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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-12
SLEPT ON THE TRACK.

Special to the Register
PARKERSBURG. w. Va, April 11-Lit-
tie Winifred Wells, aged nine years, was
picking Goals from the track of the Ohio
River Railroad last evening. near Muir
rayville. and putting them into a sack
He evidently became tired and lay down
on the track. Using his sack of coal for a
pillow A train came around a curve and
before the engine could be stopped or the
boy awakened his head was cut off and
he was otherwise badly mangled
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-12
PARKERSBURG PREsBYTERY
Concludes It's Session at Fairmont
Commissioners to the General As
sembly Selected.

Special to the Register
FAIRMONT, w. Va, April 1.-THE Par
kerSburg Presbytery held an interesting
session here to-day. Several ministers
were received into the Presbytery and let
ters of dismissal were granted Rev Lip
pert, Cincinnati: Rev. Chester Murray.
Lehigh, Pa, and Rev. ]. C. Lane. Red
stone, this State
Rev. Mr.. Sampson and Rev. J. Flan-
agar We're elected as commissions to the
General Assembly which is to be held at
Philadelphia.
special meeting will be held at King
wood, this State, on the Goth instant and
a regular session will be held at Winfield
next September. Sixty ministers are in
attendance
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-12
LOOMS AT SAN JUAN.

WASHINGTON, April 1.-THE Scor-
pion, with Minister Loomis of Vene-
zuela on board, has arrived at San
Juan, Porto Rico. Mr. Loomis will
leave for New York ON a passenger
steamer.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-12
Treasury Condition

WASHINGTON, April 11.-To-day's
statement of the treasury balances in
the general fund exclusive of the $780,
100000 gold reserve in the division Of
redemptions shows:
Available cash balance SIS. $40, 100;
gold $1o0. 107, $40.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-12
RECEPTION TO SOLDIERS.

Special to the Register.
PARkERSBURG, W. Va. April IA
big reception, banquet and ball was given
returning soldiers of the Twenty Seventh
volunteers. who saw two years service in
the Philippines. A large number of tie
regiment were from this vicinity and a
warm welcome was given the boys to-
night. Several speakers were present and
q splendid banquet was served, after
which dancing was INDUCED in
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-12
SAWMILL BOILER EXPLODED.

WEST BRANCH. Mich. April IL
The boiler at Edward o. Arnold's saw
mill in Rose City. exploded yesterday
and Instantly killed Oliver Allen, the
fireman. Arnold's son was seriously in
jured.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-12
A MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN.
Special to the Register.

Special to the Register.
PARkERSBURG, w. Va. April 1I.-At
a meeting of the city council last night
a part of the street in front of the court
house was given to the county. 1t will
make room for a handsome memorial
fountain which j. N. Jackson will present
to the county and have erected there in
memory of his father, the late Judge J.
NJ. Jackson. Judge Jackson was for very
many years a judge in the old building
where the new one now stands and the
memorial will be fitting and appropriate
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-12
TEN THOUSAND DEAD
From Plague in Pekin-SmalIpox or
United States Monitor.

United States Monitor.
PEKIN, April 11-Robert NJ Nc
Wade, U. S. consul at Canton, China
reports that 10000 deaths from the
plague have occurred there during the
past six weeks and that there are thir-
teen cases of smallpox on board the
United States monitor Monterey Only
one death has resulted on the Monterey
and the other cases of smallpox are
progressing favorably.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-12
J. PIERPONT MORGAN
Declares He Knows Nothing of the
Panama Canal Talk.

Panama Canal Talk.
LONDON, April 11.-When ]. Pier
pont Morgan landed at Liverpool this
morning he declared he knew moth
ing regarding the Panama canal
schemes with which his name has been
connected. At London Mr.. Morgan was
met by j. P. Morgan, Jr., his two grand
children and a number of reporters
To the latter he declined to give any
information.
Let me alone. will you?" he said to
the group, hurried to his carriage and
drove off with a grandchild on each
knee
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-12
OIL FROM TEXAS FIELD
Must Hereafter be Reckoned With
by the Oil Market-PrOven to be of
Higher Grade Than 1t Was
Thnnoht IN

LIMA. Ohio, April u.-Tests made in re-
filming Texas crude oil at the Standard OH
refinery here shows the product OF the
Beaumont field to be of much higher grade
than has been heretofore estimated. That
the oil market must in the future reckon
with the Beaumont output as a factor is
now coming to be recognized. The re-
cent decline in both Pennsylvania and
Lima markets is attributed to the strike
in the Beaumont field.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-12
Oil Quotations,

OIL CITY, Pa. April 11-Credit balance
81 %: certificates sales / 600 barrels cash
oil at BIB Shipments, 106,6O2 bbls; aver
age S5.473 bbls. Runs. 107 056 bbls; aver
age. S.S49 bbls.
NEW YORK, April n.-Standard oil, 1903
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-12
A FASHIONABLE WEDDING.
u to the Register.

