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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-01-11
ART GOODS.
Delegates Selected.

The Retail Grocers' Association has
chosen al delegates to attend the ma
tional convention Messrs. j. c.. Stro-
BILE, j. w. Dowler, j. w. KEENAN,,
Thomas Killeen and VIM. Ebberts.
The meeting occurs on the 10th inst.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-01-11
Circuit Court.

Mems $3.50 Shoes for $500 a
Beans Bros, 11O5 Market Street.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-01-11

Good Skating and good music af-
and evening at Rygeia Rink
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-01-11
The Muslin
Underwear
SOIe-A

Continues, and is attracting as much
interest as it did the first day.
Tables piled high with the Daintiest
White Garments, bought before the
big advance in c~ottons, and marked
specially reasonable for this annual
sale. Not room here to give prices.
We told you of them before; the
same ones still prevail.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-01-11
Embroidery
Sale Continues.

You will like the assortment of dainty
New Embroideries that we have for
you this season, and you will like
the prices, too; lower by far than
they will be a little later on. Don't
put off buying for your spring sew
ing too long. Medium to finest here
for your selection.
The age-herald., 1900-10-13

many thousands. maybe, but no more. Those thousands of votes will be negotiated for during the last week of the campaign. The party that gets into Indiana with the most money will get the State. There Is no quesion of sentiment or loyalty to party either about this Indiana situation. It Is clear, cold, business proposition. So few votes will swing the State that they can be found in the voting population of any other State In the Union. Nobody claims that the voters of the Hoosier State are more venal than those of any other State The situation requires so few of the vendl kind that in Indiana, as the most uncertain State they are sought out and bought while in other States, where the division of sentiment is not so equal, there are no mar kets for them"
The age-herald., 1900-10-13
ODE TO AUTUMN

By John Keats. Season Of mists and mellow fruitfulness! ! Close bosom friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the
 thatch-eves rum To bend with apples the mossd cottage
 trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the To swell the gourd- and plum the hazel
 shells With sweet kernel; to set budding
 more, And still more later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never
 cease. For summer has o'erbrimmed their clam
 my cells. Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy
 store? Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may
 find Thee sitting carelessly on a granary floor, Thy hair solf-lifted by the winnowing
 wind; Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep, Drowsed with the fume of peoples, while
 thy hook Spares the next swath and all it's twined
 flowers; And sometimes like gleaner thou dost
 keep Steady thy laden head across a brook Or by cider press, with patient look Thou watchest the last oozings, hours by
 hours. Where are the songs of spring? Ay, where
 are they? Think not of them; thou hast thy music,
 too, While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying
 day,
 And touch the stubble plants with rosy
 hue; Then in a wailful choir the small gnats
 mourn
 Among the river shadows, borne aloft, Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies; And full-grown lambs loud blast from hiily
 bourn;
 Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble
 soft
 The red-breast whistles from garden
 croft, And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
The age-herald., 1900-10-13
WHY WILEY THE SOUTH
from the Minneapolis Star


 When a Republican paper wants to say something malicious it attacks the South The editor wants to awaken a prejudice in the readers heart that will help the latter swallow the dose about the full dinner pail'' and prosperity twaddle. The labor ing man of the North should understand that the Southern planter could at any time I-stress the colored man who is dependent for work upon the whites. At any moment that community should get toge ther and man, how do you think the poor colored man could live? As a rule he owns no land. The planter for whom he works fur nishes home and two acres of land, usu- ally gives him day each week to work it, and mule to blow. If the Southnrn white man has not been the negro's friend of the good Samaritan type, then the writer is no judge. There is great big heart in the true Southern gentleman that no one who does not know him can appre- ciate. There are hundreds of instances where the planters of the South are ma.a. taIn-ng the before-the-war negro, who has now become old, decrepit-often deserted by his own color.
 On the other hand, how long would a Northern manufacturer, trust or combine furnish employment to employees who in- sisted in voting contrary to the firms in terests? The present campaign of coercion in factories and mills is a good and sufii- cient reply to the question:
The age-herald., 1900-10-13
City and Country.

