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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-03-20

OIL CITY-Credlt balances 81 6S; GER
uficntes, no bids; shipments, 1852
barrels; average, s3,s29 barrels; runs,
96,225 barrelBi average, 1881 barrels,
NEW YoRK-standard oil s. S595 80.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-03-20

SDaily. Except Sunday. ssundays only.
Pullman Sleeping or Parlor Cars on all
7. C. BURKE,
City Passenger and Ticket Agent, Wheel
ing. Agent for all Steamshlp Lines.
=. %. UNDERWOOD, D. B. MARTIN,
-Baitlmore,--
1NHE MoNoNGAH ROUTE IS THE
Short Line between FAirmpnt and
CIarkaburg. Quick Time-Fast Trains
Sure Connections. When travelling to or
from ClRrksburg or West Virginia ana
tickets read via the MonongAhhln River
Railroad. Close Connections at Falrmont
with b. & o, trains, and az ClarkshuTg
otE via this route on sale at all u. g o,
and w v. & =. r. r. stations.
HUGH c. BoWL.ES, Gen'l- Bppt.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-03-20

The following quotations are furnished
by Howard HRzlett & Son, brokers, Ma
tlonal Exchange Bank building;
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-03-20
SOUTH-BoUND.

Electric cars Bridgeport TO Wheeling,
Bellaire and Martins Ferry. Consult
agents for best routes and lowest rates
to all points NJ. G. CARREL,
General Passenger Agent.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-04-28
How the Oak viii Grow.

There are trees which would seem to
subStantiate the theory of some sci
entiSts that there is no reason why Il
tree should ever die unless destroyed
by unfavorable conditions or accident.
The oak, for example, will live as Il
sapling for ages until given opportu-
nifty for growth. There is an old say
ing to the effect that If Il pine forest is
cut down an oak forest will grow,
and this is said to be literally true.
Many of the acorns carried into the
pine woods by birds and squirrels are
left to Sprout III the ground. AS the
tiny Saplings grow browsing natives
of the forest shades nibhle off their
tender leaves. Again and again new
leaves are put forth, only to serve as
food for hungry deer or moose or 9th
er marauding creatures. And 50, hid
den from sunlight, deprived. as it
would appear, of every essential of
life, the little plants live on, and when
at last the pines are fellcd and the sun
light reaches them they begin their era
of growth
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-04-28
Two Butler Stories.

Once when General Butler was in
congress Ie rose in his place and gently
inSinuatcd that the member who was
occup. ling the floor was transgrcssing
the limit of debate. why, general"
said the member in reprOachful tones,
you divided your time with me-" 81
know | did," rejoined the grim old
warrior, but did not divide eternity
with you."
But perhaps Buffers most savage re-
tort was made in Il political convention,
in which distinguished Unitarian di-
vine, ! think it was James Freeman
Clarke. sat as a delegate. While the
subject of candidates was being dis
cussed this clergyman announced that
If a certain nomination was made he
would bolt it.
every likely" Butler blurted out.
"You are good at boiling; in your re-
ligion you bolt two-thirds of the Trim
ity."
The convention broke into roar of
laughter, in which the clergyman join
ed.-New York Mail and Express.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-04-28
A COTTON PLANT.
The story Of One shown on the New
York Exchange.

The story Of One shown on the New
York ENchanGc.
There is story still told to visitors
to the New York Cotton Exchange
which always amuscs its tcllers quite
as much as its hearers. 1t concerns Il
very superb specimen of the cotton
plaut which was brought into the cX-
change one October morning years ago
and placed i'll the center of the pit
around which gather every day the
men who buy and sell millions of bales
of the white staple every month.
There had been bad weather in Tex
as that season, with reports of irrep-
arabic damage to the crop, but this
superb plant laden with bollS through
out it's six feet of height and coming,
as it did, from Waco, in the most I'M
pOrtant cotton section of the Lon" Star
State, was exhibited as conclusive
proof that the stories of Il ruined crop
were certainly false. All New Iork's
big cotton operators came to look at
it and to admire it, and most of them
remained to sell IL few thousand bales.
''If that is what Waco can produce"
they said, ''the Texas crop alone will
be big enough to put cotton down II
cent or two per pound
Late in the day, however, there
strollcd into the exchange Il shrcwd
old farmer from one of the cotton
states east of the Mississippi. He had
heard of six foot cotton plants from
Texas, and he wanted to see one. a
single look at this specimen was sulh-
cient.
'Humbug," he said. "That plant is
made of wax, and it grew in South
Fifth avenue"
And so it proved. The hoax had
demonstrated what its authors assert
ed, that very few people in New York,
even among cotton brokers, would
know cotton plant if they saw One.-
New York Mail and Express.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-04-28
The USlicSt Beast.