Special to the Register.
sTECBESvTLLE. o.. April f--RaIph
Kinney Williams. superintendent Of the
American Steel Hoop mill at Mfngo juno
ti0n, and Miss Helen c.. daughter OF Mrs.
Sue Cartwright Davis were married al
Hamline IL E. Church AZ . O'Clock to-
night. by Rev. DR. A. r. Chapman II
The Morris County chronicle., 1901-08-30
The Woman of Poise.

The dictionary defines poise as "the
state or quality of being balanced; equili-
brium, equipoise; hence, fguratively,
equanimity, rest" Poise instills grace
and symmetry into the workings of the
mind, just as physical exercise does into
the movements of the body. 1t is rarely
a natural endowment, but may be culti-
waited to the point where it becomes sec
ond nature. Poise always carries with ii
a suggestion of reserved force, and the
woman who wishes to acquire it must
learn to husband her energy as well as
her time. She must not fritter away
words, moments or emotions.
The woman Of poise INDUCES in few
exclamations or superlatives and does not
waste enthusiasm over trifes. She is
gracious, but never gushing, and she has
acquired the habit of listening attentive
ly, not awaiting with i'll concealed eager
ness pause in the conversation to enable
her to rush in and take the floor. The
woman of poise never fingers after her
goodby is spoken; never, in fact, under
any circumstances talks long while stand
ing. She does not experience the ditticul-
ty too many people have of taking leave
gracefully. She says goodby, gives you a
duty that awaits her. You do not find
out all there is to know about the woman
the first time you meet her; you become
acquainted with her by degrees and grow
gradually into her friendship.-Ina Bre-
WORT Roberts in Woman's Home Com
panion.
The Morris County chronicle., 1901-08-30

Although the women of today are not
to sit on borough councils-for the pres
ent, at least-in former times they have
occupied even more important offices.
Centuries before the time of Stuart Mill
some of the fair sex certainly possessed
political equality with men. Gurdon for
instance, in his Antiquities of Parlia-
ment" records the fact that ladies sat in
council with the Saxon Witas. In Wigh-
fried's great council at Becconceld in the
year 694 the abbesses sat and deliber-
ated, and FIVE of them signed DEGREES of
that council, aloitg with the king bish-
ops and mobiles. King Edgar's charter
to the Abbey of Crowland IN 961 was
signed by women. In the reigns Of Henry
Ill and Edward l four abbesses were
summoned to parliament, while in that
of Edward III no less than ten peeresses
received writs to take their seats.
Nor are instances of women bearing
the Offices of sheriffs and justices want
ing. Margaret, countess of Thanet, held
the shrievalty of Westmoreland and
Cumberland in the seventeenth century.
Among the Harleian manuscripts men
tion is made of Margaret, countess of
Richmond, mother to Henry VII, as a
justice of the peace also that lady
named Bartlett was made justice of the
peace in Gloucertershire by Queen Mary.
In Sussex lady named Rouse sat on the
bench at assizes and sessions among the
other justices and was girded with a
sword. In Cokes "Littleton" is another
instance that "Anne, countess of Penn.
broke, served the office of high sheriff of
Westmoreland, and at the assizes at
Appleby sat in person with the judges on
the bench. London Chronicle.
The Morris County chronicle., 1901-08-30

washing dishes or making beds.
Individual tastes dIher, and what would
be bore to one woman is panacea for
another.
The active temperament finds rest in a
change Of work; the dishcloth is ex-
changed for a bit of embroidery or GRO
chet; the four walls of the house for
race in double quick time down to the
store, or over to the neighbor's.
The cookbook is superseded by the lat
est magazine by the woman of less active
body but buster mind, while to some
women the utter forgetfulness of self and
everything else in short sleep is the
greatest luxury.
The care of a few house plants is to
some others a restful change; while still
enother class takes the greatest pleasure
In having a banjo, autoharp or some OF
the other equally inexpensive musical in
struments handy and picking out popu-
lar tune on them. Such things are worth
while. They add to the length Of life
and make it more worth living.
The Morris County chronicle., 1901-08-30
woman when She Eats.

