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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-05-20

French women, like Madame Bee'ns
mont and the Duchess Dues over
BOnlauger, for instance.
They cannot proclaim the worship OF
their heroes FROM the honsetops ike
these women, for our convsntionaiitles
will not permit this, but still, they can
establish a salon on other lines and
make IL success.
Mrs. Lille Devereux Blake, the
President of the Woman's Suffrage
League and one OF the veterans OF the
movement, does not believe salon will
ever be successfully established In
America. III the National capital
was here at the metropolis we would
have salons just as they do in London
aud Paris" said Mrs. Blake, land
would have had them long ago, but our
system of government has located the
capital az Washington, while the CEN
ire of mercantile, financial, profession
al, artistic and literary life is in New
York. Then the constant rotation In
office brings so many new faces into
political activity, and makes so many
changes that a salon cannot be estao-
lisAed in Washington. When our
NatiOOal legislators come 70 New YORK
hey have particular errands, their stay
short, and they have 20 time for So
tcial affairs. All this is different In the
European capitals. This is permS-
nent barrier to the American salon.
"Our women up 70 the present time
do not know enough about politics to
make themselves the heads OF salons.
Instead Of being trained 10 discuss in
their social gatherings and In their home
life the political questions Of the day, as
are the women Of England and France,
they have been trained 70 escheW
political discussions, and the result has
been that they are united TO cope
with men in the discussion OF political
affairs. To change this, aud to educate
our women in the affairs OF politics,
Is one OF the main objects OF our desire
for wOman's suffrage. This fact alone
is a sufficient reason why no American
salon has ever vet been established: the
other that l have mentioned is a sutfi-
Gent reason think why none ever
will be-"
GEORGE RUsKIN PHOEBUs.
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until long after her marriage, and her
husband wished to know to whom he was
under obligations for It's birth. The
question was one OF such difficulties that
it has never been settled to this daY.
The attempt has been made to catalogue
GATHERINGS favorites, but it has never
been wholly successful. While sill
young and comparatively inexperienced
in the arlstocratic life OF Russia she
often had q half dozen lovers at q
time. to none OF whom she was frigid.
On one occasion q strange s man was
arrested as he was leaving her cham Der
at night. 1t was Prince Poniatowski,
who happened to be, for the time being,
most in favor among the males Of Cath
crimes seraglio.
When carried before Peter, be insist
ed that Poniatowski should tell him
where be had been and his purpose
in going there. He proposed TO
be taken into confidence, he said.
and when Ponistowski refused 10
confess be pretended 10 believe the pal
ace had been entered for the purpose Of
making an attempt to kill him. As
| Poniatowski was obdurate, his life was
| in some danger until Catherine, In great
| alarm, applied for aid TO her husoa nd s
mistress, Elizabeth Voronisof, at whose
intercession Poniatowski was pardoned.
What fool you were not to have
taken me into your confidence before, !"
said Peter.
| "And with that" writes Pontatowskl
in his memoirs, "he goes into his wife's
room, pulls her out Of bed without
leaving her time to put on her stock
ings or shoes, and without so much as
a petticost, brings her into US and says,
pointing TO me: well, here he is, aud
/ hope you will be satisfied"
With such encouragement from her
husband Catherine became one Of the
most licentioIs OF the courtesans Of the
capital. Not content with the opportu-
mites for debauchery afforded by the
palace-and they were almost without
limit-she learned to slip away at mig ht
for carousals in the lowest resorts OF
the worst quarters Of the city.
1t is not strange that by such an edu-
ucation she became remarkably well
fitted tor the throne, or that, on sue.
ceeding to it, she made record in the
dismem berment OF Poland and other
wise. through which her name has been
transmitted 10 the admiration OF pos
terity as Catherine the Great"
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Catherine was, perhaps, one Of the
worst women who ever lived, but she
was no worse than the society in which
she lived from the time when, as girl
In her teens, she left the little German
town OF Stettin, where she was born, TO
marry the Russian Archduke and heir
to the throne, Peter, grandson Of Peter
the Great. Empress Elizabeth, who
then held the throne OF Russia, wasva
daughter OF Peter the Great.
and was herself striking illustration
OF the manners ana morals Of the women
OF her class. She was woman Of i'm
posing presence, and she impressed
those to whom she cared to be kind
with the idea that she was the soul OF
gracious courtesy. This, however, was
merely the specious false pretense that
Russian aristocracy made Of being civil
lied aud enlightened because of having
learned TO read Voltaire and speak
wretchedFrench Elizabeth was beauti-
full and on occasion polite, but she
got drunk with great regularity
beat her servants with her own hands
and after spending hours on her knees
Ia prayer fhe often rose TO order that
the ears Of someone she disiket should
be cut of. Superstitious TO the last de-
gree, she feared 10 violate the oath she
had sworn before the image OF ST.
