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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-09-22
Thermometer Record
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Mr.. c. Schnepf the o2ea ,,la..,ia ldoual
u[ueslS'' e,.Ia ~ The temperature yesterday: 4
7 ions ~ - 7o.9 A. M. 81; J. H.. 81; ?. m.s
95: 7 D. H., 81. Weather LIZ -
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-09-22
.EII PEA3Y returns.
rlo Explorer Found Waiting at
Whale Sound.

~ with Members of the Expedi-
Iad Just Returned From a
ss Overland Trip Which
d q Comparative Failure.
out ofFoOd and Had TO Re
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-09-22
w VA. POSTAL AFFAIRS.


Special 10 the register
washington. d. c., september i
A postonce has been Established ~
wade Tucker county W. Va with Ay->
salon Phillips as postmaster. a com
mission has been issued to Peter H.
Hamrick as postmaster az Samp' "eD@
ster COUNTY. W. Va.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-09-22

Christ Frazier and John Frazier,
fatber and son. were arrested b. Oiii-
Ger Coss last night for hghnng
John Brown. drunk, ~a5 arIgsJed ,,l
nv can't Bennett last night Jonn
ZONES intertered and was also arrested
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-09-22
britain beaten AGAIN.
Failed to Get First Place in a Single
One of the Eleven Events.

Representatives Of the New York
Athletic Club Do the Britishers
Up Brown - Worlds Records
Knocked Shy-High by the Amer
lean Athletes - A Most Interest
ing Days Sport.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-09-22

Following are the entries at Gravesend
for September %: First, 512 handicap,
Hazlet 119, Frontier 10S Merry Prince
III, Woodvine 1O7, Intermission SO, Vol
ley 81. Dulcie Lorondie 80, Belle Annie
80. Second. 11-16, Monaco 1T, Dola-
bra III. Gotham III, Owlet ia, Kennel
10. Primrose 11O. Third, rs handicap,
Ramapo 12S, Patrician 112, Pepper 1O5,
Lookout 1O2, Dungarven 95. Fourth, 9s
selling. Gismonde 1OS, Refugee 1O5, Pr
Lief 1O4. Balmaghie 102, Bucanneer 100,
Failing Water 100, Remnant II. SO, Os-
tier Joe 9S, Tremargo 9S, Orient SO, Sky
Blue %, Heresy 95. Fifth, mile, Domino
122, Rubicon 10, Ed Kearney 10, Leon
well 1O5, Lampllghter 1O5, Galilee 1O5
Arapahoe 1O2. Gotham 100, Owlet 81
Lucania 92, The Coon 92. Sixth, q sell
ing, Nick 10, Harry Reed 1O7, Shelly
Tuttle 1O7, Preston 1906 Captain T. 1O2
Ameer 102, lola SO, Pow Wow SO.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-09-22

