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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-02-24
GRIEF FOR GARMOYLE.

Miss FORTEsQUE demands only the
trifie of two hundred and fifty thous-
and dollars damages from Lord GAR
MOYLE for having refused her hand and
TITLED with her affections. We are sur
rrised IL at she did not put the figures
- high 80 half a million. Young lord,
are as ter bIe in love as in war, and the
havoc which GARMoYLE made in thu
FoRTFSQUEAN heart must be awful. II
il doubtful, even if she succeeds in OBJ
tanning a verdict and the full amount
of the damages claimed, whether the
wounded member will ever be sound
condition again. Miss FoRTEsQUE
the daughter of a rich coal merchant as
well as ali actress. A verdict in her
favor will heap Goals Of fire, 20 far a.
he is concerned, in the wrong place.
While his head is being roasted the
chances are that there will not be
enough black diamonds in the kitchen
stove to enable him to cook his dinner
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-02-24
RAILROADS BEN EFICIAL.

One of the dangers threatening the
liberties of this country is the growth O.
monopolieS The great corporation,
are only human, and they possess the
characteristics OF human beings. They
love money and power; and just as in,
diviGuals push their chances of gainiuk
wealth and influence, corporations do
the same. 1t is ofthe utmost importance
that these great companies of all kind,
should be prevented from abusing theiI
privileges.
But they also have their rights, ssi
justice, as well as common sense, should
prevent US from doing them harm
merely TO crafty public elamOr.
Something may be truly said in favor
of the railway companies. We owe
the chief part Of our development to
them. Our nation to-day would be. for
the most part bowling wilderness iii
had not been for the railroads, and peo-
pie who ssssil railroads 10 wholesale
manner, to-day ought TO remember this
fact. ..
The men who planned these great
schemes and raised the money to put
them through had right TO expect
rewards. They risked their capital and
If they have made fortunes, they have
also benefited the country. Hsman
nature Is the same the world over, and
even those who cry out the most against
the railroads are the very ones who
want two dollars for every one in
vested.
"Repder unto CESAR the things
which are CESAR'S-"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-02-24
pURLIC PERSECUTION.

There are three or four great ques-
tisps" which it would be an infinite
relief to the public to have disposed OF
enc way or the other. First Of all there
Is the tariff. The newspaper literature
on this subject is enough to drive any
one crazy. Day after day our lives are
made miserable by ponderouS Leaders"
columns OF dispatches by telegraph and
scores Of communicates from the "peo-
pie" all containing views" The au-
thors of these inflietiOns should be sub
merged in the Ohio floods or some
where else where We should never
again hear from. Then there are the
Civil Service Reform, q national bsuk-
ruptcy and n divorce law, interstate
commerce, the postal telegraph, aud
the trade dollar. Is there no way OF
bankhing these questions for, say, six
N, Onihsa
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-02-24
A SOCIAL PRNRLEM.

A young man in Augusta, Ga, has
laid out considerable work for himself
Being possessed with an uncomfortable
desire TO enter society, he applied for
admission 20 q zap year club formed by
some young ladies. Fer some reason,
perhaps because he was not pretty, he
was black balled, and his budding social
ambition severely frostbitten. Instead
Ofgetting up an opposition club or tame
ly submitting to the rebuff, this lively
young gentleman published general
challenge To the male friends OF the
executive committee Of the club, hold
ing them personally responsible for his
failure to be elected. If his purpose
was to stir up strife and contention, he
fully succeeded, for his letter ellicited
10 less than sixteen challenges to NOR
tai combat from as many young men.
He has accepted them all, and proposes
to shoot tae challengers down one after
another on the first come-iirst-served
plan. Should he succeed in removing
the whole crowd, which is doubtful, the
question arises, would he then be elected
y member of the leap-yoar club, sul if
not what docs he want TO fight for?
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-02-24
nEHmnINa SUICIDE.

