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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-11-25

| torted. Rose sided UP to her, kissed
her left cheek and said sweetly:
Rosy is naughty girl sometime
but who. spoiled her?'
Every body and everything from the
day she was born" Miss Peggy admit
ted. Its all the fault anybody can
find in John Edmunds A better man,
better brother, better husband, a
better providsr, never wore shoe leath-
er, but ne has spoiled you, Rose, and
I'm bound to say I've helped him a
right smart"
Was it SO bad to love me and give
me whatever I wanted?" Rose asked,
her eyes suddenly DIM Miss Peggy
looked at her with affectionate pride.
People may say we didn't raise you
right, honey" she answered. But
somehow l don't believe you'd be any
better if we had"
"Listenl Somebody is coming!" Rose
cried, darting to the window. The room
was one of the big, square front ones
upon the lower part of the Edmunds
house. You could look from its win
dows down the length of the lawn to
the outside gate, perhaps 400 yards
away. There was graveled drive,
with, NAPLES AMI beeches standing ir-
regularly either side.
'Oh, see the race. Run, auntie,
quick!" Rose cried. Miss. Peggy ran
to look over the girls shoulder at two
horsemen just inside the far gate. They
had come through it together. Now
with the lawn for course, they were
riding so hard and fast it was plain
something hung upon the issue.
BILLY Hope will beat" Rose said
over her shoulder. Miss Peggy, with
her chin in the hollow of Roses neck,
thought she felt little heart flutter at
the name. But the next minute sha
fancied she must have been mistaken
Roses voice was so gleeful as she an
nounced, BILLY has got the best horse,
but Tom Esten can outride him
The racers were less than a hundred
yards away, running neck and neck,
their riders laughing and waving hats
at each other. Billy's horse, Captain, q
slashing, long striding fellow, brown,
with cinnamon muzzle, and three parts
thoroughbred, ran so easily his rider
scarcely swayed in the saddle. He held
his head high and fretted slightly I'M
der tightish rein. Tom Esten had
given back Warlock his head almost
at the beginning. Warlock stood half
hand lower than Captain, was como
thing lighter in the quarters and slight
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1--WE a sort of respect for an out
right heathen," Miss Peggy said, so
If meant to be a heather I'd be one,
sure enough"
Peggy, best beloved, what have the
heather to do with this case?" Rose,
her niece, asked, dimpling all over.
Rose. stood before the mirror, admiring
critically the set of her fine new habit
of dark green cloth. She. was well
named. Her cheeks were the richest
damask, her dimples but repeated the
true curves of the flower, there was a
suggestion of moss in her bright brown
hair and the grace of swaying stalks in
the 1.-THE poise Of her figure.
Tell me- she persisted, turning her
head SO far aside she could see the set
of her jacket at the back of the neck
Miss Peggy tried to look severe as she
answered: cts heathenish, the way
you're actin about this Thanksgivin
sermon. Thanksgivin is a real reli-
gious day, if the Puritans did start it.
Seems to me all ought to get down
On our knees, body and soul, and thank
the good Lord for his mercies''-
I'm sure nobody is more thankful
than l am" Rose protested
What for?" Miss Peggy asked. "The
chance to ride races to church to-day?
I believe in my soul that's what you
are up to-
"Oh, Peggotty! How can your" Rose
cried, her voice reproachful, her eyes
dancing. Il shall give thanks in church
because | have life and health and you
and daddy to love me. Then, when
come out and start home and see all
the other girls staring and tossing their
heads, maybe l shall give thanks. too.
for having two beaus, when so many Of
them have not even the hope Of one"
(which of them goes with your"
Miss Peggy asked, Rose opened her
eyes in pretended amazement.
Il thought you knew it was both"
she said
"And how'll they like that?" Miss
Peggy demanded. Rose laughed tran
GULLY.
1T is not a question of their liking it
or disliking it, if I am pleased" she
said. "They really ought to be CRATE
full to me. 1t is not every girl who
would be SO thoughtful of their vanity
If had said I'd go with either and left
the other out in the cold, the whole
congregation would have laughed. Be
sides, neither of them asked me to go
with him. They are both such dear
geese; they came siding up and said,
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just like a phonograpA, I'm going to
preaching with you Thanksgiving day.
You see how impossible it was to say
anything except that I'd be glad to see
them and ask them to eat dinner with
u.s.
Trust you to fix it up" Miss Peggy
said, smothering a smile. But do re-
member to ask people home with sou.
Jonnll look out for the preacher and
the kinfolks generally. but you must
hunt up the EMERSON girls-I asked 'em
last week, but they said they couldn't
say until to-day-and old Mrs. Hunt
poor soul--and the Jim Malones. Ask
Sarah Jennings, too, if it's true what
Dinah says mat she's put a white
ruche. in her bonnet. Whenever a wild
ow does that"
she begins to be dangerous, Rose
interrupted "Peggotty, you ought to
have more regard for my prospects.
You know widow is the only rival I'm
afraid Of And the new minister is a
single man, and delight"
Il hope he has more sense than to
look at girl like you" Miss Peggy re-
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BROWN HORSE SHOT BY UPON ONE SIDE. BLACK