and Robertson. the only English COM
petitor. was away off, he having six
fouls in his six attempts.
In the broad jump Bloss and Shell
don made % feet 6 inches and q feet
II inches respectively, beating Oakley
and Menrelson, the English represen-
tatives.
In the three mile run, Horan and
Wilkins, the Englishmen, ran against
Connect and Fitzpatrick. At the begin
ming of the third mile Horan led Con-
neff by a yard, but he was showing
signs of distress. Connef went past
him at the club house and Horan stop
ped. Conneff increased his lead to
hundred yards, and squirting IN the
home stretch beat the Englishman by
$50 yards in 10 minutes SO seconds.
This ended the days sport, which
proved so disastrous to the English
visitors.
The Englishmen had no reason to
complain. however, as the crowd was
most impartial. Efforts of the Brit
ishers were also well applauded.
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gets his eyes opened to some of the pa
ternal speculative methods, at last comes
to full understanding of the paternal
code of financial morality and discovers in
fact that his father is hypocrite and
gam bier. Forthwith he jumps to the con-
clusion that hypocrisy is. the rule OF life,
that morality, honor, truth and decency
are the teachings of women, and. putting
his new ideas into action, he proceeds
promptly to go to the devil. His career is
not pleasant one. The poor little paper
doll becomes, all too speedily, mere vul-
gar villain, his card board principles disap-
pearing before every breath of temptation.
Mr.. Matthews seems to have intended the
narrative as a study of hereditary tenden-
cies, but he gives US in Wins
low Pierce, the son of good mother,
and of father certainly not lacking
in strength and purpose, mere lump OF
colorless putty, whom not even college lie
has been able to inspire with any gump-
ton or determination even in lll-dolng. 1t
is quite impossible to get up any concern
over him or his evil career. The interest
of the story centers entirely upon old Ezra,
who apparently never comes to regard his
sons wickedness as anything other than q
mysterious dispensation OF Providence
which he endeavors to bear with what Tor
tirude he can command. The story is II
itself rather dull and heavy. Only the IN
teresting study it affords us OF character
like that of Ezra Price redeems it from
com mmonplaceness. New York: Harper d
Bros. For sale by Payot, Upham & Co.
San Francisco. Price 81 %.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-24
MENTONE, CAIRO and CORFU.

Sketches of travel are numerous in these
days, for half the literary people of the
world are travellers and all of them who
travel write, but good, bright, entertaining
works of the kind are about. as rare as
ever. The very fact that there are more
writer's has made the themes more hack
neyed, and comparatively few who visit
lands so often described are able to see
them under new aspects or to picture them
with new grace and coloring. 1t is a
pie asure, therefore, to find that Constance
Fenimore Woolson has gone over the old
familiar ground of Mentone. Cairo and
Corfu and found there certain attractive
phases of life and scenery not described by
others, or, at least, not with her delicacy of
perception and charm of style.
The substance of these sketches of travel
originally appeared in Harper's Magazine,
and that of Mentone has not been essen
| TALLY changed, but the others contain
much interesting material Dot included in
| their original form as magazine articles.
| ALI the sketches are illustrated with many
well-executed pictures of noted places or
| types of the men and women who live
| there. These pictures add much to the
attractiveness of the volume and assist the
reader in realizing the scenes described.
| The CHAPTERS on Cairo and Corfu are
strictly descriptions of scenery and life
and manners in those places, but that on
Mentone is something more. 1t is a
picture into which the characters OF the
| travellers are introduced IN the foreground
and the scenery serves only as setting for
| the incidents of their rambles and talk
together Altogether delightful is the
picture thus given of the company assem-
bled by chance at Mentone who spend the
sunny days in wandering amid scenes of
beauty renowned in history or romance
The company was one made up by the
chance of travel and was held together
only by congenial tastes and mutual
pleasure in the society of one another.
There is, of course, love story in the
weeks adventures. Wherever there are
youth and holiday, there is love. In this
case the love-making was fitted to the
scene. 1t was a comedy, not passion,
and 1t is not even certain that 1t ended in
marriage. Only when the chance gather
ing at Mentone broke up, it is noted that
one of the American girls was followed to
Florence by young Englishman who ap-
parently had right to do so.
If the chapters on Cairo and Corfu lack
the charm of dramatic interest given to
that on Mentone by the introduction of
the varied characters they are not without
charm of their own, and no reader will
be tempted to skip single page. Where
the subject itself is not of great interest
the authors style continues to entertain,
and it is with no little regret that one
closes the book.
["Mentone, Cairo and Corfu" by Con-
stance Fenimore Woolson. New York:
Harper & Brothers.]
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A CUMBERLAND VENDETTA.

