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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-17
SOME RECENT DECISIONS.

The loss of pershable freight on account
of the lack of proper refrigeration, when
shipped in refrigerator cars. is held, in
New York P. & n. R. Co. VS.. Cromwell
CVa). 40 L. R. A. 462, to make the railroad
company liable to the shipper although
the cars were leased by the railroad com
pany from a transportation company
which agreed to keep them properly re-
frigerated.
A statute permitting municipal authori-
ties to make regulations for the VAGINA
ton of the inhabitants under direction of
the local board of health, is sustained in
State VS. Hay On. c. 40 L. r. A. 5SS, as
within the power of the Legislature, and
no ordinance requiring compulsory vac
cinayion is held not to be invalidated by
failure to exempt persons whose health
renders their vaccination unsafe.
A change of belief On the part of ma
jority of the members of a church by the
rules of which the majority have the
right to control IS held in First Baptist
Church VS.. Fort CTexD 40 l.. r. A. 6l7, to
be insufficient to defeat their right to
control. or to give the minority the right
to interfere in order to prevent the use
of the church property for teaching the
new beliefs
A rule of the relief department of a
railroad company providing that all
claims of beneticiar:es should be submit
ted to the determination of the superin-
tendent, whose decision should be final
and conclusive unless appealed to the ad-
visory committee. and in case of such
appeal the decision Of the committee
should be final and conclusive upon all
parties without exception or appeal, was
held, in B. & O. R. r. Co. vs.. Standard
(Ohio) 40 L. r. A. 381, insufficient TO bring
an action in court after the rejection Of
valid claim by the committee.
A bank discounting negotiable paper
for one who is not its debtor, and plac-
ing the amount to his credit by way of
deposit. is held, in Warman V. First Ma
tional Bank GIl) 40 L. r. A. 412, not TO
be a purchaser of the paper But il is
not deemed sufficient to show that the
paper is not purchased by showing mere
ly that the proceeds are credited to him,
without showing from the state of the
account that the transaction was not
such as to make the bank a purchaser.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-17
BILLS INTRODUCED
BY West Virginia Senator's and Rep
resentatfves in Congress.

Special to the Register
WASHINGTON. D. c., December 10
Senator Scott continues to present
asking for the enactment of the Grout
oleomargarine bill, among them being
petitions from j. D. Arnold, Burling-
ton, and ]. Wesley Groves, Morgan's
Grove and petitions are beginning to
come in favoring the enactment of leg
islation to prohibit polygamy.
Senator Scott has introduced bills
for the payment to the estate of Walter
Shirley, of Jefferson county, $6,739.50,
and to Edward Tearney of Jefferson
county, S4,24361 for stores furnished
the federal army during the civil war.
Judge Freer has introduced bills to
pension Nancy j. MARBLE, widow of
John H. MARBLE, at the rate of $40
month; Benjamin c. Devices, s24 a
month; Anthony McCale, $40 a month;
George J. Wilson, $40 a month, all be-
ing members of the West Virginia vol
unteers; also to pay to Leroy Douglass.
of Waldo, W. Va, $1,410 on account
of property taken from him for the use
of the army.
Judge Johnston has introduced bill
to pay G. w. Ratleff, of Ivy, w. Va.
1854 for building material taken by
federal troops in Buckhannon during
the civil war.
A bill to pension W. l. Miller, for
mer private in company B, First West
Virginia volunteer infantry, at the rate
of $50 month, has passed the Senate.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-17
WIRELESS TELEPHONES.

Marconi has demonstrated that wire
tances of fifty miles or more, and prom
ises to vastly exceed that limit within
a very short time. His experiments,
successful in every instance, probably
constitute the greatest practical and
scientific advance made in the past
quarter of a century, and yet three
hitherto unknown Minnesota men
James Kelsey, William Reed and Frank
Flannagan-have made discovery Of
equal if not greater Importance in
neighboring field.
Saturday afternoon at Minneapolis,
they successfully demonstrated that
telephone communication without
wires was possible and practical, send
ing oral communications freely over sta
tions one thousand feet apart, the spo-
ken words being heard as distinctly as
though the receiver and transmitter
had been connected by q wire. And it is
further recorded that not only could
the receiving operator hear the voice
particularly addressed to him, but the
conversations of others near the trans
mitter.
This discovery is of the greatest i'm
portance. If telephoning can be done
without wire over one thousand feet
of space why not over many miles?
: he principle is there, only awaiting de-
velopment Verify, we are only upon
the threshold of electrical possibilities.
How the next generation will smile at
our crude efforts in this particular field
OF human endeavor.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-17
HIS CHRISTMAS SHOPPING.