What is the ''perfect womanW Her
perfection is nothing more or less than
her unique individual charming imper-
feetion, and that she is simply the wo-
man we love and who is foolish enough
to love us.
There are those who have quality
which is far too elusive to define, too
spiritual to truly understands quality
which nowadays we are recognizing as
the first and last of all beauty, either of
nature or art-the supreme, truly divine,
quality of charml
Drinking has indeed been sung, but
why have we no "eating songsY" for
eating is surely fine pleasure. Many
practice it already and it is becoming
more general every day. A certain great
poet, l think it was Byron, objected to
seeing women in the act of eating. He
thought their eating should be done in
private. What curious and prejudiced
opinion! For surely woman never shows
off to better advantage than in the dainty
exercise of dainty repast, and is there
anything more thrilling to a man than a
meal alone with the woman he loves
or is about to love?
Perhaps, deep down, the reason is that
there still vibrates in the masculine blood
the thrilling surprise of the moment when
man first realized that the angel woman
was built upon the same carnivorous
principles as his grcsser settle Gal
Iienne
The Morris County chronicle., 1901-08-30
Rrnthera and sistera.

A girl who has brothers gains much i'll
sensible kind of comradeship with
them, and with her brothers young men
friends. AS rule, says The Delineator,
girls brother is most severe critic in
regard to her men friends. A sister is, or
should be, considered by her brother a
very precious object to protect from
harm and to defend from mistakes, and
girl is wise if she heeds the counsels
of a good brother and measures men by
his standards in making her choice of
friends.
On the other hand, a sisters influence
over brother may be of the best She
can help him to cultivate noble qualities,
to be honest, unselhsh, self respecting.
She can inspire him with a wish to be
courteous, considerate and chivalrous to-
ward women. If a sister is a firm and
constant friend to her brother and pro-
vides attractions for him in his home, she
will strengthen him against many outside
influences which might prove very harm
full if he is unprepared for them. A dis
tinguished man has acknowledged the
debt Of gratitude which he owed to a
devoted sister by saying: my sister al
ways had leisure for counsel and sympa-
thy in all my boyish difficulties and
troubles. She took an interest in all my
friends and companions. In my boyhood
| hardly realized all that she was to me,
but as a man | appreciate what her in
tuence was to me in my youth"
The Morris County chronicle., 1901-08-30
Imitation Bows.

wish | were a boy--a real boy, with
oyeralls and a torn shirt and pair of
stubby little brown feet and hat that
wouldn't hold water. What fun | would
have laughing at the poor little imitation
boys with imitation mothers who care
more for what "they say than for the
comfort and happiness of their children.
| saw woman leading boy, or what
was supposed to be boy, down town the
aother day. He wore long curls, English
half socks and a starched white sailor col
lar that was slowly but surely turning
him from decent little chap with human
instincts into whining, snarling, i'll tenn
pered little rascal who deserved spank
ing just for the expression of his face.
| suppose il the agent for the Humane
society had arrested that boys mother
for aiding and abetting in the increase
of juvenile crime she would have rent
the air with indignant and amazed prot
estations. What on earth is a woman
made of who will take healthy, vigor-
Gus little animal and torture him like
that, just to make him 'look NICE?
How can she expect him to have any
respect for her judgment, or much belief
in her affection, when she persists in
treating him that way Winifred Black
in Chicago American.
The Morris County chronicle., 1901-08-30
The Girls Auovnnce.

