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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-07-15

Joe Etaccs
ceive, but it was not to be. and he was
wroth. l saw the wrothiness in his
face, and yet he cunningly dissembled
and said:
Pilgrim, it is not by the looks of
man that we should size him up, but
by his deeds and actions"
tbs true" said l. Il have known
knockkneed, cross-eyed man to turn
his Teller critters from the broad road
of destruction. If the heart is without
guile, the face is nuthin to us"
Il like to hear you say that" said the
old deceiver as he tried to smile clear
around to the back of his neck. Il
amt purity, and | don't look innocent,
but my heart knoweth no more wick
edness than that of a babe.s3It is pos
itively amazin how green ana guileless
/ am"
THE inherent and confdin man may
lose a leetIe on the first few hands
out" said /, "but he ginerally scoops
in the pot in due time. AS a pilgrim
travelin threw this vale and givin good
advice and speakin words Of consola-
shun, femme hope that the wickedness
of men will not prevail ag'in you"
The old reprobate sought to look soft
and gentle and silly, and bimeby he
seemed to notice the dog under the
wagin fur the fust time, and he bland
ly asked;
May take it that that is a Missou-
ri rabbit tied to wheel of your vehi-
cle?"
You may" said I. "but don't you go
and bet on it. That's my fightin dog.
When | meet up with a wicked and
vainglorious man who can't be moved
by argument, l git up a dogfght and
humble his speerits by removin his
wealth.
I'm not vainglorious, and I'm ready
to listen to arguments, but at the same
time l do love to see a struggle be-
1901 wv uobo. bciu dS YOU die d US-
nevolent pilgrim and bein as | am a
guileless citizen of Cold Chuck, could
not we arrange fur a leetle scrap?"
If tit fur the gineral benefit Of man
kind said l.
1T is" said he. ~And that the or
phans and the heather may profit by
it financially I'll bet $50 on my dog"
He went away and returned with his
canine, and when had looked the an
imal over I blithely covered his stake.
and the eminent citizens Of Cold Chuck
assembled TO behold the contest. Many
OF them expressed their sorrow that I
had been roped in BY the guileless old
reprobate. but / squeezed their hands
with the grip Of a trustin man and re-
piled:
He who walketh ag'in a mighty
wind with a lighted candle in his hand
shall be blown out"
The scrap lasted only five minits
Then the guileless man OF cattle and
poker acknowledged that his dog was
licked AM took him away into mourn
in and seclusion II an hour. how
ever, he returned > say:
Integrity is a siInin jewel on a
hilltop, aai some OF us in striv.n 10
gather i in slip IN and slide dowi.
That's true. said /. and maybe
you want another chance At the jew
el?-
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-07-15
Record That Mtuht Hav. n.@

= A~NNOAN mat HEkHt nave HE&mt
Edith, dear said the young man.
and his voice auivered with tremuloux
pathes, "have / offended you9
The maiden shook her head but uttered
never a word
Then" he continued why don't YOU
speak You haven't uttered word for
nearly three minutes
More silence on the part OF the party Of
the second part
Darling, he said. as he placed hts
arm gently about her waist Il cannot
bear this grewsome quiet Why don4
you say something? why don't you an.
swer meg'
oh, George" she exclaimed. as her
head dropped with a duh thud on the
solitary cigar in his upper vest pocket
ut has ever been my ambition Ia aceon-
phsh something out Of the ordinary
something that would make me fasnaus--
ami row, just as / was about to grasn
tame right by the back OF the neck. y0u
enatched 1t from me. | know that / ami
only weak woman, but had you allowed
he to remain silent for five consecutive
minutes | would have broken all previous
records. "-Chicsga News
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-07-15

lied with him and put him 20 sleep.
He still slept and the summer sun was
sinkin to his virtuous couch and the
Cold Chunk brass band was plavln
Hail Columbia as driv away over
the medders, and as driv i felt the
wad of greenbaeks in my pocket and
exclaimed to myself:
Who hath virtues Who hath lnteg.
rity? Who hath charityg What man
hath a weapon to prevail over thesea'
And the sun went down. and tia
shadders of night fell upon my race
boss and fightin dog. and beautiful
soreness of speerit stole over me and
clasped me in It's tender arms.
The age-herald., 1900-02-23
nusslas s Desians on Persia.