Three State bulletins of the census bu- reau are at hand-Arkansas, New Hamp- shire and Delaware; and they each and all tell one story as to the relations of fac tories to population
 In Arkansas there were no important gains outside of Little Rock, the capital city, and a town in which railroads are centered, and in which some manufactur- ing is done. Four counties show de- crease, and as rule the agricultural counties are stagnated, and only the dis tricts and towns along railroads are in- crcasing
 Delaware's increase was almost wholly in Wilmington, the rest of the State showing only about 1000 increase. As in Arkansas there is only one city of good size. The which has but SSSO people. The State is standing still outside of Wilmington which is full of factories.
 And so it is in New Hampshire, The increase was S5O5S, and all but 2OOO of ii was in the eleven larger towns of the State Manchester with its cotton mills leading all the rest Berlin is another manufacturing town, and it's increase in population, together with that of Manches- ter, is fully one-half of that of the en- tire State.
The age-herald., 1900-10-13

Washington; having an office in Seven- teenth street, near the Court of Claims, which now occupies the old Corcoran Art Gallery building; and it is pleasing to know he is doing well. For six or seven years he was an attorney in the Department of Jus tice, and at various times represented the government in most of the States of the Union.
 MT. Carter is well remembered and great ly esteemed in Birmingham as former yer. He was for time city editor of the Daily Age before the Herald was estab- llshed, the which two formed the Age-Her- <ald. He was from time to time connected with other newspapers here; and he came to be writer of marked incisiveness and power in treating great questions. Few young men are so well informed in the science of government and political econ omy as MT. Carter. He does but little pub lie writing these days, as he deyotes his time to law.
 M. V. Richards, the widely known and successful immigration and industrial agent of the Southern Railway at Washington, is at the Morris. Col. W. A. Henderson of Washington, general counsel for the South ern, is also at the Morris.
 M. H. Dooley of Washington. an attorney for the Southern Railway, is at the Morris.
The age-herald., 1900-10-13
Indiana a Doubtful State.

The election statutes do not call for reg istry lists, but they do call for polls by captains of election precincts of a six months poll. sixty days poll and a thirty days poll. The poll that had to be made thirty days before election was be- gun last Saturday and completed last Mon day. These polls are made for the purpose of showing how each voter will probably vote. The system is strange and peculiar to voters in this section, but it is one of long standing in Indiana, and it seems to be preferred to the ordinary registration sys- tenn.
 The thirty days poll has not been de- c,ared as yet but 1t is expected to show that there are at least 5000 doubtful" votes in the State. There were 45,OOO names set down in the previous poll as doubt full"
 The State Is so evenly balanced that prob ably 5000 men can turn 1t either way by changing their political action. Perry Heath Is managing the Republican campaign In Iadiana, and Mark Hanna stands behind him. Says g. recent correspondent: Five thousand votes will swing the State. That Is the truth of the situation. Today Indiana Is so evenly divided that neither candidate has 5000 advantage over the other. On elec- tion day the winning man will have as
The age-herald., 1900-10-13
GALvEsroN's HIGH WATER RECORD

From the Galveston News.
 MT Wilcox, assistant engineer to Capt. c. s. Riche United States Engineer Corps, in charge of the district has recorded the tide which caused an invasion of the city by the gulf on the Hateful day of the storm. The tide, which ordinarily rises from two to two and half feet, registered a maxi mum of from twelve and one-half feet to fourteen feet above mean low tide on Sat urday, September s. Engineer Wilcox has been engaged locating a line of level from the Denver resurvey to the Sealy Hospital and measuring all high water marks to ob- tain his information.
 Considering that Galveston is from six to ten feet above mean low tide, some idea of the volume of water that inundated the island is furnished in this tide register. Of course, this means simply the rise of tide on the level and does not take into consideration the high waves and destruct- i've breakers that piled the gulf waters house high in some parts of the city. The storm wave of from four to six feet high reported by Dr. Cline of the weather bu- reau rode on top of this high tide and rag ing sea, and forced by the hurricane formed an avalanche which no power could resist
The age-herald., 1900-10-13
GLASGOW AND IFS CARRIAGE

