Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-04-27


ASHISGToS, April 26.-The weather,
<heat market, and the AnglO-RussiAn
ID are alike in being uncertain. A week
E1she thermometer registered very cold,
~ il indicates summer heat The fash
have had no spring, and the dudes
< 70 lay aside their winter plaids for
&ner stripes. -...----...-.-.l-
Nature vs.. Fashions.
The four seasons are not enough for
|Ie vanities OF life. They are not
FOrable to sudden surprises. The
fsng woman who left with her
olher.in laws son, last week doesn't
.tnt to come back with her ulster and q
'nter hat when six trunks, (smuggled on
ID checks) are unpacked
& Yet nature seems satisfied with spring,
|nmer, autumn and winter; and so does
y man who earns his bread BY the sweat
n his face.
Nature has nothing to do with hats and
tnnets any more than it has with fops or
omen who eschew the pangs Of child birth.
The Iniqnities OF the Press.
he wsnton criticisms of the acts Of pub
& men so far from being founded upon q
Ia desire 70 protect the national honor are
ther more nor less than the result of what
buzzsrds call business enterprise" the
Mus of which consists in readily satisfy.
the curiosity and apPeasing the vorscity
certain set who must have news" at
kazards-
be press here and there, it strikes me, is
tpcted as if its readers were pack
wolves and somebody had to
Nj eaten up with every issue.
ID not one OF the virtuous deplorers OF
. iniquity Of the press. know that often
neSspaper Is more generous than its
ilanis Il is in the maiua peace maker
81 the best adjudicator we can have. IL
trls stones, but these are sermons iu,,them.
The small editor and the irresponsible
<<eEpondent make it, too frequently, the
<ine of corruption, the instrument Of
tfoeity cud the weapon of cowsrdly wick
mess and blacken it with brutality and
noEanee.
Diplomatic.
7Yilness for instance some of the assaults
.Dn Secretary Bayard, whose stainless life,
sullied public record and exalted princi-
!, whose patriotism and honor-inherited
In ancestors, themselves, the heirs to
NOR and dlstinction-sre not understood
the pirates, nor appreciated, and all this
eause they can't get q horizontal view OF
q character.
6ere is q gentleman who could SIT among
&eyes without being accused OF partishty,
%6eying in gentilty and character, hold.
his honor above everything else and
Wing what guttersnipes call weakness
<r blood. When be wanted . man to rep
&sent Us at Russia, he chose one whose lite
&s a justification OF the selection. But
- political disabilities are not removed,
La the fellow who had every disability ex-
.ppt the political Its q great blunder;
Bayard is bunghng; he will wreck US, we
lan't stand that We haven't any disabil'
hies TO be removed; why not have taken
Dne Of us?'
They would have taken foreign mis-
eon Just as willingly as they would have
hken a steamboat!
There is not q more upright, scholarly,
.kanly man anywhere, than Anthony NJ:
Eeiley, of Virginia; yielding nothing Of
honest convictions, reckoning his duty
<tOve all things-was it any wonder that
Secretary Bayard turned to such q man
md offered him station 10 the diplo'
N lc service2 If intentions be worth
.bything the Secretarys act was a good
,ne. In law, intention supposed to mean
& bad One) is the essence Of crime. Con-
|ersely, hold it to be an axiom that q
&ood intention is the essence Of a good
Ned.
Mr. Bsyard has found the duties Of the
apartment of State more irksome aud tar
<pre trying than be anticipated. The pro,
tss Of sitting is tedious and Justice does not
.prk hastily.
Reform I'm the Treasury.
bere is no sort of reforu so effective as
30 which rights existing wrongs Such IS
rue reform, and this is what Mr.. Manning
IN applying slowly and surely
S the Treasury Department. he
fnds that business shall be done
lkout complexities, and by. those who viii
snder faithful and efficient service to the
|,0Yernmeut. He is determined that the
>,hrtment shall no longer be dumping
<fnnd for the broken-doWn politicians, or
bee where men and women are to be
sed and sheltered, because they are to oe
>ken care Of or as spot where the
BED cease from troubling and the weary
.kt rest.
business man all his life, the Secre-
believes IN busiuess-Rke methods. No
thing as sentiment will avail IN his
.,sment of afflrs, and II viii be power
Is factor TO retain individuals who
neither merit nor record to commend
n. This is genuine civil service reform.
<re is a vast deal Of humbug about
IN is called reform. A fellow who has
a. twenty years in Office, all the time
bring the people BY drawing salary
according TO the idiots who Prste
reform, be advanced to 6ll a vacancy
,<e grade above him rather than put IN
onest man from the outside. This Is
<,sb, and worse. Mark il, am civil
reformer, but believe reform must
be made with pepper and occasionally,
eroie treatment IS very good.
Durham.
be Durham, Of Kentucky, recently
First Comptroller. is retormer and
b in applying the scorpion when
hry to clear the atmosphere. A good
having long experience IN puohe,
b lack Of backbone, kind OF heart,
churchman, intensely in earnest,
bpon shams, holding fast to the old
bf honestly doing everything, this new
ptroller viii vastly help in reforming
-. see he has begun already with
pod results
Ex-Speaker Randall.
Randall has not ut cred . word to
be about the SpeAkership, nor have
bis friends done so; neither was Mr..
pc interview 81 any newspaper
por d.nt NG6e subject. Mr.. Ran
silent. J Aas been q very sick man,
Just nv beginning to 90 about
still very weak The demands upoa
Pc and the trials Of his patience are
sst. His daily mail is larger than