest inhnbitnnt is us.
ually near at hand TO explain the stu.
ntion and chuckle anew over an an
cient joke. Adam Shsler, so he ex.
plains, was gathered to his fathers
at the age Of 60 years, The stone cut.
ter miSta1k the instructions and had
already cut 06 years upon the stone
when he discovered his mistake Thrift
ty and unwilling to lose his hours on
toll, he covTed up The with cement
and added another after the six. In
course of years the cement wore AWAY
aud some ghoulish wog with pocket
knife did the rest.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-29
EMPEROR THANKFUL.

SHANGHAI, September Emperor
Kwang Su has issued an edict thanking
Emperor Nicholas for his decision to
withdraw the Russian troops from Pc
kin, and also announcing his own will
ingness TO perform a memorial eere-
mony over the grave OF Baron Won
Ketteler, the murdered German minis
ter TO China.
1t is announced from Chinese Off
cial source that the imperial court has
ordered that the palace at Isl Ngan tu.
capital of the province of Shen 81. be
Immediately prepared for its reception.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-29
MARcHERs CLOSED THE MINE

HAZLETON, Pa, September 28.-
There was a march of coal miners from
Freeland to Halle Brook this morning,
and as result the colliery of j. S.
Wentz was shut down. The marchers
called at the homes of all men who had
not yet struck, but showed no DISPOSE
ticn to become unruly.
Sheriff Harvey, with deputies, arriv-
ed at 6 o'clock, but did not interfere.
He asked good-naturedly what they
were doing at Halle Brook, and some
replied: only standing around" The
sheriff spied a squad going up hill,
and when he inquired their destination,
was told they were only going to play
a game of ball" A mere handful Of
Halle Brook men went to the mines.
After the result of their effort was ap
parent the Freeland men left for home.
All is quiet and orderly elsewhere in
the Hazleton region.
John Markle, managing partner of
G. B. Markle & Co., left early for New
York on a special engine to Mauch
Chunk, where he caught the early train.
He was summoned to New York for
conference with those endeavoring to
bring about a settlement
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-29
No INFORMATION VT
| Of IMPORTANT EVENTS
TERsxNEURarzzAN CAPITALS
TO HxSRArRANsPrRED IN
CHANA.
MINISTER CoNGER rs ADVISED
FULLY c0srERxIxGsP oxxrrwxTxcH
sYATE DEPARTMENT.
HAS, ADOPTED.

WASHINGTON. September 2S.--The
State Departments has not been advised
officially ofsany events. or more or less
uzpGrtanceswhieh are~saiaso have oc-
Cured IN China, according TO various
European reports. within the past "a
hours. IfsTuan has been degraded, and
if Russia contempaRtesfas blockade OF
the Chinese naval ports. the department
does not know thesfactS
Respecting the statement that Cling
has been discovered 70 be q contribu-
tor to the Boxer causes atsis said that
alisinformation'thatvth department has
been able TO secure touching Ching
personality went. to show his unvary7
ing friendlinesss for.th be. foreigners. an
upon that recordfheswas accepted as
competent envoy.
The officials decitnetAto say whet
or not the instructions TO Minis
Conger have gone forward yet. BIZ
is intimated that 1.-The minister Is +
advised by this .timess to the State
partment's policy. ftais said, however,
and the statement may be significant,
that no Developments in the Chinese
situation OF Importance are expected
within the next two weeks at least.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-29
INDEPENDENTS CONFER.

SCRANTON, Pa, September Is
General Superintendent Loomis, OF the
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western min
ing department, is to-day in conference
with the individual coal operators as
ISOLATION here. AS chairman OF the
superintendent association, embracing
the mining heads of all the big coal car
rying roads, he has been delegated to
bring before the individual operators
the basis upon which the strike OF the
coal miners may be settled.
Before going to this meeting he adj
mitted that it was proposed to give a
ten per cent increase or all the wage
demands of the miners. 1t is learned
that this basis is not altogether agree
able to the individual operators, some
OF whom regard it as being unequal. and
they will ask of the coal carrying rall-
roads some freight concessions.
The meeting is secret and no POSITIVE
information Is obtainable.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-29
wHEEIING VA, SATURDAY,, sErTEMBER 1900

principal question under discussion was
the advisability or practicability OF
granting the mine workers ten per
cent. advance in wages, very little OF
the details of the meetings could be
CLEANED.
The operators generally expressed the
opinion that the increase could not be
granted and the operating expenses
met unless there was an advance in
the price of coal.
The larger operating companies,
however, took rather hesitating view
Of the proposition to further increase
the price of anthracite, contending that
the competition of bituminous coal was
now too sharp.
President Mitchell, of the United
Mine Workers, is reticent on the gen.
eral question of accepting a ten per
cent increase without other conces-
sions, and declined to be interviewed
ON that point.
Meantime the strike leaders are con-
tinuing their efforts to induce working
miners to join in the strike. Quietude
prevails to-day throughout the mine re-
gion.
All eyes were turned toward New
York in expectancy of some important
announcement from there
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-29
MISS CORRIGAN'S BODY
FOUND ON LAKE SHORE.
She Was One of the Unfortunntes
who Went Down TO Death I'm the
Idler. July =

Special to the Register.
CLEVELAND. Ohio, September 2s-The
waters of Lake Ere have finally given up
the remains Of Miss Jane Corrigan
At an early hour this morning. fishermen
near Willoughby Beach discovered the
badly decomposed body Of a woman part
Iy buried in the sand.
Assistance was summoned and the re-
mains were removed as carefully as pos
sible to point further inland.
It was at once snrmlsed that the body
was that Of Miss Jane Corrigan. who. with
Mrs. james Corrlgan. the Misses Eta ard
Ida Corrigan, Mrs. Charles Reilly and the
latter's baby. were drowned In the lake off
Avon Point during storm on the after
noon OF July 7.
The corrigan family was at once noti-
fled. Charles Reilly and James " CorrI-
gan. the only surviving member OF tho
unfortunate Captains family. took car
at once for wil1oughby Beach
Thay both viewed the body and both are
positive that the remains are those 81 Miss
Corrigan
One arm had been torn away, presurn-
ably by 6riftwood and the body was other
wise badly dishgured.
II was placed in a vault az Wiiloughby
and later a Cleveland undertaken took II
in charge.
The interment viii in all probability be
as soon as Capt Corrigan can return to
Cleveland
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-29
METHODIST CONFERENCE.
An Address on Missionary Situation
In China by Bishop Crnnston.

