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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-04-01
CONTRAST.

On the evening of Monday last
WILLIAM II. VANDERBILT celebrated
his admission into the genteel society
Of New York city by ball surprising
in splendor and magnificence any pre-
v:ous event of the kind in the history
of that city of merchant princes and
railway kings. The columns OF the
REGISTER have told of the splendor
and richness of the mansion in which
the ball took place, limited at the bril-
liant costumes of the ladies in attend
ance, the quadrilles danced, the wealth
of flowers, the glitter of the decorations,
the music, the exquisite daintiness OF
tie supper, and Of the every charm
that experience or taste could suggest
or money procare to Overwhelm the in
vitcd guests in an intoxication OF
pleasure.
And while all this went on at one
end of the great city, the tens and
hundreds of thousands of the poor of
the metropolis at the other end huddled
and shivered in frail and rickety tene-
ments, their lean bodies insufllcientiy
nourished from their last meal, and
their numbed and stupid souls wonder
ing where the next was to come from.
They parodied the carnival of pleasure
at one end of the city with the carnival
of sin at the other; the vapid compli-
ueuts of tea.cup ladies and court gal
lunts were Knocked by the hoarse
ribaldry of the frowsy hoodlums; the
dainty supper was initiated in the
broken victuals, gathered up here and
there, and the intOxication of JOY in
which the senses were lulled at the
palace was replaced by the customary
drunk" on bad whisky or worse beer
at the hovel.
When one thinks of the extremes
which meet each other, face to face, in
our great cities, of the magnificence OF
the rich and the deep, deep misery Of
the poor, it is little wonder that all over
the world are heard the deep rumblings
of a great discomfort and the mutter-
ings of a wide uprising. The Black
HIND in Spain, the Anarchist in
France, the Socialist in Germany, the
Nihilist in Russia, what are they but so
many declarations that there is some
thing wrong in social system in which
30 much is given to the few and so lit
tie to the many.
The BELSHAZZAR feast of the VAN
DER ILT family, with its parade and
Ostentation of insolent wealth and offen-
sivelluxury, comes upon us like a chal-
lenge to the discomfort Of the many. II
is not VANDEREILT's fault that the
many are poor, but he will be made to
stand as type ofthat excessive wealth
which tells Of wrong social conditions,
and in the eyes Of the struggling world
his feast will be looked OH as not unlike
the feast In Babylon IN which the hand
writing appeared on the wall.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-04-01
MOVING DAY PHILOSOPHY.

The first of April, with the maleti.
cent rites to which it has been dedicated,
is again upon LIS, and hundreds of stout
hearted citizens, who could join in the
wild rush to capture hostile battery
without qualm offear, view its advent
with terror and dismay born of dire ex-
perience. The horrors of moving day
have been frequently described in
GRAPHIC terms; almost every resident of
our cities has had repeated experience
of its terrors, and year after year solemn
vows are recorded that no amount OF
present discomfort or prospective ad-
vantage shall tempt to another NOV
ing-vows, alas, too often uttered only
TO be violated IN the most shameless
fashion at the next annual migration.
There is a philosophy underlying
this; the cause and the remedy are
alike easily discoverable if men were
not so blinded by prejudice and custom
that they will not discern the one or APP
ply the other. 1t may be taken as an
ascertained fact that the feminine por-
ton of the race is mainly responsible
for the general observance of Moving
Day. To the average husband, to
whom home is little more than q rest
ing place during the evening hours and
a sleeping place by night, one house is
as good rs another, and it is seldom that
the discomfOrts Ct a hired abode press
so heavily upon him as to make him
willing to undergo the risks and yexa-
tons inseparable from moving. With
the wife it is different. To her the
home is the centre of creation, the hub
of the solar system. Within its four
walls she lives and moves and has her
being, with but slight intermission, dur
ing the twenty-four hours. Her mono
tonous and burdensome household
duties are performed within its precincts,
and upon ats adoption to domestic uses
her comfort in large measures depends.
Woman is naturally conservative and
more disposed to bear with present ills
than to fly to others that she knows not
of, but it is also an asoertained
physiological fact that there never yet
was q woman created who did not have
in her mind an ideal home, its apart
ments filed with convenient closets,
and pantries and shelves and hooks,
where everything could be laid away
ready for use at q moments notice,
and where the wsyfaring,. woman,
though worried and wearied to the last
degree, could not err. It is probably
that there never yet was 3 woman
worthy of the name-a woman who
took 3 personal interest sad felt . per-
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-04-01

