Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-05-25
WHEELING DAILY REGISTER MONDAY, MAY 25, 1891

lea, and keep back the froSts ana the
curcullo. But we must not forget that
it is Wednesday evening in Eden, and
upon that perfect fruit of those perfect
trees let the curtain drop. "And the
evening and the morning were the
third day"
Now it is Thursday morning of the
worlds first week. Nothing will be
created to-day. The hours will be pass
ed scattering fogs and mistS and vapors.
The atmosphere must be swept clean.
Other worlds are to hove in sight. This
little ship of earth has seemed to have
all the ocean of immensely to Itself
But mightier crafts are to be hailed to-
day on the high seas of space. First,
the moons white sail appears and does
very well until the sun bursts upon the
scene. The light that On the previous
three mornings was struck from an
especial world now gathers in the sun,
moon and stars. One for the day, the
others for the night. 1t seemed as if
they had all in within twenty-four hours
been created. All, this is great time
in the worlds first week. The moon,
the nearest neighbOr to our earth, APP
pears, her photograph to be taken in the
nineteenth century, when the telescope
shall bring her within one Aun-
dred and twenty miles of New
York. And the sun now appears,
aGterward to be found eight hun
dred and eighty-eight thousand miles
in diameter, and, put in astronomical
scales, 10 be found to weigh nearly four
hundred thousand times heavier than
our earth; mighty furnace, its heat
kept up by meteOrs pouring into it as
fuel, world devOuring other worlds
with its jaws of flame. And the stars
come out, those street lamps of heaven,
those keys of pearl, upon which Gods
fingers play the music of the spheres.
How bright they look in this Oriental
evening! Consultations GalaXieS !.
What twenty-four hours of this first
week-Solar, lunar, stellar appearances.
All this Thursday and the adjoining
nights employed in pulling aside the
curtain of vapor from these flushed or
palc-faced worlds. Enough " And
the evening and the morning were the
fourth day"
DENIZENS OF WATER.
Now it is Friday morning in the first
week of the worlds existence. Water,
but not fin swimming it; air, but not
IA wing flying in it. 1t is silent world.
Can it be that it was made only for
vegetables? But, bark. There is a
swirl and FLASHING in all the four
rivers OF PiSOn, GihOn, Hiddekel and
Euphrates They are all a-Swim with
life. some darting like arrows through
ia, Iar
pools like shadows. Everything, from
spotted troGt to behemoth: all colored,
all shaped, the ancestors of finny tribes
that shall by their wonders of construc-
ton confound the AgaSsizS, the Cuviers
and the Linn2useS and the ichthyolo-
gists of the more than six thousand
years following this Friday of
the first week. And while l
stand on the banks of these Paradis-
aical rivers watching these finny tribes,
hear whirr in the air and look up
and behold wingS-wngS OF .arkS, rob-
ms, doves, eagles, flamingoS, albatroSs-
eS, brown-threShers. Creatures OF all
color, blue as if dipped in the skies, fiery
as if they had flown out of the sunsets,
golden as If they had taken their NOM
ing bath in buttercupS. And while | am
studying the colorS, they begin to carol
and chrp and coo and twitter and run
up and down the scales of music that
they must have heard at heavens gate.
Yes, | find them in Paradise on this the
first Friday afternoon of the worlds
existence. And l sit down on the bank
of the EuphrateS, and the murmur of
the river, together with the chant OF
birds in the sky puts me-into state of
somnolence. "And the evening and the
morning were the fifth day"
Now it is Saturday morning of the
worlds first week and with this day the
week closes. But oh, what d climacterc
day. The air has its population and the
water it's population. Yet the land has
not one inhab tant. But here they come,
by the voice of God created.-HorSes
grander than those which in after time
Job will describe as having neck clothed
with thunder. Cattle enough to cover
a thousand hills. Sheep Shepherded by
him who made for them the green pas
lures. Cattle superior to the Attorneys
and AvrshireS and DevonShires of after
times. LeopardS so beautiful we are
clad they cannot change their spots.
Lions without their tierceneSS and all
the ouadruped world so gentle, so sleek,
so perfect Look out how you treat
this animal creation, whether they walk
the earth or swim the waters or fly the
air. Do you not notice that God gave
them precedence of the human race?
TIE BRUTE CREATION.
They were created Friday and Satur-
day morning, as man was created Satur-
day afternoon. They have right to
he here. He who gals horse, or eX-
noses a cow to the storm, or beats dog,
or maus cat, or gambleS at the pigeon
shooting, or tortures All insect, Will
have to answer for it in the Judgment
day. You may console yourself that
these creatures are not immortal ana
they cannot appear against you, but the
God who made these creatures, and VINO
saw the wrong you did them will be
there. Better look out, you stock
raisers aud railroad companies VINO
bring the cattle on trains without food
or water for three or four days
i'm hot weather, long groan OF
agony from Omaha to New York. Bet
ter Eslook out, you farmer riding
behind that limping horse with mai
that the blacksmith drove into the
,,iol, Rattan look ont Won bows StOn-