This is a collection of four stories, by
John Fox Jr, most of which have already
appeared, from time to time, in the differ
ent magazines. They are stories of life in
the mountains of Kentucky and are full
of the picturesqueness and romance that
surround those mysterious Businesses "a
Cumberland Vendetta" and its sequel,
THE Last Stetson," have to do with a.
famous feud that long ragged in the Cum
berlands. The Stetsons and the Lewallens
are hereditary foes. They fight on sight"
whenever occasion offers. The first story
ends with the defeat of the Lewallens, in
which Jasper Lewallen, beaten in fight
and attempting, by a treacherons attack,
to shoot his opponent, Rome. Stetson, is
himself shot by Rome's little brother,
Isom. In ''The Last Stetson," Isom him.
self, grown and filled with remorse over
the deed, attempts to sacrifice himself to
save one of his ancient foes. His action,
although he escapes death. ends the feud.
There are number of strong descriptive
bits in the book, and the last story, ION
Hell-fer-S -Sartain Creek" gives not too
obscure bit of Cumberland dialect. New
York: Harper & Bros. For sale by Payot,
Upham & Co., San Francisco. Price 81 20.
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THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE.

This is the most recent issue in Harper
& Bros admirable edition of the verses of
Thomas Hardy. Like the other volumes
in this series, it is illustrated by an etching
by Macbeth-Raeburn, and map of that
Wessex country to which the novelist has
succeeded in imparting so strong reality.
There are probably few who will dispute
Hardy's place at the head of the long list
of modern fictionists. Unquestionably he
is master of his art and the interest at,
tending upon this very handsome republi-
cation of his books may be taken as some
measure of the reaction now steadily set
ting in toward romanticism. In 'The Re-
turn of the Native" we have somewhat
more of the authors philosophy of life
than he has vouchsafed US in the volumes
appearing earlerin this series. The human
note rings through it, the earlier forerunner
of the strong, unmstakable purpose that
is never far from hand in Hardy's work
to-day. 1t would not, however, be just to
call 1.-THE Return of the Native" a novel
without purpose, any more than it would
be just to apply that phrase to "ress of the
d d'Urbervilles."
Hardy is too wholly master of his art,
too deeply imbued with a sense OF the lit
erary verities, ever to sink the artist in the
special pleader. The lesson OF humanity
runs through what he writes, just as it
runs through life, because of its inevita-
bleness. This is perhaps the secret of the
authors power. From first to last we care
less for the fulfllment of CIym Yeobright's
pedagogic ambitions than we do for Clym's
own mental and spiritual evolution. We
are more moved upon to sympathize than
to dogmatize even over the waywardness
of Eustacia and the pusillanimity of
Wildeve And how the Wessex of the
novels grows upon the reader The SOM
Der scene of the present narrative is made
to stand out, vivid background of intense
locality. that is an essential part of the
logic of the drama projected against it.
Hardy's people are not only real, substan-
tial entities, but they live and breathe and
move through surroundings that the mas
ter makes manifest to us, as our owp
habitations are manifest. 1t is part of
the subtle reality of mis- art, for Hardy is
essentially realistic in method, belonging,
unquestionably as he does, to the roman
ticist camp.
Messrs. Harper & Bros. announce speed
ily to appear in this series Hardy's latest
novel, aHearts Insurgent, which will ap-
pear in book form under the title OF Jude
the Obscure"
New York: Harper & Bros. For sale
by Payot Upham & Co., San Francisco.
Price 81 so.
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dales and sunny plains of France with
his viol, through sunshine and shadow
and under the "ivory" moonlight. 1t is
tale of love in alternate prose and verse.
and Andrew Lang, the translator, has
preserved the beauties of the singers
language to the better purpose OF which
he has had recourse to many forms OF
expression from the old English of
Chaucer and Proctor. 1t is a gem, and
there is nothing quite akin in artistic
poetry.
'The Blessed Damozel, "a book of lyrics
chosen from the works of Dante Gabriel
Rossetti, is one OF the series which will
take it's place near the heart of the liter
ary student and enthusiast. Rossetu was
an English poet and painter, born in Lon
don in 1928. He died in 1882. His first
notoriety came from his connection with
the "Preraphaelite Brotherhood" Of which
he became leader. He was also one OF
the foremost romantic and sensuous poets
of modern English literature. Many OF
his paintings attracted worldwide atten-
ton and are held at high value to-day.
His poetry is finished and beautiful in its
imagery.
"The Child in the House." an imaginary
portrait by Walter Pater is the last of the
series. 1t is a delicate little volume, the
size of pocket memorandum, bound in
vellum, as are all the other volumes. 1T
is. done in Pater's best style and will
touch tender chord-a dainty bit of Eng
lish with just enough of story to give it
a frame, as the goldsmith mounts his
richest gems in the slenderest settings.
THE edition is limited to 725 copies.
Thomas B. Mosher, Portland, Me. For
sale by Doxey.
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q 7 q

