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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-08-19
HOW WIVES MAY WIN.

4 woman, because she is a wife, can
not afford to neglect those graces OF
mind and manner which first attracted
her love, and husband. The common
round of household duties should not
entirely absorb her. She should have
more than one side to her life; should
be q helpmate, companion, friend, mis-
tress other husbands affections, years
after their union, instead of being mere
ly a skillfui cook or competent house
wife. To be all that nature and reason
demand of her, she need not release her
hold upon the marital heart by contin-
ing herself to the kitchen, the laundry
and the nursery. She may be a de-
voted wife and mother without forget
ting that she was a woman before she
was either; even aiming to keep alive
in her husbands breast the spirit of
gallantry and tenderness, on which
masculine affection almost entirely de-
ponds. Her husband is constantly I'D
vancing, if not by regular culture, at
least by daily contact with the outer
world; and it should be her ceaseleSs
study to keep abreast of his improve
ment. Let her by no mean forget her
cOquettish arts, or lay aside her cngag-
ing ways which did so much to Il
his heart. She must have something to
entertain him with on his return home
beside the dreary ittratiOns of troubles
with servants and blunders of cookery
books. \ rose in her hair and a verse
of poetry on her lips have more power
to hold him than the most eloquent
story o fdOmestic disaster. Yet neither
roses or poetry will be of much avail if
dinner is late or badly cooked and
served. Man 81 his best is a material
ist. 1t is not the wife's fault that she
walks on so low a domestic plane. She
would gladly mount to a higher n If
her husband would give her his help
ing hand, or even invite her to the
upper air. Men are unkind and un-
sympathetic more from want Of thought
than from want Of feeling. They un-
consciously put obstacles in the way Of
feminine advancement, aud seldom
pause TO observe how the obstacles are
uvercome, Or reflect that their joint
assistance is tcquIred. Their minds
should bestirred, their memories arous-
ed by the gentle agencies women know
30 well how TO exercise. Then they
will see clearly enough how easy 1t is
tori positive nature to drift into a neg
alive tyranny. From delicate sugges-'
tions and by the eharmingly incomplete
syllogisms of sentiment they will arrest
their tempermental tendencies, and be
transferred into lovers again before they
are well aware how the delightful
change has been wrought.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-08-19

the Boston quarry Is worked out, and
that the literary centre of the Republic
has moved from that city to New York,
which now c~entralizes the chief writing
OF all parts of the Nation much better
and more fairly than Boston even did
or v e could. Nevertheless, We find
the same wrongheaded tendencies striv-
Ing for ascendency at New York that
proved 20 unfortunate In the case OF
Boston. This isto be seen in the effort
to organize q dominant literary coterie
whose recognition shall be necessary
for the fame Of any writer without re-
gard to his talent or genius. If this
spirit shall eventually prevail, 1t may
be regarded as certain that the sceptre
of literature in this country will depart
from New York and advance westward
to Chicago, Cincinnati or st. Louis. In
many respects the literary progress OF
Chicago already gives promise OF a
wondrous future, while in The fine arts
Cincinnati has become an acknowledged
centre of high character and import
ance. 1t is a curious instance of narrow
provineialism that THOMAS BUCHANAN
READ one of the finest American poets,
was never recognized in Boston at all
because his home was in Cincinnati.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-08-19
a BRIGHT HOME.

Your means may be limited; but
good taste and ingenuity will brighten
up many a dark corner in your home.
\ handsome corner bracket with two
shelves is IA desirable POSSESSION. II you
cannot have this, you can have a sub
Stitute 10y putting up q corner shelf, a
little more than halfway up from flor
to ceiling, Of any wood 30 that it may be
stained or painted, and then draping
the front with brown flannel worked in
I'D. gold ho>s, with a dash Of red here
and there, or with red canvas worked
with black, only costing q trifle; and
perhaps you may find among the
scraps, OF by ripping and turning some
old wooden garment, a piece that will
make three vaEdykes Of brown or black
or gray, ami il is possible that these,
worked in red, may be far p~retLier
than the costly bracket without
the drapery. Even the easy chair
or rocker may be placed in
the corner ami adorned with u scar
let or white tidy, and it will give a very
cheerful look to the room. II you have
only one picture, be it ever so small, if
il DE good and well framed, it is worth
half a dozen cheap ones. And for or
nament Is there anything prettier than
hanging. baskets flied with ferns?
Have your carpet well swept, your
windows clear and bright, a cheerful
fire, q hunging-basket, aud two or three
bright geraniums, your II picture a
good one, N hung low enough to be
seen without straining ones eyes. Put
n red plush cushion in your rocker,
draw it up by the fire, put all the pref
test things on the r self that you
have draped, your lamp and photo
graphs and specimens IN the round ia
bic in the corner under the shelf, have
pretty lace curtains NJ the windows,
and you will find that you have a very
pleasant home.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-08-19
THE EDITOR.