Probably the ugliest beast in the
world is a monkey, grewsome look
ing animal called the bearded saki
This is so utterly grotcsque beast
that it would scarcely be safe to let Il
child or nervous person see it. The
ugliness is not cf an amusing kind, but
of an evil, sinister nature. The beast
has sort of beard and a countcnance
unlike anything else in shape and lines.
The monkey itself Is not particularly
savage, but is so hideOuS that the ma
tives of its country, South America,
say that no beast of prey, however
hungry, will tackle it. Even hungry
jaguar will starye in cageful of sakis.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-04-28
SpurScOn Finds IL Text.

Near where Surgeons tabernacle
stands half Il dozen main streets all
meet at one point. There is drinking
fountain there, which has stood there
for many years. 1t was one very hot
summers evening, and the drinking
fountain was i'll strong demand.
wanted Il drink myself, and in happy
sort of way while waiting my turn l
said TO some of the people standing
by: "llurry up. I'm parched." Some
body pattcd me on the back and said:
"Thank you, my man. You have given
me my text for tonight" 1t was Mr..
SpurgcoH'S text.
The guard added that he was on his
way to the tabernacle at the time,
and SpurgcOn preached Ole of the fin
est sermons he had ever heard on the
words: Hurry up. I'm parched."-
Home Magazine.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-04-28
4 Prediction Oh Silver.

Years ago the advocates of Free Trade were
cried down as opposed to the business inter
ests OF the country, but time has proved that
these advocates were wise. so that now the
free trade sentiment is the popular idea. The
free trade advocates were only some ten or
twenty years ahead of the general public
opinion.
Now the Bryan idea of Free Silver is cried
down as against the best business inter
esls of the country. but mark this prediction ::
That is from ten to fifteen years hence public
opinion will catch up to Bryan's idea and
believe then as he believes now. Till the
people have experienced the effects of the
Gold bill recently passed they will have
enough of it.-Cumberland Times.
One trouble with that statement is
there has never been any expert
mental knowledge of free trade in
this country. The lowest average eX-
listed from 1888 to lSG2-l5& per cent
more than halfway from free trade to
the tariff or-revenue-only" ideal.
The effort made in 1891 to materialize
the ideal failed utterly through Mr..
Germans contempt for the popular
revolt against the Mckinley Act. A
measure going but little beyond %
per cent, in his hands became an Act
Hi PEI cent. above free trade, or nearly
three times the lowest tariff ever
known. Whatever time has proved" :"
therefore, IN that matter is in the
Times imagination-uot in its knowl-
edge of history.
The Times base for prophecy con-
cerning unlimited coinage of silver S
no soundcr- not as sound. The plenty
of money" idea is one of experience
ID notion which, like some island of
which a great essayist wrote. ''is all
glamour aud mirage" Nobody knows
this better than the ex soldier of the
Confederate States-one like Gen. John
B. Gordon, for instance, who tells Of
"a hoss dat could not be bought for three
thousand dollahs, sab Wy, sab, jst now
paid one thousand dollahs, sah to have dat
hoss curried
Long before the collapse of the Con-
federacy was popularity apprehended
the evil of over-much money was seen
and felt by thousands. Early in 1864
it had already forced the people to
barter rather than buy and sell with
money as the measure and medium of
exchange.
The Times prophecy may be veri.
fed, but it will be in some revolution
that, like no other, goes backward.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-04-28
EDITORIAL.
will Hardly Work ..