Nicholas that no Russian should be put
10 death during L.r reign, but she
found as much pleasure in cutting of
the ears OF her su bjects as her prede-
L.. lyfl har
When that palled, she had their
tongues cut out. According to the Count
d'Eon, ZOO people were thus deprived
OF their tongues as q result Of her ven
Grafton for ST. Nicholas. Her rival,
the beautiful Eldoxie Lapouhkine,
for no other offense than that OF being
her rival, was sentenced to be whipped
with the knout by the haugman and
to have her tongue bored through with
hot iron.
Degraded as was the Empress In
morals, GATHERINGS husband was even
more so. Like most Of his class, his
passions were much stronger than his
intellect. His future wife had no
sooner arrived In Russia and made his
acquaintance than he took her into his
confidence and told her the beastly de-
tails OF his private life, including his
scandalous relations with other
women. He had been q
drunksrd from his child
hood, and ''from 1853 he got drunk al
most daily" He had not been married
long before his wife discovered that lie
kept pack of hounds In one of the bed
rooms of the palace. where their ng
and the odor from the room fs
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/94&1ys
TO sUBDUE ONIONS

Mouth Washes That Destroy Their
Talk about the tobacco.scented
breath OF men," said pretty girl, II
have suffered more at matinees from
sitting next woman who had eaten
potato salad or Spanish onelet or some
dish OF which onions or garlic formed q
part than ever did from the fumes OF
tobacco in the presence Of men. The
odor Of wine which women drink
at table as often as men do is no more
pleasant because IL is waited from be-
tween the pretty lips Of woman, who,
peIchance, would tip-tilt her nose al
detecting 1t on 3 'horrid man."
There is more truth than poetry In
this criticism, but little care will pre-
vent any one from being offensive on
account Of the food or liquids they have
taken. Acup Of black coffee will de-
stroy the fumes OF the malodorous
onion. The fad OF having pepper
minis and wintergreen cream candies on
the table has method in its madness, as
one OF these will destroy the odor left
by wine. 1t would be quite safe to use
as mouth wash and garCle after each
meal a glass Of water 10 which has been
put a few drops each Of camphor and
myrrh. A Bit OF orris root might be
carried in the masculine pocket for use
when necessary, for 1t, as well as stick
cinnamon or ginger, will disguise un-
pleasant odors. In some cases. how
ever, the "ounce OF prevention" would
rendereresort to these disguises unnec-
essary. Henry Ward Beecher once
Enthusiastically said: There is NO
smell 50 universally pleasing as no
SMELL"
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FREE RIDE ON THE CABLE.
How an Escaped Monkey Learned Bow
the Cars are Run.

Cincinnati TINS Star.
Catching monkeys from the museum
has been great sport for many for ssv-
eral days past. But yesterday u cane
the turn OF the monkey named after
VIII. Heck 10 escape. IL did 20 and for
half an hour created plenty Of excite
msnt by walking electric lIght wires
upside down. Bot just before the er-
piratiOn OF IS vacation IL came 70 the
ground aud started 20 cross the cable
road on Walnut street. The cabls
whlrlIng along 10 the hslf-lighted slot
attracted It's attention and ~ dropped
its prehensile tail down and grabbed tbs
cable Just as = broken strand came
along. The result was that . Shrek
ing, chsttering, screaming. bowling
monkey went wblrliDg down the street.
IL had sense enough not 70 gull against
the cable, but though IL s.aid on 'ts
feet some, 10 slid principally, and ~
Fifth aud walnut the wheel cot the zip
OF the tail loose and IN less than sec
ond the sInian was 90 top OF sir-siory
building waving It's hands wildly an
walking line the cavalry club does az
a mounted drill. Anyhow the NOR
had q good time.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-05-20
Copyright, 1894, by Edgar w. Ne.
