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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-07-16
RECEIVING THE BIDS
FOR An AERIAL TRUCK.
THE FIRE COMMITTEE WILL PRO-
BADLY DECIDE TO PAY A VISIT
TO COLUMBUS
TO INSPECT NEW APPARATUS.

Were Received From Three
manufacturers, and Two Repre-
sentatives Consumed = Great Deal
of Tfme-Committec Did Not Adj
jourr Untu After MidntGht-Chief
Cline's Quarterly Report.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-07-16

Special to tho Register.
HUNTINGTON. w. Va. July 15.-
The preliminary trial OF Rev. I. N
who is charged with bigamy,
came up for a hearing this afternoon.
A larges number of witnesses from
Kentucky were here. The court room
was crowded and interest was intense
All were greatly disappointed when the
Reverend gentleman waived examina-
ton. In default OF bond he was sent
back to fail.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-07-16

Mrs. Huxley. Indianapolis.
writes; ",The doctor said 1t must
be an operation costing $500 and
little chance to survive. l chose
Pyramid Pile Cure and one so cent
box made me sound and we'll"
All druggists sell II. II never fails
to cure any form of Piles. try IL.
Book on piles, u and cure, free
by mail. Pyramid Drug Co.. Mar
shall. Mich.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-07-16

Pan-Anerican Exposftfon-Ars you
G0ings
It will pay You to address o. r. Wood,
Trav. Pass. Agent, c., l. 4 W., Wheel
inG. w. Va. for particulars.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-07-16
FREE BAND CONCERTS
ON CITY HALL SQUARE.
CoMMENDApLE MOVEMENT
STARTED ny CAPT. A.. A.
FRANZHEIS.
BANDS TO BE ASKED TO PLAY

On Saturday nights From West YER
anda of the Public Buiidtng-Each
Hand TO he Asked to Contribute
One OF Two Concerts-Success OF
ace at Same Place several
Years AGO.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-07-16

The regular meeting OF the Board
OF Trade, which should have been held
last Friday evening, has been post
poned on account Of the Carnival.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-07-16

"A man OF the name Of Moore, resid-
ing in Benwood. who Is Just recovering
from a severe attack Of typhoid fever
was removed to the city hospital last
evening In the ambulance.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-07-16

This evening at the Mozart park
casino Prof. James j. Reineke VIII
tender his friends a full dancing
session. Prof. Long will furnish the
music.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-07-16

The United Presbyterian church
will go to Cresap's Grove to-day on the
steamer City of Wheeling, where they
will spend the day.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-07-16

New stable doors were placed In the
Niagara engine house yesterday.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-07-16

Secretary Thompson, OF the Board
OF Trade, will leave the latter part OF
the week for Atlantic City to assist
the local glassworkers in their efforts
to capture the 1902 convention OF the
A. Y. G.. w. u.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1901-05-02
T T MORE THAN A
THOUSAND OF THESE
M IN EXISTENCE

chance offers. A mounted head of one
Of these animals is today worth from
$3.50 to 5000, and a skin brings a good
price. Ten years ago there were
nearly 400 buffalo in the park and it
is thought that the survivors can be
preserved only by ~corraling them and
reducing them to captivity.
c. ]. Jones, better known as "Buf-
falo" Jones, of Oklahoma, has a herd
of over 100 full-bred buffalo, which he
wishes to sell to the government. Aus
tin Corbin was the possessor of ninety
bison, which have been more or less
scattered since his death, some Of
them having been presented to New
York city. The animals, when kept in
captivity, show a tendency to increase
in numbers, and Buffalo Jones has pro-
duced thousands of desirable cross
breeds from his herd.
1t is stated that there are not ITO
pure-bred American bison outside of
this country.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1901-05-02
OF NIDDLFAGF

