Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-07-19

ty was admitted yesterday. The world
moves.
When John sherman said he was too
old to think of running for the Presi-
dency did he think of the damage he
was doing the Morton boom?
If Teddy Roosevelt would close his
mouth as tightlyas he closes the saloons
and keep it closed the metropolitan sit
uation would be much improved
The Washington base ball club was
defeated by a crossroads Kentucky
team the other day. The Kentucky
club was probably composed Of rabid
anti-administratiOn free silyerltes'
All the farmers in all the surround
ing country should visit the Prohibition
Assembly at Moundsyille tomorrow.
1t will be Farmers Day" and the at
fractions will De many and especially
interesting to farmers. Celebrated
speakers will add mental pabulum TO
to the feast that will be set before the
uIlers of the soil. and an immense
gathering should be the result
No wonder King Oscar, Of Norway,
feels like striking against a thirty per
cent. reduction in his wages by the
Norwegian Stor,hing unless he shall
assent to the views Of the majority Of
that body with regard to the constitu-
tional rights Of Norway under the Act
OF Union with Sweden. 1t is, indeed. a
rib-roaster for kingly prerogatives to
place this monarch in the position of
being paid only in proportion to the
amount Of satisfaction given. The
course Of the Norwegian Radicals may
however. serve to remind the gentle
men who are holding down thrones over
the water that the viii of the demo-
cracy must in the long run prevail.
One Of the striking incidents Of the
industrial revival is quoted in the re-
markable advance in the prices Of the
stocks of some of the large iron and
steel manufacturing companies during
the past five months The market
price Of the shares Of one large South
ern company has advanced from SIS %
S39.5O; that of one of the largest Vest
ern companies from S4S TO SO; ano-ler
Western corporation from $24 to $34; q
Minnesota IRON ore mining company
from $40 to $50. and one of the largest
Pennsylvania companies from S44 20 $63,
the latter advance having occurred in
the last two months Something mole
real than promising prospects is re
auired to lift the values Of investment
securities to such a height.
CHRISTIAN ENDEAvOK CITIZENSHIP.
AT the notable and in many ways re
uarkable gathering of the Christian
Endeavor convention i'm Boston where
every section of the country and all
shades Of religious opinion were repre-
sented. it was TO be expected that many
significant utterances should fall from
the lips Of the eminent and distinguish
ed speakers, but of an there was none,
perhaps. more timely from a purely ma
tional point Of view than the following
commandments by Or. W. G. Clark, of
Chicago. on good citizenship. They
will be read with interest by all Amer
leans.
Thou shalt Doe am Intelligent citizen
Thou shalt Doe q VlrtuOus citizen.
Thou shalt Doe am active citizen.
Thou shalt employ thy voice and thy
pen as truly as Thy vote.
Thou shalt east thy ballot az the caucus,
primary convention and at the election.
Thou shalt bee the iuVeterate zoe OF otil-
Cial iucomueteucy and dishonesty and poo
Itfcal corruption.
Thou shalt resist all phases of lawless-
mess
Thou shalt not Doe slave to- thy party.
Thou shalt protect our American iusti-
turiOns. the free press. the iree schools
and the freedom 90 religion against all
assault OF f0reiguism or sectarlaniSm.