Where gold and silver CLINT and gleam
In costly shape and fine,
And jewels brightly fash and beam
Comes dainty Madeline
The polished glasses mirror back
No clearer light than shines
Within those eyes so deeply black,
My charming Madel.ne's.
The smiling clerk, as best he can,
His duties 10 begin,
Says: Present for a gentleman?
All. yes-perhaps a pin?
Or something nice in chains? or this
They're popular this year.
A smoking set is not amisS;
Or how would this do here?
Prefer a pin? Yes, right you are A pin
Is quite correct.
The latest is. the diamond star
Our stock IS most select"
She glanced them Ger; another tray
OF goods she babe them bring
Meanwhile her eye the whole array
OF gems was wandering.
Perhaps he rides or drives" said he.
Still striving hard to please,
"A horse shoe pin you'd like to seeo
We really lead in these"
She did not know that was there,
SIX feet behind her then,
But. oh, her answer made me swear
Myself most blest of men
One glance she casts, as maidens can,
When clerks are insolent,
And these are Sor i a sshueman'
l thanked her from my deepest heart.
And left in highest glee.
W nen Christmas came l got a start
The pin was net for me!
Detroit Tribune.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-17
A SERIOUS FIRE.
A Large Livery Stable at New Mar.
tinsviIle Burned.

Special to the Register.
NEW MARTINSVILLE, w. Va, De-
cember ia large and destructive
fire was witnessed by hundreds of
people here to-day. A livery barn
owned and occupied by H. Hennen was
burned the fire catching from a stove
in the back office. 1t was the largest
fire that has been witnessed at this
place for the past five years. A pri-
vate house owned by Mrs. McMechen
was also damaged considerably. The
hose boys were there in time, but the
fire had such a hold, having caught
in the hay and straw, that water was
of no avail, but they saved a number
of private houses and a warehouse
that was in danger. There were four
hose attachments that were on all the
time The loss will amount to about
$4,000 including a considerable amount
of oats, corn, hay and straw, but all
the horses, carriages and harness were
saved. The barn had 600 insur-
ance. Much credit is deserved by the
firemen for the saving of number Of
business houses that would have
burned down without their service.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-17
AN UNPLEASANT CRITICISM.

1t will be somewhat discouraging to
Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, VIE OF the
ex-President, to know that just as she
had demonstrated to MIR. Mckinley
that really there were TO hard feelings
by calling upon Mrs. Mckinley and TAX
ing the babe along, the former occupant
of the White House has frustrated her
pacific intentions by making a renew
ed and more earnest attack upon the
President. And this at the occasion of
his lecture at Ann Arbnr. Friday night.
Mr.. Harrison's topic was the consti-
tutional and political questions involv-
ed in the acquisition of Porto Rico.
Hawaii and the Philippines, and he
struck out straight from the shoulder,
maintaining that the administration
policy was not only an unrighteous one,
but wholly unconstitutional and not
to be maintained by any process of
reasoning. His remarks are said to
have given the President and his thick
and-thin friends great effense, and that
the address is warmly resented
in official circles generally at
Washington. Nevertheless, Mr.. Har-
rison is right, and he is to
be commended for his fidelity
to sound principles and for his courage
In giving them public expression. II
Bsniamin Harrison had been in the
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-17
THE TOME BUILDERS.

