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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-12
COULD NOT ACCEPT.

All kinds of ported plants for Easter.
66 Twelfth street.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-12

The game spoiled, or rather pre-
vented the opening exhibition game ar
ranged for yesterday afternoon at the
ball park. 1t was an inauspicious be-
ginning, but the management may
find solace for it's wounded feelings
in the reflection that a bad begin
ming makes good end. The Pot
Pies were ambitious. They were af-
fiicted with disease very prevalent
at the opening of base ball season,
which the physicians of the game term
"swelled head" If the management
had called all the Pot Pies bluffs, the
Nailers would have had enough money
In the treasury to pay one months sal
aries in advance.
''Pebble Jack" Glasscock will prob
ably leave to-day for Fort Wayne, to
assume charge of the Interstate team
In that city, and as his departure re-
moves a tower of strength, the game
has been called off.
Tomorrow and Saturday exhibition
games will be played with Al. Buck
enberger's Rochester, N. Y, team.
The local club will try to at least
break even with the visitors, in spite
of the fact that they have had the ad-
vantage of several weeks of practice
and playing.
The Dayton management has ordered
blue uniforms for the team for this
season. The team is practicing daily,
and the quartette of giant twirlers,
Rosebrough, Wright, Moore and
Swaine, are working OUT every
day.
In a game between Worcester and
Philadelphia teams Sunday, Joe Rick
ert, of Worcester, led his team in bat
ting, with three hits to his credit. Joe
was formerly a Wheeling outfielder,
and his career is being watched with
interest by his friends here.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-12

Ryan at Syracuse, N. r.. April Is. Nc
Clelland's manager says he will not
consider the proposed match between
McClelland and Oscar Gardner until
the latter part of the present month.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-12
Marks From Below.
THE WEATHER.

PARKERSBURG-Ri II feet and sta
tionary. Raining: mercury 40.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-12
rain SPOILED The GAME.
BETWEEN THE BADER a MAURERs
AND THE LOCAL INTER-
STATE TEAM.
ROCHESTER, COMES TOMORROW

And the Games Promise to Attract
Big CrOwd-GlasscockW Will Prob
ably Leave for Fort Wayne To-
Day-N0tes About the Boxers.
Bowling and other Sporting Mat
tiers.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-12
No rurther Damage Expected.

AUSTIN, Tex, April 1.-THE waters
are receding rapidly and no further
damage is expected from the food.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-12

Jack McClelland will meet Billy
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-12

Miss Esther Conner pleasantly enter
tanned a number of her young friends
Tuesday afternoon, at her home on
the Island, in celebration of the sixth
anniversary of her birth.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-12
IN SOCIETY.

IA box social will be given by Miss
Leota Mayer at her home on the Ma
tional Road Thursday evening, April
18th, the proceeds of which will go
to the North Street Sabbath school.
All are invited to attenA.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-12

The members of the Arion Sing
ing Society are making elaborate ar
rangements for their next ball to be
given on Easter Monday evening at
their club house.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-03-16
[Bruin at Work.