Let those who are young cease to
vaunt themselves and they who are of
middle age rejoice. Research has
proved that the human mind is at its
fullest power between the ages of 40
and 60. There are, Of course. excep-
lions to this rule, such as Byron, the
young Napoleon and Alexander, but
taking it full and by" the prime age
Of the mind of man is between 40 and
60. Swift was 40 when he wrote Gull
liyer's Travels, and John Stuart Mill Sc
when his essay on Utilitarianism was
published, although his Liberty was
written three years before. When Wa
verley came out Sir Walter Scott was
A years old, and nearly all of those
tales which have made his lasting fame
as a novelist were written after he was
46. Millions genius made its lofti-
est flights when he was between "a and
SO. 1t was between those years that he
wrote Paradise Lost. The Task and
John Gilpin were written when Cowper
was over SO, and Defoe was within
two years of go when he wrote Robin
son Crusoe. OF all the writing of
Thomas Hood, The Song Of the Shirt,
and The Bridge of Signs are the best
known and will live the longest. Hood
wrote these two poems at the age OF
as.
Darwin wrote his Origin Of Species
when he was so. and was So when he
gava tho world his negcent of Man
Longfellow wrote Hiawatha at As. and
Oliver Wendell Holmes gave us Songs
of Many Keys when he had passed his
55th birthday. George Eliot was neal
so when she wrote Middlemarch. Ba-
cons greatest book took SO years to
mature, and Grote's History Of Greece
several years longer.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1901-05-02
MENTAL POWERS ARE
BETWEEN
THE ACES OF 40 AND so.


In entertaining small companies do
not make a mistake of inviting the
same people to meet each other too
often. If you have a party of six mus
zeal people it will be enjoyable for
them to sing, play or talk music to one
another nee or twice. But remember
that many people who can neither sing
nor play an instrument enjoy music
passionately. Invite these non-musi-
clans to meet one or two Of these who
make music. If you know two or three
people who love books and reading,
bring them together some evening. Ask
one of them to read aloud a new short
story or magazine sketch, or an old
but perhaps unfamiliar one. If You
have among your friends two good
story-tellers, do not invite them to en-
terrain each other, but ask people
whom you know will enjoy their
stories to meet each from time to time.
Everyone loves an appreciative listen
err. especially n who is free from the
uneasy spur of competition.-Ada c.
Sweet in Woman's Home Companion.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1901-05-02
Corrid@e
Makers


The rapid strides made by the manu-
%facturers of wood working machinery
have changed completely the fitting of
Abe carriage woodshop of the present
DAY. says the Hub. Fifty years ago
n of the largest and best fitted wood
shops in the country was advanced so
far that it was provided with a cir
cular saw, IN upright saw hung on the
gate method, and a wheel boxing ma
chine, worked by hand power. All tim
Der that was to be planned by machin-
cry was sent to a shop where there was
a circular planer and saws, the pro-
prietor of which confined his attention
entirely to planning and saving for
carriage, wagon and cabinet factories
and carpenters and builders. Three
years later an enterprising machinist
set up a head knife for dressing up the
heavy timbers, and the woodworkers
in the cities began to get rid of some
of his heaviest work, but he Of the
country shop sawed out his shafts,
poles, f%elloes, etc, by hand. Then a
set of rip and crosscut saws, which
saws, small and large, constituted an
important part of the woodworker's
kit. We recall a prosperous shop in
an inland town where there were fif-
teen woodworkers. Through the center
Of this shop was a row of fine chop
ping blocks, with their %broadaxes for
hewing heavy timbers, spokes, etc.
The axle makers (the axles being all
of wood, the wheel makers, the body
makers and the men Of all work oc-
cupied benches in the one shop. Not
a piece of power machinery was used;
even the %grindstone had to be turned
by the youngest apprentice; men
worked eleven and twelve hours a
day. The best wheel maker was able
to make n set of buggy wheels a
week. The man who made a single
seat phaeton body of a pattern similar
to the Queen" in one week was look
ed upon as a marvel of speed, and all
other work was accomplished in about
the same proportion Of time. Wages
ranged from 81 to S12 a week, except
for the wheel makers; these got 81 to
"a more, according to their skill and
speed. The apprentice boy received
$50 a year and his board for the first
year, and $35, $50 and SS5 a year for
the three years thereafter.
When the labor hours were reduced
to eleven a day the year around m
ployers cut down wages accordingly,
and there was a visible reduction in
the yearly output. The life of the
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1901-05-02
8 @ e $
M EXTINCT