er of barrel. But he made good with
tremendous shoulders and forearms, to
say nothing Of suppleness out of the
common. He had a cross the more Of
blood, but was of more equal temper
HIS gate was elastic-a long. stealing
stride-devouring distance at a rate
that Knocked the eye.
Captains rider sat erect, his bride
hand low. the other swinging lightly at
the side when it was not waving the
hat. fWarloJks master rode another
fashion, sitting well forward. half
ukcaed, free hand on the pommsl. un-
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do it, not even with you yourself to
help him."
Don't you love modesty?" Rose ask
ed, turning limpid eyes up to Billy.
His own twinkled merrily. but his
face. was grave as he answered.
Il hope you don't. for. you see. mod
esty's other name is Tom Esten.r
You all had better be startin. It's
10 o'clock now-and five miles 20
preachin," Miss Peggy called from the
hall door.
Rose put up a hand to her bright
bare head. 2atted stray tendril in
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UPON THE OTHER.

proper people or setting their horses
so wild as to make them run away"
Why didn't we think to go out by
the other road7" Esten said discomfort
eddy. Il want you to find out just how
we'll Warlock goes. Then maybe you'll
take me to get him. know you'll
never do it unless there is something
besides myself"
Il was laughing speech. but with
an undertang OF reality. Rose binshed
faintly-that Is 90 say. the damask
roses broadened the least bit. She
licked warlock daintily and sent him
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thing she wanted ever since sho was
born.
The two lovers had been patient.
partly because they were so whole
somely virilc they were awed by Roses
untouched freshness, partly that each
was too diplomatic TO force an issue
that might go against him and thus
leave the other clear field. Now, they
had reached the limit OF endurance.
Without speaking, each understood
that the other meant to insist upon a
definite understanding.
81 lay any money Billy Hope will
ask her before they're mile on the
way home" Esten thought. shooting
an angry glance al his own shadow In
the road. Il wonder what ala make
me such fool9 But really she didn't
give me a chance wonder II shs'Il
treat Billy the same way"
He looked across at her. She was
more beautiful than he bad ever seen
her. Her hat bad blown a little back
and let rings OF bright hair frame all
her face Long frinEed white Ida
vellci her eyes. a sweet. half tracksy
smile made dimples play at hide and
seek about her mouth Under cover
OF Mrs Jennings high pitched chatter
and the ministers round bass he leaned
across and said in Roses ear.
4 want TO give you warlock and all
that belongs 70 him. VIII you take
him?"
A startled breath told him Rose un-
derstood But she turned TO him eyes
OF limped wonder as she said:
Il shall have to think about II. May
be this is a sort of Christmas gift. Yea
may want the Barb in exchange"
Before he could protest she was gal
loping forward. needless Of Mrs. Jen-
nings, who somehow felt that the gait
was an insult TO the minister. The
church was in sight--square steeple-
less, Of weathered red brick, standing
| unfenced in a grove OF forest trees. AL
ready the grove was blotched and
splotched with tethered, horses and We
hicles of every sort The Jim Malones
were just driving up. As Esten lifted
Rose from saddle she said in his ear:
Put me down. quick, and go help
Jimmy"
"He don't deserve helD-risking q
wife and young baby behind those
gray deyils." Esten protested New
ertheless he strobe 70 the heads Of the
span. caught the bits and held them,
while tim Malone tucked the baby
under one arm. then held out a helping
hand to his wife.
She was a small. eonceited woman,
baby-faced and always simpering. The
shipper strengthened as she stepped
across 10 Rose. holding the baby so
all is splendid long skirts would show.
Don't you feel bad over Toms ieav-
ing you this way2" she said. Poor
fellow. He can't see me even now
without wanting to wait on me-"
Indeed" Rose said. with an accent
Of innocent inquiry. Mrs. Malone tried
to look Bashfui.
Lets 60 in. want 10 get seat
up in the amen corner she said.
Don't you be jealous Rosy. Leave
that to Jim Malone. You hadn't right
ly set out when Tom Esten used to be
so crazy over me-"
WHY didn't Jon take him Hes
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| cantering after rockaway some hun
! bred yards ahead The Elversons were
in it, three excellent young women,
with big noses all and no compilations
to speak OF. who having no beaus Of
their own. regarded love making in
general as a profane and perilous d.
version
Aunt Peggy SAYS IL you don't come
home with me she'll be heartbroken.
Rose began. she says, too, am TO
! tell you that she mada marble cake
specially for Miss jimmy and fried pies
for Miss Lucy and cheese cakes for
Peggy Ann
"oh, you needn't be tellin us, !" jimmy
said, snifiy. 1--WE heard 1t all this
/ mornin. Dinah's sister Dilsey stopped
in to see us. Wish you had heard her
tell about the turkeys and the ham