AC, OEpING to careful estimates,
:, 100000 tons of ice have been stored
along the Hudson between Troy and
New York, during the mid-winter ice
season, and nearly 10000 men were en-
ployed In cutting and securing the
same. The ice is generally of splendid
quality, clear and solid. Over 5000
Gao is invested III the business. The
largest concern, probably in the world,
il the KnickerbOcker Ice Company,
owning about fifty ice houses, which
are scattered all along the river, on
both sides, between Albany and New
York. This year the company began
work on January s, and finished Feb
ruary 6, during which time an average
of 5000 men were employed, and l,500,-
40 tons of ice were stored, at cost of
shout S25O,OOO.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-04-01
PERSONAL.

IT is said Tabor sent David Davis an
Easter card.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR is lending money on
New York real estate.
HER MAJESTY will probably slide down
Il! e banisters hereafter.
TIE New York dudes are talking OF cele.
brating the Queens recovery.
NINE. ALBANI Is to be met in Montreal by
! torchlight procession of snow shoers.
Gov. BUTJER has become member of the
Lowell Young Mems Christian Association.
MRS JENNY LIND GOLDSMITH, is sixty
years old, appears to fifty, aud lives in Lon
don.
Coy. WALLER, of Connecticut, denies the
report that he will take the stump Tor
Sprsgue.
FATHER RYAN, the poet priest" of No
bile, fingers in Boston, where he is still
literary lion.
"SALEsPERsoNs" is word which is found
among the advertisements, and which in
cludes both sexes.
IT has been suggested that unless the
papers let up on Dukes soon, he may con-
Guide to go OF lecturng tour.
Victor HEGo is about the only man in
France who still kisses lady's hand in
stead Of shaking it like recalcitrant pump
hsndle.
ABour the only ruler who holds grimly
out against the fatigues and burdens OF
office is President Grevy, of France. He is
tough one.
GEN. DENr, the srother-iu.law OF General
Grant, has sold his villa that stands near
the old Spanish gate at St. Augustine, Pla.,
10 NJ. J. Heade, the artist.
THE father Of the long, lost Charlie Ross
has quite given up the idea of ever seeing
his child again. and the mother long ago
despsired Of his ever being returned to her.
An English lady writes that she is above
fifty years old. and that she has not o
wrinkle, because she washes her face every
morning and evening in very, very hot
waller.
by a compromise made with ex-senator
Sharon, Mrs. Rslston, the widow of the
California banker. who committed suicide,
receives $4S5. 900 in cash, large ranch in
Southern California, and some property in
San Francisco.
Pools and rivulets of tobacco juice were
found defling the rooms OF an Oswego, n.
Y, young ladies' seminary. The guilty
person was discovered in young lady Of
refined and gentle manners, and she was
summarily expelled.
BoErEL, the new tenor over whom Euro
pean opera goers are in ecstacies, was for
merly, like Washtsl, a cabdriver. His old
companions in that trade in Hamburg,
where he was discovered, have Just pre-.
scented him with q silver whip of honor"
which cost $i2n
The law library Of the late Justice Cliff
ford Of the United States Supreme Oou It,
is nov offsre for sale at Portland, Me-, an
an effort ia being made to have it psrchas ID
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-04-01

GEORGE NJ. STgTsON, the oldest peach
packer in the United States, says that
the peach crop this year will be large
and of good quality. Peach trees grew
to less extent than usual last year, aud
the sap did not rise to develop the buds
till the cold Of winter These are the
most favorable conditions for good
crop. There will not be quite so much
fruit as last year, but it will BE- larger
and finer, and will bring the farmers
more money than they got for the
large crop of small, puny peaches pro-
dueed last season. Another favorable
thing is the uniform cold weather of the
present winter in the East, which has
kept the sap down and prevented the
buds from swelling. The Delaware
trees are-now said to be entirely out of
danger, and can stand any amount of
cold they can possibly be exposed to.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-04-01