Last Friday night, at the memorial
services at the Church OF the Ascen-
sion. West Forty-third street, New
York City, Bishop Henry c. Potter de-
livered the address, and among other
things, said:
some day some man with the courage
If his convictions-which most OF US
haven't-Wiu write a book on the eXtraV-
agencies and grOtesQuerieS that are every
where to be seen@n American cemeteries res
Some men with no ancestral aSsoGlalto I'm.
try to build themselves INTO the history
of the future by building costly lnduSo-
leunns. Just as one who dled recently oulIl
one at a cost of a quarter OF mllhon 0ol-
lars. Think of tia qLarteqr OF d liflIi d,,a
dollars Tor housing the carcass OF one
mar.
This criticism from the pulpit OF one
rhase of human vanity is timely
one. The building of monuments to
the dead has been favorite pastime
Of humanity since prehistoric time, yet
If the countless millions of tombs pre-
pared and shafts raised, how many re-
main. and who reverences those still
existing? For the most part mauso-
leums and monuments both crumDle,
sooner or later, into the inevitable dust
that is alike the common end OF build
e. and that he erects in the vain hope
of perpetuating his immaterial name
or puny deeds. There are few ex-
certions, like the pyramids, yet they
among the mightiest works of man,
have been despoiled of the dead they
once contained, and the bleached bones
of once mighty sovereigns now add to
the attractions of some museum. where
the curious gaze, abide their destined
hour and go their way Who can point
to the tomb of XerXes, of Hannibal,
of Anthony. of Alexander, of Anton
ious Plus, of Appius Claudius, of Arcad-
JUS, of Artaphernes, of Calignula, Of
Trajan or of Cyrus? VINO knows the
resting place of Fabius Maximus? or
OF Geta. Emperor of Rome? Where is
the grave of Hanno, and what shaft
marks the mould beneath which rests
Hezekiah, King of Judea, or Of Caius
Marius, of Of P. Cornelius Scipio?
They, like other countless millions, be-
fore and since, builded monuments and
great tombs, and monuments and
tombs and men alike have long since
been resolved into the earth from
which they came. A few exceptions
there are, it is true, but Time will
level the few as it has the many, and
blot out alike the mausoleum OF the
rich and the modest grave of the poor.
And yet men will continue in the flu
ture, as in the past, to rear the marble
or granite shaft to themselves or those
they love in the hope and expectation
that they thereby assure the perpct-
uity of family, name or virtue. The
act is a vain one. The grave Of the
Smith Of to-day will not be the more
obscure in five centuries than that of
Samuel. Judge of Israel.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-17
Most Audacious of Trusts.

New Orleans Picayune.
Trusts have been heretofore strong
enough to fasten themselves on the peo-
pie without aid from the government. All
they have asked was to be let alone. Now
the ship trust wants 10 be supported out
of the taxpayers pockets. That is the
most audacious scheme of all. This sub
sidy grab has been on hand for three
years. and has heretofore been defeated
in all its attempts to fasten itself on the
people Now, however, it seems TO have
the prospect of success and its powerful
promoters will doubtless use pressure
enough to defeat other appropriations,
unless they can get what they want.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-17
A DELUGE PREDICTION.


Some scientific sharp has been de-
ciphering some Babylonian brick tab
lets, and confirms the prediction of
Berosus, the Chaldean astronomer.
that when the sun, moon and planets
collectively occupy the sigh of Capri
corn another deluge will devastate the
world.
This is interesting, if not important.
1t happens that in December of 1901
next year-the sun, Mercury, Mars,
Jupiter and Saturn will be in Capri
corn, while the moon and Neptune will
occupy the Numerically opposite
sight of Cancer. 1t may be argued
that inasmuch as all the plants will
not be collected in the fatal sight the
prediction is not for the coming year,
but by way or retort it is suggested
that at the time Berosus wrote several
planets were unknown, while the moon
will certainly pass through Capricorn
during the month OF December, al
though not actually in conjunction
with the planets. The prediction of
Berosus is probably about as valuable
as that celebrated forecast attributed
to Mother Shipton, but the prognosta-
cation is worthy, perhaps, of a passing
thought.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-17
Postmasters Appointed.
Special to the Register

Special to the Register.
WASHINGTON, D. c., December 16.
The following fourth class pOstmas-
tiers have been appointed in West Vir-
ginia:
George Jenkins. Albert Tucker coun-
ty, vice j. B. Jenkins resigned; G. NJ.
Koontz, Ansted, Fayette county, vice
]. R. Koontz, resigned; Patrick Clark,
Dean, Wetzel county, vice Andrew
Clark, resigned; c. H. Higginbotham,
Enterprise, Harrison county, vice W.
A. Mcdaniel, resigned; P. S. Perry,
Monitor, Jackson county. vice H. c.
Lynch, resigned; E. c. Daniel, Pratt,
Roane county. vice J. w. Daniel, dead.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-17
This is a blow at the administration