IL THE SOUTHWEST J
d - SPRINa oF ~ YEAR. !

IL THE SPRING OF THE YEAR.
The Jail at Fort Smith, Ark, is one
the leading industries here. visited
II, for it is the only concern know Of
that has lot felt the depression in bust
ness this year.
lis the warden here?" l inquired OF
4 stocky, good natured man who was
sitting by the door in the glorious
spring weather.
mo, sir he Is away"
"Well, who is Ia charge nOw?"
II am" he said, but did not ask me
10 conn in.
Then gave him my name and asked
him IL could visit the Institution.
YES" DO said "Ill tell you what
I'll do. III swap shows with you.
So l gave him a pass for the evening,
.and we started in to visit the prison,
which is a big, rectangular building,
standing 10 the middle Of large, grassy
knoll overlooking the city.
Some Of the prisoners are Indians,
but they are not Of the Pomona stripe.
They are mora Of the Cherokee strip.
People who read "ROmOna" do not ex-
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As young girl In small German
city, and as the daughter o. q petty
German potentste, Catherine had learn
ed nothing more immoral than that she
was born TO do as she pleased, but this
was enough to make her an apt pupil OF
the masters she found in the Russian
court, where there was little or no &C.
casion for immortality 10 feel under the
necessity OF paying in hypocrisy "the
homage which vice pays 20 virtue. "
Her husband was i'm beetle in the smame-
lessness OF his debaueherIes. His
chieiifavorite was q woman named Vor-
onisoh who "swore Ike trooper,
.squintsd and spat while tai king" She
was Peters boon companion In his de-
bauches. getting as drunk with him as
be coJ possibly desire anyone TO be
for the ke OF being companlonable.
It is said that while they were
drunk Their she beat him, even after
be ha me Gar.
Cat first child was rot born
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high board fence, was giving them q
warm dose ever and anon.
In fact, Graf Dalton and Bill Powers
had received mortal wounds before
they got 90 steps from the bank. Every
little while bullet would knock little
puff OF dust from the robbers clotnes'
and by that the citizens knew that they
had hit. Powers staggered to his horse
but as be put his foot in the stlrrup
big ball took him in the back, and TINS
noble brute fell under the feet OF his
horse to Use no more.
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NYE VISITS JAIL
he DESCRIBES IT as A LEADING INDUSTRY
AND TELLS OF TIE INMATES

An Bmbitoas EzscatOlsr Who Has Fallen
Short Of BIS Mark-At the Scene Of the
Great Dalton Fight With a Graphic Dc
scripdOn Of Il
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Sallust and Cicero have said nothing
worse than this OF Catiline, but the de-
scriptlon is not 40 exaggeration, IL IL
no more possible 10 exagRerate the
vices OF the military despotism which
created the Orloifs and made them the
creatures of the lust aud ambition Of
| Catherine than ii is 10 do justice In
language 10 the degradation which the
system had brought on those who
thought TO make themselves Its benef-
Charles.
Through the 0rlofs and her other
| lovers, Catherine won over the Guards
and the flower OF the army. Her hus-
band, who divided his time between
drunken revels with his mistress and
drilling his favorlte regiment, bad
! maudln dreams OF becoming the great
est military hero OF the age, but be was
surprised In the midst OF them by the
Orlofs, who hurried him away to prison.
Catherine In the meantime mad
dressed herself in the full uni
form OF the grenadiers and had
herself at their head strsd-
ding her horse like trooper-a meth
cd Of riding that bad been foyorite
, with her from her girlhood. With such
credentials OF her right to rule as the
muskets Of the Guards, II was not hard
to find Bishop OF the political church
TO declare thai she mad been divinely
chosen TO exercise supreme control
over the lives and persons Of the Rus
sian people.
Being thus enthroned, she was told
that her imprisoned husband was bawi-
ing for the consolation OF bis monkey,
his mistress and bis fdd1F bat his cries
| and reproaches were ston stopped By
the throttllng clutch Of the Orlofs, who
made good GATHERINGS title as the Lords
Anointed by strangling him.
For this work and for Ike services
| Catherine made Gregory Orlof q pres
ent Of $1,000 peasants, but she finally
tired OF him, as she did OF her other
fayorites, and sent him into retirement
II was Characteristic OF her always 10
retain q kindly feeling towards those
who had been the instruments OF her
vices and the accomplices Of her crimes.