Rev. MI. WATERS, of st. Louis, has
added TO lis clerical work that of a re-
porter on an evening paper, and his ae-
ton provoked some adverse comment
from representatives of the truly
good" Mr.. WATERS will have as
much opportunity to tell the truth in
the paper as from behind the pulpit; ne
will find the members of the press a.
honest and hardwOrkins as the people
in his pews; and the cloth OF the eve
end gentleman will not be sOilel at all
by brushing against the less sanctihed
coat of the newspaper man. The idea
that the latter Is n child Of Bohemia
and y person OF manifold and criminal
irregularities Is utterly false. There Is
no harder workiugmau in the country
than the one who helps get out the
daily or weekly paper, and there 10 no
calling in the world subjected to such a
test of accuracy and truth rs meets the
reporter. The physician can keep his
mistakes hidden; the lawyer can guard
his from all bnt the Judge; there is no
talking back to the minister, and the
business man can reticify his errors, but
the reporter record is put where "he
that runs may Rad and thousands are
ON the alert 20 lind aud note 4 slip.
Accuracy aud ;ruthtulnesS are here re-
nuired more tuau anywhere else, AMI
Mr.. WATERS cannot come to grief IN
work OF such a nature. 1t is good
thing for the paper, a. well, that the
minister has become connected with it.
Its Usefulness and intluenSe must of ne
ccssity increase with such a man on its
staff. 1t is 4 good thing for both par
ties, and it would be a grand good
thing for the pulpit and the press If
their interests were everywhere more
generally Joined.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-08-19
sTOCK

II legitimate trade Is somewhat de-
pressed by having more goods on hand
than merchants can sell, gambling
in stock is much worse of. This pur-
suit that practice has rendered legitl-
mate got a black eye before trade be-
came dull. The principal gamblers LETT
Wall street some time ago. Mr. VAN
DERBILT was investing in Government
bonds long before the collapse was
dreamed Of on Wall street. JAY
GOULD, like Noah, built himself an
ark to sail away from the trouble, but
unlike NOAH, he did not take the beasts
and creeping things in with him. The
knowing ones stood rom under, and
let the card castle tumble.
Wheat, Of course, can be cOrnered I'M
til the new crop is dry enough to grind
or to export. The gamblers know just
how much it will take to last until the
new supplies come In. Lard was too
slippery for them; it sent q lot Of them
to grass, and there will probably be
more money yet lost on provisions.
The stock gamblers have gone away
to the watering places and the mount
aims; they have gone away to weep or
to rest, as the case may be, and their
money has gone where the w~oodbine
twineth."
1t would seem that the stock boards
Of the East, the bulls and the bears, the
longs and the shorts, have for the pres
ent received a death blow. Conditions
have changed somehow-their right
hands have lost their cunning and they
will sOon have to go back to that man.
ual labor, the results of which they have
manipulated so long.
Well, the country will not regrettheir
absence. Speculation will doubtless
take some other phase and the old
games will be played over again with
the programme changed. On the
Pacific coast mining stocks have gone
the same way. The great gambling
rings Of San Francisco made their piles
and went away never to return.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-08-19
LITERARY NOTES.
BOOKS RECEIVED.