From City Government.
 A number of British cities lease for d long term or purchase outright hundreds of acres of bogIand or other waste land for the use of the city. Glasgow has about 800 acres so employed. The city garbage is used for filling in and for fertilizing pur- poses. In the course of few years many acres of land are redeemed and made to blossom as the rose. Hay, oats, potatoes and other grains and vegetables are raised and turned in toward the support of the department These municipal farms are To- cated from two to fifteen miles from the city. The transfer of the refuse to the farms is made by the railway.
The age-herald., 1900-10-13
MIsER Vs. sPENDrHRIFr

From the New York World
 The moral of the life of James Howle, the working gardener of New Rochelle who lived on 15 cents day and left a for tune of $100,000 to his heirs, will be differ ently construed by different natures.
 Popular opinion has been trained to cen- sure the miser, and in all English lltera- ture he is treated with the greatest se- verity. Yet the truth is that the miser, though not an admirable character, Is very useful one. The spendthrift destroys more than he earns and diminishes the total of the worlds accumulations. The miser, representing the extreme of thrift and saving, earns more than he consumes and leaves his money for others after he has been a useful factor in industry by the mere fact of his accumulations and invest ments.
 A great many of the most troublesome problems of society and of politics and gov ernment would wholly disappear if the miser habit were substituted for the spend- thrift habit-at least to the extent of living on less than we earn.
The age-herald., 1900-10-13
MODERN NAviEs AND STEAM
From Pearson's Weekly.

From Pearson's Weekly.
 A whole fleet in the days of Nell son could be built and fitted out at little more than the cost of single iron clad the coal expended on a single cruise would pay for the refitting of his whole battle-line, while the immense shells re- quired to make any impression on the modern armor plate cost more than his whole armament. But the modern line of- battle ship could neither be built, armed nor fought without the use of steam, and it's evolution may be said to have com menced with the first application of the steam engine to navigation.
The age-herald., 1900-10-13
Hall of Fame Contests.

When Helen Gould gave the New York University S2O0000 with which to build a Hall of Fame for great Americans, she scarcely expected the jury of one hundred composed of college professors, chief jus tices. publicists and editors, to vote down Edgar Allan Poe and vote up Washington Irving, whose work was graceful but not creative. Nor did she expect, we are bound to believe, that Abraham Lincoln would not be even named among the first twenty-three, although Cornelius Wander bilt boiled large minority vote. while Peter Cooper and George Peabody went through in the first ten names selected William Cullen Bryant had to stand aside in order that Robert Fulton who simply stuck an antique steam engine in an antique boat neither of which he invented Horace Bushnell went through, but Hor- ace Greeley did not, although the latter's power over public sentiment was and is immeasurably greater.
 It has long been an axiom in this world thttI NhS lhiNih5o Oi q PSeiN Jul eAo " 9N the ken of Providence, and the findings of our Hall of Fame jury outrank in in scrutability and perverseness those of any petit jury that can be recalled.
 Up to this writing twentythree names have been selected, as follows: Ralph Wal do Emerson Henry-W. Longfellow Wash ington Irving. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rob- ert Fulton, Samuel F. B. Morse, Eli Whit ncy, Elias Howe, Peter Cooper, George Peabody, L. s. Grant John Marshall Jona- than Edwards, D. G. Farragut Robert E. Lee, Henry Ward Beecher, James Kent Joseph Storey, John James Audubon, Will jam Ellery Charming, Horace Bushnell and Asa Gray.
 James Fennimore Cooper received but 20 votes, and Motley and Prescott and Ban croft were scarcely considered at all. Rob- ert F. Lees vote was 60, against 92 for U. S. Grant. A list of great Americans that does not include the name of Abraham Lin coin would indeed be novelty, and the jury of 100 seems to be equal to the task of making such list. The jurors are playing favorites on a local basis
The age-herald., 1900-10-13
SENATOR srEw AKT,s DAIRY FARM

FTOm " WasnlngIOn Letter.
 The finest milk in Washington comes from the farm of Senator Stewart of Nevada. The former champion of free silver has a model dairy farm about ten miles from Washington, in Virginia. He has made it his hobby and spends most of his time there with his Jerseys and Attorneys, and his Berkshire hogs. He sold his rundown old palace on Dupont circle to Senator W. A. Clark of Montana for $12O,OOO. and is amus- ing himself with the proceeds. The old pal ace, by the way, is more dilapidated than ever. The copper king has never occupied 1t or done any repairing, and people are wondering why he bought 1t.
The age-herald., 1900-10-13
VATICAN ROBBED
Valuable Securities Said to Have Been
 Taken Some Month Ago

