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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-03-31
THE ONLY THING TO DO.

No adverse criticism can stand
against against City Clerk Thomas
sO'Brien, Jr., for his course in deter
mining to pay salaries to only those
city officials whose titles to Office is
beyond dispute. That was the proper
course to pursue. and in following ii
Mr.. O'Brien will meet with the approval
of citizens of all parties and shades OF
political belief, while protecting him
self from any possible liability for
money paid out to officials whose titles
may be attainted Such a course pro-
tects the public as well as the Clerk
himself.
enc salary or wage shall be paid to
any of it's public servants, and the only
way to ensure absolutely such pay
elent is not to issue orders upon vouch-
ers until the Court has rendered its de-
cisien. Clerk O'Brien is not respons-
bile for the chaotic condition of things
around the City Building, and there
fore no blame can be attached to his
conservative course of protecting both
himself and the public exchequer.
But minority fraction of city en-
ployes and officials are involved in the
present contest, and the minority, upon
either side of the political fence, must
await payment of salaries or other
compensation until there has been a
judicial determination of the contro-
yersy.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-03-31

~ GnORGE AIDE.

&
The Moaern Fdble OF the General
Manager Or the Love Aaair WHO
Demanded Furlou9h.
Copyright, 1901. Robt. Howard Russeil)
Three Days before the Wedding was
to be Pulled On, Cupid sat on Man
tel in the Bachelors Apartment and
made few Remarks to the sacred
Bridegroom.
1Old Pail, you are in for it." said
the Roly Poly Matchmaker. You
are Elected by Pennsylvania Major
ity. have got you to the Point from
which there can be no Crawnshing.
Z Yon could not Weaken now, even If you
wanted to. If you have any lingering
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-03-31
DO YOUR BEST.

Tho sun may shine. or clouds arisef
Tho laughter turn 10 tears and sigks;
oh, answer noble 10 each test
Whateer betide, stu do your best.
With courage hold your steady pace:
Ne er falter in the earnest race.
still nourish I'm your dauntiess breast .
The flame of hope-and do your best.
The clouds will break, the sun will shine
The bow of promise Is divine.
In cloud on shine. whate er the test.
Press on, press on, and do your besti
Cleveland plain-Dealer.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-03-31
A GREAT CALAMITY.

Advices from Argentine are to the
effect that the ravages of the foot and
mouth disease in that great stock
raising country has resulted in the
loss of fourteen million sheep, with a
consequent shortage in the wool crop
OF seventy million pounds. This is a
calamity that will. have far-reaching
effect, as it must inevitably result in
very appreciable, dimunition in the
ability of mankind to obtain cheap
clothing. There is no source from
which the inevitable discrepancy can
be made up, and higher prices for all
articles into which wool enters as a
component part is practical GER
tainty.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-03-31
CURRENT POETRY.
MY MAIDEN BEAUTIFUI..

o red rose in the garden,
o red rose on the spray,
Saw you my maiden beautiful
Pass hither on her way?
Perchance she kissed your petals
And turned from white TO red
The rose that blushed TO find Itself
With fairer sweets o'erspread.
o blackbird In the thicket,
And you. sad nightingale
Heard you my maiden beautiful b.
Go singing down tho vale?
For. syne yon dulcet measure
Dame Echo hither bore,
Methinks your plaintive notes have caught
lit they lacked before.
Lady Lindsay, in '~rhe Prayer OF st.
Scholastica, and Other Poems.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-03-31

The Boston Herald suggests that
France is going to the dogs, because
whereas the human population has
increased but two millions in half a
century. the dog population has doubl-
ed, and now stands at about three mil
lions duly registered, to say nothing
of millions more without tangible
owners.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-03-31
A LITERARY LASS.