John G. Took, editor of l. titz (Pa.)
E,,lress, acknowle dyes interest in 1.-The
squeeze which the Paper Trust is Civ
ing publishers in the advanced price
of news paper and observes that 'if
publishers want che aper paper 1t is the
simplest thing in the world to get it -
In the first place don't go begging your
congressman or senator for anything especi-
ally not if they have been advocating tariff
on other things when 1t affected other pockets
than your own. Get up out of the mud of
beggary and demand of your representative
(seryanU at the price of your support that he
instantly advocate and vote for a measure
that will establish government paper mills
that will supply paper at the cost of good
wages. lfpubiishers unite in each congress
ioual district and make this demand there is
not "A representative who dare oppose it.
Government ownership and operation of
mills would give publishers paper at half a
cent pound at the mills. You see the
government would not collect IL tariff on
material for its own use, so there is no need
OF worrying about repeal of the tariff on
wood pulp The agitation will cause even
the trust to lower its prices
This is interesting. because Just Eow
the newspaper remark is current
Col. George A. Pearre viii have no opposi-
ton for denomination.
OF the II newspapers i'll this county
at least half regard the colonel more
AS Il master than servant hence, they
would not venture to "demand' any
thing from him as Il precedent to re-
nomination..
The Trust may Squeeze but party
usage must be maintained" they
would say. echoing the plausible man
date Of the bosses.
The bottom raj is on top.
AS intimatcd in these columns last
week, the servants Office in Congress
is dedicated to deepening grab into
the pockets of the tax payer for pabu-
lum for the taX-eater.
To "demand' of HIM, therefore, the
INSTITUTION ~ OItC6 OF means 10 supply
us with paper at cost would startle
him as something too novel for any
thing.
To re1uire him to "let up'' on war
damage grabs and do something in the
interest Of publishers and readers
this might provoke horse laugh at
the pertinacity of journalistic artIess,
ness.
Especially should these exactions
take the shape of prerequisites to re-
nomination and election-how absurd
to him would they appear. From
my youth no, would he muse, "have
| learned that the numerous patriot
who is for his party before country is
u creature whose first paternal an
ccstor was Il ram--will he now really
repudiate the traditions of IL race born
and bred to be tleeced -
mo, sir, rec Blood's thicker'n
WATER" said Sut Lovengood; Especial
ly sleeps blood"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-04-28
Come OFF.

The cleaner is climbing up G'eaner.
Why up ?'-JoURN,L.
We take pleasure in referring the great
paper to the inircrsal dictionary where it
will find that climbing" has meaning "in
senses corresponding to those of the verb"
and that the verb us generally with the
adverb up."-Gleaner
The JOURNAL takes equal pleasure in
referring the Cleaner to canon 3 of
chapter = of Prof. A. S. Hills "Prin-
ciples of Rhetoric" where, iu speak
ing of the use of terms more or less
barbarous than "climb up" such as
"open up" mix up" fill up,' ETC.,
he says:
In all such cases the added particle e up'O
wherever it is not needed to complete the
meaning, should be omi ted as being Arrays
supertluous ctten ~orse than super.f"o".
Hence, if the Cleaner had said "the
Cleaner is climbing" the JOURNAL
could have responded in congratula-
tory terms. but how-O, how could the
JOURNAL base much Joy upon report
only hair-line short of-descendlng
down
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-04-28
JeweIry Marked by Tiny Numbers,

On every piece of worthy jewelry
there will be found a series of numbers
so fine that a glass is needed to cor
rectly read them. These numbers are
there to protect the owner in event of
loss. 1t is unkind to say it, but pawn
brokers have also adopted the number
Ing scheme to protect themselves from
thieves. Every pawnbrOker knows
where to look for these significant
numbers, and in the case of n rare bit
Of jewelry its travels from the factory
to store and from store To pawnbroker
and from shop to shop can be traced
with aggravating accuracy. - Detroit
Free Press.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-04-28
GENERAL ITEMS.
Employers Bar Cigarettes.

A late Chicago dispatch says an eff
fective blow against the cigarette evil
has been struck by several of the
largest firms prohibiting their en-
ployes from smoking cigarettes.
Eleven hundred employees, of whom
600 are boys under Is years of age.
are affected.
They employers assert that they
have forbidden their employees to
smoke cigarettes for these reasons:
Customers are annoyed by the odor which
fingers about cigarette smoker. boy who
smokes cigarettes is unable to render the best
service, physically aud mentally, to his EN-
ployer. He is nervous, his mental growth is
stunted, his memory befogged, and his intel
lect is not alert. In extreme cases the smoker
is demoraliZed and his honesty affected
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-04-28