Taking advantage of the heavy task that has been forced upon Great Britain in South Africa, Russia is preparing to build rail- road from the head or foot of the Caspian sea, for it has no outlet. although it is TOO miles long, and fully 200 miles wide. Great rivers, like the Volga and the Ural flow into it, but no river flows out of it, and evapora- tion takes off any surplus of water. The new railroad that Russia has planned Is to extend from the southern end of this Rus sian lake to the head of the Persian Gulf, and probably passing through both Teheran and Ispahan. There are plenty of steam- boats on the Caspian sea- and the products of it's shores and tributary rivers are large in the aggregate, and much wider market ds needed if further development is to take place.
 And really there is no reason why there should not be a railroad across Persia It may mean, of course, the domination of Persia by Russia, but as that is inevitable anyway. and probably is the present condi- ltion of affairs in that quarter of the world, mo harm will be done. It is as silly to say that such a railroad would drive English products and English commerce out of Asatic waters, as it is to say that the pro- posed railroad would endanger England's position in India. Both are mere moon- shine. The world will be. the gainer by the building of the Persian railroad, just as 1t will be by the building of the Cape-to- Cairo line. and no one. last of all England should object to a concession by Persia that will lead to the construction by outside capital of railway line over rugged country in which very little way business can be de- yeloped
The age-herald., 1900-02-23
THE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Ship Subsidy Shams.

The Frye bill is fully as vicious as the Hanna-Payne bilq, both being directed against the south in favor of the east, against the farmers and manufacturers in favor of the shGpowners and capitalists Both are attempts to rob the many for the benefit of the few, thus betng in line with much other republican legislation.
 Both of these bills are based on speed, not on carrying capacity. They are drawn in the interest of the fast liners and fashiona- ble travel. and against the freighters and therefore against the farmers and manufac- turers. To the swift liner. capable of 21 knots an hour, 3.S cents per registered ton per 100 miles is to be paid, while the steam CT that makes Jess than 14 knots an hour is to receive 1.50 cents per ton per 100 miles. The fast steamers carry passengers. the pretence that the bill is drawn sn the inter- est of farmers and manufacturers is mis- leading
 As a matter of fact a 12OOO-ton 10. knot 11fel&nlter can carry a cargo or lz,UOU to 10, 900 tons. while liner of 12,OOO tors, sailing 21 knots an hour, cannot carry more than 1000 to 5000 tons of freight; and yet the fast ship would receive the highest sub sidy. and the freighter the lowest rate, named in the bill. The farm products would get the benefit of the minimum sum, while the globe trotters and the owners of fast liners would become the recipients of the maximum sum.
 The real nature of the bill thus becomes manifest It is an anti-southern, anti farmer, anti-6reight bdn, and all its best terms are reserved for the fast lines @hat have very little freight space, and are in fact fashionable hotels for the few afloat who can afford their terms. It is an effort to double their profits at the expense of all without bringing relief to the surplus pro- ducts of the country. Kill it.
The age-herald., 1900-02-23

through an appeal to the people. But the governor realizes that a majority Of the people of Jefferson county are against him. His friends on the committee knew it and they defeated every effort made in behalf Of fair play and a popular expression when Governor Johnston was an issue John ston's hope, and his only hope, lies in the machine. This can and will be defeated if the Morgan managers but exercise proper care and vigilance in the selection of dele- gates to the county convention
 The confession of weakness which the governor and his supporters have twice publicly proclaimed will serve to give the democrats in the rest of the state an ade- quate conception of how Governor Johnston stands among his fellow democrats at home. He fears them and he has reason to fear them when his political ambition is at stake.
The age-herald., 1900-02-23