But the quarrel itself is by no means hid
under bushel, along with the novel. No
one seems TO know just why Mr.. Moore
and his interesting pupil are estranged. 1t
is denied in certain quarters that the IA
nous decadent's reported appro aching
marriage with "John Oliver Hobbies" has
anything to do with the trouble. but when,
several months ago, ''Cehbates" began to
engage attention among the critics the au-
thor of "Dr. Phillips" came out with
very savage and bitter crit1que of it in the
Saturday Review. The attack provoked
reply from Mr.. Moore, an impolite move
for him, but the circumstances were most
exasperating, and he publicly disowned
her as unworthy OF him, accused her OF
ignorance of the English language, and
charged her with Philistinism, whatever
that may be, and with being altogether
coarse-minded and inferior person. And
so the quarrel stands, and outsiders can
only hope that these ebullitions may be the
last gasps of decadence and the yellow
cult
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-24
BOOKS RECEIVED.

THE B1BELoT SERIES, including the SOM
nets of Michael Angelo, Aucassin and
Nicolete, eThe Blessed Damozel," ''The
Rubaiyat'' of Omar Khayyam and 'tThe
Child in the House.; veilum binding;
edition limited TO 10 and 975. Thomas B.
Mosher, 81 Exchange street, Portland, Me.
William Doxey, 631 Market street, San
Francisco.
SONGS OF Fool AND OTHER VERSES, by
Geraldine Meyrick; pamphlet, Is pages.
Semi Monthly Letter Company, publish
ers. San Jose.
Board of Park Commissioners Twenty
fourth Annual Report; board, "A pages.
State Printing Office Sacramento.
THE PHANTOM DEATH, by w. Clark Rus
sell. Frederick A. Stokes Il Co., New
York, publishers. For sale by William
Doxey San Francisco; 70 cents.
ZoRAIDA-A Romance of the Harem and
Great Sahara, by William LIE Queux.
Published by Frederick a. Stokes d Co.,
New York. On sale at Doxeys, San Fran
cisco; 81 so.
THE MEN OF THE Moss HAes, by s. r.
Crockett. Macmillan & Co., New York,
publishers. For sale by William Doxey;
81 so.
DEAD Mans COURT, by Maurice H.
Hervey Frederick A. Stokes Company,
New York, publishers. For sale by Doxey;
rs cents.
HIS Fathers Son, by Brander Matthews.
New York: Harper d Bros; 81 25
THE Sewers, by Henry Seton Merriman.
New York: Harper & Bros. 81.
A CUMBERLAND VENDETTA, by John Fox
Jr. Harper & Bros; 81.
JERRY's FAMILY, by James Otis. Boston:
Estes & Lauriat; 81 25.
THE STORY OF THE OTHER WISE MEN, by
Henry Van Dyke. New York: Harper &
Bros; 81 so.
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY BULLETIN. Wash
ington, d. c..
CALIFORNIA BLUE Book, OR STATE ROSTER
FOR 1895; compiled by l.. H. Brown. Sec
retary of State. State Printing Office,
Sacramento.
RICHARD FORREST, BACHELOR; novel,
by Clement r. Morley; paper, 262 pages,
so cents. Street e. Smith, publishers, New
York
Srops OF VARIOUS QU1LLs, by w. d.
Howells; cloth. Harper & Bros, New
York.
BEAUTIFUL HoUsEs-A STUDY OF House.
BUILDING, by Louis FL. Gibson, architect;
cloth, 346 pages. Thomas Y. Crowell &
Co., New York and Boston.
A MAN AND HIS WoMANKIND, by Nora
Vynne; cloth, 1876 pages. Henry Holt 81
Co., New York. For sale by William
Doxey, rs cents.
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SONGS OF A FOOL.