TIE Methodists Of England are dis
turbed over the advance of ritualism in
the English church, and it seems
likely they will be compelled to adopt
terms to designate the Methodist de-
nomination as one of the churches of
England. John Wesley rcirained
from calling his followers n church
or the church, but named the congrega-
tons societies" Ever since, the
MethOdists of England have abstained
from using words which would define
their ecclesiastical position. While
the Professionalism Of the Eng
lish church remained firm the
Methodists did nothing to disturb their
friendship for the establishment. Now,
since ritualism is advancing all along
the line, the Methodlsts viii take a
definite position against the English
church. The bishops lately Nominated
TO I'll vacant bishopries have caused
the alarm among the English MethO-
dists.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-04-01

as a whole, and kept in that city as spub-
lie library. It is said to be the largest law
library in New England. except one in
Boston.
Mrs. VAsDEsBILr's Easter ball was the
subject of very general gossip and discus
sion in'ths papers. A Iady-whose name il
withheld-wrote to Mrs. Vanderbilt asking
for an invitation to the ball The answer,
through a third person, was very polite
regret that Mrs. Vanderbilt could not grant
the desired favor. This lady sent second
note to Mrs. Vanderbilt, in which she said;
81 only wanted to go the same as l would
20 to q museum or any pnblic place, stmp-
ly to see the house and the decorations. l
had no desire to attend the ball for its own
sake" Or words to that effect.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-04-01
SeIation Of . Great kstevy.
Central Ne, .L,,ey ttaI

People often wonder vi t becomes Of
the old tomato cans. Wyons can he
seen on the street sln3ot every day,
filled with old tin cans ofsery descrip.
ton, picked from vacab lots or the
streets. They are tan TO Newark
and sold for fifteen cets hundred.
The price Is small, but ms are numer-
GUS, and the gathering OF them pays
handsomely, II our I'M mant tells the
truth. The Newark purchaser sorts
them oat and puts III ], into q large
furnace, which softe( them 20 that
they can be rolled d machinery into
plates. These plate are artistieally
blackened and prest o smooth, pol
ished surface. The funk makers buy
them to bind the ed and bottoms Of
trunks, and often tover up defects Of
woodwork In thH hammer old tomato
cans become mo- useful ~ well ~
ornamental mate3l. The process Of
heating the cana has IT, profitable
result, for the soof, running through
. CRATE into eeptaols, h sold for
twelve cents sp1Ad, it alone paying,
It Ia calculated, q the price originally
paid for the cam
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-04-01
Tn. rre:eeaur. sr r.Iie.. Parts.

Alert GtgOf ~ the fOIfnighfe R~'"~.
The means Of action ut the dspossl
Of the Prefecture Of Police are proper.
tionate to the importance ofits mission.
The estimates OF Its department for 1859
exceed as,OOO,OO It's staff includes
10000 agents or functionarles Of every
kind. The bureau OF the central ID.
ministration receive the appeals, con.
plants, and demands Of the public,
prepare the decisions Of the Prefecture
and transmit them to the agents q
the active service, who have 10 carry
them into execution. Seventy Com.
missionaries Of Police placed In different
Quarters Of Paris, and - I'm the subur.
ban communes, exercise the functions
Of judiciary Police, experimenting the
execution Of the laws aud ordinances,
and carrying out the judicial inquiries
Of administration which are intrustsd
to them. The municipal police, which
comprises no less than 5000 agents
(peacc officers, guardians OF the posoe,
aud inspectors,) forms the active and
militant portion Of the Paris police.
Independently OF the special services
which II includes, and 10 which im-
portant functions are confded, such -
the Service des m9us, the Service de,
garnis (or furnished lodging house In
spection,) and the Service de surete, G.
pecially charged with the capture OF
malefact0rs, this body comprises the
corps OF guardians Of the peace, who
are mostly old soldiers, are armed.
wear uni form, and are subjected 10 an
almost military discipline. The guar
dians Of the peace are spread over every
part Of Paris, and keep up m unremit.
ting surveillance by day and by night.
Each Of the agents gives nm account "
bis immediate superior Of oil the fscts
that come TO his kno wledge. and thes.
reports are ut once transmitted and
centralized by the telegraph which con.
meets all the police posts with constant
possession Of everything that oonoesas
the public security. To appreciate - u
deserves the perfection Of this mechaa.
Ism, Its wonderful unity, the nrmn1
and precision OF the springs that movs
II, and the strict solidlty Of the ~
tenn of wheel within wheel Of (which
1t liz composed, one would need ~ have
made close and careful study Of tbs
mechanism OF this great institution. II
would be impossible 10 over rate or over.
praise the remarkable intelligence, tbs
rare probity, the zeal, which will stand
any test, and the professional duty
which are the leading characteristic, Of
the whole of this immeDse body 81
officials. II Ii fitting that this truth be
recorded here, In order 70 dispose d
acknowledgements and prejudices which
have unfortunately gniDed credit
through the ignorance Of the pu'aie.
and have been kept up BY the memof.
Ies'of another epoch. We are very fsr
indeed from the time when the direc.
ton Of the Police dc L. 5urets was In.
trusted to the sx.convict Widow and
we are not les far removed 10 the poll.
teal order from the odius imperial ps-
lice system Of pr0vocati0n. Ono oftss
recent Projects In credited with having
said that "tbe present Prefecture osghs
t0.be no more Ike the former than The
Boulevard de Palals ought tn be hks
the Rue jerusalem"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-04-01

