Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-05-14

We showed IN Victoria OF Good Fri
day, as the date had been made months
ago and without due forethought. Good
Friday in an English city, and a pouring
rain gave us an apprehensive pain as we
strolled into the opera house at the
stage entrance. The steamer ride all
day had been dreary, wet and cold, and
at s O'Clock I entered my dressing room
weeping softly as my valet laid out my
handsome costumes for the evening.
The opera house manager came back
to see me. 1 dried my eyes as we'll as
possible, dashing some powder on my
discolored nose, and expecting to hear
him say, "You come to US at a very I'M
fortunate time, but some OF our best
people are here tonight" etc., bat he
rubbed his hands cheerily and said,
1--WE will do we'll to get room for them
tonight, and I'd hate TO turnthem away
In the rain"
"But how about Good Friday?"
'Oh, that is all right. l was only
afraid it would be a pleasant day. Then
all of Victoria would have been fishing
all the daylight there was and been too
tired to come, but now they are all
rested and on hand.
Business men of Victoria are not
slaves to their work. They get down
to their business at 10 o'clock, and II
any one Is waiting to see them they
make an engagement for o'clock. The
house is closed at lunch time also. Good
Friday was a holiday. Saturday Is a
regular holiday. Sunday is the same,
OF course, for tired merchants then go
fishing. Monday was a holiday also, be.
ing Easter Monday, and on Tuesday
many were so worn out with fishing
that it wa also observed as a holiday.
We could not get into a bank by any
honorable means, and so when we get TO
America we had a trunkful Of Canadian
money. Had we been a few days later
we would have had 90 per cent discount
to pay, as this is the rule since April 10.
1t is a retaliatory measure. The Cana
dians say that we started 1t, and the
Yankees say the Canadians started 1t. l
do not know who started IT, but l can
put my hand on my heart and say OF a
truth that / had nothing TO do with 1t.
All the time while there / tried to
think OF something to smuggle, but l
could not.
By going on board q Chinese steam
ship we succeeded In buying some en-
broidered handkerchiefs, and by being
extremely foxey and free with our shil-
linQs we got them off the steamer-the
handkerchiefs, / mean-and across the
line. Ny heart was In my mouth all the
time. | sent them since TO my wife, who
saws that they are very curious, but can
be bought cheaper at Asheyille. N. c.
At Nainaimo coal mining and football
are INDUCED in. Coal mining is the only
thing that Is not affected by the rainy
season. A man on the sound also told
la that for two years he did not see
Mount Hood. Mount Rainier, Mount
Tacoma or Mount Baker for the rain.
Mount Tacoma and Mount Rainier are
the same, but called by different names
according to whether you live at Tacoma
or Seattle. / have referred TO this be-
fore,
Each large city aims to be the ter
minus OF some great transcentipental
road. In some countries people are d.
yided into EpiscopaIians. Methodists,
Raptists and Presbyterisns, but here
one must at ence become a follower Of
Jim Hall, the n. p, the c. p, or the
u. p.
l was about to say that P's hath her
victory no less than war. but the Gus
tens eflcer told me | had no right to
bring such 3 thing as that into this
country free unless I wanted IL for my
W personal use.
AT Nainaimo We toek the little
steamer Clutch to Vancouver. In cross
ing the wharf At Nainsimo / sat my bag
down on the dock In order 70 peel my
umbrella and hit a rainin. A young
man with a haggard lssk took il up and
held il for me. He continued TO hold it
It'll I paid him wharfage on It.
Il is a private wharf and Is all the
poor man has to keep him 10 liquor. II
you send your trunks down 70 the
steamer. he holds them until you ran
som them.
An old resident told me that once
this nan stopped . funeral procession
because the bearers pms dcHn the TO