She got a. cut-glass inkstand
And a cute pearl handled pen.
And some dainty tinted paper
You have seen IL now and then.
She thought she'd write a poem about
The whittier and the whcncs'-
A work 10 make the Rubaiyat
Resemble thirty cents"
And so within the crystal font
Her jeweled pen she dipped.
But inspiration from ner grasp,
Alack. had somehow slipped.
But soon. undaunted, DER the page.
She bent with studlous giee.
And straightway wrote TO all her friends
And asked them TO ten.
--WashlnRton Star.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-03-31
SD price fcr It, 4 shipped promptly
and received IN good condition

A prominent Canadian complains
that 1t would have cost him ten tho
sand dollars to become member of
the upper house of Parliament. It
costs more than that to break into the
Senate OF the United States.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-03-31

A corporation now in process Of for
NATION in the East proposes to carry
passengers by trolley line, from New
York to Philadelphia, in an hour and
a half, for five cent fare, and from
Boston to New York for three nickles
The days of one hundred mile jour
ney for one cent may not be SO far dis
tant as some folks may imagine.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-03-31

And now his majesty the Sultan Of
Turkey is taking precautions against
assassination. The Sultan of Sulu,
however, is enjoying himself on the
sunny side of Easy street.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-03-31
REGISTER AGENCIES.

PURCHlSED OUT OF TOWN.
CHARLESTON. W. Va--Hotel Runner
News Stand.
WASHINGTON, D. c. Queen News
Stand. National Hotter.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-03-31
EnBLEuATrc.

An urchin with a puzzled look
Unto his father said.
why is IL, upon all the coins
They stamp a. womans head7'
The father thought a moment, then
He gave him this reply:
MY child, they say that money talks.
think that must be why"
--Leslls's Weekly.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-03-31
His LongWait.

Mrs. Fangle-The papers mention a
man who has cooked his own breakfast
for Is years.
Mr.. Fangle-He must have been very
hungry when he got it done.-Tid-Bi
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-03-31

AS fast as Russian students break
out into disorder they break into the
army
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-03-31

The hinges of the open door to China
need a little oiling.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-03-31

Morocco's apology must have beer
side-tracked, somewhere.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-03-31
DELIVERED By CARRIERS.

Stan1pE al the denomination of two cents
and less accepted for amounts less tnan
one dollar.
Correspondence containing important
rounding country
Z Rejected communications will not be re.
turned unless accompanied by sunicient
postage.
Tributes of Respect and Obituary No
t1ces. five cents per line.
THE REGISTER. embracing it's severat
editions. is entered at the Postonce a.
Wheeling, W. Va. as secoad-class ua9er.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-09-28
Willing fn OhIice.

The young man was from town and
was spending n Sunday in the suburbs.
He knew far more about horses and
carriages than the local livery sales
man, and so his interview with the lat
ter when he sought to hire rig" for
the afternoon was tinged with a gentle
air of patronage on his part. "Oh, have
you n trap you can let me haveT'
Yes; certainly"
zone that will hold two?"
"Yes. or 20.' from the obliginS coun-
tryman.
"oh, reallyi Have you a stylish road
wagon"
''Yes."
Perhaps you have q spider or a
Brewster buggy, or on second thought
might prefer a rubber tired hanson.
You can accommodate meE"
"Yes; all kinds cheerfully furnished"
"Can you give me lash whip:'
"Yes; with a fancy tassel."
"Oh. well. what kind of a horse can
you turn out-a short tailed one?"
II think So" came gently from the
wearied proprietor; then in stentorian
tones to his man: Jake, can you give
this gentleman a short tailed horse? II
not, cut one at once."-Short Stories.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-09-28
TELEGRAPHIc BRIEFS.