Inpsrtsses o. Rssplns Dssks 4, /.
skilfsl As.ses - swell shs Prose-.
An Eastern man met ono Of the A,
lie kings Of Wyoming Territory =
Cheyenne the other day. The cati.
king had made bis pile and gone out ~
cattle raising, and he at down snd
ave tho Eastern man . little of n.
true inwardness o. the business.
"Youshave co0O to Cheyenne 10 i,
vestiRate the catAye business, have yoa,
And you want to know how the cati.
PaIseYs make thsiv money? We'll r
will tell you how I uoae mine, and m,
experience y . conMbsQ one here. II
1917 I bought [, 900 7sxas cows, 50 grsd.
bulls and so ponieA- They cost ma
BRAIDED and turned Ieoee on the rsoe.'
$4,000. The frst winter, which va,
very hard one, Lost @pe1 cent IN.
fFst summer branded 100 calves. A,
the end Of the first year I had on
the range $50, and on NY books / "a
which represented the total head =.
stock had handled 30 fer. The So
ond year / lost 100 head aud brapdsd
$50 calves. then had on the rans.
l,4OO, aud on my books 1900 IT,.
third year the range WAS eaten ont q,
ut least was not 90 fresh rs when H.,
went in, and lost % per cent. brand
ed 400 calves, and sold 900 dry CIV.
and heifers for 5000. At the end ~
the third year / had on the range Ia
cattle, and on my books 2,lOy. n.
fourth year I lost 10 per cent. brspdss
$50 calves, and sold 400 two and .ibrs.
year old steers and dry cows for M.
600 Had on the range at the end Of
this year ! $50 head, and on my book,
ESQ. The fifth year lost Is per cent
branded 400 calves, and sold evety.
thing that wss fat, and some csttl.
that was not, for $4,000. then had
on the range 100 head, and on my
books 1850. My expenses I'D 70 thi,
time had been about 5000 year, o.
SIC, 900 altogether. At the end OF five
years had drawn out Of the herd So.
900. had got all my money back. and
had over 900 half.breed or improved
cattle on the range. From this time
on 1t would only coat me So to raise
three year old steer, and l could sell
him for $50 or $40, but the range Wa
getting bad, and all the ranges In ".
Territory being taken up, there was ne
new place 10 move to. was afraid on
0 dry summer and hard winter, 10 I
bought 1000 Texas yearlings for So.
stocked range, and added them 10 my
books, which made 1850 head. Then
| came TO Cheyenne 10 find buyer. |
sOon found . tenderfoot, fresh from
New York City. knocked Off from
my books 100 head for loss, aud sold
he rest for SIS per head, ora ca
$4,000.
III you go into the COW business, you
want TO take care Of your books, aud
10 not, under any circumstances, al.
nit losing more than 3per cent. IN The
hardest winter"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-04-01

The United States navy is about to
receive an important addition. There
is now being completed at the ship
yards of the MessrS. CRAMP a small
and alleged snOt-prOOf tub of an antique
pattern, which, in the dim past when
its keel was laid, about decade ago,
was named the Terror. The name is
still appropriate, and should be retained,
"a the vessel, when commissioned,
will doubtless be terror to those brave
but unfortunate mariners who may be
detailed to navigate her.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-04-01

The wOrkingmen Of New York aud
vicinity will assemble in mass meeting
III the Cooper Institute tomorrow TO
insist on the enforcement Of the de-
mandS of the Central Labor Union to
abolish the convict contract labor sys-
tenn. to prohibit the employment of
children under II years of age, and to
amend the eight hour law.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-04-01

THE New York stock mar ket grows
dulter and duller. This is partly be-
cause the public have been squeezed too
often in stock deals, and partly because
they have not been squeezed often
enough in grain deals. At present the
lambs are, so to speak, gamboling In
the fields Of waving grain.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-04-01

THE Italian government has pub
lished a decree fixing April Il as the
date of the resumption of specie pay
ment, The half Ira, one Ira and two
Ira notes will be payable in silver At
all the State treasures. Notes Of five
Ira and upward will be paid in silver
and gold at the Central treasury in
Rome, and at the treasures of Bari,
bologna, Cagliari, Catauia, Florence,
Genoa, Leghorn, Messina, Naples,
Palermo, Turin, Venice and Verona.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-04-01
TwehtsSDrtsss-
RaU - Dnf0 HpSea.