After she had used man until
he was no longer a poyely or had ceased
| 20 manifest q sufficient aptitude for vii
lainy, she never turned him adrift TO
become the prisoner OF some less royal
courtesan, as ghr otherwise have hap
pesed, but provided for him ty giving
| him lands aud peasants. Some OF the
"best families" OF the Russian aristoc.
racy were founded By such subsidies TO
| the cast of males OF her seragiio.
Il was said Of one Of the most infa-
nous tof the Roman Expresses.
thu. ough often exhausted by
b. she was never sa-
n ight be said with ever
IL VI Catherine the Gres
II sion. fn the nurf
" ressions In eonte
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Housekeeper-Yon say Joa
i've service 10 the army?
Tourist-Plenty OF Is, ma'amP
Housekseper-Whst Was the ha
battle you ever had? I'm collecting
anecdotes.
Tourist-welI, about the bard
ma's1n, was at Des Moines. thong
had IL purity hot the deY
sheriff took the traia away from
4 iontany.-cIereLGnd- PLaiH ~
hrs 10 the season OF the year
ersge boy regards river and
Aperior indifference; the va
d for skating and TOO CO.
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VIII.

| IL becomes possible 10 understanu tnc
immense changes brought about by the
Multiplication OF the printing presses.
| The European arlstocracy have been
| civilized To remarkable degree. "A
peasant who fails 10 take of bis cap
| quickly enough when royal guard
passes is no longer struck over the
| head with n sheAthed saber or slapped In
| the face with q gauntlet. No European
monarch, not even the Gar OF Russia,
now ventures TO slit the ears or bore th"-
tongues OF non-resistant classes.
Queen OF Italy still smokes cigarettes, it
is true. but no Queen now spends half
her time in condition OF besstly drunk
enness, nor does any royal Princess now
turn her palace into house OF Hire
pute.
The Emperor OF Germany drinks too
much schnapps occasionally. AMI when
he does he makes foolish speeches about
lhis divine right TO do as he pleases. but
aftsSyaEts he 10 so ridiculed and har-
ras,ed ~ the newspapers OF half a
dozen conntSjes%hat he keeps silence
for months AT skme. The Z
Wales IS man osss2toEiously
acter, a gambler, 49,
spendthriit, IL Is~r
well that II he ever co
| OF England and scandl
decency OF the TT glish "a 80.
papers, with tbs people behind them,
will drive him oLk
The milleniurs has not yet come,
either IN palace or hove, bat from the
Pacific Coast OF Siberia TO tho Pacific
Coast OF America the time has come
when the Anarchist, the oppressor, the
| criminal OF whatever class, must an
swer TO law. And the time has come,
too, when law Is coming more aud more
to represent the sense Of justice OF tho
people.
No man can exercise irresponsible
mower over another without becoming
| tyranDicsl, nor can tyranny exist with
out developing out OF Itself the causes
which will bring about It's overthrow
and the punishment Of the tyrsnt
IL was we'll said OF 0rfof that his life
was a kind OF madness. That OF Cath
crime was wholly m insanity. IL 70 not
necessary TO imagine, for the sake OF.
furnishing her. any worse hell than her
own life OF criminal lrresponsibility. III
such a life deameaDs conscience. itsllll
eats away At the nerves until IL becomes
a consuming Ere; until IL must be reck.
oned a relief for Herod the Great 70 be
eaten alive by actual yermln, the prod
uct OF vices which were ln turn the
product OF lrresp possibility.
The bells OF future worlds can be
nothing less than the places and condi.
tions into which the irresponsible pre-
cipitate themselves And certainly
such life Of criminal Irrssponsibility %
that OF Catherine the Great Is 10 Itself
q hell, with all the elements OF Internal
passion and Internal torture.
WILLIAM VINCENT BrARs.
81. Louis, May, 1884,
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At the time when, on the death OF the
Empress Elizabeth, Peter became Car,
there was in the Imperial Guards live
brothers, the Orofs, barbarians, like
the rest OF the Russian military arts.
tocracy, but excelling most in tho saw
age force OF their barbarism. The
most remarkable of the five were Alexis
and Gregory. Both had the qualities
which commended men to the regard OF
Catherine, but it was Gregory who
| pleased her most and was first added to
her harem.