A little pamphlet of verses from the pen
Of Geraldine Meyrick has just made its
appearance under the singular title of
'Songs of a Fool" They are issued by
the Semi Monthly Letter OF San Jose.
There is poetic merit in some of the SON.
nets, and the writer gives evidence of a
deep and pure poetical sentiment. There
is philosophical thought, and the touch OF
the master in these lines:
They call me fool, and little know;
Neither whence / came nor whittier go;
Neither what l am, nor may nope 10 be,
When time is lost in eternity.
That her style is not set is evidenced by
the following change in meter, the extract
being taken from the poem lat Sea-:
Fall fast, o rain;
Lift up your creSts ye seas;
And wall, stormy Wlnu
Across the strand
l. also, am in pain,
Restless and i'll at ease,
Because L leave nenihu
NY native land.
There is a finish about some OF her verses
that critics are slow to accreolt the new
and unknown singer. The following from
"a Protest. is after Swinburne:
To-day will die tomorrow" so he says
Who weaveth words all-wondrOusiy: yet
Can call to memory unnumbered Gays
THAT through unnum bered ages shall not die.
And e'en he adds, "Time stoops 70 DO man sIure.
Too easily flows on the facne line
Here Also bard, thy saying was not sure;
Why, there are even fower-iIKe songs OF thlne.
rSemi-monthiy Letter Company, San
Jose, publishers.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-24
STOPS OF VARIOUS QUILLS.

w. D. Howells' new book of vaRrant
poems, collected in one volume under the
somewhat singular title of "Stops of Va
rious Quills," will prove a disappointment
to the reader, unless the volume is pur-
chased to ornament drawing-room or
library table. tits tastefully bound, hand
somely illustrated and printed on the
heaviest cream paper. But many of the
verses-and they are all of the detached
vagrant character-lack point, and even
finish. Nearly all are written in the medi-
tative vein and serve as vehicle for the
poets philosophic musings. The phil
osophy, too, is of the homely, everyday
kind-there is nothing profound or broad.
In musing on the problem of life he tells
us what we all know so well, that
We have not to consent or to refuse;
tits not ours to choose:
We come because we must,
We know not by what law, IL unjust or II just.
There is much blank verse and some
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-24
THE BIBELOT SERIES.

The daintiest series of publications ofthe
week are those from the press of Thomas
B. Mosher, Portland, Me-, including a
number of scholarly translations of the
ancient Persian poets. Their typograph-
ical style is exquisite. They are of the
latest vellum binding and printed in large
type, on heavy Van Gelder parchment
paper.
Among the translations are the Rubaiyat
of Omar Khayyam, the astronomer poet
of Persia who left the impress of his
strong individuality and brilliant talents
on the history of the eleventh and twelfth
centuries. His poetry bears the stamp of
that rich and tropical imagery SO charac-
teristic of the prose and poetical writers of
the far East. Edward Fitzgerald, the
translator, is writer of eminent scholastic
attainments, and so far as lies IN the
power of the English language he has
given the world of letters the still extant
poems of Khayyan in all their luxuriant
fancy and beauty of style.
John Addington Symonds' translations
of the sonnets of Michael Angelo Buon-
ar7oti are included in the set. In the pub
lisher's notice it is said this is the first
time these sonnets have been done into
rhymed English. These sonnets will be
a revelation to many students of litera-
ture, and particularly to the reading public,
sculptor and painter of the sixteenth
century. He was poet of great tender
ness and sympathy, and in much OF his
writing there is traceable deep spiritual
sentiment.
The following sonnet, Waiting in
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-24
THE BOOK OF THE WEEK.