N'NS
Tue BAD Boy ABROAD, By Water T. Gray.
New York: is. Ogilvie & Co., Wheeling:
Stanton & Davenport.
THE PRICE SIZE PAID. A novel. By Frank
lee Benedict. Philadelphia: J. b. Iippin-
colt & Co. Wheeling: stanton & Daven-
port.
The POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. For Sep
TENDER. New York: d.. Appleton d Co.
HARPEg's MAGAZINE For September. New
York; Harper & Bros
G. P. Putnam's Sons have Just issued a
second edition Of The Blind Canary"
"Harper's Magazine has made its way
into Mexico and has been received there
with enthusiasm.
Scottish characteristics" by Paxton
Hood, will appear in the Standard Library
published by Funk & Wagnalls.
d. Appleton Il Co. Announce "The Love
Poems of Louis Barnard" edited, with an
introduction, by Mr.. Charles De Kay.
Mrs. A. d. 7. Whitney will begin a new
serial story, entitled "Buttered Crusts,' in
the September number of Wide Awake.
Mr.. Enonh Pratt has presented to the
city OF Baltimore a gift OF Sl,0S5,S33 80 for
the establishment Of the Pratt Free
Library.
up from the Cape" recently published
oy Estes & Lauriate, is meeting with a
hearty welcome. Stanton Il Davenport
have it.
Houghton, Mihlin Il Co. are preparing an
edition Of the works of the late William
H. Seward, to be completed in five octave
volumes.
About 1900 copyrights have been issued
at Washington during the fiscal year.
Many Of these have been for compilations
and reprints.
Macmillan & Co. will publish in Septem.
Der a volume of Sermons Preached in
English Churches" by the Rev. Phillips
Brooks, of Boston.
Estes & Lauriat have in preparation
History of Rome and of the Roman Peo-
pie, from its Origin to the Establishment
of the Christian Church"
Cupples, Upbsm & Co. %oun as al
most ready "The Pilgrim Republic" an
historical review Of the colony of New
Plymouth, by the Hon. John A. Goodwin.
will New York be the Final World
Metropolis" is q question W. C. Conant
will ask in the September Century and ans.
wer in the affirmative with q curious array
Of facts and arguments.
Harper 4 Brothers have destroyed the
plates of their Magazine and Weekly prior
to 1880. The stock OF the old files of maya
zines and papers they have sold to Messrs.
Estes & Lauriat, Boston.
Life on the Mississippi" Mark Twain's
latest literary venture, is meeting with an
enormous sale. Although advertised as
sold by subscription only, Stanton & DAven.
port have 3 large supply on hand.
J. B. Lippincott & Co. have in prepare
ton a collection of sketches hHmorously
illustrating familiar proverbs that have ap-
pesred IN modern a american TO
be entitled wit and Proyerbial Philoso-
ply"
The Bad Boy Abroad" a little paper.
covered volume by Walter T. Grey, and pub.
lished by J. S. ogilvie & Co, is about the
worst lot Of slush ever inflicted on an IN
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-08-19

A significant sign Of the times is the
very large decrease in railroad building
in this country during the first six
months of the present year. The
record shows that from January to July
$500 miles of track were put down,
while for the same period in 1882 the
number was 1000 miles. Whether the
same ratio of decrease shall continue
during the remainder of the year Is
hardly likely, as work was much inn
peded through unfavorable weather,
but still the mileage for the year must,
under all the circumstances, be con-
siderably smaller. Some will I'M
doubtedly regard all this as an un-
favorable sign, but it ought to be con-
structed to mean the reverse. Few
men will deny that we have been build
ing iron roads a little too fast, more
rapidly in fact, than the necessities of
the country demanded and the fact war
ranted. 1t has resulted in numerous
lines that are not self supporting, and
not likely to be for years. The interest on
the bonds issued to build them will not
be earned and complications must re-
suit. Capitalists have been caught SO
often that they are becoming more
wary, and doubtless to their caution is
due this large falling of in railroad con-
structiOn. 1t is, in fact, a return to
safer and more conservative methods
and must accordingly prove beneficial
TO the country. Excessive railroad
building followed by a season of bad
crops would almost BE- sure to result
dGsastrOusly. For the present at least
there seems to be no general necessity
for great activity in railroad building.
Ofcourse there is always need of new
ines somewhere, especially in the more
recently settled portions of the country,
but the older States seem so ample pro-
vided with trunk lines that short tribu-
tary roads seem to be all that will be
needed to years to come. The railroads
of the country have perhaps absorbed
more capital than was either wise or
safe. Being a favorite investment they
could nearly always command the
money required. 1t has been put into
them at, perhaps, the expense of other
business interests that were
as deserving and might have proved
more profitable. Much of this capital
has not been renumerative. There has
probably been more money sunk
in railroads, absolutely lost to their
owners, than in any other pursuit car
ried on in tins country, and people
know it. Most of this money was put
into roads that was built before they
were needed, and before there was even
a chance for them to make returns on
the capital. If we have reached the
point where these Improbable ventures
shall cease, it is certainly u cause for
congratulation rather than for regret.
The only danger is that u few years Of
uuwouted railroad prosperity may make
people forget all their present prudent
resolves and induce them to repeat .neir
former follies,
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-08-19
SOUTHERN CIVILIZATION.

