Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-08-12

Might is the time 10 weep;
To wet with unseen tears
Those graves of memory, where sleep
The Joys OF other years"
The hour is almost midnight, and the
fancy comes TO me that all the hidden
stars which sprinkle the doorway to
eternity are weeping their eyes out over
the frailty of mankind. The Sabbath
is nearly over and thousands who, doubt
less, earlier in the day listened to words
of thanksgiving and praise in Gods
temples now walk the streets in the
drilling rain waiting for the saloons to
open.
has been vigorously enforced here for
| the past three weeks. The liquor sell,
ers,. drug men, lemonade peddlers and
other dealers in worldly merchandise
who have heretofore regarded Sunday
as any other day have been enjoined
from pursuing their ayocations and
thereby created in all humanity the old
temptation to which Mother Eve was
subject, to eat when it is forbidden. The
statute prohibiting Sunday traffic has
been on Missouri law books for nearly
twenty-five years. This is its first OBJ
servance and is now matter OF main
import for public talk. The opinion ofthe
majority, however, as ditiused through
the press, seems to incline to the notion
that this spiritual squirt will last but
short time. Indeed it is evidently in
copgruous that Missouri, which might
Vhe Bad hoy State
in the national family, should take
stand of his character. There Is such
a glaze of hypocrisy on it that 1t is al
most ludiclous. The santicity of the
Sabbath upheld by Missouri. This
matter OF a Sunday law has had consid-
cradle experience throughout the
county. Pittsburgh had good
seige of it, and so did
New York and Cincinnati. | also
incline 20 the opinion that Wheeling
had a sort of variiOid case. Methinks
remember Of certain individuals OF
your goodly CITY having some priced
receipts wherewith to unlock the com.
bination of certain and sundry back
doors at almost any hour upon the
holly Seventh day. That this genus
still flourishes, not only in. Wheeling,
but everywhere, have not the slight
est reason to doubt. 1t seems to me
that you can engrave this word upon
the trow of Justice itself, or rather,
herself, and not seem to barrow the
idea from the New York Sun either,
and that word il simply the one framed
of fire letters which spell Fraud"
You can put this down as truisln that
law which trenches upon human
freedom will always have majority to
break 1t. At the same time you will
not find single individual with a
modicum Of brains who will not say
that
Temperance IL n Good Thing.
and yet If an attempt is made To crush
the argument down his throat, he will
"gagn on it. 1t is hard to lay down any
rule or set of rules which will influence
mankind for its betterment, and yet |
think that the broad plane Of liberty
covers considerable ground aud offers,
of itself, a legitimate basis Of self gov
eminent.
Twas somewhat entertained by a re-
mark friend made to me in the Gin
del Hotel at noon. lie said
81 came down street this morning
and ordinarily | would not have thought
of taking a drink of anything. But |
remembered that the saloons were all
closed and if ever wanted drink in
my life wanted il this morning, and
you can bet your very sweet life that
got it.n
And so it goes. 1t looks to me as
though the law, designed upon the face
OF il to court virtue really offers
premium to crime. Shakespeare has
written:
40 thou invisible spirit OF wine, III
Thou hat no name To he known by
Let us call thee ceNiL"
And if an addendum could appro-
priately be added it would read some
thing like this:
Oye lew makers. who would seclue crime.
aS down Commands which
Force The iDClInhtlons OF al MANKIND.
UnquestiOnably, the matter of pro-
LibitiOn will sometime occupy
The Thought Of the Nation
and embOdy itself in the country's poll
ties. And then will come strength
which will sink the tariff and party ILL
glance fathoms deep where heretofore
they but laid upon the surface Of the
ocean of personal opinions. The SUBJ
iect of LIQUOR Is indeed a deep one, be.
cause it IS the hinge upon which swings
the door of every prison in the
land. 1t lubricates the trap I'M
der every gallOws ever built. Ii
is the hidden spring which feeds the
fountain of tears and has made the
women of nations to mourn since the
creation of the world. What the des-
tiny OF the still will be Is food for
thought for philosophers, donf
think that the problem will be solved In
nd /
don't think that the present a6ortlve
attempts which have illustration in the
present Elusive efforts will do anything
but harm.
These lines may SAVIOR somewhat OF
a sermon, and viewed from this stand
point a word might appropriately be IN
troduced to the mothers who read the
REGISTER. Tell your boys that there Is
no higher aim in life; no better religion
than temperance, and il you can meal
culate this idea on broad basis of be-
lief you will not have your gray hairs
brought in sorrow to the grave by
very large majority.
Advice to Young Man.
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your
And will return them early next week.
Shakespeare.
Two commercial travellers, one Jew
and the other an Irisbman fell sick at
hotel in a certain small town In West
Virginia. Both of them wereapparent-
" in the last throes, and the boniface,
with that courtesy inherent in the sec.
sion named sent for a priest and q
Rabbi in order that bis guests should
have desired spiritual coincidence pre-
vious 10 their bidding farwell to the road
and other earthly joys. The Jew pre-.
vious to his embarkation in the ranks Of
drummers bad been pa Gnbroker. Asst
happened the priest arrived first at the
hotel and by mistake was introduced
into the room occupied by the descend
ant of Abraham. Not being q phisiog-
nomist, be did not perceive the nation
atty OF his patient and presumed OF
course that the sufferer who apparently
had but few moments to live, was OF
a brotherhood akin to Samuel Lovers
Handy Andy" Seeingth at his mo.
ments were few, he drew from his