Tho American buffalo is fast disap-
peartng from the earth. It is estimated
that there are now remaining alive in
the world only 1924 Of these noble
beasts, 6S4 of which are in captivity.
But it is not possible to be exact in
such a statement, inasmuch as the wild
survivors cannot be rounded up and
counted. In the densely wooded re-
gions between the Saskatchewan and
Peace rivers, in British Columbia, are
several hundred buffalo; there are
twenty or so perhaps in the desert
Panhandle region Of northwest Texas,
and in the Yellowstone national park
there are fifty or sixty more, it is
believed. There are none at liberty
anywhere else.
These few remaining wild bison are
being steadily reduced in number. In
British Columbia they are being
killed of gradually by the Indians,
while those in the Yellowstone park
are potted by poachers whenever the
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1901-05-02

the paper and m%otionlng Marberry 10
a chair.
What is it," asked Marberry.
Mann has made an assignment"
Cant he true"
That's what the paper says"
Marberry folded the inventory
slowly and pushed it into his pocket.
He walked over to the Star office
and talked to Tooly. On his depart
ure he took a paper from the mailing
desk, then went to the postofhce and
got another out of his box. Prof.
Bennett was reading the Star to :
crowd of six. The assignment" was
the local of interest. Another item,
Marberry had overlooked, was also re-
ceiving its share Of comment. Miss
Ola Mann had secured a position in
the Archer school. Prof. Bennett tes-
tilted to the truth Of the last bit Of
news.
John d. Marberry walked across the
street with a new b~uoyancy in bis step,
tearing the inventory into bits and
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1901-05-02
WONDERFUL ADVANCE
MADE IN THEIR WORK.

youngest apprentice was a hard one.
He did about al the rough work that
no one else would do; after that he
got a bench, and then began to learn
his trade" but with all his disadvan-
tages he could, if he would, become an
expert workman, although he worked
on the "cut and dry rule. The work,
however, was of the hardest kind and
his wages small, and these, small as
they we're, we're further reduced by his
being compelled to trade at t1e village
store. In this latter respect the jour
neyman was little better Off as he, too,
traded at the store, and was fortunate
indeed if he received IS in money each
week. We can call to mind the boy
who received $3.50 in money during
the first year, and the journeyman in
the same factory received SO in cash a
week from January until July, and
replenished their impoverished pock-
etbooks by working in the harvest
fields for the neighboring farmers.
How different then and now! We enter
the carriage woodshop of today, and
WI see nothing of the old-time fittings,
neither do we see the apprentice. The
wheel maker is missing, and in
place of rough plank and thick panel
boards we find the workman supplied
with his framework timber dressed to
a thickness, and not %infrequently en-
tirely dressed to pattern, his panel
boards all planed to a thickness, and
around him all manner of appliances
to facilitate his work. We are not re-
ferring to the wholesale factory, where
machinery fits almost everything
ready for gluing or screwing together
but in the shop of the custom builder
we see power machinery hat relieves
the workman of much of the heavy
labor. The shop is arranged to insure
comfort in winter as well as in sum-
mer, and the sanitary conditions are
such as to protect the health of the
workmen. The manufacturer of today
has learned the Importance of caring
for the convenience, comfort and
health of the employees. Wages are ar
ranged on a more equitable basis; the
store order is a thing of the past; the
wages earned are paid in cash, and
the workman is free to buy where he
will. His hours Of labor are reduced
and fixed by law. Not only are the
wages higher than they were fifty
years ago, but the buying power of the
individual dollar is, with the single ex-
ception of house rent, higher, and in
every way the worker is better stu
ated than he was then.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1901-05-02

The German army has furnished an
other terrible illustration Of what duel
ing means. An infantry captain pres
ent at an officers dinner took ofrense
at the innocent but rough horse-play
o. an army surgeon, and struck him
He then retired to his quarters. In a
little while Two officers representing
the surgeon appeared with a challenge,
Before they could deliver it a brother
of the surgeon entered and shot the
CAPTAIN dead. His excuse was that ne
sacrificed himself to a v his brother.
the surgeon, who had a wife and chill
dren, and could hardly hope to sur
viye a duel with the offended captain
a noted pistol-shot. Such an incident
must come home with peculiar force
to the emperor, who has frankly com
mended dueling in the army as the
proper way for a soldier TO protect his
honor"
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1901-05-02