Rev. THOMAS X. BEECHER has been
INDUCING In more Of his queer talk IN
defense Of 3 human BEINGS right, I'm
der certain conditions, to commit
suicide. We discussed this peculiar
doctrine of Mr.. BEEcHER's some time
ago, but he has elaborated his plan
since, in q measure, and the following
will give our readers some idea Of the
cold blooded manner in which he talks
on that question::
have for many years been suggest
ing that in the same way that COM
mission de hindtico is raised under our
laws to decide whether q man be of
sound mind, so it were we'll to allow
commission de rireado to settle for
man whether it is worth while TO live
longer. have no doubt whatever that
if man obtain the approval of his
wife, his children, his family physician,
his pastor, his lawyer, and one inter-
ested citizen, it will then be right and
should be lawful for him in any decent
way TO put an end to his own life, with
the approval of all and the blessing of
GyD But, Irepeat, it does not seem
to nae right for man to take 80 grave
and irreversable step as self killing,
guided by his own impulses only. Far
better, like the patient patriarch JOB,
highly resolve-all my days will wait
until my change co.ne.
Qualified as Mr.. BEECHER's doctrine is
above, to 8 degree that renders his
views utterly visionary and impractic.
able, it Is still sufficiently shocking to
justify the severest censure. As origi-
nslly stated, il our memory serves US,
the Elmira clergyman's plan did not
include the calling Of council Of rela-
tives, physicians and citizens, not to
say mother iU-law and creditors, to
decide for man whether the circum
stances warranted his taking short
cut to the land of promise. The latter
suggestion Indicates that Mr.. BEECHER
is recovering his sanity on this question,
fact that will probably afford much
relief to his anxious friends.
Of course it is beyond all reason to
suppose that now, or in any conceiy.
abe state Of society in the future, a
person contemplating self destruction
will be able to secure the consent of such
a commission as that proposed. The
Graphic admirably proposes the absurd
;ty of this suggestion by fancying
case that might occur under it, and
then eloquen,ly describes the true con.
dition of the suicide before he his per-
petrated the fatal deed. 1t says: The
suicide is solitary, hopeless man. There
IS no individual among the living mil
lions with whom he eau be i'll sympathy
or in whom he can cOntide. The dying
man must take his strange journey
aone. The suicide must select his
method of death without consultation
with Others. No commission, no law,
o private or public measure can ar
range the details Of any suicide. 1t
would be as easy for love to attend the
ether world with the tenderness that
attends them to their graves"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-02-24
GREAT GUNS,

Judge Tourgee is suffering from over
work.
General MOltke is the most taciturn mar
in Europe.
Professor j c. Wood, the English nat
uraiist, is Boston's latest social lion.
The Duke OF Sutherland is a great in
ventor and psssionstely fond of engineer
ing.
Hannibal Hamlin is a great fisherman,
out be doesn't carry bis bait in bottle.
Ex-Governor Hendricks, of Indiana
doesn't play billiards, because his first
game cost him three dollars.
Count Telfener is the most intimate
friend of the King of Italy, who often asks
his advice on matters OF finance.
Lord Reay possesses wonderful lingual
sbiiiy. He Is great orator in the Dutch
Lords.
Mr.. p. Farrelley, of the American News
Company, is the greatest newspaper organ
ger of the sge, and possesses wonderful
executive ability.
The Marquis of Tweedds;e is bound to
become the next great leader OF the Liberal
psrty. He is pleasantly remembered by
his friends in America
Sir Algernon Borthwick, of the On lon
Morning Post, is han isome, courtly aud
scholarly, and probably the only gentle
man in England who speaks French like
native.
John W. Mackey Is practical philan-
thropist and canes nothing fer the show
and glitter that usually surround million
aires. He is proud of the fact that he is 4
self.made man.
Mr.. w. NJ. singeriy, proprietor Of the
Philadelphia Record, is building 1000
houses for people OF moderate means. He
is q genial, popular and Q wonderfully sue
oessful business man.
jones McHenry's trip has created Q great
impression among railroad men and IL IL
thousht that the effect Of his visit will be
a general revolution and reform in the
American railway service.
Senator Conger. OF Michigan. 10 the only
member Of the Senate who wears dress
coat during the sessions Of that body. His
most conspicuous predecessor IN that re-
spsct was Hannibal Hamlin.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-02-24
uInlE TOTS N CHERRY colosa


