Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-02-14

water to ride on. The gentle reader who
has crossed the raging main and borrowed
high-priced meals Of the steamship com
pany for days and days, will agree with me
that when We can find a smooth piece Of
water to ride on we should lose no time in
crossing it.
In Washington Territory the women
vote. That is no novelty to me Of course,
for | lived in Wyoming for seven years,
where women voted and / held Office all
the time. And still people say that female
voters are poor judges OF men, and that
any pleasing 81 Adonis who m along
and asks Tor their sufrsges will get them
Not much :
Woman is a keen and correct Judge OF
mental and moral worth. Without stop
ping to give logical reasons for her course,
perhaps, she still chooses with unerriDg
judgment at the polls.
ANY ONE WHO DOUBTS
this statement will do well to 60 to the old
poll books in Wyoming and examine my
overwhelming msjorities~-w with q powerful
msgniGer.
have Just received from Boston a warm
invitation to be present in that city on
ForetstheTs day TO take part IN the cere.
monies and Join in the festivities of that
occasion.
Foretatbers, | thank you Though this
reply will not reach you for a long time
perhsps, | desire to express to you my deep
appreciation Of your kindness, and though
| can hardly be regarded as a foretsther
myself, | assure you that | sympsthize with
you.
Nothing would give me greater pleasure
than to be with you on this day Of your
general jubilee and to talk over old times
with you.
One who has never experienced the thrill
Of genuine JOY that wskens q man to q glad
realization Of the fact that he is a fore
father caDao understand it's full signif-
canoe. You alone know how it is yourself,
you can speak from experience.
In fsncys dim corridors | see you stand,
away back in the early dawn Of our national
day, with the tallow candle dropping and
dying in its socket as you waited for the
physician to-come and announce 10 you
that you we're q forefather.
Forefathers, you have done we'll. Others
have sought to Guido you and wrest the
laurels from your brow, but they did not
succeed. As 70 efsthers you have never
been successfully scooped.
| hope that you will keep up your Justly
celebrated organization. If q foretsther
allows his dues TO get in arrears, 90 to him
kindly and ask him Ike u brother to put
up II he refuses to do 80, FIRE him. There
ia no reason why q man should presume
upon his long standing as a foretsther to
become incident 10 other toretsthers who
are far his s%eniors. As q rule, | notice
that 1t is the
YOUNG AMATEUR ~FOREFATHER,
Oho has only been so a few days, in fact,
who is arrogant end disobedient.
! have often wished that we could OBJ
serve F~orefathers' day more generally in
the West. Why we should allow the East
ern cities to Guido US in this matter, while
we hold over them in some other ways. |
cannot understand. Oar church socisbles
and homicides in the West will compare
favorable with those Of the effected cities
of the Atlantic slope. Our educational
institutions aud embezzlers are making
rapid strides. especially our embszzlers
are cultiyating q certain air of refine
msut and naughty reserve which enables
us At times to fool the best Judges. Many
Of our Western people have been to the At
lantic sesboard and remained all summer
without falling into the hands Of the bunko
arts. A Coz gentleman friend Of mine
who batked his plump limbs in the At.
lsuric last summer, curing the day, and
mixed himself up in the may dance Al
night, told me on his return that be had
eri1yei the summer immensely hut that
he had returned huaucia!ly depressed
"Ah, said | with al sir Of superiority
which | often assume VILE talking TO men
who know more than 60, you fell into
the hands Of the cultivated confidence
menu
No, William he said sadly, worse
than that, worse than that. / stopped at
a sea side hotel. Had I gone to New York
City and hunted up the geutlemsnly blnko
man and the Wall street dealer in lambs
pel,s, as my better Judgment prompted, |
might have returned with funds. Now |
am almost i~usolvegt. begin life again
great sorrow, and the same old Texas steer
vi h which | zen into the cattle industry
five years ago
But why should We, here in the West,
take readily to ali other institutions COM
mon to the cultured East and ignore the
fo.efather industry? nov make this pub.
lie announcement and will stick to it, VIZ {:
| all be of ten full.blooded American ci,i.
zens to establish a branch foretather ledge
in The West, with a separate fund set inside
for the benefit Of foretsthers who are no
longer young. Forefstherd are Just as apt
70 Gecome old and helpless as anyone else
Young men who contemplate becoming
forefs,hers should remember this.
Bill HYE.