themselves by upIoOting hundreds of
poles with their trunks, apparently for
no other purpose than to get rid of
their superhuous energy. ....
Ants are feeble folk as compared to
elephants, yet they are far more de-
structive of the telegraph. In tropical
countries the white ants. or tormites,
devour wooden poles in short time,
and it has been found expedient to
employ poles impregnated with oil of
cresote, or, better still, posts of iron
where these tiny marauders are known
to swarm. Wasps and otter insects
also build their nests between the
wires or about the insulators, and in
wet or dewy weather produce leak
age of the messages. 1t goes without
saying that vegetation, growing over
the poles and wires. has the like effect,
and in the neighhorhood of Rio Jqneiro
the lines are infested with parasite
plant resembling mistletoe.
After all, however, man is the worst
enemy of the telegraph line. Not only
do boys and thoughtless adults fire at
the insulatorS as q mark with stones
and guns but they fling up rags or fly
their kites against the wires. and so
cause loss of the electric current. In
Belgium for example. it pays to use in
sulators of an uneonSpfcuous gray color
instead of white ones. that offer
tempting mark to aim at. In savage
or barbarious countries the natives are
prone to destroy the lines. IL the chiefs
are not satisfied with ''backsheesh"
or frightened by some superstition
about the wonderful virtues of the
white mans talking 'fetish."
When Sir Garnet Wolseley advanced
upon Coomassie. his field telegraph
line, on bamboo poles through the jun
gle. was not molested by the enemy;
but to he even with him in point magic
they ran a line Of their own, consisting
of thread tied to the trees. IN the
Macdonald range of Western Australia
the hostile blacks were imbued with
wholesome dread of the telegraph by
letting them touch the wire when ii
was highly charged with electricity and
giving them pretty strong electric
shock. This dodge has proved very
effective in many parts of the world.
Submarine lines would appear to be
snugly placed out of harms way, but
they, too. have heir pests. The lin
noria worm and xylo phaga shellfsh
devour both the hemp and gutta
percha which prote It the wire. ard per
NIT the electric tn 'ernt to escape into
the sea. A single repast of the lin,
noria maggot has cost the shareholder
of cable compan, many thousands
pounds. because il Is highly expens
to send cable sh , to grapple Cor
cable and cut out he fault esp2cia
If the weather is unfavorahle 10 II.
operators.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-03-16
PESTS OF THE WIRES
RAIDS ON THEM BY WILD BEAST
AND FISH.

Queer Diet for Bruin-Maiue Bears
Like Porcelain Hnsulators-Wicked
Fish Cut All the Submarine Gables
They Come Across.
Telegraph wires, whether strung on
poles or laid along the bottom of the
sea, are harmless, inolfensive things,
and by no means attractive in appear
ance. Yet they have numerous enc
mics, in the animal world. as well as
the vegetable world. writes John Mum
roe in the New Illustrated Magazine.
The oiAtr DAY. for instance, an Ameri-
can journal reported that newly
erected line, which runs through the
LIRE SIS of Aroostook, in Northern
! i ne. has been damaged by black
10 5 Wlo persist in climbing the poles
a. rCaking Off the porcelain cups or
Il ',t9rs that support the wires.
J Il Singular fancy bruin has talin
g. these Knobs of earthenware can
o. :. La cor. iectured, as bears do not
~ ~ heir hearts on their sleeves for
saVantS to publish. 1t is supposed that
he mistakes the insulators for his fav-
orite crabapples. and there is little
doubt that he regards them as some
thing good to eat. Perhaps he thinks
them bees nests. At all events, there
is a large woodpecker in Norway which
Is deluded by the humming of the
wires in the wind like an Aeolian harp,
and fancies that there is nest of in
sects inside the pole. To reach them
he tolls for days and pecks great holes
into tho wooden nnsfS oY.n thpNttnl,
and through them, only to discover
that his promised feast of delights was
a ph"ntom of his own creation and his
labors all in vain.
Wiser in his generation is the green
woodpecker Of California, which makes
a larder of the red cedar telegraph
poles. 1t riddles the top of the post
with small pits and fills them with
.acorns-a nut in each cavity-thus pro-
viding against a winter famine. Sure
ly the bird displays an ingenuity a
genius, in fact, that is worthy of it's
nation. Is there any other woodpecker
but Yankee one that would make a
pantry out of telegraph post? Indian
crows and Australian magpies have
been known to pick up the snippets of
wire left by the telegraph engineers
in putting up the lines and build their
nests with them on the poles but in so
doing they only follow their instinct.
They did not invent.
The American bison when he roams
the prairies also shows an unsupported
intelligence in adapting the telegraph
poles as rubbing posts, and sometimes
threw down miles of the wire. An
American, thinking to cure him of his
passion, studded the lower part of the
poles with spikes, but the hirsute buff
falo required no ordinary currycomb.
and ever after preferred the spillest
poles Elephants have also amused
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-03-16
AUTOMOBILE TIRES.
An Important Question That Has
Not Yet Been Settled.