From the Montgomery Advertiser
 Last Wednesday the question of building a cotton factory at Roanoke was talked of in quiet way, and in The Enterprise of last Friday we find the following:
 Last Wednesday morning MT. 2. J. Wright, president of the Bank of Roanoke. and Colonel w. A. Handley, went to work to raise $75,0O0 for the purpose of building a cotton factory in Roanoke Before they went to dinner they had raised the amount, and several of our most prominent capi- talists yet to see. This is a most wonder ful showing in the face of the fact that the matter was not talked about until the day the money was raised"
 We further learn that when the paper was printed, two days later, $SS, ,O0O had been subscribed. and the paper predicted that within ten days the amount assured would be $10O,000 or more. all of home money MT. Handley himself took $1O,OOO worth of stock, the Bank of Roanoke and Schuessler & Co.,, each $25,O00, and other subscriptions ran the amount up to the figure named.
 This is the spirit which makes prosper ous and flourishing towns. While other places are talking, Roanoke acted. While others planned and discussed the best eeth- ods of inducing outside capital to build mills for them, Roanokes citizens put up their own money, and have laid an ample foundation for first-class factory. With this beginning and with the spirit and de- termination thus exhibited, if they decide to build on a larger scale than their own means will warrant, they will have no dif- ficulty about getting all the money they want.
The age-herald., 1900-02-23
MARRIAGE Is AN IDEAL
1t Has No Consequence to Man and Is Based
 on Inequality
From the New York Herald.

From the New York Herald.
 New Haven, Conn.-In a lecture on "So- ciology," delivered before the senior class of the academic department of Yale, Pro lessor William G. Sumner. the head of the department of political economy, took up the subject of marriage. After tracing the history of marriage down from barbaric times, Professor Sumner said:
 Marriage in its highest sense, as it ex- ists in the most enlightened nations, does not date back more than three hundred and fifty years. Persons have universally believed that marriage was religious rite, and the current feeling among women is that the marriage ceremony is marriage.
 'The religious marriage ceremony is alto gether an after thought. The Christian church never made any laws in regard to the marriage ceremony until the sixteenth century. at the council of Trent
 ''The essential element of modern mar riage is the promise to each other, and the promise is one of exclusiveness. All the way up marriage has been the subject of idealization. It has been the great field of poetry and romance "A novel to be pop ular must fin these days be optimistic. Therefore most novels stop with the mar riage ceremony; beyond that 1t would be difficult to maintain the optimism.
 Tn the strictest sense marriage Is an ideal thing that has never been realized. Vlcissitudes act on the couple and change them, and not more than 10 per cent. real ize thedr ideal That is to say, not more than 10 per cent of married persons at the end of their lives, looking back, can hon. estly say that they have realized all of the happiness, all of the ideals, that they started out in married life with.
 Most young men marry because they think 1t is right and that it Is time for them to do so. They fail to find their ideal many times, and most often they fail to realize their ideal in the married life.
 Marriage Is above all a matter of cus- tom, is now and always has been. The marriage relation has been subjected to idealzation. It was at first gross, but has become idealized and has entered the great field of poetry and romance.
 'The marriage ceremony nowadays is very much of @ show. It seems to me 1t could be improved by having the couple give notice in advance and then acknowl- edge their VOW in the presence of wit nesses.
 "The relation between man and woman has no consequence for the man. For the woman the consequence is maternity, a heavy burden. Hence the basis of the marriage relation is gross inequality, the woman having the struggle for existence to contend with and also maternity"
The age-herald., 1900-02-23
AFRAID OF THE PEOPLE
From the Birmingham News.

IT
 The action of the county democratic ex- ecutive committee in providing for a direct vote for governor was democratic and proper. Its refusal to make the same pro- vision in the senatorial contest was un- democratic and highly improper. Its failure to accord the Morgan supporters represen- taItion on the subcommittee of arrange ments was unfair and unjust and un-demo- cratic.
 The majority of the committee in dealing with the senatorship question acted in line with Governor Johnstons expressed wishes. The governor is a keen observer. He has sized up the situation and has shaped his plans accordingly Every thoughtful man knows that if Governor Johnston believed that he would have am equal chance with Senator Morgan In a direct primary in the senatorship he would eagerly seize upon the opportunity offered to vindicate himself by endeavoring to capture the solid legis- lative delegation of his home county
The age-herald., 1900-02-23
Jefferson County Issues.