President Roosevelt probably will
make an extended visit TO the Pacific
coast next year.
The health of Abdul Hamid, sultan
Of Turkey. is asid to be failing.
Crown Prince Frederick William has
arrived in the HartZ mountains, where
he Will hunt until the first of October
Rev. j. \. Peters. ID. D.. president OF
Heidelberg university (Ohio}, is lying
at the point of death at Tiffin, o.
Herr Luck. Il banker in Aschaffen
burg. Germany. has committed suicide
by drowning himself in the Main.
DIR. Lueger, the chief burgomaSteI
of Vienna. was recently challenged to
a duel. He refused to fight. however
y Dull ngnt. the bulls aSSailants te
be automobiles. is n French idea.
British UniOnistS have elected a
member 70 parliament from a district
heretofore Liberal to the core.
Storm at Omaha played havoc with
all sorts of property, doing very costly
damage.
Miss Stone, the missionary abducted
by Turkish brigands, has been heard
from. and says she is well treated. The
thugs demand 25,0O0 Turkish pounds
for her ransom.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-09-28
The Act of Dying.

The popular idea that the act of dying
IS painful process often causes a fear
OF death. But death from even the
most painful mortal diseases is usually
preceded by period of cessation from
suffering and partial or complete insen-
sibility resembling falling asleep or the
pleasant gradual Inconsistencies caus-
ed by an anRsthetic.
The common phrase death agony" Is
not warranted by what occurs in natu-
raj death, which is n complete relief
from all pain. When death is owing to
heart failure or syncope, it is sudden
and painless-perhaps pleasant. Death
by hanging, there is reason to believe,
is attended by a voluptuous spasm.
Death by decapitation or electricity is
only n momentary shock, hardly felt.
Death bypoisoning varies in painful
ness according to the poison employed.
Opium and other narcotics probably
give painless, perhaps 4 pleasant.
dreamful death. Hemlock, as we know
from the account of the death of So
crates, causes gradual insensibility
from below upward. On the other
hand. arsenic, strychnine, carbOlic and
mineral acids. corrosive sublimate, tar
tar emetlc and other metallic poisons
infiict slow and torturing death. Prus-
sic acid and cyanide of potassium cause
quick and painful death.-Humanita
riau
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-09-28
SITUATION IN BUSINESS.
Normal Conditions Restored and Every
thing Going Along Very Smoothly.


New York, Sept. 2S.-R. G. Dun &
Co.'S Weekly Review OF Trade says:
Normal conditions have been fully re-
stored in the distribution of merchan-
disc, the placing of delayed orders
stimulating the few lines that ap-
peared to halt. One of the most graf
flying features of the business situa-
ton is the pronounced preference for
the better grades of goods. clearly In
dicating the improved financial condi-
ton of consumers. Resumption OF
work has progressed rapidly in the
steel industry since the settlement OF
the labor controversy. Stability or
prices, without imitation. is the rule. ex-
cept where the unusual size of crops
introduces a special factor.
Steel production is now progressing
at nearly the average rate and higher
prices are quoted for both steel and
iron bars, steel billets and some other
shapes. In pig iron there was the
greatest activity since the strike be
gan. The market for footwear is still
on a strong basis. In a. few cases
prices are higher. Leather and hides
still reflect the heavy demand for fin
ished products Textile lines were
we'll engaged. as rule. Steadiness in
quotations of corn at the present high
level is all that producers could desire.
Failures for the week numbered 227
in the United States. against 204 last
year, and 81 in Canada. against 1S last
Uanr
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-09-28
THEY ALL GET AWAY.
Gambling Room That Is Always Empty
When . Raid Is Made.

South Bend, Ind, Sept. 2S.-Since
the rseppt- -referm wave began repeat
ed efforts have been made to capture
the patrons of Tony" Barett's wide
lyskuQwn gambling room, but raid aft
ef faid has been fruitless. The place
is provided with trap doors. secret eX-
its and electric alarms. The police
gathered at midnight armed with
sledge-hammers. but without n war
rant. and they were refused admission
until an affidavit had been prepared.
Then every door was opened. No
person was found. and yet no one had
seemed able to escape. so closely was
guard established over the windows,
roof and neighboring buildings. The
police had pried open every drawer
and every supposed place of secret kid
ing without avail. and then. as alleged.
carried away a lot of plunder.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-09-28
The Human Ear.

