Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-11-22
'DMENS.
The Lingering Traces Of Supersti-
tiun in the Human Character.
An Illustration Of the Queer Things
Which Sometimes Happen--ThOugbts
Suggested in an Elm
Grove Car.

All the human family are superstitious.
den of more than average Intelligence aud
marked practical methods in business, are
ound upon close examination to be nit
lie of" on omens. An example illus
rating and proving this fact was brought
to my notice this morning in way that
brands it upon memorys living tablet.
Coming down Fourteenth street rather
early, overlook prominent business
man who was slso en- route to the scene
Of bis daily toll We bad only taken about
a dozen steps when We were met by the
gas rent collector, who presented my COM
pauion bill, with polite good morn
ing" My friend stopped, felt IN his pock-
cts, hesitated, looked confused, then EN-.
barrassed, and finally incoherently muttered
something about not liking to go back tor
his pocket book. Suddenly recol!ectiDg him
self, he asked the gas man to accompany
him TO the bank where he would draw
SHINE money. My suspicious having been
aroused, it only took few minutes to con-
firm them. The fact is, that man was
afraid to turn back few steps to his home
to get the purse he had forgotten, and then
face the uncertainties of the world OF for
tune. You may not ike 10 acknowledge
YOU are superstitious, but walk around II
as you may, bark at it and squirm under 1t
if YOU please, you are, and 80 were yoqr
fore fathers, ever since that young man
dressed IN white linen inflicted himself up.
on the sewing circle Of ladies' in the town
of Antioch and predicted the reign Of
Theodocius as King Of Italy.
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Of course its foolish, everybody knows
that and heathenish too; still you indulge
such fsrcies, and floating alorg the stream of
life queer things sometimes occur that
strengthen more than ever your belief in
omens or the hand of fate Speaking OF
this to friend the other day, he told me
an interesting piece OF history involving
love, tragedy and fate, if so You elect to
call it.
In the spring of 1865, the. late John
Wilkes Booth was deeply 10 love with aud
engaged 10 be married to, Miss Mary
Hale, daughter OF Senator Hale, from Yer
mont. Miss Hale is queenly handsome
woman of the brunette type, the very curve
of whose features indicated capabilities Of
strong feelings. Booths well known char
acter needs no explanation to convey at
once how powerful and deep must have
been his every passion. HisIast intervleE
with his sweetheart was held in the old
National HOtel-still etanding-at Wash
ipgton, D. c., on the evening Of the ll;h
of April, 1865. From there he is sup
posed to have gone directly 70
Ford's Theater and assassinated President
Lincoln, as the fatal ball was fired short
time after Mr.. Tenney, the proprietor then
and now of the hotel, met him in the cor
ridor coming from MISS Hales parlors.
What followed this terrible crime is fresh
IN the mind Of the reader, and We therefore
gladly pass ii over aud come down to the
winter OF 1854.
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Sill in Washington, but the uoiseless
foot Of time has wrought many changes.
Miss Hale wounded heart has been heal
ed and with her hand given unto the keep
in Q of the Honorable William L. Chandler,
now Secretary Of Navy. At al State
dinners diplomatic courtesy requires the
Secretary Of War TO escort 70 dinner the
wife of,the Secretary the OF Navy, hence IT
happened that Robert LiGcoln holds upon
his arm on all public occasions of note,
the oua time sweetheart Of the man who
ssgassinated his father.
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Thinking one bright afternoon last week
as the sunlight laughed, delighted to see
itself caught and broken and scattered into
8 thousand reflections, an outing would be
conducive to health, boarded q half past 3
o'clock motor aud immediately ran across
my genial young friend Harry Holiday
standing on the platform behind the curl
ing smoke Of stogie, apparently lost
in thought, and doubtless trying to solve
the problem of framing more picturesque
msnsard roof with less lumber. Arouslng
himself at once he told me his father hal
purchased the fne house on Edgingtoa
Lane, built by Chsrles Dieters Esq, where
they were all living and enjoying the ad-
vantages Of town, with tountTy comforts
and pure atmosphere, transit from and to
the city being made in twenty minutes via
the motor The interior OF the car, as we'll
ga four Of it's occupants, was little too
full for comfort, and the lawyer, the baker,
the lass and the fakir all jostled
good hGnoEedly together, till aTr!y.
ing at Leatherwood station those
getting off left room abundant
One old gentleman among the passengers
the Mikado Of the csr-deserves partic.
ular mention. His appearance is rather
handsome, dress the very best, la Broad
way, but his fondness fer the your ger o.
posite sex is his mos! prominent feature.
When entering the car, be carefully su;-
veyed the personnel thereof then walked in
an easy, sort of ownership manner, 10
where two pretty young la'is sat chsttiDg,
and croRded d0wo between them This Of
course brought look Of psiu and dis
pleasure to the two sweet faces. The
mans cool impotence went unnotiCed and
til q friendly station relieved
the doves OF their serpent aud his stare.
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In the opposite corner sat couple whose
whole world was centered in that teH or
twelve inches ofspace ttey cecapisd. Ore
was a bright rosy checked school girl
whose name could not learn sad cannot
therefore givs--iu the gigglts OF her first
Irritation, and from out the gaze OF her
fond parents was utilizing her versatile arts
to forever fAsten upon her sweet little self
the affections Of what she GtteIwsrd termed
her companion 10 be her "oSn psrsonsl
pie"
Whatever other differences mag divide
the people living contiguous TO the ". 4
E. G. railroad, they are a uuaaimity on
the disadvantages aud iGeonTeniences 10
themselves of the present schedule. House
wives say quarter before eight is too
early Tor them to pat the household in Or
der and get ready to go shopping and ten
too late; school children and business nsR
hat halt-past three is too soon to leave