Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-02-04

I ONCE KNEW A SWEET YOUNG GIRL.
same river and hill and landscape, and
the very air seems redolent OF ages that
are gone. At the stairway OF the Tower
the other day picked up a joke that
was still In q COED state OF preservation.
IL was on It's way TO st. James Hall,
where 10 was TO appear ia the afternoon
under the management OF Moore q
Burgess.
Many evidences OF prehistoric times
may be met with AZ Moore q Burgess
minstrels. They succeed the time hon
ored Christie minstrels, and by ruling
of King Herod (see Pony Moore versus
Christie, twenty-shird Herod's Digest,
.. SD the Grm of Moore 4 Burgess was
not permitted % use the title Of
Christis's minstreis-0 nly the costumes
and jokes.
The workingman on the street here
has introduced method Of draping
the pant or trOuser 20 keep II
from the mud, which 1 think is dss-
tined 90 superSeds the rOllsd bottom
both in England and America.
A strap or string Is drawn tightly
the bottom Of the trousers and then the
garment drawn up out Of the wet. This
allows the pant 60 fall iD graceful
festo0n over the strap or tarred rope,
which is a great fav0rite this season,
aud thus tho leg, Instead OF being
mere support, becomes an ornament TO
society and a joy 20 the eye.
I recently paid another visit to Gad's
Hill and took a receipt for same. Gad'S
Hill was erected by Cad many years
ago and afterward was made the home
of Charles Dickens, who Incurred this
dispIeasure OF William Dean Howells in
some way and died OF a broken heart
June 9, 1870, in the fity-ninth year OF
his age.
I started 70 visit the leprOsy hospital,
but learned that an admission fee would
be charged except on Saturday and so
nut off nv visit until Saturday. give
below few symptoms, so that the
reader may at once know IL one Of the
children is taken with this disease and
remove him from school
OF course leprosy has pedrOcnal
stages, and nodules appear on the skin,
deeply duplicating the peripheral ner-
vOus system. Later there are erythe-
natous congestlOns, eXudatlOns, macu-
losa. tubercnlOsa, macui9, induratiOns,
DiVmentatiOns, au9Sthesia, pemphigus
signs and finally necrosis and mutilans.
IL is a terrible misfortune, and its
spread should be prevented as much as
possible.
A Young lady OF good family would be
perfectly justified In refusing the con-
slant attentions Of a gentleman friend
who has leprOsY. A social leper, how
ever. is different. A sweet girl who is
not very particular might marry such
one and reform him.
A great many seem TO think that
social leprosy may Do prevented by iD-
oculatiOL-i. G. (meaniug id est in the
Latin tongue), by inOculating the sys-
tenn with a mild form OF the disease,
such as bean bag aud kissing every girl
in the room in the game OF forteits.
I once knew a sweet girl who was the
class ledictorian. She said that NOW,
dear friends our pathways fork" She
married a social leper because be had
told her that if she refused he would
nm his bosom full OF bird shot and pre-
sent a sickening sight, but that she
could reform him with her loving smile
and innocent prayers 10 one whom he
had offended By his general amoideX-
trous cusSeduess.
So after the iorking OF the pathway
she was welded 70 a man about town
who parted his hair behind and cOmbed
10 forward, where he cOlored il, forget
ting that it was also gray at the back,
where he could not see 1t.
But why go on?
He had impressed her as profound
man. but she soon discovered that he
had pronounced the D in pneumonia and
made other sickening breaks. Alas,
too. he soon began 10 drink and tried
% conceal il by eating raw onions. she
grew irritated and prayed for him in
his presence in q way that must have
startled the recording angel and kept
him I'D half the night.
He then cursed her cosrsely aud woke
ND quite lot OF children. Soon she
became HOPELESS and left the children
with Other people evenings while she
went 10 the WOman'S Wailing Club.
After awhile she cheered up. She told
her husband not 20 touch the brandy
hottie where she kept her spirits for
cooking. as il was poison. She said this
i'm the presence Of the hired girl, so
that when ne died in great agony the
natiept wife had cinch on the prose-
cutting attorney and a good witness in
the hired girl
But nsiied up on the neat little cot
tsvs which she bought with the life in
snraDee money are these words.
The social leper reformatorY here
tof1re conducted here has oeen clos
~ ont 10 tue valedict0rian Of the