The tire question is one for which the
manufacturers of automobiles have not
yet found a satisfactory answer. The
most vulnerable part of the vehicle is
the vehicle is the rim of the wheels.
and in order to insure comfort, safety
and beauty experiments have been
made by nearly all manufacturers
which involved much more expense
than is known to the people outside Of
the business The monster pneumatic
tires are unsightly, and give the vehicle
a ponderous and unwieldy appearance,
besides being expensive. In order to
overcome these objections tires of vari-
GUS sizes, shapes and designs have been
made and are being used for the pur-
pose of determining which is the most
practicable.
Among the recent patterns is a
square tire with corrugated surface.
which is great Improvement on the
old balloon in looks, although its manu-
facturers have not tested it sufficiently
to give an opinion on its lasting prop-
critics. Some of tie newest pleasure
vehicles have the narrow wheel and a
tire correspOndingly small, and the life
of these tires are being watched closely.
"Only careful investigation" said a
manufacturer will solve the problem
We have nothing except the bicycle tire
to go by, and must get our knowledge
through expensive experiments.
The cost of rubber tires iustifies a
large outlay for the purpose of discov.
ering which is the most durable pat
tern and design. Tires cost from S25
to $50 each, and some of the special
patterns are still more expensive. The
experiments with the various tires are
being watched with much attention by
the people who are interested in the
horseless trucks, because the heavy
vehicles will require tires of great
strength. The solid rubber tire has
been used with some success In heavy
vehicles, and is having Its share of at
tention in the tests which are now be-
ing made.-New Yo'k Tribune.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-03-16
Instructed Delegates.

See that all delegates to the next
convention be sent under rigid in.
structions as to candidate and plat
form. Democratic papers, at least
those that were thoroughly loyal in
1896, and about the loyalty of which
there is to-day no shadow of doubt,
approve it. We do not think that bet.
ter service can be done the cause
of Democracy by any newspaper or
by any public man than to make this
fight from now until the period of the
convention in order that the party
may not be exposed when its dele.
gates gather in convention to any
danger of betrayal. 1t is evident, in
fact, that the forces that were so liz.
ANONYMOUSLY routed in the convention
of 1896 are trying hopelessly enough,
but nevertheless persistently and in.
sidiously, to recover the ground they
then lost. They are forces not to be
despised because, though small in
numbers, they represent that element
In the Democratic party which sought
for money, and had money and infiu-
ence always at its command. They
can be made powerless for evil if we
send to the convention only delegates
bound strictly to serve the will of
their constituents. Press this issue
day in and day out, until we shall
have a convention of men as incor-
ruptible as were those in the histor-
ic gatherings in Chicago in June, 1896.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-03-16
1t Is to LAUGH.

Professor Jacob G.. Schurman, Of
Cornell University, which does not
appear to be shedding any tears at the
absence of its President from his off.
cial duties, told the students of the
Armour Pork Trust Institute of Tech.
nology at Chicago the other day, in an
extended address on the duty of the
government to hold on to the Philip.
pines:
II was the first American official
to meet the Filipinos and to talk with
them as a representative of our gov.
eminent. told them we had whipped
Spain in great war and that the
Philippines belonged to us. l told
them that we would respect all their
rights-that We would respect the
Mohammedan religion and that they
would never have cause to regret any
relations with us. l telegraphed the
President recommending such an
agrsement, and throughout the south.
erPouler of islands, where such com.
paclJ were made with the chiefs. I
am happy to say not gun has been
fired"
The Sultan of Sulu is one of the
chiefs. Rather than let go of imperial.
ism, Professor Schurman would EN-.
brace Mormonism But what does
the gallivanting academician wish us
to infer from his f1ux of 'Ps" and
"we's?" Is he, perchance, the entire
voX populi?
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-03-16
Downright Robbery.

1t is not from economies in produc-
lion or distribution that the Standard
pill trust declares quarterly dividend
pf 20 per cent. year. It is from ex-
:ortions clearly and boldly imposed
On the people. The price of oil has
been advanced within few months
to an extent which involves an in.
crease of 80 per cent. or more in
the retail price, and that there was
no legitimate cause for this increase
Is shown by the extraordinary divi-
aend just declared. The enormous
profit of 80 per cent on the stock last
year-following dividends of 80 per
cent. in 1898 and 33 per cent. in 1897
was not enough, and so the public
Is commanded to stand forth and de-
liver up price for oil which will
yield still larger dividends. The value
of the companys stock is now $544 a
share of the par value of $500. Since
the increase in the price of oil to con-
sumers the stock has advanced some
$500 in value. This is not business. 1t
is downright robbery.-Louisville
Courier Journal.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-03-16