Rome, October 12.-A number of the pa pers here publish the extraordinary state ment that securities valued al 357, 600 lire, the theft of which from the Vatican was recently reported to the Italian police, had been stolen sometime previous to February last, and were sold In that month on the Paris Bourse. They were stolen, it is as- serted, by order of an Italian capitalist If this story be true the more recent burglary was committed with the object of deceiving the authorities.
 This theory has produced a great impress sion at the Vatican, but it Is not generally credited
The age-herald., 1900-10-13
CIaims Against China

Washington, October 12.-The State De- partment has already received several claims by American missionaries and business men for indemnity on account of loss of property in China as a result of the Boxer uprising. The department in each case notified the claimants that, as yet, it has not taken up for consideration the method of collecting such indemnities and has supplied them with the regulation cir cular containing information as to the means of filing claims.
The age-herald., 1900-10-13
In Right Direction

Chattanooga, Tenn. October 12-The Fri State Medical Society of Tennessee, Ala bama and Georgia, in session in this city, has taken the initial steps to secure medi- cal legislation in these three states for the purpose of regulating or prohibiting the marriage of habitual criminals persons afflicted with incurable diseases, drunk ards and victims of harmful drugs.
The age-herald., 1900-10-13
soLILoQUIKs or AN OLD MAID

A bachelor may be a good mathemati- clan, but his multiplication is bad. the movement.
 A full beer keg will catch more votes than a full dinner pail.
 Every old bachelor would like to have two or three small boys when the circus comes to town.
 Where silence is golden politicians would have nothing but silver.
 The keyhole is abomination to the young man whose sweetheart has small brother.
The age-herald., 1900-10-13
JUDGE CRAY
Will be Made Member of Hague Arbi-
 tration Tribunal

Washington October 12.-It is understood the President has selected Judge George Gray of Delaware to represent the United States, with ex-President Benjamin Harri- son on the Hague permanent arbitration tribunal. Judge Gray is former Senator from Delaware and a Democrat
 He was a member of the Paris Peace Commission and is now a United States judge for the Third Judicial Circuit His selection will not involve the surrender of that position.
The age-herald., 1900-10-13
MINE RATS FEEL THE STRIKE

From the Philadelphia North American.
 The mine rats are showing the effect of the strike. The miners report that when they eat their dinner the rats flock around them like chickens, and are becom- ing so savage, as food becomes scarce, that the men are fearful that in a short time they will be attacked while attending to their duties
The age-herald., 1900-10-13

Temperatures of 50 degrees centrigrade were not infrequently observed in winter and often the ballast had to be quarrled at spots 25 miles away from the route Some of the most formidable obstacles en- countered were the virgin forests of tall frs through which the route had to be ont
The age-herald., 1900-10-13
HANNA AS JEkYLL AND HYDE

From the Kansas City Times.
 Mark Mama. as leader of the Republican party, pretends to be chdmpioning the cause of organized labor in Pennsylvania while Mark Hanna, as trust magnate, Is fighting organized labor in his own ship wards in Ohio
The age-herald., 1900-10-13
Church strhck by Lightning

Chattanooga, Tenn, october R.-About o'clock this morning during heavy thun- derstorm, lightning struck the Centenary Methodist Episcopal church, South, in which the Holston annual conference is be- ing held. The church caught fire and was saved only by prompt work of the fire de. partment. The damage is about S,0OO. This is one of the handsomest buildings in Southern Methodism
The age-herald., 1900-10-13
M'KINLEY's QUEER POLICY

From the Toledo Bee.
 From whatever point you look at it. the Mckinley policy Is a queer thing Thus Mormonism is prohibited in Utah by law, while in the sulu Islands, annexed by mill itary means to the United States, polygamy is sanctioned by treaty bearing William McKinley's signature.
The age-herald., 1900-10-13
4 yERSATnE TRADEsMAN

Erstwhile the man with ice to sell Has quit the business cold, And for the wintry season spell He's selling heat, I'm told
 M. B. M.
The age-herald., 1900-10-13