Fafry.Laks Costumes fse Co
tbeir Aersy.nahisS.
The fashions for ehildren's pfeuy
dresses are SO varied that with but htse
expeDse and trouble . dainty dre@ may
he made for the household dariinge'
Nothing mortifies . little giri mofe,
and A Low. too, for that matter, than 70
be shabbily dressed among . COMPANY
Delicate colors, such IS conch.pink,
sbeII.piuk. sky.blue and sea-form green
are the most effective, but OF course
White ia the most popular, and now
and then q little brunette should have
q bright crimson. Fine dark stocklnss
and pretty dark clippers are worn ny
girls over ten, while under tnat age
both stockings and sliPPers must % Oh
the same color as the dress.
A very effective little dress worn oy
blonde beauty OF six at cnil9rens
party was made OF pale blue suran SUN
in a Gabrielle, with q shirred Mother
Hubbard yoke and short pulled sleeves.
1t was confined about the waist oy
broad sash OF the same msterial, whlle
a tucker Of Nalenciennes lace hnished
the neck.
A lovely cOStOuc IeSShSy AP
by New York house is for girl OF
fourteen. 1t is made princesse and cut
square both back and front, with tight
sleeves reaching to the elbow. Inc
material is white silk, very heavy and
corded. The skirt Is trimmed with
three deep hounees of Oriental Ia ,e, en-
broidered in forget me- nots in pale-blue
silk floss, while the same lace rufiies the
sleeves and fills in the neck, being
fastened by a draw.string OF narrow
pale. blue ribbon tying in q bow. A
broad sash of pale. blue MORE ties over
the hips in large butterfly bow, and
long blue silk mits with blue silk STOCK
ipgs and bronze slippers so with the
dress.
\ fairy-like costume, made by an
economical mother for her little brun-
cite daughter OF four, has foundation
of cherry-co!ored silesia covered with
white tnlle, embroidered in silver floss
silk.
Velvet suits, with white vests and
broad collars, are worn by small boys,
with black silk nose and patent leather
slippert, while boys of a larger size wear
their best cloth suits with a frilled
Jacket and boutonniere Of daisies or
rosebuds.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-02-24

PSALMS
tRRvLsED,1

uEAR this, al - people, and sir
- irra'idssf the world, Hop Bi,,.sa
msis You we'll and to rejoice. nl
& It shall cure I'll the p.opl. an,
sickness and suffering xnde, foot Pt
.. Be thou not afroid when yop, ..
Ii sick, or You have Bright. ai,...u
Liver Complaint for Hop Bitter, nil, . Or
you. '
4. Both low and high, rich and .
know the value Of Hop Bi,ters ior H,i va
nervous and Rheumatic complaint,
s. Cleanse me With Hop Bite,
shall have robust and blooming h..I,t
6. Add disease upon disease s,5I".,
worst come, am safe II use Hon ~; D., "'
Z. For all my life have been n,. n
with siet'e" and sores, and no, pn,;, ~"
year ago was l cured. by Hop Bitter,
He that keepeth his bones f,nu
Ing from Rheumatism and Neur,I,i, -. 80
Hop Bitters, doeth wisely. WIN
9. Though thou hast Sores ,.,,
freckleS salt rheum, erys!pe.ss, ha,5 -
soning, yet Hop Bitters will rrro,- 49,. Pa'
10. What woman Is there f.sS re~ ~:
sick from female complaints vbo ' and
not health and use,h Hop B!ttr,' s sN1 q
made ,reU. Aod Is
II. Let not neglect to Use Hon R,,...
bring on serious Kidney and w.. zen
plants. '' ''u'
y. Keep thy tongue from beins tn,
thy blood pure. and thy stomach l,om ~
digestion by using Hop Bitte.s. A W.
Is. All my pains and aches and ai.....
90 like chef before the wind when ~
Hop Bitters.
IA. Marx the man who ,rus rory d.,
and given up by the doctors after us,.
Hop Bitters and becomsth we'll.
Is. Cease from worrying about nerrou,
nees, general debility, and urinary trouD.
for Hop Bitters will restore you.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-02-24
POWDER AND BANGS.