The human ear is an organ the true
inwardness of which the physicians
have never been able to get at. They
can examine the interior of the eye
with ease by throwing into its dark
chamber a ray of light reflected from
a little mirror. and they found it pos
sible even to see the gray matter of the
brain by looking through the little
canal by which the optic nerve enters.
The cavity behind the nose they in
spect with the aid of light placed far
back in the mouth.
They have no difficulty in seeing into
the stomach by an electric apparatus;
the intestines likewise are readily
enough Investigated, and the bladder
also. But the ear as to its internal
arrangements IS unapprOachable- 1t is
impossible to dissect it satisfactorily
after death, for the reason that the
parts collapse at once when the vital
spark leaves the body.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-09-28
PRosPEcrORs LOSE THEIR LIVES
Thirteen Drown In Texas by n Sudder
Flood on the Rio Grande.

Flood on the Rio Grande.
San Antonio. Tex. Sept. 2S.-News
has just been received of terrible dis
aster that occurred in PresidiO county.
near the Rio Grande river. on the 25tb
inst. thirteen men who were prospect
ing for cinnabar losing their lives in
floods caused by a tremendous fall of
rain. The dead are: William Bolis,
George Holton. Henry Carter. Herman
deZ Costello. Phillip Humphries. Peter
Schaffer, Alfredo MOnteZ. William JEFF
fersOn, Thomas FreZzell. AlgernOn
Rhea. Casper Deutschman, George
Ainch and Rabiel Carr.
The men were in two parties.
camped one mile apart in Il dry ravine
known as Alaminto creek in which
there had been no water for fifteen
months on account of the drought. The
men were asleep at 9 o'clock, when
there was n torrent of rain several
miles up the ravine. A volume of
water twenty feet high washed down
the channel of the ravine and swept
over the men in the TWO camps before
they were aware of their danger. All
were drowned. and up to this time only
six bodies have been recovered.
The Alaminto empties into the Rio
Grande river not far from where the
fatality occurred. and II il more than
probable that the other seven bodies
have been swept into that stream.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-09-28
GROWS SUDDENLY RICH.
Chicago Man Who Finds Himself Worth q
Matter of $IO,OOO,0O0.

Chicago. Sept 2S.-AIajor John I.o-
rec, who once walked through Illinois
and Indiana selling an infallible rem
edy known to fame as "Loree's Lini-
ment," is now closing a deal for the
sale to the United States Steel Cor
poratiOn of 100000 acres of treasure
filed land in West Virginia and Ken
tucky DIR. John Flood, of 354 North
Clark street. is the agent Cf the former
patent medicine man in the negotia-
tions. If the deal succeeds. as he and
Loree say it will. Flood will get ST.
100000. What the United States Steel
Corporation will pay to LOree is sum
that sounds more like a bank state
ment that the price of land.
There is a little ancient history in
the transaction. President Washing
ton and President Jefferson held titles
to much land in the tract that Loree
now owns. Other owners were men
who held title dating from the grants
the peevish Queen Elizabeth made tc
her favOrite cOurtiers. Loree. who let
the liniment take care of itself while
he went out to the Upper Platte Indian
reservation before the civil war to be
come. at President Lincoln's request.
the agent there. came home to Ohie
when the war was over, and there he
made some investigations.
These inquiries persuaded him that
the 100000 acres of land could be
bought He had been given priceless
robes and furs by the dOcile Indians.
and With these and borrowed money
he secured title to all the land. Under
the tree-covered ground are ineXhaust-
ible mines of coal and veins of iron.
The trees are hard wood and worth
more as finished products than as Civ
ers OF shade. After Loree got the land
ne was approached by agents of the
United States Steel Corporation. They
wanted to buy.
So negotiations were begun. and
S15.O00.e0O is said to be what Loree
will get for the land. As he is &c
years old. the delight of owning a
yacht or an automobile does not ap-
peal TO him, and the clothes he wears
are good enough for him. He says he
wants to 90 back to his boyhood's
happy, thrice happy. home in Monroe
Butler county. O.. where he will pro-
ceed to put the two cemeteries there
in perfect condition. THAT is where
the friends of my youth are buried,'
he says. land l will make their rest
ing places as beautiful as l can
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-09-28
WILL THEY CARVE TURKEY?
French Paper says Europe Is COnferrilG
About the Matter.