M. and Nine. Labori on the Street.
not study case well if she were not
there among his books and his docu.
mCntS.
She laughingly humored this whim
though it cost her many drive on the
Boise, many an afternoon at the con.
cert, many an evening Mt the theatre
She was proud of the fiower-covered
yoke. She loved him for his loving
tyranny. She thrilled to tears in court
under his speech-''our speech"
She struck hands with him bravely
when he declared he would fight the
Dreyfus battle to the end. She went
to Rennes with him and sat in court,
as near him as she might, every day.
When he pleaded for Dreyfus her eyes
were as full of indignant fire as his
own.
One morning she started to the Lycee
with him as usual. They met Colonel
Picquart and Edmond CAST, Maitre
Lahori's brother-in-law.
Il have forgotten my ticket" she ex-
claimed, and ran back to the quaint
house IN the Place Laennec for it.
When she ran out from the house she
saw group of men standing about a
PROSTATE figure in the center. Her wo-
mans heart called aloud the name Of
that man in the center The wind was
not quicker than she.
The lawyer lay upon his side The
blood was pouring from bullet wound
in his back. She had left him for but
a moment. and this had come. She
lifted his head upon her lap. He could
not sneak, but he kissed her hands.
The blood from the wound flowed over
her black dress. The dust of the street
settled whitley upon both of them
She looked upward. an agonized ex-
preston in her brown eyes. Men took
off their hats. They knew she was
praying.
They carried him to the house, she
walking by his side. When they were
trying to stanch his wounds, and men
about him were whispering of death.
he had said: "Tell my wife l am
thinking of her every moment"
Now he smiled when he felt her pres
ence. When they were carrying him
through the door. pain binding him,
he CROPPED around for her hand
She was his nurse and constant COM
panion until he was able to appear in
court once more. She will not be
separated from him for a moment.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-03-16
The Country's Call.

Never before did our country call
more loudly for men than it does to.
day. Not for attorneys, not for spe-
cial pleaders, not for campfollowers,
but for resolute, courageous and pa
triotic men whose consciences are not
torpid; whose souls are not mortgaged
and whose manhood is not a subject
of barter. The country is calling for
men who are not silenced by salaries
NOT blinded by greed and not
swayed by influence, and that class of
men are answering the call.
We have reached time in our his
tory when foreign influence, foreign
creed and foreign cunning run their
Shiny fingers across the Atlantic and
shape the politics of the American
government. What England could not
conquer with her fleets, what she
could not subdue with her armies, she
has finally taken possession of by ap-
pealing to the cupidity of that class
among us which sets the dollars above
the man and by appealing to the van
ity of that other class among us which
would rather be an ass in Europe than
lion in Ameria We are having
financial and economic politics fas-
tene on us which make our continent
a tribute-paying colony, and the fact
that recreant Americans are used for
the purpose of gathering in this trib-
ute neither lightens the burden nor
sweetens the lump. The men and the
women who are doing the work of
this land, and who make our civiliza-
ton possible, have no friends at court.
The great agricultural and producing
interests of this country upon which
the prosperity of all other interests
depend must sell their products in
the worlds open and competitive mar
kets, where low price level and mar.
row standard of values is being fixed
by law, while at the same time an in.
dustrial condition is growing up which
compels these people to buy their
necessities in market that is not
only artificially restricted, but whose
prices are arbitrarily marked UP. Con-
ditions are being established under
which the men and women who earn
their bread in the sweat of their
broWs will have the bread taken from
them by hands that never earned an
honest dollar.-Ex-Gov. John P. Alt.
gelt at Boston.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-03-16
New York In 1900.

The Verdict: New York is on the
threshold of Democratic redemp-
ton. The returns have all been gath
ered and the additions and substrac-
tons made. Now that the dust of COM
bat has so far settled that one may
gain some glimpse of results, what,
think you, is the Republican majority
in the state Of New York, as shown
two weeks ago? 1t comes out as a
shadow over 5000. No mammoth plur-
atty, truly! In 1886 the Black major
ity was 246,O00 1t was Clevelandism
that did that. In 1897 it bleached to
$4,000, A year later (1S9S) it whit
ened out still further, and stood as
1880. Last Autumn (1S99) the Re-
publicans in their superiority, as stat
ed, fade and pale to a trifle above
5000. In 1900-mark The Verdict's
word-that superiority will have died
and disappeared-buried beneath a
Bryan plurality of $4,000. And all this
makes the morose and sulky reason
of present Republican gloom. The
farther they travel, the darker it gets.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-03-16
Bryan Not a Trimmer.