The remarkable prosperity of all the
Southern States of the Union during
the past thirteen years, seems to have
revived pretty much all the old forms
of Southern civilization with the single
exception of slavery. The planters
have made money on their crops, and
Southern bankers and railway operators
have made money also In larger
amounts than they were generally
accustomed to before the civil war, and
the consequence is seen in the restora-
ton Of the country gentleman style Of
living, which has always been SO much
favored in that section of the Republic.
1t is true that mining and manufactures
nave made considerable progress in thai
section, but those who grow rich in
those pursuits only join the throng Of
wealthy planters who live on their
country estates. 1t is also true that the
Southern cities have participated large
~ in the general prosperity, but their
progress bears no sort of comparison
with hat of the leading cities of the
North and West, and this fact would
seem to prove that Southern civlliza-
ton does not turn naturally to foreign
commerce or to internal trade. Still,
Southern civilization ought not to be re.
garded as inferior in character to that OF
the North and West, but rather as be-
longing to q distinct and peculiar type.
1t certainly deserves credit for the
wonderful achievement of utilizing free
labor in the restoration of Southern
agriculture, on a basis Of permanent
prosperity far greater than ever was
dreamed Of during the age of slavery.
Education has made more progress
among the working classes of both
races than has been generally supposed
at the North and although the train.
ing of the free people in the ways Of
civilization ana enlightenment is slow
and laborious, it Is as yet sufficient to
produce 8 gradual elevation of the tone
Of all the lower classes of the Southern
people. Before the war, most OF the
planters lived sumpfuously and luxu-
riously, had their sons educated at col
lege and their daughters trained by
g~overDesses, and they were universally
/ onsidered the most liberal patrons OF
all the fine goods, wares and merchsn.
dise that were sold by the manufac.
turers and importers of the Northern
commercial cities. Prosperity is again
rapidly ~recreatiug all this old plsnta-
ton style of life, with all the additional
improvements introduced since the
war. There is in the NoEthern and
Western States of this country no social
class at all comparable with the South
ern country gentleman, and in view Of
the indomitable spirit they displayed
during the war, it must be evident that
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-08-19
VARIOUS THINGS.
GnSf0n T'rInSrript

Boston Transcript.
The easiest thing-Lying.
The quickest hing-The flea.
The stalest thing-CommOn sense.
The highest thing-A lovers vow.
The dullest thing-A funny news
paper.
The toughest thing The young wlfe's
pie crust.
The driest thing-You have just been
reading it. -
The longest thing-Your friends
favorite story.
The prettiest thing Look in the glass
and you will see 1t.
The smallest thing The fortune
which you do make.
The shortest thing-The memory OF
the perpetual borrower.
The slowest thing-An amateurdrama
by amateur performers.
The heaviest thing-A long sermon
on a hot Sunday afternoon.
The thinnest thing-The story you
tell your wife next morning.
The biggest thing-The fortune you
expect to make by speculation.
The highest thing-The mercury in
the thermometer, about this time.
The thickest thing-Your tongue
when coming home from the ''lodge."
The hottest thing-A raisin lying in
ambush in q mouthful Of hot plum p1d-
ding.
The wettest thing-The foot OF the
shall boy with q new pair Of rubber
boots.
The s0ftest thing-The conversation
which passes between a duck and q
dearie.
The tightest thing-The marriage tie;
that Is to say il used to be, but now 1t is
the loosest.
The hardest thing-The bit of bone
that you "come right down on" when
eating chops.
The coolest thing in the wOrld-The
kitchen oilcloth on your bare feet In O
Winter's night.
The freshest thing-You know him;
he is everywhere. However, he will
get sailed in time.
The silliest thing-Thinking that
wealth produces happiness. (WOuldn't
you like to be knocked silly, provided
the money cameo"
The brightest thing-The suns light
shot into pour eyes as 1t comes reflected
rom the piece Of looking glass in the
hands OF the mischievous.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-08-19
aonIsTEADs FOR INDIANS.