Paris. Sept. 2S.-The Courier du Soir.
which is usually we'll Informed. makes
the following sensational statement;
lone of the results of the conferences
between Emperor Nicholas and Presi
dent Loubet. NJ. Waldeck Rousseau
and NJ. Delcasse, during the cars visit
To France. is an exchange of views be
tween European cabinets, now pro
crossing with the object of arriving
at an understanding as to action
against Turkey.
"Germany's concurrence is assured.
as Emperor William has consented. but
Count Won Buelow has raised objection
to some of the details of the action
proposed. thus necessitating a further
reference to the other governments be-
fore a final decision can he reached"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-09-28
HAS HoPEsFoR THE JUPITER
Believes the sIisaing Craft Will Turn
Up All Right Yet.

Port Huron, Mich, Sept. 2S.-W.
ID. Brown says he WAS shipwrecked
on the missing steaIler Jupiter thirty
years ago aud was reported lost. He
was missing fifteen days before his
friends heard from him. Jupiter had
weathered the gale and found shelter
on the Canadian shore. He believes
that history will repeat itself in the
present instance and that Jupiter is
safe; also her owner, w. u. Ragan.
Captain Hansen. of Jupiter. who
took to the yawl with his family, and
Mate Oleson. says that before he left
the schooner Ragan went into the
cabin and. borrowing a pencil from
Mrs. Hansen. wrote letter TO his
wife. This letter. with his eye
glasses and money. he put into small
glass jar and corked it tightly. He
then put it into a pail of water to as
certain if ii would float as it proved
TO do. He then wrapped a piece Of
canvas around it, explaining that the
canvas was TO protect the jar in the
event that it was washed against the
rocks. He doesn't know when Ragan
set it adrift. This letter was picked
up near Wharton, Ont, last Saturday.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-09-28
Stat. Auditor Granted a divorce.

Des Moines, Ia. Sept. 2S.-State
Auditor Frank F. Merriam was grant
ed a decree of divorce by Judge
Holmes. of the district court. Mrs.
Merriam, who was charged with de-
sertion. made no opposition to the de
cree. The general understanding was
that Mrs. Merriam was the wronged
party, but it is said that she does not
believe in divorce. and would not be
gin the suit. While Merriam secured
the divorce Mrs. Merriam is given am
pie alimony for support of herself and
child. She is also given custody of the
child
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-09-28
BETRAYED BY HIS TRACKS.
Iucendiary Who Has Been Hard to Catch
Has Been Indicted.

Lewiston, Ills, Sept. .2S.-During the
last three months Lewiston has had
more than n dozen fires which We're
believed to he of incendiary origin.
Int not until Wednesday were the po-
lice able to get Il clew. A barn was
burned on the premises of !. y. Graf
ton Wednesday. and an investigation
was made. Tracks We're found lead
ing to the house of the nearest neigh
Dor. John NJ. Lewis
Some cloth was found near the
burned building saturated with oil.
The police found cloth in Lewis home
just like it, and when the shoes that
Lewis wDre were found to fit the
tracks leading from the barn to his
home he was placed under arrest. The
grand jury was in session, and Lewis
was indicted
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-09-28
,Jumped into the Lake to Die.

St Joseph, Mich, Sept. 2S.-When
n short distance from this harbor. at
, d. m. Thursday, an unknown man,
clad in a striped summer suit and
brown hat, leaped from the main deck
of the steamer City of Milwaukee and
was drowned before assistance could
reach him. He had gray whiskers
and was about 30 years old. When
leaving Chicago he was heard to say
to a friend: II may see st. Joseph
and may not" None of the passen-
gers knew him. The body has not
heeo recovered