The Intelligencer is of the opinion
that Senator Elkins' amendment to the
Hay-Pauncefote treaty was the most
comprehensive of any offered" Sure,
Elkins only proposed that the United
States should acquire all the land along
both banks of the canal and own it in
fee simple, at the Lord only knows
what cost. Comprehensive" Well,
we should say it was-and more. 1t
was sublimely and quintessently and
altogether supremely foolish.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-17

Several Wheeling druggists are to be
prosecuted for selling impure goods. But
there must be some mistake about it as
no Wheeling man would complain about
the character of the drugs so long as the
whskey is kept reasonably pure.-Park-
ersburg Sentinel.
We submit that this is unfair We
of Wheeling have never complained
either about the quality of the drugs,
nor yet of the whisky. Let the editor
of the Sentinel come up. Well give
him a seidlitz powder and anything
ION the side" he may care for, and
prove our contention that things up
this way are moving along calmly and
satisfactorially.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-17

How are our idols and fondest
dreams alike shattered. Here We have
been reading and writing OF Kentucky
for a generation or so as a land of I'M
limited whisky and correspondingly
good cheer, only to be told that two
thirds of the counties in that State are
dry" and that in many others liquor
licenses are only granted at the county
seat Next we will be informed there
are no good horses save at Lexington,
and no pretty women except in Louis
vile.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-17
Thrash Out the Booz Scandal.

Washington Pest.
Everybody knows that hazing has been
practiced-much too often and much too
brutally-at the military academy. Col
onel Mills, the superintendent, himself
admits as much in the efforts he has made
to stop it. Why then, should it be i'm
possible in the Booz case simply because
nobody reported it and because Booz did
not run to the medical officers with his
tale of woe? These infamies are not
made public as a rule and their victims do
not often invite fresh persecution by COM
planning. What the country wants in this
business is a thorough and relentless
thrashing out of the whole scandal from
beginning to end. What the army needs
for its honor and repute is a new stand
ard of coiduct and manhood at the acad-
envy.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-17
Let the Truth BE Told Now.

Springfield, Mass, Republican.
Now that the election is over it should
be possible not on.@ 20 discuss our serious
national situation in the Philippines with
candor, but also to get at and recognize
the real facts of it. There has been mon
strous perversion somewhere. Now that
all the partisan ends desired hove been
achieved let light shine into the bottom
of this dark well that the truth may be
revealed. The people, whose business. it
is. have a right 10 understand all that is
involved in this enterprise Of the United
States
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-17

Srec.al to The REGISTER.
CHARLES TOWN. w. Va, December
16.-A bold robbery took place last
night at the residence of D. B. Will
lams, manager of the Powhatan Brass
and Iron Works. who resides near the
Powhatan hotel An unknown white
man entered the room where he and
his wife were sleeping and took his
clothes. containing $2S. B. &, o. mile
age book. His wife awakened just as
the thief was leaving the room, but
was unable to identify him. Suspicion
rests upon a certain man, and it is ex-
pected that his arrest will follow.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-17
AN AWFUL RECORD.

Pittsburg Post.
a grewsome table showing the average
number of murders in the United States
committed in each State during the last
ten years has been prepared by the Chi
cago Times Herald. Texas heads the list
with 1921 murders per annum, but while
in the Lone Star State the proportion of
such crimes to the total population is as
l to 2,9SS, IN Colorado the proportion is
l to 2102. The total number of murders
committed annually in the United States
is $3.50. according to the table referred to,
and SAP of these are credited TO four
teen Southern and Western States Some
striking contrasts are shown by the fol-
lowing arrangement Of some Of the Times
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-17
The Ills We Have Annexed.

Philadelphia Ledger.
1t is less for the morals of our own
country than in respect of other por-
lions of the globe to which our domin-
ion has been extended" that ex-senator
Edmunds thinks it we'll to have consti-
tutional inhibition of polygamy. His con-
tention is evidently aimed at our subsi-
died subject, the Sultan of ISulu. but It
shows what Ills we knew not of we have
rushed into.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-17
HON. B. w. MORROW.
Editor of the Formers Advocate
Died Yesterday Morning.