The new book of tine week is "The Red
Cockade,n by Stanley J. Weyman. It is
having good sale, and is crowdiDg to the
front rank in popular favor. Bonnie
Briar Bush" by Maclaren, holds the first
nIace in San Francisco book sales for the
mast week It is interesting to note in
this connection that the reports received
by the November Bookman, Dodd, Mead
65 Co.'s popular literary magazine, show
that in nearly all the large cities OF the
limited States the same book has the first
call on the popular fancy of the reading
nublic. 1t is first in the lists of sales In
New York. Boston, Denver. Kansas City,
Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Portland. Or.
Rochester. n. Y; st. Louis, Salt Lake.
In Toledo, Ohio, it is second: st. Paul.
third. Louisville, KY, fourth: Montreal.
Canada, second; Chicago. sixth; Clucin-
matt. third; Baltimore. second. The only
cities in which it seems to have no sale are
Albany, n. Y, Buffalo, N. T., and Hart
ford, Conn. ,,n,, ,.. os
Zenda." by Hope, has had revival, due,
no doubt. to the new interest created by Its
decentralization and successful production
INV Sothern in New York. All the leading
local dealers have had to lay IN new
supply. Among the new books OF the
week which are attracting considerable
attention are: Jude. the Obscure" by
Thomas Harding, author of l'Tess OF the
D'Urbervilles"; "Lilik," by George Mac
Donald; "In Defiance Of the. King,
story of the American Revolution, 6y
Chauncy c.. Hotchkiss, comparatively
new writer; "The Honour of Savelli. by 5.
Levett Yeats.
The number of new books announced for
publication in this country and abroad
bids fair to eclipse all previous. years. In
England "Trilby' is having better sale
new book, it was announced, would be |
called "The Martians." put the Bookman |
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Frank Dandy is, by the way, the author
of a novel which is said to out-Zangwill
Zangwill. This book, the title of which is
"Dr. Phillips" according to writer in the
Bookman, was published some six years
ago and exists to-day in some half a dozen
reprints that sell continually, and yet it
has never been reviewed in the leading
periodicals., and THE CALLS book-reviewer
has never been able to find single person
who knows anything about the story. As
it is really rather powerful bit of work
this circumstance is something more than
singular. and the explanation vouchsafed
by the Bookman is interesting.
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says that is mistake. 1t is to be called
1.-The Martian." Authors hold the titles
OF their books as too sacred to be fooled
with. They. are sometimes captlous as
we'll as capricious. Apropos OF this is an
amusing typographical error committed by
the Literary World in announcing the
name OF Mr.. Stedman's forthcoming "Nic-
torian Anthology as the victorian An
thropology." Somebody must have felt
like committing anthropology when be
saw the composltor's blunder In cold type.
Great things are expected from Anthony
Hopes new serial. The title fixed on IS
"Phrozo." The scene is laid on Greek
island bought by a young Engllshman
The inhabitants conspire to slav the new
proprietor, and "Phrozo" is Greek beauty
with whom he falls in love. The rest IS
not obvious, but those who have read the
story say it is the best serial they have
ever seen.
A new novel by Miss Lily Dougall, en-
titled Question of Faith, is announced
to appear shortly from the press OF Hough-
ton, Miffiin & Co.
Speaking of the remarkable notoriety
attained by some work of modern fiction,
and the singular failure of others equally
merltorious, and often superior in interest
and dlction, bookseller recalled the strik-
lngly realistic novel, CDR. Philips" 1t
was published six years ago and widely
read.
There are several cheap editions on the
market now, which are read by thousands,
but from the day of its appearance to the
present time the author has never seen a
review of his work nor has he ever heard
one single person mention it. Yet it is a
remarkable piece of work-vivid, acute,
intense and, in its later chapters, power
fully tragical. ''How these things hap
pen,' said the dealer in books, mo man
can tell "