boiled in wine and the spiced beef and
saddle of mutton and goodness knows
what besides!'
"She said there was chicken salad
and chicken pie and oysters and vege-
| tables and seven sorts of pickle and
'leven kinds of cake, to say nothing of
mince pie. ambrosia AID wine jelly"
Lucy EMERSON supplemented, with a
sour smile. Peggy Ann, the youngest
and MISC Peggy's partial namesake,
smiled a small, eager. propitiative
smile, and added:
at made my mouth water, hearing it
all. but / had rather see Aunt Peggy
than eat all the good things
you are going to do both. That's
fat" Rose said, with pretty imperious-
ness. She knew the Elversons, whose
penuricus father made nothing of any
holiday, were aching to come, but that
they meant to make 1t appear that
they were fairly driven into coming.
Uncle Ben, drive right back to our
house after church." Rose ran on, to
the rockaway's black driver. do it,
no matter who says you must not |
won't tell anybody else, but Aunt Dinah
has got sucking pig roasted whole
| She stopped with little laugh. Tn
Gle Ben g-inned happily.
Eyes, marin, hears you" he said.
Rose was a prime favorite with all the
black people roundabout Squads OF
them fiecked the road with many col
cred motley. Women, girls, old men
and children were in Sunday best and
gayly gossiping on the way to their
own church. The young men and the
big lads, all In shreds and patches,
bad guns upon their shoulders, and
often dogs at heel
A hail of CHEEKY greeting few back
and forth between the white riders and
the swarming blacks Once. when the
road ran beside stubble field in which
tie hunters had already scattered. no.
; body fired, though a eovey whirred uE
twenty yards ahead. The sportsman
nearest the fence called across it tc
Mr.. Edmunds:
II us amt feared ub maxim dat dar
black horse th'ow Miss Rose Us des
| didn't wanter skeer him an Spite hel
ride ter preaehin."
Other groups made way for them
! holding their dogs carefully In leash
The church-going womenfolk xmlIed
I broadly at sight Of Rose and her twr
: escorts. They knew the ms and ou.l
OF Miss Roses bcauz. IL Aunt Diras
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was so undevout that she came to
church meeting only about once in a
blue moon.
The road. which was curved up hill
and down, for the most part through
open woodland, now ran straight and
level for mile. Rose looked at Esten,
smiled, shook her whip and pointed
straight ahead.
Whatever you please. A race or a
runaway" Esten said.
Rose pretended to frown.
II am amazed at you!" she said Sc
verely. "You ought to know | should
never think of riding out OF a walk
only the minister is likely to come in
down yonder, and want to overtake
him and ask him home with us to
dine. .
Esten's answer was low whsle and
a touch of the spurs in roam Barbary'
flank. The whistle was for Warlock.
Both horses sprang away like the ar
row from the bow. They had come just
for enough--just fast enough, to make
them warm and supple. On, on, they
few, quickening at each stride, their
hoofs striking sparks from the scant
pebbles in the highway, running so
swift in the teeth OF the wind It seem
ed to strengthen it into a hurricane.
Now the black head was in front now
the roam 1t was a curious duel OF
speed, one wherein each rider fondly
hoped for the others triumph, yet APP
peared no fort to come ahead.
Well done, Warlock!" Rose cried as
| together they flashed across the mill
road, making in at thA end OF the
straight mile. you cant beat the
Barb; the Barb can't beat you. must
find outfit Captain cannot take both Of
you into camp"
/ Look Yonder is the preacher" Es-
ten said, glimpsing down the crossroad.
Rose looked and laughed outright.
He's riding right beside the Jennings
buggy" she said. And Sarah has got
white in her bonnet. and at her throat
and wrists into the bargain. All. met
Ny cake is all dough with the preacher,
unless"-with dimpling smile--'some
body else Tom, / assure you, Sarah
thinks You are mighty fine fellow"
Wish her opinion was catching. You
go there sometimes Esten said The
buggy and its outrider had come UP to
them. SO had Mr. Edmunds and Billy
] Hope. Esten was Disguised with him
self. He could not expect 10 have Rose
all to himself again that day. He had
meant to say SO much in the course o;
their ride. and he had said nothing a;
all. He had been counting her openly
for three years--ever since she was Is.
So had Billy Hope. She had a dozen
other casual followers, but Hope was
the only one OF whom Esten was seri-
DUSTY afraid The pair were reasonably
good friends and wonderfully equal
so equal. in fact, that in the mind Of
their world there was not pins choice
between them
They we're wei born. well bred. Of
fair fortune and good repate. Any girl
would do well to get either. said COS
sip. The good danes with daughters
unsought, who In the main we're COS.
sips mouthpieces, added that Il was a
shame two such good chances should
be thrown away upon that flight,
Rose Edmunds. who had had every.
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Guilty pd.ties Run Down.