The question of an allowance for the
daughter of the household is one that is
constantly being discussed. 1t seems to
be pretty generally accepted that it is a
good idea, and teaches a girl the value
and use OF money. So it does, but it
sometimes teaches her some other things
that need a little guarding against
y girl with an allowance occasionally
makes it an excuse for penuriousness on
the one side and unhesitating begging
ON the other that tend little to charac-
ter deterioration. says Harper's Bazaar.
While it is perfectly right and proper to
give as an excuse for self denial that
ones allowance is cgAausted, or will not
admit of the proposed purchase or pleas
ure trip, it is not right to say, as girls
have been known to say, "I'll go with
you, but you must pay my car fare" OF
II have only dime to spare in the treat
if you will let ME come in ON that" etc.
/ have heard girl reply in answer to
a suggestion from a companion on short
railroad trip that a parlor car should be
taken, ''Oh, if we do that you viii have
to pay my way on it, my allowance is
so nearly spent"
Girls who would shrink" from the idea
of ''sponging" under other circumstances
do not hesitate to take advantage of this
allowance peg upon which to hang a
good many small meannesses in money
matters.
When it comes to the mothers purse,
the cribbing by any means and outright
purloining, indeed, are not disguised
These are only little foxes, to be sure,
girls, but they gnaw the vines of integrity
and self respect and would better be
choked off
The Morris County chronicle., 1901-08-30
when to Cut the Hair.

'gThe hair should never be cut at all.
1t makes it bleed and Injuries and hard
ems it. 1t should be singed always"
"At every new moon?"
"The moon may control the tide, but
not the hair. No; every three months is
often enough.
'"The hair should be light and free on
the head. 1t should have air and not be
plastered down fat. To shuttle it. is
food for it, for the hair can rest that way.
The hair should always be brushed little
before it is combed out, for combing hair
breaks and bruises the roots more than
does anything else"
"And at night?'
"Ah, at night!' said madam. Eat night
the hair should be put in very loose
braids or even allowed to hang over the
pillow But never should it be left dress
ed and in coils to the head. Then it will
have no air, no freedom, and it will be
like plant kept always in the dark"
"Can any woman have lovely hair?'
Eyes. Any woman can have beautiful
hair, but glorious hair is a gift from God,
just like any other point Of marvellous
beauty"
The Morris County chronicle., 1901-08-30

We may say without hesitation that the
lot of the Korean women is the most pit
liable, just as the position of her people is
the most deplorabe. in the far east. Ev-
cry degrading idea emanating from China
is here carried to an extreme. The wife
is not more than chattel, seldom seen
before the marriage, which is arranged
by "go between" as in China and Ja-
pan, and after marriage to talk to her
even is a degradation for the husband,
In the lower classes she must work,
work, work. In the upper classes she
must be entombel.
A few instances will give point to these
facts. In the city OF Fusan, in southern
Korea, there lived Korean wife of the
upper though not noble class. She had
been reached in her home, which was her
prison, ty some young women missiona-
ries. One night, with the consent of her
husband, they planned to take her to visit
the Japanese settlement near by. This
event took the place in her life that trip
abroad does with us. She said that for
many years she had seen nothing more
than the roof of her husbands house.
Now she had something to think of un-
til she died. A Korean girl has no name.
She is known as So-and-so's sister or So
and-so's mother when she becomes mar
ried and has d son. Her husband calls
her by her sons name. A husband in Ko-
rea is entitled to a divorce on the ground
of his wife's ineompatibility with her
mother-in-law. The professions Of sor-
ceress, Buddhist nun and dancing girl
seem the only avenues by which the Ko-
rean woman eau escape bondage. Though
in some cases the adoption OF Christianity
has led to better state OF affairs, yet
the attempt at innovation seems almost
opeless.-Ainslee's Magazine.
The Morris County chronicle., 1901-08-30
Water For Baby.

Many mothers are cruel to their babies
without knowing it, by foolishly denying
them water. Often babies are fretful
because of the want of drink. A child
to be healthy must have water just the
same as an adult. The system of the
child, as we'll as that of the adult, re-
Quires less food in summer than in win.
ter, for the reason that in the cold season
a certain additional amount of food is
required for the production of animal
heat, the loss by radiation being much
greater In the summer. on the contrary,
perspiration is very active, and there is
consequently an increased amount of wa.
ter demanded In the summer season.
therefore, and particularly during very
hot periods, the amount of food given
should be diminished by oue-third or one
fourth. and the difference in bulk be
made up by adding water. Water should
Also be allowed freely between feeding
hours. If this rule were strictly followed,
very many cases of summer indigestion
and diarrhea might be avoided.
The Morris County chronicle., 1901-08-30
when Women Become strong.