The Johnston platform in Jefferson county, as developed at the meeting on Wednesday of the well-controlled and wholly tractable Johnston county executive committed consists of three blanks, namely:
 1. Refusal to increase the arrangement committee to a number that would be rep resentative.
 g. Refusal to submit the dispensary issue to the people,
 8. Refusal to permit the people to express their choice for United States senator
 This is the platform Senatorial Candi- date Johnston has decided to go before the democracy of Jefferson county upon, for he controlled the committee from the outset, seating whenever he pref-r~e1 and unseat- ing all s-te-.-hs disliked. He controlled everything in it except Chairman Lowes courage and eloquence. He tried to defeat the propoistion calling for direct vote for governor, but a few cogs slipped. and it was squeezed through, thus adding incon- sistency to tyranny and usurpation. The record of the executive committee is an object lesson of machine politics, and the young men of the state can readily learn what to abhor by studying it's proceedings.
 In every respect save only the guberna- torial proposition, the committees action was Thoroughly undemocratic. When it re-
 
 tee from three to nine men who would rep resent the democracy of the county. it dis played the machine at its worst. This arrangement committee of three has charge of the primaries, including the selection of officers to preside at them, to receive the ballots, and to count them. The entire business is in the hands of the Johnston ltes. The refusal to increase the number and to make 1t representative was worthy of machine methods in the worst form.
 The throttling of the people in the matter cratic. The instructions of legislators by the committee was characteristic piece of machine politics. as impotent as it was silly and impertinent. No matter what one may think about dispensaries, the people have a right to express their will, and a refusal of an opportunity is simply tyranny and usurpation.
 The denial of the right of expression to ninety-nine men out of every hundred in the matter of choice for United States sen- ator was not only piece of machine tyr amy, but was also a confession in open court of machine weakness. Governor Johnston dare not go openly and squarely before the people of his own county, and he confessed that he dare not do so when he ordered the county committee to deny the everyday people the right of direct vot- ing, and relegated them to unevenly ap- portioned delegates whom he hopes to be able to manipulate.
 The machine won on Wednesday, but the people will be heard from on April II, and the vote will not, if we read the stars alright, stand on that occasion 31 for John ston to IS for Morgan.
The age-herald., 1900-02-23
NOT A CANDIDATE

From the Mobile Register.
 The following telegram from Washington appeared In Tuesdays issue of the Mont gomery Advertiser: 1.-The name of Hannis Taylor of Alabama is being urged for the Philippine commission" It is not known here who Is doing the urging, although it Is supposed to be some one acquainted with MT. Taylor's eminent fitness for the office mentioned. We understand that MT. Taylor himself has made no application for the appointment, and had no knowledge that his name was proposed until he read the news item in the Advertiser
The age-herald., 1900-02-23

coined by the United States. The notes and certificates So redeemed or exchanged shall be held in and constitute a part of said redemption fund. and shall not be with drawn therefrom or disbursed except in exchange for an equivalent amount of the coin in which said notes or certificates were redeemed or exchanged.'
 In establishing the single standard there are also differences in the two bills. Both of course declare that the standard unit of value is ''the dollar of 25 S-1o grains of gt 'a .s-tl's fine" but beyond this they sIa h1uf. hh .t =AH
 zsias 86 sat.oas ot t.f
 f. Hae a# ms7t oi uaaey
 c ae5 aIIer |, hs cut l a aaz an 1aIzea states notes and treasury noes lz= eaaa aaaer ths law Of July f Isa zha.s be deemed and held to be payable h the gold coin of the United States as defined ligations, public or private, shall be per formed in accordance with the standard established in said section" The senate bill says: And all forms of money issued or coined by the United States shall be main tained at parity of value with this stand ard, and United States notes and treasury notes issued under the act of July IA, lS9O, when presented to the treasury for redemp- ton shall be redeemed in gold coin of such standard" These differences may be that between tweedledum and tweedledee but the money changers of the east are very exactng, for they know they will never live to again see a senate, house, and white house subservient to them if they live as long as the esteemed Methusaleh did, and they propose to get all they want now. They are inclined to stand by the house 1 bill as the more definite and exacting. and searching, and conclusive of the two meas ures. The people will next November reject 1 both
The age-herald., 1900-02-23
EFFECT OF SENATOR
 CLARK'S TESTIMONY