1t is strange that politicians like
Mr.. Cochran cannot understand that
appeals to Mr.. Bryan that he desert
a principle in which he heartily be-
ieves would be idle appeals, even
though defeat was the certain con-
sequence. Bourke Cochran will be
heartily welcomed to the temple of
democracy. He cannot however, die
tate terms. He knows what the party
prin ,iples are to-day, and he will not
need a diagram to determine what the
party principles are in 1900. If he is
opposed to imperialism he can hope
to fight imperialism only by voting for
Mr.. Bryan. The Chicago platform
will be reaffirmed with more explicit
plank concerning Imperialism and
militarism. Bimetalism at the ratio
of 16 to will be in that platform as
conspicuously as IL was in the plat
form of 1896.-Omaha World Herald.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-03-16
Cheating the PeonIe.

Wendell Phillips said that three
times within dozen years, capital
lists, with their knives on the throat
OF government, have compelled it to
cheat its largest creditor, the people,
whose claim, Burke said, was the
most sacred. First, the pledge that
greenbacks should be exchangeable
with bonds was broken. Secondly,
debts originally payable in paper, as
Sherman confessed in the Senate,
were made payable in gold. Thirdly,
silver was demonetized and gold made
the only tender. A thousand millions
were thus stolen from the people,
Joplin (Mo.) Globe.
| It is little amusing to read in the
papers which had so much to say
Aabout so cent dollars in 1896, labored
Rdefenses of trusts with 80 per cent.
watered stock.-Buffalo Times.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-03-16
Debaslna the Silver Dollar.

The Dubuque Telegraph announces
the currency bill as destroying the
silver dollar by debasing it. 1t con.
tends that while under existing law
the silver dollar is primary money,
or money of ultimate redemption. and
while it is provided in the conference
Dill that its legal tender quality shall
not be impaired, the first section of
the bill makes it redeemable money.
The Secretary of the Treasury, to
maintain its parity with the standard,
may redeem it in gold and sell bonds
without limit to procure gold To CON-
tinue the redemption. The bill de-
bases the silver dollar and makes 1t
metallic gold certificate. As, when
the measure has been passed, the sill
yer dollar will no longer be money
per Sc, but merely the representative
of gold money, the silver dollar might
as well be retired from circulation
and melted, and an equivalent amount
OF redeemable paper substituted.
In his speech in support of the FL
nance Committees bill, Senator ALI.
son declared that the silver dollar has
always been as good as the gold, that
1t will remain so with the quantity of
silver dollars limited to the number
now extant, and that its value will
thereafter be maintained without gold
redemption. He said that it was not
the intention to redeem silver dollars
In gold or make them an endless
chain for draining the treasury re.
serve and forcing bond issues. The
retention in the conference of the
Senate bill requiring that silver coin
shall be maintained at a parity OF
value with the standard gold coin, re-
flutes him and proclaims his disin.
genuousness. For if, as the Senator
argued, the silver dollar is as good as
the gold and under limitation of vol
ume always will be so, why should 1t
be left to the option of the Secretary
of the Treasury to redeem it in gold?
And why, with its limitation insured
while it is denied free coinage, should
1t be set aside as money of redemp.
ton and bond payment"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-03-16
Mckinley a Weathercock.

What good silver man Mr.. Nc
Kinley was during Mr.. Cleveland's
administration, and what good gold
man he seems to be now. AS a matter
of fact, Mr. Mckinley is simply a
weathercock, blowing as the wind
blows. That he has absolutely no con-
victions on the money question is ap-
parent to any one who will read his
tersgivesations then and now. Then
he thought his utterances popular;
now he is so completely the slave Of
Hanna and the money trust that he
dares not call his soul his own.-Kan.
sas City Times.
A number of administration organs
excuse the deed of Goebel's assassin
because Goebel once killed man
who was trying to kill him.-Omaha
World Herald.