For years past the department oi education and the various county examiners have been greatly annoy ed and much hmpered in their ef- forts to secure competent teachers by the examination questions used in public examinations of teachers being obtained in advance by appli- cants. This has been especially common amongh negro teachers. All efforts to find th parties guilty of purleining the list of questions proved futile until recently, when conclusive evidence was obtained that there is d seemingly well organ ized clique in Little Rock furnish ing lists a few days in advance to teachers in otheg counties. The par ties implicated ae prominent ne groes of the city, some of whom are teachers in the public schools and professors in negro colleges.
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oexs Nslzes q Arpsal.

h interesting case was appealed fr&h the Little Rock police court fofI trial in Pulaski circuit court. It involves the right of man to iIirt with q woman on the streets. Some months ago the proprietors of Maddox Seminary complained to the police that crowds of boys were in the habit of standing on strcr corners where they knew the girl students of that school were sure to pass en route to church in body, and would annoy them and the teachers in charge by remarks, signs, etc One Sunday morning q po- lIceman was sent with the pupils and the usual crowd of boys was encountered. Out of the crowd two boys tipped their hats to one of the girls and spoke to her. Both were arrested and in police court next morning were each fined $1O. The father of one of the boys, who is . lawyer, gave notice of appeal.
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ment to be the basic principal O

ment to be the basic principal O this republic.
 We are opposed to war of eon- quest, and insist that the pledges made the people of Cuba by Con gress be carried out at the earliest practical moment, and we demand that the same right promised by congress to the people of Cuba be accorded to the people of the Phil, ippine Islands.
 And with a full appreciation ot what such things mean by our owr sad experience at the hands of the Republican party, we denounee the carpetbag government foisted on the people of Porto Rico and Cuba by the present administration, We demand of the congress oi the United States the passage oi such laws as will aid the various state laws in an effectual destruction of all trusts throughout the United States.
 While We are in favor of the pas. sage of such laws by congress a; will effectually destroy the trust: and place such restrictions around the corporations as may be neces sary to protect the public welfare yet we maintain that corporation: are creatures of the law, and have no rights except those rights grant ed by the people. We further maintain that a sovereign state ha: the right and power to exclude any 1 foreign corporation from doing | business i'll the state. We demand the enactment of such laws by oul legislature as shall prohibit cor porations which belong to pools trusts or combinations in restrain of trade no matter where organized from doing business in the state 0 Arkansas, and that it shall exclude them from its borders.
 Recognizing labor as the founda ton of all true prosperity, we recommend the passage of all sucl laws as will protect the laborers c the state to the fullest extent i'll th, enjoyment of all their rights.
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Met Death in he Flames