Sara Bernhardt says she can make butter
and cheese.
Cleopatra used bears grease to keep her
hair from falling out
The Queens diary Will be productive Of
pin money for her Majesty, anyhow.
An Albanian belle paints her face pro-
fusely, and her taste runs TO cherry lips
and cheeks.
The pet hobby OF Miss Elizabeth P. Pea
body, Boston philanthropist, is the Piute
Indians.
Mary Anderson Is said to read bsauti-
full poem every day.
In the days of Ovid girls were taught to
smile gracefully. There was no giggling
and simpering then.
Miss Emily Faithful has been iecturine
in California towns on Modern shams."
Der subject 10 most prolific one.
Miss Susan B. Anthony is still in Wash.
iDgton working for woman suffrage. Her
AiIh is the kind that removes mountains
Marc Anthony's daughter did not change
her dresses half a dozen times a day, but
81 nevertheless made the lampreys in her
fish pond wear earrings.
Money seems to possess no attractions
for Miss Vera Manning, niece of Cardinal
Manning. She is heiress to $1,000 annu-
ally, yet prefers convent life.
The foot prints recently discovered in
Nicaragua, said to be $4,000 years old, are
evidently. those OF woman, according to
the psychologists. Maggie Mitchell admits
to playing Little Barefoot" in Nicaragua,
but doesn't remember how long ago it was.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton says: "If
we can Judge Of the civilization OF nation
by its women, England must rank high
above all countries. The many charming
acquaintances / have made there inspire
me with new hope for my sex, and the
memory Of them will enrich the sunset OF
my life"
James W. Riley, the Hoosier poet, has
visited Ella Wheeler. He says OF her:
She is about thirty two years old, and
think at one time she must have been
very handsome. She had her hair banged
down over her forehead, slimed with ban.
doline, and her dress-well, her dress
seemed to me to rather vo ciferous. 1t was
pretty loud and had good many founces
and what DO you call-ems on it. She is q
nice lively girl and goes to dances and
hops and all that sort OF thing.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-02-24
OUR IDEALS,

Beyond us all there is o something
that incites to human desire and effort.
With some, 1t is the pursuit Of riches,
or the worlds alluriDg pleasures; with
others, the possession Of knowledge that
the silver trump may herald to the
world their wonderful teachings, dis
coveries, and inventions; whilst with
others there is a standard of moral
progress or excellence, which, If attain
ed may prove a blessing to themselves
and posterity. Alas! for such and so
ciety, il Initiated taste or unsound
Judgment should map out the path.
We are all oppressed more or less with
lCngings or yeaInings beyond the boun-
Diary of our narrow line Of action and
duty, and it were we'll for Us and those
who come under orr guidance, II those
groupings be after loitier thing.-if the
ideal We pursue be an ennobling, sub
lime something beyond the sensuous
and perishing aims Of life.
Our high, pure ideals bespeak our
spirituality, our better life-something
that tells Of the divinity within US. In
every heart there Is a holy city where
some voice, audible or mufiled, comes
to Us from the high altar, and some
light CLEANS from above the mercy
seat showing us what We ought to be,
and what We are. 1t is native long
ing in our souls that nothing earthly
can fila restless craving after higher
things, IAN ampler ether, a diviner
air" whose glorious fultillment comes
not here.
Whenever We are content with what
we are and what We have achieved, We
are criminally insensible to what COP
designs us to he, and our ambition has
lost its power To stimulate to greater eX
celltuce.
AS heaven lengthens out our lives
fields for wider work and service are
opened before us, and our ideals should
h. more elevated and spiritual as graver
aid dee per views of life and its oblga
,icns are gained by years and larger ex
ICrieuCe.
We gather our grain and fruits wher
tley aIe fully matured, else they rot
ard erish by neglect, and then with
renewed efforts ard Cops blessing WI
again 90 TO work to reap another har,
Ntst for the goods Of ourselves and Ou'
fe low-mtn.
COP pity those whose only ideal OF
true beauty and happiness Is seen
through a sensual medium, and whose
,urt.t aim and yeaIning is spanned by
carlL's horizon.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-02-24
INCREASE DE DIVORCE.

There is a very remarkable statement
in the annual message of the Governor
OF New jersey, which is necessarily at
tracing much attention. 1t il, that in
that State in 1852 "there was one di-
yOrce for every nine marriages" FOr
the two years ending IN lSS2 there were
in that comparatively small community
2,S24 applications for divorce, and OF
this number 2,20l were successful.
When 1t Is considered" says the Gov.
ernOr, that "a large majority Of these
divorces were granted without opPOsi-
ton, and therefore upon ex parte de-
positions, which are practically the
statements Of interested parties, who
make u prima facie case, it must be
confessed that the condition of society
which tOlerates it must be radically
wrong"
Ii Is not improbable that In the major-
ity of the cases cited by the New Jer-
sey Executive, as well as in those Oe.
curing elsewhere, the legal separation
in contaminated through the collision
of the parties. In California divorce Is
not so frequent as In more Eastern com.
munities, but even there it is much too
frequent. Ii has increased in that State,
over and above the Increase of populs-
ton, twenty per cent. as compared
with ten years ago. But, as We say, the
evil IL more extensive in the East than
there. 1t Is q question in some com.
munlties, and notieeably in Chi
cago and Boston, whether the.
increase In the number of di-
vorces Is an evil In magnitude only
Inferior to the national shame,
polygamy. The Rhode leland figures
are even more alarming then those Of
New Jersey. There the proportion of
divorce Is one to six Of the marriages.
In Maine there were 5S7 divorces grant.
ed In 1852, which showed an increase
Of fifty per cent. over the previous year.
New Hampshire has increased her d.
vorces from lU6 In 1850 to S14 In 1882,
and In Massachusetts,, that land Of
moral virtues and Emersonian philoso-
ply, the increase liz 1888 was 40 per
cent. IS compared with the previous
year. Connecticut shows is divorces In
1850 and Sill In 1888. But 1t Is reserved
for the single city OF Chicago TO take
the palm from all other communities In
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-02-24
THE AUTUMN MESSAGE.
Al tie Year Rosnd.