Special to the Register.
CLARKSBURG, W. Va, September %.
AT the Methodist conference this morn
ing, Bishop Cranston concluded his adj
dress on the missionary situation in China.
The rest of the morning session was de-
voted TO passing on the character Of the
ministers and hearing the reports on ex-
aminations of candidates for the ministry.
The whole of the afternoon was occupied
in discussing the temperance question.
At night Rev. ]. II. Race delivered an
address appropriate to the Freedmans Aid
Society. Rev D. S. Hill, of Charleston;
c. H Moloney, of Wheeling, and Forbes
r. Davis, of Shinnston. were elected to the
elders order and will be ordained Sunday.
During the afternoon session addresses
were delivered by DR.. Nicely. of PhiladeI-
phia, and DR.. Crawford, Of Meadville, Pa.
DIR. S. V. Leech. of Morgantown. delivered
a lecture on Edgar Allen Poe
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-29
HANNA LAUDs M'KINLEy.
One of the Very Few Men Wha Has
Never Made Mistake. :

one Oh inc very INV thEh W 4@ a&%t~
Never Made Mistake.
NEW YORK, September Ex-senator
Hanna, in,the course of aneaddress az q
meeting of the wholesale dry goods
Republican club to-day said:
Coming down the street TO this great
audience | saw an inspiration over u
store occupied by Tammany Hall. It
read: Self preservation Is the FIRST
law of nature. To this ] say amen.
There could be nothing truer. be-
lieve that when the american people
are fully aroused to the sense OF the
critical condition of anairs they never
fail TO do the right thing. ] am wlfnng
to trust to the intelligence OF not on,y
you business men, but to the working
men, to tell which side their interests
stand on.
'sWhat has President Mckinley done
for the people? / will tell you. From
the day he entered public Office he has
had the. country's welfare on his mind.
His record stand in bold relief for the
last twenty yearsI challenge the public
to point out one single act OF his which
was wrong In any way"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-29
HOW IT MAY BE DONE.
Men Expected to Go to Work Quietly
At the Ten Per Cent. Advance.

At the Ten Per Cent. Advance.
NEW YORK, September 28.-The
Herald Tomorrow will say:
One of the men who participated in
the plans for the settlement of the an
thracite coal miners strike and is IA
miliar with all the facts and attendant
circumstances, said in an interview Fri
day night:
The rumor that negotiations look
ing to the settlement of the strike are
off, is untrue. My belief is that the
strike will come to an end some time
early next week. 1t will not be ended
by a blare of trumpets or by sweeping
general orders. but by the men going
to work, colliery after colllery, day
after Gay at the ten per cent advance.
There is no inclination to recognize
Mitchell in any way, but as matter
of fact the miners really deserve the
ten per cent advance and they prob
ably would have obtained it anyhow,
when the question first came up, if so
many of the members Of the different
boards of directors of the mining COM
panies had not been away on their va
cations"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-29
sUPERINTENDENTs MEET.

WILKESBARRE, Pa, September %.
Representative of the big coal COM
panies of the Wyoming and Lackawan-
ma valleys had a meeting in the office
of the Lehigh Valley Company to-day.
Chairman Lathrop, of the Lehigh Val
ley Company, presided.
1t is understood that President Trues-
dale, of the Lackawanna, has referred
to the superintendent the plan of set
tlement Of the miners strike as pro-
posed by the presidents of the coal
carrying railroads.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-29
MAY REMOVE TROOPS.

SHENANDOAH, Pa, September %.
Sheriff Toole late this afternoon held a
lengthy conference with Gen. Gorbin
His trip is said TO have been caused by
reports that the strike was approaching
settlement. While nothing definite
could be learned, 1t is understood the
general and the sheriff discussed the
question of removing the troops.
The Ashland district is tied up tight
for the first time. The last colliery to
close was the Potts at Locust Dale.
About five hundred men are employed.
Tomorrow w be pay day for the
Reading and the Lehlgh.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-29
STRIKE NOT ENDED.

HAZLETON, Pa, September 28.-
President Mitchell at noon emphatical-
ly denied that the strike is ended. He
has not been officially notified of the
reported offer OF 10 per cent advance,
and he says he is not in negotiation
with any one.
There is no doubt that Mr.. Mitchell
has unofficial knowledge of efforts to
end the strike, but on this he will not
talk.
Mr. Mitchell held two long converse
lions over the long distance telephone
to-day. He declined. as usual, to say
TO whom he was talking. When asked
if q ten per cen, increase would be sat
isfactory he declared that it would not
Mr. Mitchell held no conference at his
headquarters here with any one during
the forenoon.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-29
SIDEBOARDS NOT NEEDED
ON COOKERS DINNER PALS.

Twenty-Five Hundred Ovens in Mer-
Ger and Mcdowell Counties Cooled
Because of a Dali Market.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, September
2S.-Fifty per cent of. the 5000 coke
ovens in Mcdowell and Mercer counties
of this State, have been put out Of
blast within the past week, throwing
out of employment 1900 men. This is
said to be due to the dull market for
the product.