Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-10-08

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swinging their trunks this way
and that, and six'y-two thousand in.
f.ntIy, and six thousand caval-
~ troops, and they were driven
back. Then the second time he advanced
with seventy thousand armed men and
hsd been again defeated. But the third
time he laid successful siege until the
navy of Rome came in with the flash OF
their long banks of oars ard demanded
that the siege bs lifted. And Artiochus
Epiphanes said he wanted tins to consult
with his friends about il, and Popilius,
one of the Roman ambassadors, took staff
and made circle on the ground around
Antiochus Epiphaues and compelled him
to decide before he came out Of that circle;
whereupon he lifted the siege. Some of
the Jews had submitted 10 the invader but
some of them res i Ited valorously, as did
Eleazsr when he had swine's flesh force ]
into his mouth. spit it out, although he
knew be must die for 1t, and did die for II,
and ott era, IS my text saye, were enabled
to do exploits.
MAN IN EXIGENCIRs.
During tbs course of his life almost
every man gets into an exieency, is caught
between two fires, is ground between two
millstones, sits on the edge of some preci-
pice, or in some other way comes near
demolit on. 1t may be financial, or
moral, or a domestic. or q social, or
political exigenty. You sometime, see 1t
in court rooms. A young man has got
into bad company and he has offended the
| law, and he is arraigned. All blusbing
and confused he is in the presence Of
Judge and Jury and lawyers. He can be
sent right on in the wrong direction. He
ia feeling disgracsd, and he is almost des
psrate. Let the District Att rney over
haul him as though he were an old fond
er, let the sblest attorney, at the bar
refuse to say word for him
because he cannot afford Ia consid-
erable fee, let the judge give no opportu-
nifty for presenting the mitigating cirtum-
stances, hurry up the case and hustle him
up to Auburn or Sing Sing II he live
seventy years, for seventy years he will be
a criminal and each decade cf his life will
be blacker than it, predecessor. In the
interregnums of prison life he can get no
work, aud he is glad to break window
glass. or blow up q safe, or play the high
wayman, 30 as to get back again within
the walls where he can get something to
eat and hide himself from the cruel gaze
of the world. Why don't hi, father c,me
and hslp him? His father is dead. Why
don't his mother come and help him? She
is dead. Where are all the smeliorating
and salutary influences of tocieiy? They
| = l. h. ,nk nnon q
long ag, in the case understand that there
was an opportunity for the exploit which
would be famous in heaven o qusdrillion
of years after the earth has become scat
tered ashes in the last whirlwind. Why
did not the District Attorney take that
Young man into hts private Office and say:
"My son, see that you are
THE VICTIM OF CIRCUMSTANCES.
This is your first crime. You are sorry.
will bring the person you wronHed into
your presence and you will apologize and
make all the reparation you can, and will
i've YOU another chance" Or that young
man is presented in the court room and he
has 20 friends pi esent, and the judge says:
"Who is your counselP" And he answers:
'I have none" And the judge says:
"Who will take this young mans csss?"
Aud there is dead halt and no one Offers,
and after awhile the judge turns TO some
attorney who never had good case in all
his life aud never will, and whose advcca'
cy would be enough to secure the condem-
n alton of innocence itstl; And the pro.
feesional incompetent crawls up beside the
prisoner, hslplessness to rescue despair,
when there ought TO be q struggle among
all the bsst men of the profession rs 70
who should have the honor Of trying TO
help that unfortunate. How much would
such an attorney have received a. bis fes
for such an advocacy? Nothing in dollars,
but much every way in happy confco
mesa that would make his own life brigttsr
and his own dying pillow suester and his
, own heaven happisr-the consciousness
that he had saved man!
There sometimes come exigencies In the
life of woman. One mornirg about two
years ago I saw in the newspaper that
there was young woman 10 New York
whose pocket book containing thirty.
seven dollars and thirty-thres cents had
been stolen, and she had been left without
farthing at the beginning Of winter In a
8 rang city, and no work. And although
! she was . stranger, did not allow tie 8
o'clock mail to leave tie lamp.post Of our
corner without carrying the thirty -seveu
dollars and thirty-three cents; and
THE cAsEwAs PROVED GENUINE.
Now I have read all Shskspere's trage.
, dies and all Victor Hugo's tragedies and
all Alexander Smith tragedie,, bat never
: read O tragedy more thrilling than that
) case, and similar cases BY the hundreds
, and thousands in all our large cities; young
, women without money and without hons
and without work in these great msel.
: stroms of metropolitan life. When eueh
. case come, Under your observation how do
you trsat IL? Get out Of my way, VI
have no room in our establishment for any
more hands. don't believe In. women
anyway, they are Q lazy, idle, wocthle {
SET. John, please show this penon out o'
ths door" Or do you complim snt bsl
3 p.ro nal app ,arsnc, and ssy things TO hes
. which II any man said to your ds<r o'
j daughter you wonld kill him on the spet'
That n one way, and It is tisd every dsy
a in tbe,e large cities, and many OF th D
3 who advertise for female hands IN fectoriei
e and f,r Rovsrussses In families have proved
8 themselves unfit to be in any place outsida
of hell.
But there ID another way, and / saw Il
the other day in the Methodist Book Con
= earn in New York, where yoasg woman
\ spplied for work ard tbe eentleman Il
tone and manner aid in substance: M
daughter, We employ wousn hsrs. bot
: do not know of any vacant place In ou
1 department. You bad batter inquire !.
Z such and such placr, and I hope yoa vi!
+ Be successful in getting something 10 do,
I The embarrassed and humiiiased woms'
seemed 10 give wsy to christian con
6dence. Shs stastsd out wit
a bopsful look that I think must have wcl
% fer hu place in which 70 earn her brad
]. Inther think thst considaats and ChIil
a tisn ssstlemsn avsd . vumsn. Ne
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