$50 20. ws marry Ethe,r' de.
msnded the hher, ~ he wheeled
around TO faee = trembling lover.
"And you e ppnes In hsnk-rsal
estate-ioad .tosks, say $4,000
"N-ns. sir Dat can work up. IL
Am bound t0lsin, SIR
Il shall to- Florida. buy up 100
acres Of lsn aise 5, ono, 900 oranges per
year for tb tarket, and IN ten years I
shall be III
"Hum! Zeal HUM grswled the
old MAJ "vesy entssprisins-xery
sN sSt Sss1s young man,
81 haH al. enterprise on hand %
well. Hl4 will marry q Buffalo
widower as spring. He h consump.
tive. III won't 1.-Two two years. He
will LEI her S2O0,O0 Go hence
Go to Rope for three years. That
will KY lim, bury him, and give her &
year 20 eAr weeds and get over hel
grief. hen she's yours, Dash and all
and N put my hand % your hsas
and by your
VIII ibs young man .leit tina hsu. :,
he did sseem 10 believe Il.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-04-01

MUN,CIrAL government seems To be
falling in Tennessee. Chattanooga,
like Memphis, il about to be turned in
to taxing district, and Nashville has
just been granted a new charter that
upsets the old system of government.
Hereafter a board Of aldermen will be
elected in Nashville by the city at large
instead of by the wards. Knoxville
seems to want something similar.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-04-01

A STRIKE is threatened among the
cigar-makers Of st. Louis, Milwaukee,
New York and Philadelphia, and the
result will be the total disappearance of
Havana cigars from the cigar stands.
It will have the same effect that short
gooseberry crop in New jersey has on
our stock of French champagne.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-04-01

THE brave Emperor WILLIAM is suf-
fering from 3 cold, BISMARCK istroubled
with a sore throat, Queen VICTORIA
has n skinned knee, and President
ARTHUR is slowly wasting away under
the cares OF his office. We take pleas
IRE in announcing, however, that
Governor JACKSON never felt better IN
Iii lifa
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-04-01
Ortrin q &c lals0AaS.

The word "cslandar' h derived frs,s
calendlum, denoting the commence
ment Of months, which In the lasguase
Of ancient Rome, were called dies osi-
sndn, or simply csIends: l. e.. days
on which calling out" should occur.
from "ealol," leah This "csiiins out"
took place upon the reappesssncs o. the
small crescent after nov moon, snd ~
the present day remains tho custom
among those people who,a ~ ioS lnsesnos
the Turks, reckon tine wholly from the
recurring phases Of the moon. Thn
was loudly proclalmed from the roofs Of
public buildings by .ppciutea Pre:ss
or seers, who wsre rcIuAsed toseek Tor NE
moons crescent IN The Ky either I'VE
days after new moon, " Ioos % nv
day. after the AS ap1sAnccs o. W.
light 10 tDe mofnins ~ ~ ~
was ests1isned = the ssgineio Co.,
month, the s,ng,e oAys ecsng I2e -
~ counting nAc1wsru o. Nfwcso ~
tbe night OF ron me lntesmesnse "a,
o. Iaii moon. Inc mesnoI - tec.I
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-04-01
Saaaae, ResisfeT
SUNDAY, APRIL 1, 1858.

A NEW Postmaster General will be
the next sensation.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-04-01

There is no trouble about ies, other
than IL likely to arise in NJ York,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, or any 1the old
States where the United STAT surveys
applied. All the farming alf grazing
land Of California, except SUI Of the
old Spanish grants as were Dnfirmed
by Congress, was surveyt by the
general Government and placed In
market in the usual way nd, as the
Spanish grants change hang and come
into market, the systemli surveys
adopted by the Governmet Land OF.
fee Is applied In cutting TIL n up. The
titles are all equally good. L"B.