Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-10-21

Iopic f0r an lnGeSGn5 DlScaS'Lsa'
Even while believing with all my
heart there is more Of good than Evil 10
life, cannot shut my eyes 70 the tragic
events that occasionally burst forth Win
affecting power in my vicinity any more
than you can TO what is going on ia
yours.
Every city aud town produces perlodl-
cally within It's radius, more wonderful
" strange, unexpected and unnaturaIly
sad experiences than the most reailsuc
novelties could possibly imagine In-
deed. they could not be produced In
Realism without being conventional
lied. as the naked facts would be too re-
voting, when presented as literature
Itisthe surprising things that are
always happening, and not what We
plan with so much ART Our plans
are as futile and sbOrtive as though we
were so many puppets playing part as
soma hidden hand pulls string.
IL is 20 wonder then that Christian
men and women sometimes stand aD-
nailed at the tragic events which over
take them. Events for which, so far
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no way responsible.
II takes great faith not 20 be shaken
from its centre by such things as muir
der being committed By ones own neSh
and blood: the sudden downfall or
beautiful, loving and beloved daughter;
the destination and liceatiousness or a
gifted son; the coming into knowledge
of husbands and fathers who have en-
bezzled trust funds, and In spite OF line
regulations, high character and great
intellectual ability, scattered ruin over
All who trusted them; or suicides which
cast reflections on unhappy families left
behind.
That these are the sorrows that are
harder 70 bear than ordinary misf0r-
tunes. such as sickness or death, no one
will deny.
Ordinary sorrows being common TO
All, serve 10 discipline character and 70
bring 70 the surface the latent sweet
ness and strength, and men and women
are stronger, wiser and more sympa-
thetic for having passed through them.
Not so with these vicarious Affections
caused by the hayward ness, dissipation
or 1erring OF criminals within the
family.
THE HOwGATE STORY AS AN ILLUS
TRATION.
These reflections were struck out by
the story or Captain Henry HOwgate,
who some fourteen years ago was
charged with embezzling S3SO,000 In
Washington, while In the govern ment
employ.
Ii will be remembered that Captain
Howgate was well-known scientist, a
highly cultivated aud accomplished
man. He was gay, brilliant, favOrite
club man, a delightful and hOSpitable
host, who gave charming little dinners
In his own home out on Fourteenth
street, where be posed successfully as a
model husband and father until that
iatefuI day when an exposure was made
and his liason with the handsome aud
dashing Nettie BurTlll, (alsO a govern
ment employed was made public, and
brought TO the knowledge OF the devoted
wife and daughter, who hitherto had
believed all mis- absences attributable 20
business engagements.
Business engagements" have been
used 70 cover as many sins as the cloak
OF charity.
The distress OF such an exposure In
home has 70 be seen but once 70 con-
vince one that any kind OF honorable
death for friend we're preferable.
There was this home OF the HOwgate
family plunged into a kind OF vicarious
sorrow, almost unbearable, sorrow
which the tenderest sympathy could
no. help, or scarcely allude 10 in their
presence
1t went on and on in the home circle,
endured year after year, when every
body but public officials and government
detectives bad apparently forgotten all
about it, Their only comfort was the
beloved criminal had, when brought
home on a visit by a jail warden (no
doubt alison cunningly devised business
visit}, escaped.
Rumor has always said Ida HOwgate,
the daUghter-then q Vassar student
conniyed at IL and helped to bring IL
about.
The same willy Dame, who generally,
however much she TOmances, tounds
her fctions upon facts, also says Ida
Howgate has ell these years been 10
communication with her father. III she
has she is butfSSowing in the footsteps
OF many by English prototype Of
loyal women \who cODnived at the
escape OF beloved ones from old LoudOn
town. Human Aature Is ever the same
the world over, bud IL Mrs. Howgate
and Ida Howgata did do that thing and
ltill believe in and cling 20 their
prodigal, II only shows that conjugal
and fial love are trong as mother love
sometimes.
The inference y that they do believe
In the gay Captain SSH, for Ida How
gate visited her father after be was
captured 10 New York and confined in
the Tombs prison; also Aimee his arrival
in Washington, aud has sNerted herself
20 the utmost TO get counsel 70 defend
him when his trial comes on
This is the more remarkable for Miss
Howgate Is q Treasury elSr&N and she
by upiting half her salary from \Zear 10
year TO 3 small Inheritance Of her moth
er's, has succeeded Ia purchasing aAneat
little Jane In quiet by-street, ~
she is anxious to mortgage or eVl
that the means to do so may !
coming.
Another amazing feature
attitude Of)these women IN
py case is, they 90 not bel
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