Special to the Peg1Ster.
CHARLES TOWN, w. Va, December
16.-Hon R. w Morrow, editor of the
Farmers Advocate and member of the
Legislature from Jefferson county, died
this morning at his home in this place,
after an illness of three days of acute
pneumonia, aged AZ years. The de-
ceased was one Of the most prominent
Democrats in this section of the State.
He purchased the West Virginia Demo-
crat about ten years ago, and when he
commenced editing it changed it to the
Farmers Advocate. Mr. Morrow rep
resented the Seventh delegate district
in the Legislature in 1896, and was
elected to a second term from Jefferson
county this year. He is survived by a
widow, who was a Miss Walton. Five
small children and two married sis
tiers reside in the West.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-17

Presidential chair the past two years
or so. there would have been no Phil
ippine war, and his pacific policy would
have commanded the universal approx
al of the people.
In the course of his argument, the
ex-President said
IF the Constitution relates only to the
States and their people then all things
prohibited in the States may be done IN
the Constitution is shocking. And if 1t
could be done in Porto Rico, why could
1t be done in Oklahoma, Indian Territory
and Alaska? government of unlimited
powers is un-American Government.
1t is one thing to tolerate condiuon
that already exists and another to create
a wrong condition. Why should we make
use of one tariff law for the states ana
another for the territories? There is only
one door to escape. 1t is to deny that
the territories are a part of the Umted
by the general welfare of the United States
must be a part of the United states. IL
the act of acquiring territory does not eX,
tend the Constitution to it. nothing VIII
do it except its admission as a State.
THAT we give back to Porto Rico all the
honey we get from her is not eXcusable.
1t is given as a benefaction, and that is
only to declare It in a state of vassalage.
lit is said that expansion is the law of
the natural life but expansion may be
dropsical. do not argue against expan-
sion, but the old coach may be safer We
hicle for the folks than the bicycle.
For one who has gone out of the SER
vice, but who still loves his country, l
cannot rejoice in the acquisition. of lands
at the cost of abandonment of the old
American idea that government by alb
solute power is intolerable. Under the
Constitution of the United States it is
an impossibiity."
This is a blow at the administration
delivered squarely between the eyes,
and has force enough not only to stag
ger Mr.. Mckinley, but his party as
we'll At2d the best OF it is, it comes
as the deliberate utterance of former
Republican President. If the dead could
but speak, Lincoln and Grant and Ar
thur and Garfield and Hayes would
stand with Harrison and against Nc
Kinley.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-17
Old Citizen Dead.

Special 70 the REGISTER.
ELKINS, w. Va, December 16.-Jos
Lyman, an octogenarian. is dead at
his home in Cove district Barbour
county. He is survived by his second
wife. All of Mr.. Lyman's life was
spent in the neighborhood in which he
died.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-17

For thirteen years past the birth
rate of Germany has meen more than
double that Of France. The popula-
ton of France is stationary; that Of
Germany is increasing at a marvellous
rate, despite the drain Of emigration.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-17
less, and might bring about better re-

1t is worthy of note that after thirty
five years twenty-four members of
Company E, One Hundred and Twenty
third Pennsylvania Volunteers, were
able to partake Of banquet at the
Duquesne Hotel, Pittsburg, Friday
night. One-fourth of the total strength
was present at roll call, after more
than a generation.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-17

With two Worlds Fairs scheduled
for the United States next year, one
in Buffalo, and the other at Charleston,
S. c., the Pitt>burg Post has the nerve
to suggest a third for that city. This
is flying directly in the face Of ST..
Louis, which claims the next chance
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-17

Lord Kitchener peremptorially de-
mands reinforcements, at whatever
cost. He only has 10000 men under
his command as against a very few
thousand Beers
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-17
There Is No Disagreement.

Omaha World Herald.
Mr.. Mckinley is quite sure that Con-
gross will effect proper legislation on the
trust question. In this opinion the trusts
and Mr.. Mckinley are in hearty accord
The trusts are confident that they will
get just the kind of legislation they paid
for
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-17

The death of Oswald Ottendorfer,
editor and proprietor of the New York
Stats Zeitung, removes from the
realm of newspaperdom one OF its
brainiest and most earnest workers.