"Ffthe talks with the Indian chiefs
which President ARTHUR is shaving dur
ing his trip To Yellowstone Park shall
have the effect of revealing to him a
new plan Of Indian management tina
will relieve us of the frightful task Of
annihilating these wild children of the
plains, the visit will be attended by in-
credable advantages. Gen. SHERIDAN,
who is member of the Presidential
party, and who possesses a thorough
practical knowledge Of the Indian char
aCter and Of the way to deal with them
successfully, favors q scheme which will
take them wholly out Of the hands of
the interior department and place them
directly in the hands and under the pro-
lection of the army. 1t proposes to
abandon the reservation plan and give
them allotments OF land on which TO
live, and issue bonds TO the amount of
the value Of the reservations taken
from them. Each Indian family would
have a homestead, and on the product
Of this, supplemented by 4 share Of the
annual interest on the reservation
bonds, he would be expected to subslst.
There would be no agencies and no
agents; al payments to Indians would
be made at forts, and garrisons, proper
ly located, would protect them from
white intruders and keep them within
their proper limits.
This plan is entirely new. At first
sight it does not appear feasible. Home
steads are n feature Of civilization,
founded on the dignity of the family;
and there are grounds for doubling
whether they are adapted to a people
with whom the tribal instincts aud
habits are all-pOwerful. But hardly
u system could be worse than The
disastrous one which has governed vi
Indian management for the last twenty
years, and whose fruits are periodical
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T
WHEELING
COllepc.

THIS INSTITUTION Is INGORPORArIR
i with full collegiate powers and privts.
ges by the Legislature OF the State, and anoni,
every facility for - thorough and ACCOM-.
likhed education.
students who graduate In the English onlr.
will receive the deg rec Of Mistress OF t.nyIiSL
Literature. Those who add one foreign lsn
guage 10 thar ENG ish course will receive the
degree Of Be- ccaluurea e~cientia. and tho>s mo
com plete the highest, or Classical Csu>s
will r. Ccive the degree OF Baccslaurea Arlum
The Music School Offers unusual advantage,
I'm OH vocal and instrumental music
The Art school will he under the care Of
Mn. Evn F. Hubbard. Rn accom- pliShcd Artist
The French school will continue with Ma.
Aunie L. logan. and the German school, ua.
der the charge Of the Rev. DIR. Sessler. will I've
open 10 all who desire Ia place Themselves
under such q superior Instructor.
Terms moderate In all departments. Tue
Fall Term will open september 9Th. For cata.
logues or other informa alton address the prc,l.
dent, MISS A. TAYLOR.
ngsed Wheeling, W. Va.
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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-08-19

Mr.. GEORGE A. BuRDErT. No. Iss From,
WORCESTER, Msss-, has just sent us the follo~
Ing. directly to the point
'Being afflicted with ailments TO which. =,
humanity is subject sooner or later. H.,
carefully the advertisement resarhn, ~.
remarkable curative powers Of HIM
Remedy, and ~ It seemed TO ami
to my case exactly, l purchased :.
bottle OF the medicine At Jsnner,..
drug store In this city, and having u>.s :,
with most beneficial results In my own ca.
wife and son also commenced its uSe. ara
1t has most decidedly improved their heal.
and we shall continue Its use In our fsuI,
under such favorable results"
April IL. lsS.