Notwithstanding that we have long
since ceased to hoist coal to lofty apart
ments, having abandoned forever the
old fashioned fireplace with its SCOT
and cinders, the said fireplace is stin
with us in every new house that is
built. Its open throat leads the same
old draft up the chimney, and the same
old result follows-colds and cold feet.
There is no excuse for chimney or a
fireplace in modern house heated
from the cellar The gas log is a nui-
sance and a sham.-New York Press.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-04-28
On the Last Round,

The newspaper man is carrying his
full share of the white mans burden.
First came the type trust, which didn't
prove so burdensome AS expected
Then the paper trust, which has carted
off his shekels by the score. And now
the ink folks are trying to form trust
which will capture what he has left
Press and Printer.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-04-28
A { HlLD KISS.

She gave me kiss dear, sweet kiss,
Twas only " a girl Of ten;
She little knew
That when she grow
She would not share them so with men.
When at last the ripper years have come
And CupidS form appears,
And tie Norcd dart
Strikes at the heart
Which must last through months and years
Perhaps it may turn out to be,
As others have done before,
The charm forget
In wild regret,
Repent and sigh for days Of yorc,
With children near to hear the blame
On each as it may chance to fall,
Not words SO dear,
But words that scar
God forgive us for it all!
For such is life to many wife,
And mistakes are made all the while,
But give me the bliss
OF a dear, sweet kiss
From the innocent lips of child.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-04-28
Signs.

The most prosperous and influential
local paper is readily determined. 1t
has the most local advertising, which
is seldom ''slugged" to "till up" and
there is a conspicuous absence of low
grade foreign advertising in shape Of
cheap jewelry, quack medicines, and
fake schemes in general. The high
grade local paper has no room for
questionable due-bill advertising
Advertising Success.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-04-28
TOWN AND VICINITY.
Health Notes.

The JOURNAL is indebted to DR..
John S. Fulton for a copy of the
annual Report of the State Board of
Health for year ending Dec. 81, 1899"
AS a promoter of the public health
DIR. Fulton is master and in the line
of his duty does not mince words.
a few of his observations are copied
below:
There are now in Maryland seven towns
besides Baltimore which attempt to insure
the immediate registration of all deaths by
requiring a burial permit in every instance.
They are Annapolis, Brunswick, Cumber-
land, Frederick, Frostburg, Hagerstown,
Lonaconing.
In Cumberland as has been elsewhere re-
marked the bural-permit ordinance is
neglected, SO that the registration of deaths
in that town is not so good as in the sparsely-
settled and remote communities. All the
other towns mentioned are completely sue
cessful
The county health officer of Ale
gany county Is DR.. G. II. Brace, Cum
beriand town health officers Drs. G..
l. Carder, same city; C. C. Jacobs,
Frost lburg, and j. o. Bullock, Iona
coming.
No slaughtering is done i'll Eckhart
nor Frostburg, but Ill
Barton "otfal is fed to hogs, pork sold to
shipper. fats rendered -
Homecoming fats rendered III open kettles,
offal fed to hogs, pork sold to citizens" and
Cumberland has seven slaughter houses,
four of which feed offal to hogs, pork sold to
citizens, drainage into Wills creek, fats
rendered"
Town health officers of Cumberland
and Erostburg made no report during
the year. DR.. Bullock, of Homecoming,
did better in an instructive paper.
The report of the Bacteriologist con-
tains paragraph concerning the water
supply Of Ocean, once good, but since
the town of Lord has been built the
b0cteria has increased fourfold. Says
the report:
The citizens of Ocean should be aroused to
the importance of improving their water
supply, as water borne diseases cannot fail to
occur among persons drinking such polluted
water.
October 26. last, the water from
three Homecoming wells, two springs
and two spigots was examined. The
we'll water was found suspicious" in
two instances. bad in one, both
springs bad" one spigot bad" one
fair"
No report concerning Frostburg
water; hence. must be all right.
In all respects FroStburg appears to
stand pretty we'll in the Health Boards
esteem. Not so some other places.
For instance:
Allegany county owes nothing to Cumber-
land. In Cumberland the passing citizen re-
ceives no notice save from the press. The
town has good sanitary laws, but no dis
coverable administration.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-04-28
Dead Gone.