Horace Black, aged 20 years, met a terrible death in a burning building near Jonesboro. Black and a companion were awakened from their slumbA $ and were hor rified to find that Vhe house was on fire. They were sleeping in the second story Black was hard to arouse, but his companion succeeded in awakening him h time to make his escape down the stairway. When Black reached the stairway they were a mass of aaVe He could have jumped from window, through which he was seen for the last time alive with quilt wrapped about him, but he was evidently so excited this avenue of escape never came into his mind.
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A Lawsuit Out of the ordinsry.

The competition of two. rival un- sdertaking establishments at Helena precipitated unusual litigation, in which the matter in controversy is the possession of q corpse. A young negress of Helena died a. Hot Springs. Her brother telegraphed to the proprietor of an undertaking establishment in Helena toS take charge of the body on it's arrival
 Some one else directed another un- dertaker to take charge of the body, and there the clash began. The un- .dertaker acting under the bereaved brothers instructions got possession, and the rival establishment sued out a writ of replevin, placing the value of the corpse at $1, ,000 A justice of the peace issued the writ, tnt the constable who served it was in a {
 lemma, because the trial could nt
 be held before the expiration of td
 days ~
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Changes Sugcsted.

W. A. Eiseie, supIintendent of the Hot Springs resefation, called on Secretary of the l1Ierior Hitch cock while ill Washing pn. last week and discussed the condtct and man. agement of ,he reselvation. He asked for instructions on several matters, and suggested to the secre- tary the advisability of changing the regulations for the ase of hot water at the springs It'is possible some of the things suggested by him will be taken up by the secretary and an announcement made relative to them.
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kEt tbF ARKANSAS'
lnlnent Crop Rspet,.

Unit tates department of ag- ricultut mate and crop bulletin of the Aer bureau, Arkansas section s,i the week ending June
 Rainf'dtIwas general throughout the statd lind in most sections it was exaHave. The temperature was be.4poTbe normal. Owing to the etYeiiition of the ground lit tie or n E@dway was made in the cultivatil Mi crops. Corn has been laid by MClnost sections. Cotton with a f exceptions, is very weedv and gra nd unless dry weather sets in "a few days the crop will be ly damaged, and in some local\ cause it to be total failure. M at has been nearly all harvested, " most of it standing in shock whese it is being damaged bv wet weaker. Oat harvest is general. Irish potatoes generally good ,Appfs promise fair crop in the northwest section.
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We hope that every subscriber who fails to get his paper will noti- ty us at once. Our subscription lists were all burned and we will have to depend upon our subscrib- CTS to bring in their names. There were some new subscribers who never received copy of the paper, we will be pleased if they will not ify Us at once.
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Dead Body Found.

The body of a well dressed man, supposed to be John H. Miller, of Mena, Ark, was found in clump of bushes in Chicago suburb. A large revolver was clutched in the mans right hand A bullet wound in the right temple told the story. From letters in the dead mans clothing his identity was indicated. One letter is from his wife and be- seeches him to return home if he does not find work. Other letters show he was railroad man.
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Congress voted an extra month wages to the Capitol employees
 making i'll all thirteen month S sal
 ary. The sum necessary was only matter of $50, 100, but that does not amount to anything. The Re publicans immediately claimed lalf of it for campaign purposes, and so the world wags on, and the i.ch grow richer and the poor poor
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Fatal Stabbing Aaray.

Andrew Bailey, colored. and an. other negro who goes by the name of "Jerry," working as labu,ers on the Choctaw at Little Rock. olarrel- ed over some trivial natter The men were separated, bu!a few hours later, as Bailey was returning from dinner to his work, he was atacked by Jerry who stabbedAim num- Der of times in the breaa, injecting fatal wounds. n
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Biz strawberrx shipme.ts.

The Fruit Growers Associatioy of Benton county shipped fr6n1 Gentry during the season just closed l,997 crates of strawberries, or twenty carloads, which netted 93 cents per crate, bringing $11,l57.2l into the community, The growers outside. of the association shipped three carloads 800 crates mak- ing the total twenty-three cars ship ped from Gentry and the total sum received for same $12,831.21.