A recent importation of foreigners
against which no one will be likely to
take exceptions, except, perhaps, the
natives they have come to destroy. has
been ~graciously received and welcomed
by the quarantine officer Of the Cali
fornia State Board of Agriculture at
San Francisco. The newcomers are a
consignment of tachina flies from
the g%rasshopper tribe-their wholesale
exterminators, in fact, wherever found.
They came as cold storage passengers
and with them came a large number OF
ladybugs, for service in clearing the
orchards of red scale-the pest of fruit
growers. The flies are to be released
in May. They will make short work
of the grasshoppers, which swarm at
that true.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1901-05-02
THE WEST.

I listen to the rumble and rattle Of the
rail
And to my ears unfolded the worlds
most wondrous tale;
The prairie tanned and broken; the for
est split i'm two;
The lake and ocean blended; the noun
tain shivered through;
The chasm knit with iron; the cataract
swung back;
Both Time and Distance shrunken with
every foot OF track
The tramp Of millions westward is echoed
from the wheel;
The strain of millions striving sensations
new to feel;
New cities planned at twilight, perfected
with the dawn;
Our Nations might ieplenished by west
ern brain and Drawn.
The fruits are, ayel most luscious; the
flowers fairest bloom;
The men are best and b%ravest, and there
is least Of gloom
Where sets the Star of Empire, where
Sun OF Progress dips,
End Furnishes the wheat fields and gilds
the grooming ships.
IF. A. Murray.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1901-05-02

A college professor, reading Lord
Rayleigh's Theory of Sound a few
years ago., became particularly inter
ested in that part which relates to the
vibration of cords. He began to study
the waves which travel along a cord
when one end is shaken, and then to
experiment with cords loaded at in
tervals with weights, and vibrating in
air or water. What could he hope to
learn from such Investigations? What
practical results were to. be hooked for?
He could not tell, nor could any one
else have told. Yet he studied the sub
ject for Eve years. The facts he dis
covered make it probable that tele-
phone communication may take place
under three thousand miles Of sea, and
the professor has sold his invention for
half a million dollars.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1901-05-02
A Legal Affair.
Ply CITY A.

b1 GOl a. JANllLDOANs
Copyright, 1901, by Daily Story Pub. COD
The little sign screaked monoton-
ously as it swayed back and forth
in the wind. In fact, it was the only
sign Of animation for two blocks, bar
a rival sign across the street that
screaked and swayed just as vehe-
mently, and to as little purpose. The
sign in question informed the public,
or would have, had there been
a public, that John D. Marberry was
an attorney and real estate agent, and
that he had a choice lot of residence,
business, farm and ranch property Tor
sale or rent on easy terms. The trueh
is, the town of Archer was for sale or
rent on easy terms; and the few fami-
lies, who had not already leu for a less
drouthy country, remained from neces-
sity more than choice.
John d. Marberry, who had come
West to grow up with the country,
was, at the very time of which l write,
sitting in a small, hot, dusty office be-
meath the s%creaking sign, gazing alb
stractedly up the deserted street, out
to the interminable stretch of parched
prairie. When he located in Archer
it was on a boom; immigration vas
pouring into the county, the Retta
and Taw r. r. had been surveyed to
the town, and everything indicated
an era of development and prosperity.
But, for some reason, not known to
the public, the road was not built;
and short crops and two years Of
drouth had caused, to use an express
sion usually applied to such condi-
tions, the whole bottom to drop out.
John d. Marberry's thoughts were
not as abstract as his appearance. In
fact, they had q very practical trend.
He was thinking seriously of selling
outlook, stock and barrel, if such an
expression is applicable to the law
and real estate business,-and moving
back East. He had made a bad ven
ture, he had been disappointed, he
was heartily tired of the dry monot-
ony of things. The West held but one
attraction for him-and but for said
attraction this story would not have
( been written. He had met Miss Ola
{ Mann, and that meant that he had
fallen under the spell of her charming
personality. Miss Ola was the daugh-
ter Of a rich old rancher, who num-
bered his acres and cattle by the
thousands. In the active outdoor life
she had led she had developed into a
superb specimen of the western wom-
an-she was beautiful, cultured,
wealthy. Therein lay the perplexity
of the case. Marberry felt himself a
man of parts, that he had a future,
but, for the present, he was stranded.
He had often thought ver the matter
as he tossed Testlessly nights, and as
he sat detected in the stuffy little Of
fee watching the dust drift down the
deserted street. To presumptuously
boldly speak his mind and put an end
to the consuming uncertainty, OF
move East, establish himself. and
write-that was the question. Once
as he returned from a Fourth of July
celebration, where he, as the orator
of the occasion, had covered himself
with glory, he had been on the point
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1901-05-02