Senator Clark's testimony before the sen- ate committee on privileges and elections, which is considering fhe charges that mon ey was improperly used to influence his election to the senate from Montana. has evidently not cleared matters up sufIicient- ly to change the committees feeling that there was such an atmosphere of bribery and fraud attendant upon clark's election as to justify that he Is not entitled to his seat.
 The senator in his testimony has been ap- parently frank and above board, but the fact that he has admitted contributing about $140,O0O to the campaign in Montana, and has received no direct statement of the uses to which this money was put, does not make his case any more favor able. The senator testifies to be sure, that the money was contributed before he ioe- came a candidate for the senatership this time, and yet after his election he made some considerable presents to friends, one aggregatfng s15,OOO, who had helped his cause.
 There is mo probability whatsoever that the committee will find that Senator Clark was directly concerned in the improper use of money, but there seems to be so much evidence that money was used in large quantities in an improper manner, even if the senator did not have any sus- picion of the uses to which it was put, as to make his election a natural result of the use of the money. It Is possible, of course, before the investigation is ended and the case has been argued on both sides, that testimony may appear to show that Clark was properly elected yet that is not likely at present; the temper of the committee is to declare he was not elected. One mem- Der is understood to be inclined to sympa- thize with Senator C1ark's position, and not to agree with the view that now pre- vails in the committee.
 It has been argued that the attempt to unseat w. A. Clark is the direct result of conspiracy on the part of Marcus Daly, Senator Clark's financial and political rival and enemy. It is maintained that the Daly faction used money improperly in the att tempt to defeat Clark. It may be true, and believe it is, but even that does mot dis pei the cloud of fraud that seems to sur round the case, nor is it thought to justify the improper use of money by Senator Clark's friends in order to overcome the op- position thus created. Senator Clark may be a victim of political and personal em- nifty; but that would perhaps create much sympathy for him without affecting in the least the question as to the improper use of money to secure his election.
The age-herald., 1900-02-23
RUBBER CULTURE IN MEXICO

Vice Consul General Hardy.
 The rubber tree in Mexico is found grow ing from the Guatemalan boundary as far north as TuNpan on the Gulf coast, and as far north as Cohna on the Paci6> ooa-,i. In low altst..t.c, localities of 150 and 200 ir-ct.c@,> of rainfall distributed over eight or ten months in the year enoy the best con- ditions although rubber does grow where they have six months of rain and six months of dry weather; but in these aoca1i- ties it requires from twelve to fifteen years for the tree to mature, while in districts with an ample rainfall it will flower within five or six years. .z
The age-herald., 1900-02-23
WHAT IS A KOPJE9

From the Cardiff Western Mail.
 No one who has not seen an African kopje can easily realize it. It is not a 1lill so much as the stump of a hiIl-what is left of 1t after ages of derrudation; but the special feature of it is that it is almost in- variably covered with a breastwork of boufders. Tropical torrents have washed away the earth and all the soluble com ponents of the rock, and what is left con- sists of heaps and lines of detached masses of sandstone, ironstone, or granite. The kopjes are the Boers' Qualifications, and he has any number of them
The age-herald., 1900-02-23
MIR. BLACKBURN EXPLAINS
To the Editor of The Age-Hera1d.

To the Editor of The Age-Hera1d.
 In your account of the meeting of the county democratic executive committee on yesterday, referring to what passed be- tween R. J. Lowe and myself you sadd: 'Finally the incident blew over, MT. Lowe and MT. Blackburn adjusting their differ ences in an amicable manner" This is true, MT. Lowe saying to me that he was satisfied that the statement I had made was based on transformation and that he retracted his remark and at the same time extending me his hand which I accepted.
 F. E. BLACKBURN. IrahriIa % 1Qln