There are startling examples of the
development of capacity in women for
doing mems work. When families that
have been stNal, and prospered get
started down hill. and the men die off, or
go to seed or lose heart or health, it is
not an uncommon thing to see the women
develop under stress Of circumstances a
yirile vigor that meets the storm and
weathers it. says the Philadelphia In.
quirer.
Very able women are developed by de-
fects in man, and. of course, when the
wheel has once fallen to them and their
wills have been trained to steering they
will not readily give up place that they
have fairly won. Nor should they. The
mischief, what there is of it, has been
done. Let the consequences abide. The
chief mischief is that, though woman
may come out strong in doing a man 5
work, the man whose work is done for
him, if there is one, is apt to come out
weak.
The Morris County chronicle., 1901-08-30
MORRIS COUNTY CHRONICLE: FRIDAY AUGUST 80, 1901

of the head Of the firm often seen there,
going about, unpretentious, from depart
ment to department, from counter to
counter, from clerk to clerk, inquiring
here, listening there, attentive every
where. When success had perched upon
his banner of thrift and enterprise, the
great. merchant was prompt to admit that
much of his exceptional good fortune was
due to the woman who gave him not her
hand alone, but with it her head, well
stored with mother wit and much good
eansa -SupcpSs
The Morris County chronicle., 1901-08-30
Bouquet. From the white Hops,

Every Saturday when in Washington
President Mckinley goes or sends to the
White House conservatory and has pick.
ed large bunch of flowers, which are
carried to the Louise home, with his com.
pliments. They are intended for Mrs
Semple, daughter of President Tyler, who
is an inmate of the home. For many
years Mrs. Semple was a well known fig
ure in capital society. Once when she
was singled out for special honor at a
diplomatic reception she was asked
whether she did not regard the occurrence
as unusual.
"Not at ALL" replied the old lady
"once a daughter of the White House al
ways daughter of the White House,
PHILADELPHIA Record
The Morris County chronicle., 1901-08-30
A RestfuI Change.

Ii should be Il part of a woman's re-
ligion to do something every day that she
likes to do-something that does not be-
long in the diurnal ''musts" No matter
how foolish or Inconsistent it may appear
to others, she should have the privilege OF
doing it. without note or comment.
Housework. even with the help of the
best of modern conveniences, is at best a
grind where there is but one pair OF
hands to accomplish all, and any little di-
version which can be made to serve to
tighten the burden should not be matter
of whitn or taken with a sense of stolen
sweets but should be as much dnty as
The Morris County chronicle., 1901-08-30
A Dentists Advice.

Don't think" said the dentist. "thai
brushing is all your teeth need. Besides
this, you should draw bit of very 6ne
cotton or dental silk between them night
ly. 1t is impossible with brush to bc
certain that every particle Of food is re
moved from between them, and it is
necessary that this should be done if yor
want to keep them in good order and pre-
Vent them from dccayiug."
The Morris County chronicle., 1901-08-30

Alexander t. Stewart, the prince Of
American merchants of his time, owed
much to his wife. Men in New York wis
know much about their early start, OF
their first efforts to climb the long ladder
TO fortune ana prosperity, know that It
was Mrs. Stewards taste in color, prC-
dence in investment and foreeasting OF
the coming fashions that gave to the
great firm its prestige and aided it in its
ongoing toward a plane of universal rec
ognition as the leading house on the cont
nent
Many visitors familiar with the interior
Of Stewards great establishment can re-
call the SLIGHT. ladYlike figure Of the wife
The Morris County chronicle., 1901-08-30

and both continued to teach in the Sun
day school until 1898, when the governor
began his first term at the statehouse.
Mrs. Shaw is distinctly home woman.
Her tastes are domestic and she delights
in cookery and housekeeping in all its
phases She takes much pride in her
three children, Enid, Earl and Erma.
The Morris County chronicle., 1901-08-30

The total number Of timber RATS on
all the rivers OF European Russia is
said to be more than $4,000 yeatiy,
with total Of some 25,000.0O0 logs.
The Morris County chronicle., 1901-08-30
The Digvrencc.

Pater-You are very forwevd, sir. In
my day the young man waited Until he
was asked to call
Young Man Yes, and now he waits
until he's asked not to call.-Tit- Bits.
The Morris County chronicle., 1901-08-30
A sneciaI. occasion.

First Tramp-Yo orter see Bill 60
in over de fence wit de bull after
him.
Second Tramp-Must have been wuth
lookin at.
First Tramp-Sayl 1t wuz de only
time | ever seen him when he didn't
look tired. Puck.