# an avowal of his love, but Miss Ola
had seemed to parry his words, and
being proud, sensitive, he had re-
NAMED silent.
But, now, his mind was made up.
He jerked his chair to the desk and
began to prepare an inventory of his
office fixtures, books. etc. The work
completed, he walked across the street
to the rival sign. Taylor, the owner.
had invested pretty heavily in real
estate and would likely remain, as
there was no prospect Of his disposing
Of it for some years. He could sell
his plumber to him; If not, why, he
would take 1t with him.
Taylor was looking over the last
issue Of the Archer Star, a copy he
had taken from the press, strictly
against the rules Of the office. only
ten minutes before.
well, l guess, the worst has hap
pened," he began, looking up from
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1901-05-02

The name Of Sing Sing, so far as
the New York village is concerned. is
no more, having been changed to
Osining. Manufacturers brought about
this change, the impression having
gone abroad that all goods turned out
in the village were prison-made. The
village showed a decrease In the last
census OF 1913 in population, though
n~eighboring places showed uniform in
e Sing Sing was incorporated
IA 1913 and the prison was erected
eleven years later. The prison is still
within the village boundary lines.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1901-05-02

The recent appointment of General
Chaffee as major-general is the first
instance of a private attaining hat
rank in the regular army of the Unit
ed States. Il should know that Chat
fee was not educated at West Point"
commented a military visitor at the
review of American troops in China
last summer. HE is so unused to full
dress uniform that he has his sash over
the wrong shoulder" 1t was true,
and all the more honor to him for his
success.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1901-05-02
popula,Ion Of rio de .Jan.Iro.

A recent census Of the population OF
Rio de Janelro gives the city approxi-
mately 650,O0O inhabitants. This is
much smaller than was generally sup
posed. In all there are 6O,132 houses
and dwellings, giving the large average
Of ten people each. The tenements are
crowded with hundreds of occupants,
many Of them living in the most
wretched manner.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1901-05-02

A man recently swallowed his false
teeth and It drove him mad. Stomachs
viii stand a great deal, but not every
thing. If yours is weak try Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters. It cures indigestion,
constipation, kidney and liver troubles, as
well as malaria and fever and ague. II
Is particularly effective in all nervous af-
fections, and is strongly recommended at
this season Of the year when the system
Is rundown and most susceptible to dis
ease. ALI druggists keep It.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1901-05-02

An old tin pan with a IS bill pasted
on the bottom was found in a pile Of
rubbish in Bowdoinham, Me. The find
er cut the bottom out Of the pan and
sent it TO tie United States treasury
in Washington, and later received a
new five in return.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1901-05-02

The watchfulness Of members Of con-
gress is not always rewarded in a way
anticipated. Two resolutions recently
offered in the house requested the pres
ident to return to that body two pri-
vate pension bills. A member of in
curing mind wished to know what
was the defect in the bills. There is
no defect, was the reply. The bene-
fciaries are dead"
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1901-05-02

One Of the most prominent Baptist
preachers in the vicinity of New York
has made it a practice in all his pas
torates to write his resignation within
a week of his entrance upon a new
field, sign, seal and deliver it to the
proper official with the remark:
There, now! Never ask me for my
resignation. Whenever you want me
to go just break open the envelope,
write in a date to the document and
offer it to the congregation"
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1901-05-02

Quite as remarkable as the wrecking
of the Pacific Mail line steamship Rio
de Janeiro just at the entrance to San
Francisco harbor on Feb. % is the to-
tai disappearance of the wreck. Divers
have explored large areas of the bot
tom of the sea at the point where the
wreck is supposed to have occurred,
but not the slightest trace of the i'll
fated ship las been found.