Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-04-19


his habit being TO clutch king or kaiser
by the throat, and swear BY the Eternal:
II you don't stand and deliver instantly
III blow your brains out A profitable
traSie be did at this sort Of thing, until
another m1n-Arthur, Duke OF Wei
hugton, by name succeeded in
catching him, and there was an end of
him
This Louis Napoleon. a. be is called,
Used TO tax 10 me about the spirit Of the
age, the democratic spirit, and the pro-
gress OF the species; but for my own
part il seemed that the only progress
the species was making was backward,
and that the spirit OF the aye WAS Lead
ing the people downward; and We dis
covered that We didn't understand each
others language; that we had no key
in common tor our dialects. And We
parted asunder-as mayhap did Abra-
ham and LOt-each going his several
WAYS. It looks % me very much a. II
his way led him 20 SodOm.
Alter that / used % see him in the
neighbOrhOOd / think he had lodgings
IN this part or the town, with his hands
folded across his breast and his eyes fix
Ell With a melancholy stare upon the
ground, and be looked at me ike poor
opera singer IN search OF an engagement.
God knows he has succeeded In finding
an engagement upon a stage sufficiently
vast, before an audience ample enough
Tor any man, and the whole thing got
up regardless OF { xpense. But Ger
tainly expect that the day will come
when the blue sulphurous flames will
dart iron behind the scenes and con-
sumo the pile With all that are IN it;
or that the e,lihee will give way in a
crash Of ruin, and the whOle-singpr,
audience, and all-sink into the neither
most depths OF uttermost periitiOn,
where, II seems % me, they certainly
belong
This was spoken, it should be remem-
bered, about 1900, when NapOleOn's
throne WIS seemingly the ERNEST thing
IN the cIvIl ana political world The
speakers representation have been
cUriousiy fulfilled.
Carlyle's home IN Chelsea Mr.. Guern-
sey describes thus:
This i the 'Cheyue Walk, 80 named
after Lori Cheyne, who owned the man
Or house Of Chelsea some two centuries
ago. The houses OF this row are mostly
1t dark rel brick. with heavy window
frames. No. OF this row Is the house
which Tor four and forty wears has been
the home OF Carlyle. The style OF the
indicates that il was built in
the DAYS vi Queen Anne, about the be-
ginning Of the ,as5 century. In one OF
ais later books Carlyle makes incidental
mention OF his house, by way OF a hit at
the sham work Ut modern builders, a.
with the sound, honest work
Of the Olten time. The way IT the head
VI his garJ!en he saws, l. made OF bricks
burned the reign OF Henry the Eighth
well uIZh three centuries agO-and Is
still quite sound; whereas bricks OF Lon
don manufacture, IN our day, are USED
uD in about sixty years. This wall,
however, i no part OF the house itself
but i a part Of the boundary wall Otthe
park OF zar!en belonging 10 the odd Chel-
sea manor house. Carlyle's house Il OF
three stories, and rather narrow. \
iiyht Of three steps LEAKS from the pave
ueuJ % the modest parlOr floor. The
upper stories are Cdrlvles workshop,
into which lev visitors have ever pene-
.rared. but those lev tell Us Of the great
stores 1t books, pamphlets, and newspa-
Yers Laid away and pIled up n apparent
" inexCricable confusion.
AMI Of some giimpses OF Carlyle, a.
seen by ais nelghOOrs, Mr.. Guernsey
writes.
They tell Is how he kept his horse,
which he always grOomed himself, IN 4
stable on 4 piece otwaste ground. among
toukevs. COWS and geese. How he bad
1een seen o. rush out upon an organ
zrinaer, who Va distributing his medl-
.L-iuus. ani -eizIng him by the collar,
deposit him and bis instrument OF tor
.ure upon the door step OF a neIghbor
v DO hai male himself conspicuous by
writing in favor Of the noisy nuisance.
How be bitterly complained OF his
fowls who would never hatch
in peare, nor let him. How he one lay
found himself short OF threepence % pay
as omnibus fare, whereupOn the sUs-
Diciuus conductor sent boy home 90
make sSrp OF not being bIlkei out Of his
awful dues And how the candy wO-
man. harl bv Ms house, found him an
excellent customer for her wares, with
which he vas wont % Ill his capacIous
pockets Tor the benefit Of the poor ur-
,hIns whom be encountered IN his
walks.
Of Edward Irving. his school fellow
and friend AZ AMMAN and Edinburgh,
rarIvIe ave Nr. Miiiburn the following
y-aphic characteristic description:
i mai gone through the University OF
EdinburEn. AMI had been invited by an
lId irieud % become associated with
MIN IN the conduct Of a school at Kirk
adv. II vas Edward Irving oid
friend Edward Irving. Together We
.l.ked and wrought AMI thought; to-
ypther W strJve. by virtue OF birch and
D.ox. -l initiate the urChIns into what
: called the rudiments OF learning,
until. AZ length. the hand Of the Lord
vas laiI upon him, AMI the voice OF his
r1ud suake % him, saving. Arise, and
r.r thee hence. Tor this l. not thy rest
And he arose and gir'led up hIs IONS,
AMI. D-tting the trumpet OF the A.
mighty r1 his lips. he blew such blast
* that men started up with surprise,
lnd saId that the ike Of II hal not been
zen. since the DAYS Of the Covenant IT.
sell
And from scotland be came % this
y-pat Babel. AMI ne stood up in the pull
o-t II the HattOn Garden Chapel, the
ives IL him blazing and the Herculean
form Of him erect. And the great and
.earne,i. the high and the titled. the
zifrs,t and the beautiful. came round
about him. AMI AT mute and speilbOuad
.;s-enlng 10 his wonderful words And
they tt,u.i'- . i.l ever tninS
arr6rllng % their folly, which l. the law
Il their bsing-thev thought that be
cause they WERE looking AZ him, he was
looking nc them. He was not looking
n all. he Wa trying % 10 what no
man can 10 and Eve-trying % see Cod
iare "a lIce.
Il have beard thar the eagles eye
suffers eclipse. that the curtain Of dark