The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-11-10
PUBLIC OPINION.

Political moralists have often claim
ed that the French method of dealing
with the social sin is the wisest and most
effective They assert that the sin is In
evitable to human nature, and ought
therefore to be recognized by the govern
ment and controlled by efficient police
regulations. In other countries, they say,
the evil exists, but works in secret and
no one knows how widely the poison is
difiused through social life. But in
France the extent of the evils is known.
1t Ia confined within definite limbs,
which cannot be passed There are seri-
GUS objections, they confess, to the public
license of social plague; but if the raw
ages of the plague are stayed principle
may give way to expedIency--iTooa-
dence Journal.
WHILE certain Of the Canadian jour-
mails are worrying over the ways and
means of obtaining q larger measure a
."protection for home industry" by the
imposition of higher duties upon foreign
products, other classes are urging yarie.
II of projects for extending their COM
merce with other countries. Prominent
among these is q scheme for promoting
direct trade with the West Indies, which
promises ~ eliminate in something more
tangible than mere discussion. The OBJ
jectivs point for the present Is Jamaica,
and when foothold is once obtained
there the calculation Is that it can be
made the radisting point of lucrative
commerce with the adjacent Islands,
Moo York Bulletin.
So many spiritual mediums have re-
Gently been detected In cheating and pub
licly exposed that the ghostly cause has
seriously suffered. OF course, those who
originally believed in Flint's teapot and
SHADES slate will probably hold fast to
their fantastic faith, but unless the spirits
liberate Slade from the house Of correc-
ton, or BY some other equally skillful feat
repair their damaged regulations, the
number of future proselytes to spiritual
ism will be extremely smsll.-NeD York
Times.
DEsRRTED by the powers from whom
she expected aid, Turkey is disposed to
avoid submitting her affairs to confer
eace by dealing directly with Russia
This is the wiser course. By submitting
readily to Russia the Turks may expect
easier terms than they would receive at
ter vexations opposition. Besides. by
this step the Turks reproach the western
powers for their Indifference or timidlly
-Neo York Tribune.
WoMAN's laudable ambition to rival
man has appeared in new phase in this
city, where Miss Bertha Won Hillern and
Miss Mary Marshall have entered upon
y walking match to see which Of them
can cover the greater amount Of ground
10 six days. One of the women is TWEEN
ty and the other twenty-six years old, and
consequently just In the Drawn and later
gristle of youth and vigor.-Nsso ork
Graphs.
STRIFE between the sections and be.
tween the races will cease rs soon as the
power of evil is taken away from party
that makes political paIn out Of scenes OF
violence, and the constitutional auLnUIIvy
(, placed in the hands of men whose poll.
tical welfare requires that peace shall be
preserved OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Ap,
peal.
PROFESSOR Bourchardt, of the Paris
Council Of Hygiene and Sslubrity, has
pronounced against Cincinnati bacon,
hams and beef done up In the usual
style with cloth wrappers, eov"red with
yellow paint. He declares thu The yell
low paint is chroma.e Of lead aud II dan
gerous poison.-Mtc Orleans Times,
THERE can be no doubt that the Cen.
tennial will be the means OF binding to.
gether the North American continent
and Australasia IN a way hitherto un'
thought Philadelphia Press