"He was handsomer than Poniatow-
tykoff.Sw writes WaIiszewsky. "He was
a giant, wiN the face of an angel, but
there was nothing angelic about him.
or small intelligence and no education,
living the ordinaryEhse OF his compan.
ions in arms, but living \" "a outrance, "
drinking and paying courk 10 brunette
and blonde; always readD 10 PICK
a quarrel and 10 knock aSy one
down who opposed him; ready 20
run any risk and to stake his
fortune on the cast Of die, the more
so as he mad nothing TO lose; always
having the air Of being half intoxica.
ted, even when by chance he had taken
nothing; Unsuitable OF every sort Of
pleasure, ready to go blindfold into any
sort of adventure; his whole life a kind
of madness-such was tho man who had
entered into the life OF the Empress,
and still mingllng In politics and love,
held for so long the second, IL not the
first, place In her mind and heart
The first place was for ambition.
The traits indicated do not make
precisely a romantic hero, but there
was nothing in them TO scandalize
Catherine. She, too, all her life had
loved adventures. and consequently she
was far from disliking adventurers.
The headlong recklessness which she
spoke of as in herself went well with
that OF Gregory 0rloi. More than
beauty, more than wit, he possessed
what was for so long the most powerful
OF all charms In the eyes OF Catherine,
a quality which exercised over her q
kind of fascination; which had at one
time attracted her in Patiomkine and
chained her for years to the uncouth
person Of that cyclops-he had DEVIL"
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Until she saw the guillotine set up
for the Lords a nointed, Catherine had
been a pupil OF Voltsire,o Dideron and
Rousseau. She liked 10 be considered
a woman OF advanced views She
was fond Of quoting from the most
celebrated philosophers as she was OF
wearing a divided skirt" and strsd-
ding her horse like a dragon. She
wished TO be considered literary and
was anxious to be thought liberal in her
political views. even when she was
giving away 10000 peasants 10 one OF
her discarded panders.
But when the guillotine began 20
drop on the necks OF those who had led
such gay lives as the divinely appointed
proprietors OF the people, she began
TO have her doubts about the soundness
OF French philosophy. She herself
could dismember Poland aud order the
massacre Of the people Of Warsaw; she
might have her husband strangled or
order a peasant to be knouted 10 death
to please one OF her tavorites, but the
use made OF the guillotine by the I'M
washed and ignorant rabble OF Paris
went far TO convince her that there
might be such thing as being too lib
eral, too advanced. too progressive.
She took pains accordingly, that her
peasants should never hear OF what was
going on outside OF Russia.
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for the weak. in disrsgarding Of all laws.
human aud divine. she has not been
surpassed In the history OF tho world.
And vet she was not greatly worse than
the average of her class ~ time when.
almost without exception. the palaces
OF Europe were houses OF ill-fame, ten
anted by meu and women to whom adul-
terry was jest and murderous violence
a recreation. In private and publics
Drawings. iu intrigue. treachery, lying,
bribery, adultery and murder. In mean
ambitions which took no account OF the
suffering OF the helpless; IN violent at
tempts to subjugats those whose weak
ness appeared TO make them an easy
prey; in tramplipg on all rights OF
humanity; In scofing at heaven as q
fable and laughing at God as q mere
convenience 10 be used in inducing
fools to submit to their bettefs-in such
spirit and through such action did the
Kings and great lords OF Europe chal-
lenge the silent heavens 10 give some
sign.
1t came In the French Revolution.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-04-27
pIses,aIllshmgnl mi p,s,,aa.e

LONDON Aprii 26.-tlenry Asquith. tho
Home Secretary, introduced IN the House
OF Commons to-day the bill for the dis
establishment OF the Church IN Wales
and Monmouth In so doing. he said
that Wales had Enthusiastically given lis
opinion on this subject at the last eiec-
tion. The church was assocln ted In the
minds of Weishmen with humiliatinx
and INJURIOUS meuories, and had long
influence rhe bin provides that the
dises,abiishment is 20 20 into force on
January l. 1895, After that date all rights
OF patronage are to cease TO exist, and
all ecclesiastical corporations are to be-
dissolved. No new Welsh bishops are
clesiastical court If Wales Will no LONGER
have coerc.ye jurisdiction, and shc con-
vocation Will no longer have legal power.