She-Would you be willing to die for
me?
He-Why. I'm dying for you now!-
Brooklyn Life.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-04-28

The soil of Egypt at the present day
is titled by exactly the same kind OF
plow that was used 5000 years ago.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-04-28

Travellers by rail in Brittany often
glide past Gungamp without remem-
bering that it was here that was pro-
duccd that useful fabric gingham.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-04-28

*Except Sunday. Nos As and AZ carry
passengers. No. 40 is a local train from Cum
berland to Pittsburg, and No. II from Pitts
burg to Cumberland. Nos and make 3
stops each way between Cumberland and
PItisburg. Through tickets, east and west, for
sale at Cumberland NJ. G. CLARKE,
+. D. UNDERWOOD, Ticket Agent
General Manager. D. b. MARTIN,
Dec 2 Manager PASSENGER Traffic
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-04-28
A Iniuue Notice,

The following is copy Of n unique
notice affixed to the church door ut
Whtcchurch, London: Missing. last
Sunday, some families from church.
Stolen, several hours from the Lords
day, by number of people of differ
ent ages, dressed in their Sunday
clothes"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-04-28
PittSburg Division.

EASTBOUND.
No 10. Express. arrives 225 a. m.
No 46. Express. arrives 6lO p. M.
No T.. Lirnited Express. arrives 1880 p. m.
No. H.. Mail. arrives 1920 p. M.
No. e.. Limited Express. arrives l2:2S p. M.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-04-28

A Present Duty.
Subscribe for the JOURNAL.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-04-28
she WHISPERED.

"Pity me! Pity mer' he cried.
81 do" she responded. "Goodby."
lie went slowly under the pines,
and ill., George looked after him with
commiseratng eyes, but Barbara was
relentless.
"Give me your arm" she said, with
tender graciouSness. I'VE will walk
home together, George. e."-Chicago Trib-
une,
Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1900-03-17
FATHER RYAN'S MEMORY
Monument to the Poet Priest
Will Be Erected in
Norfolk.

The memory of Father Ryan, the poet
laureate of the South, is to be honored by
a monument to be erected in Norfolk,
Va, his native city. The project is in
the hends of the Daughters of the Confed-
eracy, who arc now taking the prelimi-
nary steps toward enlisting the sup
port of the public for the work of love.
There will be no difficulty in securing
almost any amount required.
Mrs. lanes N. Leigh, State President
of the Daughters of the Confederacy Of
Virginia, stated that while the matter
was still in embryo, a committee has
been appointed to reclaim the plot in
E.mwood cemetery where lie the un'
known Confederate dead. This will be
handsomely fenced with stone, bayonet
spikes and cannon balls. The monument
of the poet priest will occupy the exaci
center of this resting place of the un
named dead.
Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1900-03-17

his assistants to bring the paraphernalia
for the initiation. The women became
greatly frightened and wanted to go
home, but their exit was barred and all
had to become candidates.
A huge hobby horse was lugged in.
Then large washtub and barber's
chair. The women shivered and were
more than frightened when eight tall
men covered with sheets and wearing
masks walked in holding large tossing
blanket.
But where was the goatl The women
watched the door closely and eyed their
bubbles and friends who sat on the OPP
posite side of the hall enjoying the fun
more than they were. Suddenly the big
double doors flew open and in bounced
big black goat. The women yelled and
matters began to assume serious aspect.
After all the implements had been
arranged, cards were distributed among
the ladies' each bearing the name of some
historical character. When this name
Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1900-03-17

will long be remembered by the 125 la
dies who attended. The guests knew
nothing of the nature of the programme
when they arrived, and thought nothing
particularly of the way in which they
were hurried into one of the small rooms
on the second floor of the hall as soon as
they entered.
After time they were notified that
they were to be taken on trip to the
Mystic Isle, following the course of Chris
topher Columbus and Father Neptune,
the latter being impersonated by James
E. Mitchell. They were then ushered to
the upper and main room of the hall,
which for the time being was the famous
isle referred to. There they were fol-
lowed by Admiral Peter F. DAILY and
his four marines. John Welsh, Charles
Mccormick, William H. Mansfield and
Terence Lyons. Songs were sung, rsci-
tations given and the prima donna, Miss
Kate Mccormick, appeared. All the
characters were handsomely costnmed
for the occasion.
The surprise Of the evening came when
Father Neptune announced that all the
' ''s';' w. I = s''. 's:'