Al tie Year Rosnd.
She gathered the dark blue vtolets
That hid meath their dewy leaves,
And gave 10 the sighing Autumn winds
The fragrance OF April eveG
She chose the pale pure rusebud
Thai preeped It's penstvs head
Where The great birch swung Aooye IL,
All rmsei, and geld, and red.
She sought for The fragile beauty.
That gro rs meath the hotnouse panes
Whose blossom, although it wtthes,
For ever It's cent retains. - 60
She WHISPERED word tn the flowers,
And sftly their leaves care sed,
And she cent them TO carry her message.
To him whom she loved the best.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-02-24
ADVANTAGES OF A WET SPELL.

Old gum shoes can be worn out.
Opportunities for trading q cotton for
a silk umbrella are numerous.
The lungs can be thoroughly tested.
and If they stand 1t can be warranted
COR the rest of the year.
New methods OF keeping the feet dry
ard the conscience clear (of swear
thoughts can be invented.
Poems of welcome to the sunshine
can lie prepared in advance. Anticips.
ton is always better than realization.
New and powerful adjectives can be
invented to describe the state of the
weather and the effect it has upon the
system.
Corns ache, malaria thrives, the
"hypos" get the best OF you, the liver
lies dormant, food taste fOggy and you
feel reconciled to the hereafter, no mat
.er what that may be.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-02-24
LITERARY LITTLE BITS.

Anthony Trollope's last novel, IAN
Old Mah's Love,p will shortly be issued
by Blackwooj.
An article on "Dinners at belmont.
co.'s" will shortly appear In Harpers
Magazine. 1t will be Barmecide FEAST
to the multitude, . :
1.-THE Unity of Nature" Is the title Of
the Duke Of Argyle's book. THE
Oneness of Artn would be an excellent
title for sequel to it.
A translation OF q japanese novel has
been published by New York hrm.
This brings up new phase OF the inter-
national copyright question.
The former editor.in-chIef OF the
Courier des Eats Unis has written q
book on "Aristocracy in America" Let
us hope he knows all about il.
The latest interesting English critic
Of American manners and customs In
Sir Lepel Griffin. He has taken all the
wind out of Matthew Arnold's sails.
Twelve Months in an English Pris-
on is the interesting title ola new
book written by lady who was falsely
accused of theft and served out her sem
tence. She was sustained by spirltuaiis-
tic phenomena.
An American lady suggests In a re-
cent book that the Roman Coliseum
should be turned over to the Society Tor
the Prevention Of Cruelty to Animals
for stable for injured beasts. This Is q
humane but decidedly Yankee Idea.
Thomas Baily Aldrich's novel "The
Saltwater Tragedy has just been pub
lished in France in Paris. A French
critic says of it is q "moral, instructive
and entertaining work, which may be
read with profit and pleasure"
Not satisfied with "Portraits Of Amer.
lean Beauties" the public is now being
treated TO Portraits of American
Fishes published in the American
Angler. The 'profe ssional beauty has
evidently gone below watermark as
well as below stairs.
"Palliser's Useful Details" Is not only
all invaluable aid to the artisan, but
meets the most extensive and actual
demand for practical designs. 1t is the
best work of the kind ever issued and
commends itself to every builder. Price,
s..
The author of the "Bread- Winners"
does not intend to reveal his identity, be-
cause he is engaged in business which
would be injured were it known that he
had written a novel. He must be q
minister, or at least deacon, or, posi-
bly,, q church-warden.
The latest issue Of the "Early Chris
tian Literature Primer Series" publish
ed by Appleton, is 1.-The POst-Nicene
Latin Fathers" which contains an ac-
count of several celebrated fathers Of
the church. among them Jerome, Au-
CUISINE and Ambrose. The author is
Rev. George A. Jackson.