New York has no Governor, Lieutenant Governor or private secretary on duty, and she is coming to believe the State is best governed that is the least governed.
The age-herald., 1900-10-13

President Harper's onion diet, or fifteen cents day, afford him much seclusion and opportunity for planning new raid upon the Rockefeller reserve fund.
The age-herald., 1900-10-13

The lifelong" Republican and the life long Democrat who have deserted their re- spective parties will soon begin to plan "the return to the fold" for 1904 The lifelong" business is usually money or nortoriety
The age-herald., 1900-10-13

Big bettors say small bettors are immoral, and that the bucket shops they frequent must be broken up The big fish eat the It, tie ones and call it moral.
The age-herald., 1900-10-13
The Republicans on the other hand are contesting these Bryan States of 1896:

IL will thus be seen that there Is plenty of hard work going on, although we see none of it in Alabama except with the minds eye. It will further be seen that no one is authorized to "holler' as yet, for neither party is out of the woods The Re- publicans fear they will lose New York as well as Indiana, and the Democrats are not sure they will hold Kansas and Washing ton. It is still doubtful battle, and the independents in the little close-shut Aus trallan booths will decide it, and they will give no sign except In the ballot box.
The age-herald., 1900-10-13

Bishop McCabe of New York wants Me- Kinley to have the benefit of the Golden Rule, but not MT. Bryan. He is a Repub- Iican from the ground up.
The age-herald., 1900-10-13

MT. Hanna's grip upon the English lan- gage is not sufficient to warrant him in standing for seat in the English House of Commons.
The age-herald., 1900-10-13

The spellbinders and the organs are com Ing down the home stretch neck-and-neck contending for the liars purse.
The age-herald., 1900-10-13

Mir. Vanderbilt's search for the pthecan- thropus erectus, the missing link, is giv- ing him plenty of free advertising at any rate.
The age-herald., 1900-10-13

The Dowager Empress has a variety of capitals, and she is inclined to think that Pekin is no place for her in this emer- gency.
The age-herald., 1900-10-13

The steel trust and Andrew Carnegie can fight out the rail issue with the full ap probation of the country.
The age-herald., 1900-10-13
PopuIar Vote in 1896.

A deep interest was taken in the election of 1896. and Mckinley received the votes of 7,107.9so men, while 65O0,O5S voted for Bryan. McKinley's plurality was 5sS92i. The total vote exceeded 13,5O0 000-fgures never before reached, and that will not be equalled next month. because of the lessened interest in race repeated.
 The vote in Indiana in 1896 was very close, all things considered. McKinley's vote was 323.71s, and Bryan's SO5,771-a difference that could have been overcome by a change in 9OOO votes. Ohos vote was also close, al- though it would have required a change in 29o00 votes to have carried the State for Bryan. There are close and skilled ob- servers who believe both of these States in the central west will cast their electoral votes for William J. Bryan.
 But these two States are not all that the Democrats are contesting with all the skill and resources that they can command. We add a list of the Mckinley States In 1896 that the Democrats are contesting:
The age-herald., 1900-10-13

Peacock feathers are as disturbing in China as a crown is in other lands.
The age-herald., 1900-10-13

The lone highwayman stays in the back ground in order to avoid an assessment for Hanna's campaign fund.
The age-herald., 1900-10-13
SIBERIAN RAILWAY HARD TO BUILD

From the London Sphere.
 The difficulties of construction of the Trans Siberian Railway, especially in Gen. tral Siberia, were enormous, and no con- tractor could be found ready to accept the responsibility, so that the work has been done almost entirely by the state engineers.
The age-herald., 1900-10-13

Prince Tuan has supplanted in the public mind Aguinaldo and all the other oriental potentates.
The age-herald., 1900-10-13

Four Harvard professors will vote for Bryan, and twelve more are on the fence.
The age-herald., 1900-10-13

Senator Depews after-dinner-pail speeches are well received by the 400.
The age-herald., 1900-10-13

Theodore Roosevelt considers himself the original and only true man on horseback.
The age-herald., 1900-10-13

1 All politicians and spellbinders know a
 great deal nowadays about the turning of .l,a
The age-herald., 1900-10-13

Mark Twain either had to come home or as literary gent be run into Parliament.